About HAALO
Specialist Intervention Authority
HAALO is a specialist intervention authority in the higher-risk built environment.
We are brought in when the technical position is exposed, contested or stalled—and when the standard approaches have been exhausted.
The work is senior-led, principal to principal, with no junior handoff. We interrogate the evidence, establish where the real risk sits, and set out a defensible position clients can act on with confidence.
Three decades on successful delivery of the hardest schemes has taught us the difficult cases are rarely only technical: we hold the line on the technical truth while keeping the people — and the deal — moving commercially.
The work is senior-led, principal to principal, with no junior handoff. We interrogate the evidence, establish where the real risk sits, and set out a defensible position clients can act on with confidence.
Three decades on successful delivery of the hardest schemes has taught us the difficult cases are rarely only technical: we hold the line on the technical truth while keeping the people — and the deal — moving commercially.
When we step back, the client is left holding something tangible: a defensible position, a clear line on where the risk really sits, and the confidence to act on it.
That is what we are brought in to deliver.
That is what we are brought in to deliver.
32,500+
PBSA units
2,800+
BTR units
30+
years across the team
Up to 51-storeys
high-risk residential
Senior-led, no junior handoff.
Peter Bowe
Director
Thirty years delivering high-value development, two decades of it in residential, on schemes from £50m to £500m. Led construction for the UK's largest on-campus student accommodation developer before founding HAALO; co-founded Safety Case Partnership; hosts the HAALO podcast.
Ben Sedgewick
Director
Twenty-two years of technical project management across the UK, Middle East and Far East, including ultra-high-end residential. Oversaw the build of 20,000+ residential units; after Grenfell established a fire-safety working group reviewing a 140-building estate; investors' technical representative on 2,800+ units; co-founded Safety Case Partnership.
Simon Owen
Technical Director
A decade of technical advisory and due-diligence for institutional investors, focused on residential. Stress-tests propositions to RIBA Stage 4; leads monitoring, surveying and fire-risk assessment. CIOB, ICE Accredited Project Supervisor, IFE Level 3.
“I have known the HAALO team in different guises for over 20 years across many construction and development projects, predominantly in the Student Accommodation and Build to Rent markets, and have always found them insightful, intelligent, diligent, trustworthy, collaborative and good company.”
Andrew McVeigh
Co-Head of Real Estate Sector, Addleshaw Goddard.
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