Expertise
Confidence Built in From Day One
.webp)
HAALO provides technical advisory to the investors, owners, developers, contractors and operators of complex higher-risk assets in the built environment — where the technical position carries real commercial and safety risk.
Our focus is on Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs) in residential: Build to Rent, Purpose-Built Student Accommodation, and other multi-use developments — helping clients stay ahead of regulatory reform through proactive action.
HAALO was established in 2018, as the sector began its building-safety reset. We built the firm on our conviction: that technical truth, defensible compliance and genuine competence protect people and asset value alike.
We tell clients what they need to know, not necessarily what they may want to hear for convenience — even if the honest answer may cost us the easier engagements.
Our clients seek to retain us, to keep us close because we are the ones who will say the difficult thing early, while it can still be fixed.
Our clients seek to retain us, to keep us close because we are the ones who will say the difficult thing early, while it can still be fixed.
The hardest schemes are rarely only technical.
We hold the technical line, and we hold the room — breaking deadlocks, managing conflict, and re-energising demotivated teams that have stopped communicating back to a position everyone can move forward with trust and openness.
Trusted across the table — by clients, designers, contractors, funders and regulators alike.
Trusted across the table — by clients, designers, contractors, funders and regulators alike.
This is often what turns the ‘no’ into a ‘yes’.
- Senior-led
- Principal-to-principal
- No junior handoff
Driving value through early risk appraisal and management
We keep it simple. Using established project-management and asset-lifecycle principles, we establish and mitigate risk early — driving certainty of design, delivery, compliance and competence, and reducing the cost impact of late design change.
We advise the key duty holders under Building Regulations — Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractor — and are often called in to re-energise a stalled development, or to rescue and recover one back to its original parameters.
We advise the key duty holders under Building Regulations — Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractor — and are often called in to re-energise a stalled development, or to rescue and recover one back to its original parameters.
HAALO governs the technical process rather than simply advising on it.
On a build, that means acting as the funder's technical counterweight to the delivery team — holding the standard, and where necessary taking the difficult conversation, to protect the asset's integrity rather than the programme or the margin.
On the evidence, it means interrogating the record rather than reviewing it: establishing a single version of the technical truth, and finding the gap that a buyer's surveyor or the Regulator would find later.
HAALO's method is its own — including the Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA), a discipline HAALO has used for years and one the Institution of Structural Engineers has adopted.
We work the full lifecycle, cradle to grave — establishing risk early, holding the standard through delivery, and testing it again at handover before it becomes the owner's cost.
On the evidence, it means interrogating the record rather than reviewing it: establishing a single version of the technical truth, and finding the gap that a buyer's surveyor or the Regulator would find later.
HAALO's method is its own — including the Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA), a discipline HAALO has used for years and one the Institution of Structural Engineers has adopted.
We work the full lifecycle, cradle to grave — establishing risk early, holding the standard through delivery, and testing it again at handover before it becomes the owner's cost.
HAALO's directors co-founded the Safety Case Partnership — a specialist venture focused on the authoring, review and defence of safety cases for operational Higher-Risk Buildings, including response to Building Safety Regulator (BSR) enforcement and compliance notices. Where an operational asset or portfolio needs dedicated safety-case work, that capability sits alongside HAALO's advisory.
Visit the Safety Case Partnership >
Building safety as an investment position
Not every asset is a Higher-Risk Building (HRB), but the benefits and lessons of the Building Safety Act 2022 apply across residential asset classes.
The assessment of building-safety is now a key factor in investment decisions for high-rise residential — and as the Act extends to other asset classes and heights, buildings built to a best-in-class standard of compliance and competence will prove more resilient to value depreciation.
The assessment of building-safety is now a key factor in investment decisions for high-rise residential — and as the Act extends to other asset classes and heights, buildings built to a best-in-class standard of compliance and competence will prove more resilient to value depreciation.
What we do
Funder technical advisory and development due diligence
Interrogating the technical and commercial position ahead of investment, refinance or acquisition decisions.
Development management, monitoring and oversight
Sponsorship and programme management across new-build, refurbishment and Category A and B works.
Project rescue, recovery and recladding sponsorship
Breaking the deadlock on stalled and contested schemes, and restoring a defensible route to completion.
Building Safety Act and Gateway 1, 2 and 3 advisory
Duty holder support through building control, section reviews and Higher-Risk Building registration.
Building Safety Regulator compliance and enforcement
Resolving the technical position before it becomes a commercial or operational risk.
Safety Case authoring, review and audit
For operational Higher-Risk Buildings; a compliant, defensible position that holds under scrutiny.
Very few challenges fit a list. If your project needs something different, let's talk it through.
Experience and reach
More than thirty years across the team in the built environment: the design and delivery of new higher-risk residential buildings up to 51 storeys, the redevelopment of repurposed high-rise, and circa 32,500 units of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation and over 2,800 Build to Rent homes.
Across our work, this capability is expressed through four interventions — Asset Defensibility, Portfolio Shielding, Project Recovery and Operational Readiness.
Across our work, this capability is expressed through four interventions — Asset Defensibility, Portfolio Shielding, Project Recovery and Operational Readiness.
32,500+
units of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation
2,800+
Build to Rent homes
Facing a complex technical challenge?
If an asset, portfolio or project has a risk position that needs clarifying, testing or resolving, HAALO provides specialist advisory support from the first conversation.
Start an Advisory Conversation
