Design and Pre-Construction Services

Our design and pre-construction services give clients complete clarity and confidence before a single cable is pulled or pipe is laid. We provide expert led building services design support that ensures your mechanical and electrical systems are scoped correctly, costed accurately, and aligned with compliance from day one. Whether you're developing a new healthcare facility, refurbishing a commercial building, or planning a residential scheme, our design input helps de-risk your programme and optimise performance at every stage.

We support contractors, consultants, and developers across the UK with early stage M&E planning that balances buildability, technical compliance, and long-term asset performance. Our team combines deep sector experience with practical site knowledge to deliver designs that work on paper and in practice. From load calculations and space planning to equipment selection and sequencing strategy, we help shape efficient, regulation ready systems that perform from day one.

Our support is tailored for key sectors including healthcare, education, commercial, industrial, retail, and social housing, where safety, timing, and service continuity are critical. Whether you're preparing for a tender or moving into RIBA Stage 3, Heb M&E ensures your design foundations are solid, coordinated, and ready for delivery.

By engaging with Heb M&E during the design phase, clients gain access to practical technical insight that directly supports build success. We contribute to initial schematics, spatial layouts, and system overviews, ensuring all services are designed with real world implementation in mind. Our team identifies pinch points early, proposing layout adjustments, plant space allocation, and access requirements that avoid issues during install.

Every drawing, model, or plan we produce is backed by team experience on active construction sites. We know what will pass a desk review and what will work on a scaffold. That grounding means our design development support helps reduce design errors, shorten approval timelines, and build greater trust with principal contractors and consultants.

We help clients and design teams identify where M&E systems can be value engineered without sacrificing quality, compliance, or performance. That might mean rationalising ductwork runs, selecting more efficient equipment, standardising control layouts, or revising lighting strategy to reduce install time. We bring real market insight on current product lead times, supply chain constraints, and technology updates.

Technical assurance is central to our service. Every design we support is reviewed for safety, compliance, and operational viability. We stay up to date with regulations and guidance such as BS7671, Part L, HTM standards, and CIBSE benchmarks. We test assumptions, challenge proposals where needed, and help create coordinated M&E packages that integrate seamlessly with architectural and structural elements.

A successful M&E install starts long before boots hit site. Our pre-construction team works with clients and contractors to confirm design intent, sequence activities, and plan procurement effectively. We support the preparation of tender packs, build specifications, programme timelines, and material take-offs that align with the live demands of the job.

Whether the project is a high rise commercial block, a live healthcare facility, or a multi-phase residential scheme, our pre-construction input reduces friction, prevents clashes, and ensures critical M&E milestones are achievable. This clarity supports more accurate pricing, tighter programme control, and better integration between trades once works begin.

At Heb M&E, we believe great design should make installation easier, safer, and more predictable. Our design and pre-construction support is directly tied to our delivery capability, meaning we only propose what we know will work on site. We plan with commissioning in mind, ensuring meter positions, access points, control panels and test routes are all mapped out from the start.

Our installation teams regularly feed back into the design process, helping refine details like bracketry layout, containment runs, and interface zones. This live loop between design and delivery reduces site queries, accelerates installation, and ensures a smoother handover. For clients, this means better programme confidence and fewer late-stage variations.

From clash detection to energy performance targets, we bring joined-up thinking that supports both project success and long-term building operation. Our integrated approach also means faster mobilisation, as our teams are familiar with the plans, risks, and intent before works begin.

Talk to Heb Mechanical & Electrical today about how we can support your project with reliable, compliant, and coordinated M&E design and pre-construction planning. From feasibility to programme handover, our team delivers clarity, assurance, and sector-specific insight every step of the way.