At Arup, great design means many things, including running a better business. We help organisations to unlock value, create efficiencies and stay focused on their core activities during key transitions. From asset and portfolio management, to business planning and economic forecasting, we work with clients in every industry to generate valuable long-term outcomes.
Advisory services is our way of taking a 360 degree view of client objectives. Depending on the challenge, we can be panoramic or forensic, delivering targeted transaction advice or large scale change programmes. Our strategic and operational advisory services complement our long history in structural design and engineering. By drawing on a huge breadth of professional disciplines and insights derived from wide global experience, we’re able to help clients in every sector to run more effective businesses.
World of insights
The breadth of Arup’s work allows us to bring clients valuable market insights drawn from sectors as diverse as energy, water, transport and cities. We analyse, adopt and champion new ideas, like the circular economy. And our internal global skills network means we can help clients identify relevant opportunities and plan investments wherever they are in the world. In this way we’re able to engineer more valuable and far-sighted outcomes than traditional advisory services providers.
Read our latest research in the field of Circular Economy
Read our latest research in the field of Circular Economy


Confidence to grow
We help businesses to focus and build their confidence to change. Arup advisory services team has helped clients all over the world to build rigorous business cases for inspiring projects and major change programmes alike. Our work at Long Beach Civic Center in California is a great example; we helped define a $500m+ redevelopment master plan backed by an innovative funding solution.
New skills, new opportunities
Business strength lies in the ability to evolve. Arup continually expands and diversifies its skills network so that clients benefit from the most imaginative insights and valuable ideas. We help businesses to make smarter investments, optimise their workplace operation, undertake business change or manage their assets efficiently.
Be intelligence-led
Arup is a research-led organisation. We develop ideas and new capabilities in response to the most important market trends. Arup’s Foresight + Research + Innovation group sets the agenda across many topics and disciplines for clients worldwide. Our work influences everything from airport design to the shape of the water industry. With Arup you’ll be working with a business that thinks bigger and sees further, your knowledge partner in a competitive world.
Worldwide support
Arup’s advisory services team is 1,000 strong and operates in 58 countries, so wherever your business is based we can help you make change for the better.