Programme leadership, funding strategy and risk management for residential, community and commercial schemes, from feasibility to completion.
Working across the UK with local authorities, housing associations and private clients.
Figures reflect programmes led personally by Max Graham in a previous client-side role.
Aedis Partners is an independent development management consultancy, founded by Max Graham after leading complex regeneration, housing and leisure capital programmes in the public sector.
We deliver bespoke development management solutions across the construction and property sector, partnering with a diverse range of clients to plan, manage and deliver complex projects and portfolios with confidence and precision.
Acting as a client's Representative, embedded in the team or leading it, Aedis Partners guides a scheme from strategy and business case through design, planning, procurement and construction to completion and handover (RIBA Stage 0 through Stage 7).
Client-side leadership from feasibility to completion, keeping you in control of the outcome.
Building the case for investment and securing the funding that makes a stalled scheme deliverable.
Recovering distressed schemes after insolvency, funding shortfalls or latent defects.
Consultation, reporting and engagement that builds genuine support for a scheme.
Testing viability and unlocking underused land and buildings for development.
Appointing and managing architects, cost consultants and contractors through competitive procurement.
Max led a borough-wide consultation attracting 6,000+ responses and grew the budget from £12m to £17.3m through funding bids and lobbying. He renegotiated a peppercorn lease into market-rate full repairing and insuring terms, and delivered a refurbishment expanding the gym, adding studios and merging facilities.
After modular contractor Module-AR collapsed near completion, the site suffered break-ins and MEP theft, and non-compliant work emerged. Taking over, Max replaced the employer’s agent and quantity surveyor and commissioned a pre-construction review, delivering a remedial scope and revised programme the Council approved, restarting works.
Initially judged unviable, the scheme was repositioned by Max as new-build transitional accommodation, securing a £4.3m LAHF grant that fully funded it. The refurbishment converts 62 shared-facility units into 40 self-contained homes, adding a third more bed space, and is now an MHCLG case study.
Visualisation: GT3 ArchitectsOriginally scoped as a refurbishment, the scheme faced structural defects, asbestos and ISG’s insolvency. Max appointed a replacement contractor, commissioned surveys leading to demolition and rebuild, halved consultant fees, secured additional budget and delivered a full planning application within three months, mirroring the design of the town's new library.
Visualisation: Pick EverardA 68-home new build including 13 supported living units for Adult Social Care. Max negotiated purchase of an adjacent NHS access road to unlock parking, managed consultants without conceding design intent or unnecessary fees, and championed vernacular features, including mansards, to reduce the building’s scale.
Visualisation: Fraser Brown MacKennaTen terraced homes on car park land, mostly three-bed, including one M4(3)b wheelchair-accessible unit. Where feasibility suggested a large block of flats, Max resolved a substation constraint with UKPN and pushed a redesign of the layout, delivering stronger viability, while removing costly shared areas.
I have sat where you sit: leading capital programmes from the inside, not advising from the outside.
A proven track record of recovering distressed schemes, from contractor insolvency and latent defects to funding shortfalls and structural failures.
Over £40m secured in external grant funding across a single portfolio of schemes, including a £6.1m award through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, won on appeal after an initially unsuccessful bid: the first and only successful appeal of its kind in a £3bn+ national programme.
Direct support negotiating and securing loans from bodies such as the GLA and Homes England, alongside a network of contacts giving access to pension and institutional funds.
Negotiated several leases with operators, schools and statutory bodies and repeatedly secured reductions in consultant fees, protecting long-term value at every stage of delivery: commercial skills that translate directly to a client's own leasing, letting and procurement needs.
No commitment to a contractor, architect or delivery partner, so recommendations on scope, procurement and spend are never coloured by another firm's commercial interest.
Experience running consultations at scale and reporting through established governance channels.
Track record spanning housing, leisure, community, commercial and public realm projects.