Ottersbrook is a multi-disciplined innovation and business support consultancy. Our team have been supporting manufacturers and client side organisations, focused on innovative and disruptive building systems, for over 35 years. We also provide additional management support services and strategy deployment workshops, for leadership and operational teams.
Working for highly innovative organisations is part of our DNA. We operate across all strategic, technical and commercial management areas (board, senior management, and operational teams), to ensure your propositions and strategies, are deployed with maximum efficiency.
Our collaboration with influential stakeholders (public and private sectors) means that Ottersbrook can fast-track your projects, to reduce risk, avoidable costs and delays.
We use tried and tested agile processes to ensure transparent delivery top down and bottom up, whilst providing your team with the tools they need to deliver.
Wherever you are on your development or deployment journey, we can support at any stage and at any level and we promise to support your business, team and vision, with the same passion and focus, as we would our own business.
Ottersbrook Service Selector
Ottersbrook provide a significant number of services to support your business needs. You can browse these services from the selector, for more information.
The service selector mainly captures 8 core value propositions from Ottersbrook. However, we can and do offer more value options, to many of our clients
Please contact us for further information, or if you have a specific need, not listed on our web site.
Ottersbrook have helped many, diverse businesses to develop their strategies, from inception to full delivery stage.
Strategy management can be offered in the form of a simple brainstorming and/or workshop process, to a full-on project management programme.
The initial process is carried via a well proven and established methodology, to capture all relevant opportunities and risks. This is then presented in a single page deployment plan from the management team to all operational areas .
Each activity, sub activity and task, is captured to produce extremely clear digital dashboards, which can then be analysed for decision making, progress tracking, benchmarking and budgeting, with many other assessment options.
Ottersbrook have also produced many business cases, in simple format and in full treasury style (5 case) formats, for numerous clients, before a strategy is deployed.
Whatever your need, you can be assured that Ottersbrook can support you with many different techniques and agile tools, to allow the senior leadership team and operational teams, to maximise opportunities and eliminate risks.
Ottersbrook have been commissioned to project manage many programmes of work, based mainly on our 8 key service areas.
Such programmes historically, have run from 4-6 weeks to over 5 years on more complex programmes of work. For instance, on the well-established OSHA Homes programme, where we act as the Project Director for 23 social housing partners, delivering circa 8,000 homes per annum, with a wide range of MMC solutions.
We operate mainly across the UK, but also have established clients in Scandinavia, Japan, the US and China, with a network of collaborative partners worldwide.
We have many influential network partners across the sector, which also includes regulatory, certification and testing partners (e.g. NHBC, LABC, BOPAS, BRE, FM Approvals (US), BBA, WarringtonFire, Efectis, UL (CWCT), Lucideon etc) whom we have worked with for many decades.
We also design and operate detailed DfMA led ITP processes, to ensure transparency and quality control administration. This can also fit into a Business Process Manual documentation format, which Ottersbrook also often provide.
Ottersbrook have a very engaging and dynamic approach and system, for managing development workshops, built up over 30+ years of continual improvement and client feedback.
Our workshop approach has delivered considerable insight and operational success to many organisations for many years. We create a safe and enjoyable atmosphere for management and/or operational teams, to challenge the status quo, or to simply look for different ways to deliver a programme of work, more efficiently. We never support or create adversarial workshops and are adept at managing conflict, in all areas of the business, should frustration be a component, within the businesses we support (e.g. silo mind-set).
Whatever the vision, mission or objective(s), we can tailor a simple set of workshop tools, unambiguously constructed from your brief. We can then work with you and your teams, to deliver your desires, take that pressure away, and make the process work for you.
Our strongest proposition is provided when we build a single page deployment plan for your total operations, providing guidance, support and energy to your teams, so that the senior leadership team can monitor and influence changes, as they become apparent.
Our General Manager Mike Ormesher is an honorary research professor and industry advisory board member, at the University of Salford, where significant full scale property testing is carried out (Energy House II), as one of the world’s leading authorities on building pathology, especially in the area of energy use in buildings. Ottersbrook are also partnered with a significant number of universities and institutes globally, where we actively participate on white paper developments. We also provide support for technical standards and guidance development in the UK (e.g. PAS 8700 MMC Guidance and NHBC Technical Standards Section 11 – MMC*) and there are currently a number of events promoting and presenting these important developments, for implementing organic and disruptive innovation technologies.
