Unova Consulting

Unova Consulting Limited is a specialized consulting engineering firm that offers MEP services tailored for the real estate industry. With a highly experienced team, they support clients through all stages of the property life-cycle, providing a comprehensive range of consultancy services across commercial, industrial, healthcare, retail, and residential sectors.

Their diverse clientele includes funders, asset managers, landlords, tenants, and contractors, positioning Unova as a one-stop shop for MEP solutions. Unlike their competitors, they adopt a holistic view of the building life-cycle, carefully considering future lease obligations and strategically planning plant replacements around key budget and lease events.

The firm’s directors, who have honed their expertise with leading consultancies in both the UK and international markets, established Unova with the goal of delivering professional commercial consultancy at every stage of property development. They are equipped to provide thorough technical due diligence, including support for property acquisitions, asset disposals, condition surveys, and related tasks. Unova’s commitment to high standards ensures that their advice is not only commercially sound but also adaptable to the evolving demands of the market. They work closely with landlords, asset managers, and other real estate professionals, guiding them from a building’s inception and construction through to its operational phases, lease events, refurbishment, acquisition, and eventual disposal. This comprehensive approach allows Unova to deliver effective, tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of each client.

The Directors at Talent Motion forged a relationship with Unova in 2023, sourcing key talent within their team.

Client

“My working relationship with Talent Motion has been two-fold, initially engaging with them as a candidate and in recent years, I have called upon their services to source exceptional talent for us. I started my career as a maintenance technician before working into the role of a design consultant. I spent 12-years within pure design consultancy without an idea of the wider work and input building services engineers have on buildings/properties beyond the design. I was fortunate to be placed into a world leading real estate company – under Talent Motion – who required internal engineering consultants to not only design services systems, but to provide a full engineering building consultancy service to real estate clients. This was new to me away from pure design but has changed my life for the better as I have the multi skills and strings to my bow to be flexible and adaptable for any requirement now. I became capable of competently offering technical due diligence for property acquisition, provide diagnostic reports for faults/errors and omissions that impact landlords, tenants or other property users, undertake lease reviews and dilapidations assessments, undertake maintenance and condition reports and plant replacement life strategies and more! Within a building consultancy you become the perfect all-rounder. You can specialise in one area of engineering consultancy but have the confidence and knowledge to service your clients in all other service lines and be the complete go-to Consultant. Working in building consultancy away from just pure design offers ultimate flexibility and freedom to be the engineer you didn’t know you wanted to be. Fast forward a few years and I am now the one seeking individuals who are (like I once was) looking to take that step into the Building Consultancy world. Talent Motion have repeatedly stepped up to the mark and sourced the standard of talent, allowing our business to grow and flourish, consistently understanding our needs and always acting with the utmost professionalism throughout the process.”

– Sam Veasey, Director

Candidates

“I have been with Unova for 5 months moved from a a much larger organization. The move did not only change the type of work I do, but also the way I do it, as well as the timescales. Being in a large firm, with big multi million projects to work on, the process of design all the way to Construction can be slow, and takes time to actually see the finished buildings. The work can sometimes tends get repetitive.

Working at Unova, the scale of the projects we usually work on are smaller and swifter, meaning that you end up working in a more dynamic world. This is something that has been very beneficial for me, as I tend to finish one and get to move onto the next. Additionally, I have the opportunity of getting to know our clients from the first week and start interacting and understanding their needs, of being part of the conversation on how we can make their buildings work more efficiently and provide advice on new or upcoming regulations that might affect their CAPEX budget etc. This is something that easily could have taken me a couple of extra years to experience in a larger firm.
Stuart was very helpful from the beginning of the process, he really understood what Unova did, was very clear at explaining their business model, their policies and gave me an insight of all team members. This move is one that has been very beneficial for my career and to my personal life.”

– Alfonso Varela

“Stuart has recently helped me embark on a new role, moving to a Building Consultancy from my previous role as a Design Consultant.

From his initial contact, it felt that Stuart was genuinely invested in my job search, and also genuinely motivated to fill the role I went into with the right candidate. He kept in contact during my interviews, even those that weren’t for his roles, offering advice and assistance. Since signing the offer, and starting the job, Stuart has also kept in touch and offered help wherever needed.

I am very appreciative of Stuart’s support during my job search, and would recommend him highly to anyone looking to move into a new role in the Built Environment industry.”

– Ella Clark