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Educational
“We want the education sector to benefit from the good design of its estates, campuses and buildings. Because good design helps to serve the development of all stakeholders, including faculties, students, operational staff and interactive neighbours.”
Modern educational buildings and campuses must create high quality environments which encourage learning and collaboration whilst ensuring that they are integrated into the wider fabric of their communities and as flexible as possible to accommodate changing needs.
Momentum has provided people-focussed design and planning advice for a variety of institutions from primary and secondary schools to universities and higher education institutes across the UK. We have developed sustainable travel strategies, designed cycle and pedestrian facilities for students and staff, and developed strategies to enable efficient logistics and operations. We have studied the movements of students and staff to create designs which respond to their requirements, creating high quality public realm proposals which enhance academic life.
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Transport Strategy
“The transport sector is the biggest contributor of carbon emissions in the UK. While emissions from energy supply have fallen by 60% since 1990, emissions from transport have so far fallen by just 2%. The government has committed to a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but there is understandable concern that the challenging progress with transport will fail to meet this target.”
Momentum works with public and private clients, such as local authorities, councils, commercial developers and architects, to develop transport strategies from initial feasibility through to detailed implementation.
These sustainable strategies look at making best use of the available land and encouraging the use of public and active transport. We devise mobility and freight solutions that support the resilience of urban spaces including micromobility and innovative urban logistics such as consolidation and ‘first & last mile’ strategies. For our clients, this means that Momentum can work with you to develop more efficient and sustainable transport strategies, reduce your company’s transport carbon footprint, positively respond to ESG requirements and to help make better use of your existing infrastructure for servicing, mobility and permeability.
Our team has completed and delivered a substantial breadth and depth of transport strategies for our clients. We have introduced cargo bike deliveries to the Museum of London, reduced car parking demand across the UK, and enabled highly-efficient freight operations to minimise space requirements and improve public realm.
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Streets
“Whether rationalising car-centric gyratories to cater for sustainable and human scale movement, or reimagining streets and public realm in new development, our role is always to look to the future.”
At the heart of our vision lies a commitment to creating vibrant city spaces that prioritise the needs of communities. By placing active and inclusive modes of travel at the forefront of our work, we ensure that our designs seamlessly blend with an evolving urban landscape. Our dedicated team works collaboratively, with developers, highway authorities, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), architects and urban designers, to develop forward-thinking solutions that enhance safety, connectivity, and capacity, whilst reducing our environmental impact.
We believe that healthy streets are key to ensuring healthier lifestyles and empowered communities. Discover how our integrated approach is reshaping urban environments, making them more pedestrian and cyclist friendly.
Our integrated team of planners, designers and analysts works together to create practical, deliverable, engineering solutions for the evolution of our streets.
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Stations
“Momentum works across sectors to support the vision of stations as integrated spaces catering for all users as well as being positive contributions to the urban environment, while generating commercial value for operators.”
The combined effect of the drive towards sustainable urban mobility and to walkable, liveable neighbourhoods has brought an unprecedented number of passengers onto the railway systems.
Stations today now face the unique challenge of providing safe and efficient circulatory spaces within an environment that enhances the passenger experience through seamless connection, access to information, retail opportunities and interaction through connectivity.
Led by our desire to create better spaces designed for the future, Momentum’s closely integrated suite of services cover the full range of state-of-the-art station design including, operational planning, planning and modelling of internal passenger circulation, public realm design, planning and design of infrastructure and transport interchanges and data-driven travel planning to promote sustainable access to the station.
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Stadia & Venues
“We start with your objectives and provide advice, analysis and services to optimise each stadium’s earning potential and visitor experience. Through seamless movement for people and transport; improved safety in and around your venue, decreased queuing times and crowding and maximising the efficiency and revenue of your concessions.”
Sports stadia and entertainment venues bring together thousands of people in one place, providing cultural and community hubs which create unique pressures on the transport and pedestrian environment and require distinct design solutions. Our work with stadia and venues places the spectator at its core, developing crowd management, operations, and design solutions which enhance their experience of the event and protect their safety.