We work with many UK based universities, governments, technical institutes, best practice collaborations and round tables, technical & testing standards committees, and also, within building regulatory forums, whenever continual improvement or guidance replacement, is sought. We are also a published governmental support partner, whenever our skills and experience are sought, for collaborative engagement or expert opinion.
Since the early the 1990’s, Ottersbrook directors have been fully operational within the construction sector’s dynamic ‘R&D Ecosystem’. We have also been active across a significant mix of materials, technologies, services, regulations, standards and policies.
As stated on our about page, working with highly innovative organisations is part of our DNA.
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Due to the expertise and experience that we now proudly embrace at Ottersbrook, we are able to provide Expert Witness support for your business, either as a commissioned service provider through your legal partners (no conflict of interest), or directly by your organisation, to offer guidance or reports, that may assist you, in your deliberations or case with full disclosure.
Ottersbrook have a Registered Expert Witness on the RICS database (top of page 40), named as Mike Ormesher – Ottersbrook Consulting Limited.
Support comes in the form of building pathology, product and system reviews, on site investigations or audits in a factory, that require further analysis for continual improvement or rectification. Support can also be offered when engagement with regulatory or certification bodies, has not gone according to plan, or a product has not been installed in accordance with the specification. Whatever the reason, we are here to support your needs.
As a technology, strategy and business process focussed consultancy, Ottersbrook have developed several support areas to enable process flows to operate more efficiently and profitably. This isn’t just based on theory, but because we have also managed manufacturing and delivery businesses for over 30 years at the coal face.
We can map out and analyse your process in a simplified way or we can create a full DfMA platform using the RIBA Plan of Works (with DfMA overlay if relevant) as your guide, for vertical integration of your operations.
We work with manufacturers, contractors and end clients constantly in this area as we integrate other tools such as ITP process management, so our insights are often presented back, with a different perspective that could improve you proposition and efficiencies, as well as your attraction to your end client(s).
There are many new measures that have now been put in place, to ensure a more robust regulatory compliance and monitoring system in the UK and in other countries. Robust preparation and adequacy of testing is often overlooked, because of a lack of building physics consideration or compliance audit.
3rd party certificates that have been relied upon in the past, are also under immense scrutiny now, to ensure that they are not just presenting test reports, that have been provided for review, but that they also ensure “critical and relevant” testing is carried out, in order for a valid certificate to be awarded but also for the right application, suitable heights, and building types. This is being driven (amongst other drivers for change) by the publication of the ‘testing for a safer future’ report (Morrell, P, Day, A. & Hackett, J. 2023).
Further measures and departments have also been established, such as the Department for Business and Trade’s ‘Office for Product Safety and Standards’ (OPSS), set up in Jan 2018, the initiation of the HSE as a Building Safety Regulator (BSR), under the Building Safety Act, 2022 and the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR), created in Dec 2024.
This now puts significant pressure on manufacturers and clients, to be transparent, when providing evidence, to support propositions in the market. Such evidence is also subject to 5 year reviews to ensure adequacy and suitability, in a dynamic built environment.
Ottersbrook are extremely well placed and aligned, to many test houses and regulatory bodies, to ensure your offerings are well-engineered, suitably tested and safeguarded.
Working with compliance and certification bodies, has been a fundamental part of Ottersbrook’s offering and specialism since inception.
We have exceptionally strong relationships with the major bodies in the construction sector and can ensure that your project does not fall foul of inertia or cost hiking, which is extremely common when approaching a technical compliance body for approvals.
Ottersbrook, carry out precise and detailed checks at the start of a compliance programme (stage 1) to ensure an efficient process, with full cost control in mind. This can also be a full on project management programme, from test programme to certification, to building control approvals to final warranty provision, should the system be of significant complexity on a given project (e.g. CAT 1 volumetric modules).
We have many products and system approvals under our belt, so it would be our pleasure to assist you, if you are considering applying for any sort of approvals, no matter how large or small.
We will be more than happy to share endorsements of our work with you, from CEO’s, MD’s, board directors and other influential stakeholders, right across the industry, within the public and private sectors, to provide you with the assurances you seek.
Email us at mike.ormesher@ottersbrook.com
Mobile number +44 (0)7970 264270
Office number +44 (0)1298 384568
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Registered Office Address
Ottersbrook Consulting Limited,
Norfolk House,
Hardwick Square North,
Buxton,
Derbyshire
SK17 6PU
United Kingdom
Registration Number: 12429910
VAT Number: 341886578
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Our GM Mike Ormesher has led the way for 23 housing associations to develop a significant support ecosystem for MMC delivery (OSHA)
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