A strategy you can print on the wall

The Accommodate model gives every stakeholder on your project — from client to subcontractor — a clear plan for where every worker will sleep, in every phase, for every year of the project lifecycle.

Strategy first. Beds second.

We work across the entire project supply chain - from clients and Tier 1 contractors to subcontractors - to:

Forecast workforce volumes and arrival waves

Identify housing saturation points years in advance

Design a scalable pipeline of accommodation

Protect budgets, communities, and delivery timelines

Most projects manage accommodation reactively

Here's how accommodation works on most large-scale projects today: the client sets a budget and passes responsibility to the main contractor. The main contractor passes it to Tier 2. Tier 2 passes it to subcontractors. Subcontractors send workers into a region and tell them to find somewhere to stay.

There's no strategy. No forecasting. No coordination. And when the beds run out, everyone points at someone else.

The Accommodate model changes this entirely.

Five phases from analysis to optimisation

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Phase 1: Programme-level analysis

We start by understanding the project from the top: total workforce size, mobilisation timeline, shift patterns, workforce composition (local vs. non-local, skilled vs. general), and any community sensitivity factors. This gives us the demand side of the equation.

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Phase 2: Housing capacity mapping

We then map the supply side: the total available accommodation within a commutable radius of the project site. Private rentals, hotels, B&Bs, care homes, student accommodation, and any other existing capacity. We identify exactly how many beds are available today and how many will remain available once the project starts absorbing them.

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Phase 3: Saturation forecasting

By overlaying workforce demand against local housing supply, we identify the saturation points — the specific quarter and year when each type of accommodation will be fully consumed. This is the critical insight that most projects never have. It tells you exactly when you'll run out of beds, and which type of beds you'll run out of first.

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Phase 4: Blended strategy design

Using the saturation forecast, we design a layered accommodation pipeline. Residential housing is activated first, for as long as supply allows. Repurposed assets are prepared in advance and activated as residential supply tightens. Temporary modular is specified, sourced, and permitted ahead of the activation date. The result is a visual strategy — a timeline that shows exactly where every worker will be housed in every phase of the project.

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Phase 5: Ongoing optimisation

Workforce numbers change. Phases accelerate or delay. New subcontractors arrive. The accommodation strategy adapts with them. We monitor occupancy, cost, and capacity across all three layers and adjust the pipeline in real time. No surprises. No scrambling. No wasted beds.

A single source of truth for workforce accommodation

The Accommodate model produces a strategy document and visual roadmap that every stakeholder on the project can use. It answers the questions that nobody else is answering: where will your workforce sleep throughout each phase? When do we need modular? What will accommodation costs look like across the project timeline?

It's the accommodation equivalent of a programme schedule. And just like a programme schedule, it should exist before the first worker arrives on site.

Designed for the people making decisions

Clients and developers

You get visibility over a cost centre that's traditionally invisible until it's a problem.

Tier 1 contractors

You get a strategy to hand down the supply chain — instead of pushing the problem down and hoping for the best.

Project managers and programme directors

You get a plan that integrates accommodation into the wider project schedule, rather than treating it as someone else's job.