SMART Building Consultant

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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Our Real Estate Digital team have a vacancy for a SMART Building Consultant to work with clients in the fast-growing SMART building area, where you will be working to develop and implement organisational strategies and advanced disruptive technologies into the built environment.

As a SMART Building Consultant, you will be at the forefront of advising clients on advanced technologies that can transform the built environment. This role involves integrating future‑proof technology solutions such as IoT sensors, SMART building systems integration, and IT connectivity that enhance the efficiency and functionality of modern buildings. You will help clients navigate complex technology challenges by developing innovative, scalable, and cost‑effective solutions that align with their needs.

You will work closely with design and construction teams, technology vendors, and stakeholders to ensure that SMART building initiatives are seamlessly integrated from design, through construction to implementation, with a focus on optimising Real Estate building and portfolio performance, environmental and sustainability performance and improving end‑user experience, comfort and well‑being.

You will partner with our clients, helping them achieve their SMART building strategies whilst driving the integration SMART building technologies and systems such as:

• SMART Building Strategies
• Digital Twin Strategies
• Fibre & Copper structured cabling solutions
• Intelligent building systems (BMS, Security, etc)
• Wireless networking
• Audio video and collaboration technologies
• IoT and 5G
• End user technologies
• Data centres
• Comms room development

We are always on the lookout for bright, talented and motivated technical consultants to work on large scale, complex technology projects. This role is open to professionals of varying experience aligned to the verb descriptors below, applied to the following responsibilities.

• Consultant – Support
• Senior Consultant – Manage
• Principal Consultant – Lead

• Consultation & Strategy Development:
  Collaborate with clients to develop SMART building strategies and technology roadmaps. Advise on best‑fit, innovative solutions to address business challenges and realise the client’s vision.
• Business Case development:
  Develop comprehensive business cases to support technology investments and align them with organisational goals.
• Persona development and mapping:
  Create and map user personas to better understand and optimise the technology solutions for different user groups, enhancing overall user experience.
• Technology Integration:
  Collaborate closely with designers and project teams to guide the design, specification, and integration of technology services. Leverage expertise in structured cabling, wireless networking, intelligent building systems (BMS, security, etc.), IoT, 5G, AV, and SMART building solutions to ensure that client requirements are clearly understood and seamlessly incorporated into project deliverables. Facilitate alignment between design intent and technical execution, delivering innovative and functional solutions tailored to client objectives.
• Project Delivery:
  Oversee the technology delivery in line…