Arts, culture & heritage

We’re a construction consultancy with a real depth of experience in the arts, culture and heritage sector. So from the earliest stages of your project, we’ll guide and empower your team – helping you create extraordinary places that inspire generations to come.

Safeguarding your future

Arts, heritage and cultural construction projects can be complex, but at Pulse Consult we’re right by your side, every step of the way.

With an outstanding record for working alongside both The National Lottery Heritage Fund and English Heritage, we’ll help you make the absolute most of your unique property, creating a welcoming, inclusive place your community can be proud of.

We’ll conduct feasibility studies, prepare formal design briefs, assemble and procure expert teams, finalise technical designs, manage construction, satisfy rigorous safety and accessibility standards and ensure a smooth, successful handover.

It’s an insightful, end-to-end approach that’s earned us a trusted reputation with clients including the Royal Shakespeare Company and English National Ballet. We’re also proud to be specialist advisors to the Theatres Trust skills bank.

VA East Museum at Stratford Waterfront external render

Pulse were engaged as the RSC's Quantity Surveyors on our recently completed Swan Wing conservation project and the subsequent fit-out of our The Play's the Thing exhibition. Throughout their period of engagement they worked with us in a true partnership, helping to overcome some complex project challenges, thoroughly immersing themselves into our organisation and becoming trusted advisors to the Estates team in the process. Their rigorous financial control and reporting allowed us at all relevant points to keep the project on track. Consequently, and to no-one's surprise, the project was delivered on budget. I would have no hesitation in recommending them for work again with Pulse on future projects.

Grug Davies

Director of Estates

Royal Shakespeare Company

The stats

RICS

Winner | Social Impact | English National Ballet

RICS

Finalist | Heritage | Ragged School Museum

RICS

Finalist | Refurb / Revitalisation | Ragged School Museum

Why Pulse?

Securing vital funding

Obtaining funding can be crucial for arts, culture and heritage construction projects. We’ve built a strong track record with major funding bodies – including Arts Council England and The National Lottery Heritage Fund – and we’ll share our in-depth knowledge of procedures, protocols, requirements and restrictions to help you secure the funding you need, right from the start.

Managing complex risk

When your project involves heritage properties or public spaces, that often brings complex risks and responsibilities. Our arts, culture and heritage specialists are here to help you understand and manage them, conducting risk and impact assessments, supporting you through planning and establishing safe, sustainable, cost-efficient practices on site.

Regenerating listed buildings

Listed buildings can be phenomenal, culturally important spaces, and we’re here to help you protect them, while bringing your ambitious projects to life. We’re highly experienced in the sensitivities listed buildings bring, as well as in practical, constructive ways forward – from in-depth feasibility studies to meeting English Heritage standards.

Building collaborative teams

We’re a genuinely collaborative construction consultancy, bringing together our own expert project managers, cost consultants and employer’s agents, and working alongside renowned external specialists, including architects, engineers, exhibition designers and contractors.

Keeping your doors open

However complex or ambitious your project, we know that keeping your doors open, and your revenue coming in, is often an absolute must. Through careful planning, risk management and rigorous health and safety standards, we’re here to make sure that happens – from day one, until the work’s complete.