Having delivered solutions for many of the world’s most prestigious venues, our long term relationships with venue owners and operators enables us to develop and oversee tailored venue operations plans and provide analytics for spectator demands and travel patterns.
We work closely with leading architects, providing design and analytical advice to support the design of venues, from the seating bowl to the local transport hubs.
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Residential
With urban populations growing rapidly and the density of towns and cities increasing, the need for homes has rarely been greater.
Momentum works with developers on a range of residential schemes, from strategic regional development to urban extensions and dense urban centres. Momentum’s projects in the owner-occupied, social and private rented sectors include student accommodation, affordable housing, co-living, family and luxury developments in both rural and urban areas.
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Retail
“Creating desirable retail experiences for people starts with understanding how to solve the challenges retailers and developers face around logistics and operational planning to efficient crowd movement to ensure our strategies and designs are catered for the needs of today and the future.”
Whether they are standalone shopping destinations or part of complex mixed use developments, retail developments are increasingly important community and cultural hubs which create unique pressures on the transport and pedestrian environments.
With a wealth of experience advising on all transport, pedestrian, and servicing issues for some of London’s most complex and successful retail developments, we have a detailed understanding of the complex operations and patterns of demand they create.
We have carried out detailed studies of shopper footfall and the demands generated from a variety of retail uses, as well as developing servicing, delivery and waste strategies for high profile retail developments.
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Major Events
“Planning for venues and major events is about balancing complex and competing operational needs with designs that allow the sport or entertainment, and the visitor experience, to take centre stage.”
Whether they are sporting, music or cultural, large scale events which attract significant numbers of people create unique challenges for logistical and pedestrian movement.
Momentum provides integrated planning, design and operational solutions which have contributed to some of the world’s most largest and talked about events. From Olympic Games, FIFA World Cups, and UEFA Champions League Finals, to smaller scale music events or air shows, our team is expert at providing tailored and deliverable solutions for all types of major event.
Our team design, manage and oversee operations at some of the UK and world’s highest profile events, combining professional consultancy and planning with on-the-ground operational experience. This experience underpins all of our planning and analytical work for major events, including developing transport and crowd management operation plans, and demand forecasting and analytics.
We have supported numerous cities and nations seeking to host world-class major events through the bidding process, developing high level operational concepts with real-life deliverability.
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Master planning
“We consider all of the transport elements of masterplanning alongside, and integrated with, land use planning to ensure developments are both sustainable and meet the needs of the communities they serve.”
A masterplan is a framework that directs the development of a region, area, city, neighbourhood, precinct or building. With accessibility in urban and suburban areas becoming increasingly complex and constrained, it is becoming fundamental for development to occur sustainably and to complement to the existing environment. Consequently, it is essential that transport and connectivity are integrated into the first steps of developing a masterplan to ensure that the vision and viability of a scheme are realised.
Momentum provides transport masterplanning services to understand, analyse, plan and advise a masterplan in terms of its connectivity, logistics, and transport impact. We collaborate with a wide range of public and private clients to design masterplans that facilitate accessibility by sustainable forms of transport and establish effective delivery and servicing strategies. Our approach aims to utilise space for accessibility and connectivity within a masterplan efficiently, ensure transport strategies are sustainable and suitable for all land uses and transport users within a masterplan, and achieve integration with the broader community.
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Public Realm
“The successful design of desirable, efficient and functional public spaces can only be achieved when the existing and future movements of different users, pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles, are comprehensively understood.”
Momentum continues to work with our clients and partners to create connected, inclusive and sustainable public realm schemes which respond to the needs of the people who use them.
Public spaces within complex urban environments have to provide for the multiple diverse people who live, work, play, and move through them. Working with local authorities and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), we place the needs of the communities who interact with spaces at the heart of the designs we create.
Our integrated team of planners, designers and analysts work together to create practical, deliverable, engineering solutions for the public realm, embedding technology and innovation.
