Sector

Later Living

Creating retirement communities involves more than just building structures—it’s about designing safe, adaptable and welcoming spaces that support quality living for residents while meeting the priorities of developers, owners, and operators.

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Later Living

Designing for Function & Flexibility

Our flexible, efficient designs enable cost-effective and sustainable solutions that support the well-being of residents.

Maximising Value and Efficiency for Later Living

Our lean approach to design enables you to make informed decisions from the outset, whether you’re planning a new build or repurposing an existing asset. By minimising material use and using sustainable, low-carbon construction methods, we deliver cost-effective, resilient structures tailored for later living.

Designing for Accessibility

Later living communities need flexible, accessible layouts that meet both functional and aesthetic standards. Our solutions create spaces that enhance usability while supporting open, versatile environments that respond to residents’ needs over time.

Developing Versatile Amenity Spaces

Our specialist skills, including post-tensioned (PT) design, enable us to create the longer spans required for adaptable, open amenity levels. PT design also mitigates the need for bulky transfer structures, improving the efficiency of your building’s layout and ensuring a smoother, more cost-effective construction process.

Building for Long-term Value & Success

Our integrated engineering approach ensures your project is value-driven and built to perform well both today and in the future.

Practical Engineering that mitigates risk

We focus on buildability and risk reduction from the outset, identifying opportunities to streamline complex strategies and reduce project risks. Collaborating closely with contractors and design teams, we help ensure smooth delivery without unexpected delays or added costs.

Integrated Solutions for Long-term Value

With structural, civil and geotechnical engineering all in-house, we offer seamless solutions that maximise value from the start. By collaborating closely with your design team, we streamline processes, provide early cost certainty, and ensure your project runs smoothly.

Applying Cross-sector expertise

We understand how to create comfortable living spaces, efficient layouts, and communal areas that strike a balance between privacy and social connection. Our cross-sector expertise and insight enable us to design structures that foster an active, engaging, and accessible environment for residents, while ensuring operational efficiency.

Later Living Projects: Creating safe, sustainable homes for every type of retirement community

Retirement & Later Living

Watch Tower House, Mill Hill

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Mayfield Watford

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Find out how we can enhance your retirement community project with lean, efficient designs that add lasting value.

Later Living

Taking Sustainability Seriously

Sustainability is in our DNA and we have our own ambitious goals to achieve Net Zero as a business and with our designs. With innovative in-house monitoring tools, Walsh clients have seen on average reductions of 10-20% total embodied carbon, with some of our flagship work achieving 60-70% reductions compared with baseline figures.