BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT & MASTER PLANNING
You already have a plan.
Let’s make it worth more.
80% of investment success is decided in the first 20% of a project. BuildEXT’s engineering consulting and BIM-based integrated services will pressure-test your business concept and close its technical gaps, keeping your master planning on track and avoiding costly surprises down the line.
BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT & MASTER PLANNING
You already have a plan.
Let’s make it worth more.
Whether it’s an early concept or an advanced masterplan, BuildEXT’s engineering and BIM-based process can pressure-test it, close its technical gaps, and turn it into a construction-ready, more profitable investment – under one roof.
WHERE THE EXTRA VALUE COMES FROM
A good concept can become a considerably stronger investment.
A concept that already makes sense on paper can usually go further once it’s tested against the questions that define the specific data and information an organization needs to run its business, manage its assets, and meet its corporate objectives.
01 | Lifecycle gap: Will your master plan support efficient operation after handover?
02 | Financial reality: Are your cost assumptions based on verified site data?
03 | Regulatory risk: Are key permitting and fire safety constraints known before design starts?
04 | Operational continuity: Can construction proceed without disrupting ongoing operations?
05 | Data continuity: Will critical project information survive every handover?
06 | Sustainable value: Are energy and carbon targets built in from the start?
07 | Existing-data trust: Can the current documentation be trusted, or is Scan-to-BIM needed?
These are the questions BuildEXT’s Brownfield Development & Master Planning service is built to work through together with you – turning a workable concept into a coordinated, construction-ready, more profitable plan.
In brownfield projects specifically, the existing building, infrastructure and site operation form the starting basis. That basis is organised into one technical process: survey, concept, general design, tender preparation, construction follow-up.
3 DIMENSIONS, ONE APPROACH
Design, investment
& information
on one platform
In every project, we follow our professional disciplines. This is the foundation of how we work: regardless of which service area BuildEXT approach is always based on design thinking, engineering control and digital continuity
Design thinking
Engineering Control
Digital Continuity
BUILT INTO THE PLAN, NOT ADDED AFTERWARD
Sustainability Isn’t a Compliance Cost. It’s an Asset Multiplier.
Commercial properties designed to modern green standards achieve a 9% value premium and significantly higher rental yields.¹ BuildEXT integrates rigid environmental and energy performance metrics directly into your project’s initial concept. This ensures your master plan actively strengthens your investment case rather than arriving later as a forced, costly update.
¹ Source: Dodge Construction Network / World Green Building Trends Report.
CERTIFICATION
Rating systems
Design work is developed with LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, WELL, nZEB and ZEB in view from the concept stage, not bolted on at the end.
DIGITAL TOOLS
BIM-based efficiency
An in-house development team works with BIM solution partners – including SolidSpac3, Plannerly, Dalux and Velis Real Estate Tech – on tools that reduce grey energy, material overuse and construction waste.
LIFECYCLE
Beyond handover
Model-based construction control, IoT systems, renewable energy integration and an as-built model feeding facility management keep the asset efficient after completion.
300 000 m²
ANNUAL PROJECT VOLUME
150
ENGINEER
17
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
ISO 19650
CERTIFICATION
THE PROCESS
From preparation to operation – one traceable process
At BuildEXT, design, delivery support and information management are built on the same project logic, so the investor can rely on a traceable technical basis throughout.
WHERE BUILDEXT SITS
Strategic consultancy and design proposal from one solution provider
Site development consultancy in Hungary typically comes from two directions: urban and sustainability consultancies, or large multidisciplinary design and PM groups. Projects often need both to get the full picture. BuildEXT was built to close that gap.
URBAN & SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANCIES
Strategic, advisory-led
Strong on energy strategy, microclimate, ecosystem services and urban-scale sustainability analysis – typically feeding into someone else’s design, rather than producing construction-ready documentation themselves.
LARGE MULTI-DISCIPLINE DESIGN & PM GROUP
Full-service, high-volume
Capable of city-block-scale delivery with hundreds of staff across separate design and project-management divisions – but coordination between those divisions is its own management task, and one the client often carries.
BUILDEXT
One integrated partner
Engineering consulting, general design, project management and digital continuity run on the same BIM-based Common Data Environment – so decisions, models and documentation move through the project without being re-created at every handoff.
“We wanted to have a single partner responsible for the entire process. BuildEXT managed the project from concept to handover, and the deadline wasn’t delayed by even a single week.”
AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY, CEO, VESZPRÉM
CASE STUDIES
Development Areas
In brownfield industrial projects, the task is often not limited to a single building. Existing infrastructure, plant operation, utilities and new technological requirements together define the direction of development.
Complete site development
Accurate starting data through Scan-to-BIM, so transformation design can be based on verified building information instead of assumptions.
Laboratory head building extension
Coordination of complex laboratory functions, dense building services systems and special technology requirements using a BIM-based design workflow.
Manufacturing plant in a brownfield area
Reuse of a run-down industrial site for the development of a modern, economically operable production and office building.
GET IN TOUCH
Are you about to start a project?
It’s a good idea to talk about it early on.
Before anything gets redesigned, we review the current status of the site or project with you, together with the decisions that still need to be made.
Where the project stands technically today
Which decisions still need to be made, and by whom
Which design, technical or BIM coordination issues should be addressed early
What a realistic next step looks like – survey, concept, or straight to general design
Send us the site – a plot number, an address, or a set of existing drawings is enough to start the conversation.
HEADQUARTERS
BuildEXT Kft.
H-1027 Budapest, Horvát utca 14-24.
ZenGarden Office Building
+36 1 386 7505
INTERNATIONAL OFFICE
BuildEXT GmbH
Maximilianstrasse 27
80539 München