MEP design and build · Nationwide
Hospitals that stay open, stations that keep running, campuses full of students, sites behind a security fence. Vanguard designs and installs the mechanical, electrical and public health services, and plans the work around the people still using the building.
Where our team has worked
Sectors
Open a sector to see the problem we usually find there, how we handle it and the experience behind it.
The hospital keeps running while you work. A dropped circuit or a dirty water outlet is a clinical risk, not an inconvenience.
Team experience: M&E and MEP works in hospitals.
Work is fitted into possessions and night shifts, under rail safety rules, while passengers and staff keep moving through.
Team experience: managing and completing mechanical and electrical works with Govia.
On a nuclear or defence site, the documents, the people and the permits all have to be right before anyone picks up a tool.
Team experience: Hinkley Point and military bases across the country.
Term dates fix the programme. Noisy work, shutdowns and deliveries have to fit around lectures, exams and students living on site.
Vanguard projects: ventilation works at a university building in the South East, and converting a university gymnasium into a prayer room for the Islamic society. Both complete. See Projects.
Team experience: M&E works in schools.
Councils need compliant design, clear costs and records that stand up to audit, usually on a building that serves the public.
Vanguard projects: MEP design and installation for a council equipment store in Somerset, now on site; MEP design for the remodelling of a council building at Elephant and Castle; and design across several other current council projects. See Projects.
A heat pump or a PV array is only half the job. The incoming supply, the distribution boards and the controls usually decide whether it works.
Survey and baseline, options compared on carbon, running cost and electrical impact, then design, installation phased around the occupied building, and commissioning with performance recorded.
When a pump, a float switch or a telemetry link fails, the first sign is often a flood or a dry tank. Pumps, power and controls need one team that understands all three.
Team experience: above-ground and submersible pump stations, clean water and sewage handling, BMS and telemetry on Southern Water and Thames Water sites.
Services
Take the whole MEP package, or bring us in at the stage the project needs.
Projects
Recent and current contracts for main contractors. Open a project for the brief, the approach and the outcome.
Convert a gymnasium into a safe and usable prayer room facility for the university's Islamic society, with male and female ablutions.
The mechanical, electrical and public health services for the new facility, including hot and cold water to the wudu taps through thermostatic mixing valves so outlet temperatures stay safe, with the electrical work certified on completion.
Operation and maintenance manual and electrical installation certificate issued at completion.
Ventilation works to a ground floor teaching space, delivered for the main contractor.
Installation carried out inside an occupied university building.
Works complete and handed over in September 2026.
Design and install the building services for the council's community equipment store.
Design issued as a numbered pack with a designer's residual risk register and a commissioning, inspection and testing plan. Scope covers fire dampers, emergency lighting to BS 5266-1, and welfare cabin supplies.
Works in progress. Design questions and variations are raised with the main contractor in writing.
Design the mechanical, electrical and public health services for the interior remodelling of a council building, to the main contractor's design responsibility matrix and the Building Control requirements.
Design in progress. Scope gaps between the tender and construction packs recorded and raised with the main contractor in writing.
Working on behalf of the main contractor on a 47-bed house in multiple occupancy in Yeovil, making sure the design is compliant and in accordance with the regulations.
Ongoing.
Mechanical and electrical design across several council projects running at the same time.
Each design checked against the regulations and the client's requirements before issue, with design questions raised in writing.
Ongoing.
Experience
Vanguard is led by its managing director, a member of the Chartered Institute of Building who has worked from the ground upwards, from the military and on-site experience through to quantity surveyor level in the MEP industry.
Managing Director
Brett leads Vanguard's contracts and is the named person for the principal contractor role. He has acted as principal contractor for installation and design, working alongside tier 1 and tier 2 contractors.
Managing and completing mechanical and electrical works with Govia.
Above-ground and submersible pump stations, clean water and sewage handling, BMS and telemetry on Southern Water and Thames Water sites.
M&E and MEP works.
Hinkley Point and military bases across the country.
Principal contractor for installation and design.
Complete MEP design through the RIBA Plan of Work stages, with BIM modelling, and design compliance reviews against the regulations.
Military trained. M&E quantity surveyor.
Accreditations
Certificates, insurances and policies are held on file and issued on request for supply chain approval.
Social value
Enquiries and tenders
Invitations to tender, supply chain portals, PQQs and onboarding forms are all welcome.
Nationwide, UK
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