We are a uniquely diverse £1 billion global consultancy, delivering leading-edge solutions for public and private sector clients across 12 core business areas. As one of the world’s largest employee‑owned companies with more than 14,000 staff, we have principal offices in nearly 50 countries and projects in 140.

Working with architect David Libeskind on the UK’s award-winning Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, we devised a series of innovative solutions from ventilation to lighting to complement the building’s novel architecture Transforming project ideas into reality is our forte. Our holistic approach is rooted in a complete spectrum of skills covering all stages of the develop-ment cycle – right from preparing the business case and advising on related issues to designing and implementing the solution and providing ongoing support.

Our total service offering incorporates all aspects of project and programme management, management consultancy and construction economics, enhanced by the expertise of Franklin + Andrews›. As a multi-sector professional services provider, our planning, advisory, technical and management activities also encompass the social and institutional dimensions of development, where our capabilities include the expertise of Cambridge Education› and health specialist HLSP›.

Our breadth of skills, sectors, services and global reach makes us uniquely placed to bring our customers:

• Holistic, innovative thinking
• Global experience with local insight
• World-expert practitioners
• Multisector perspective

We provide added value solutions which:

• Save money and time
• Reduce risks – technical, commercial, environmental
• Drive up efficiency
• Maximise sustainable outcomes – environmental, social, financial
• Embody best practice
• Result in market-leading customer satisfaction and repeat business levels

What we do:

• We work with our customers and use our worldwide resources and experience to:
• Plan, design, procure and deliver projects on any scale
• Provide management consultancy built on technical know-how
• Help shape and implement development policies and programmes
• Advance sustainability and promote the wellbeing of the planet

Our service to customers

By staying closely attuned to our customers’ needs and aspirations, we seek to keep ahead of the game, proactively identifying new service requirements and gearing up to meet them. We understand what our customers need, what’s required to satisfy those needs and we get on with it – adding real value in the process by saving them as much money and time as possible without ever compromising on quality. We take pride in every commission, no matter the size.

In Malaysia we were independent checking engineer for Kuala Lumpur’s new monorail – the first rapid transit system using monorail technology of any significant length to be built outside JapanAround the world we serve national and local governments, health and education authorities, transport operators, industry, utilities, developers, contractors, commercial companies, banks, funding agencies and non-governmental organisations. We stay closely attuned to all our customers’ varying needs and aspirations, working in partnership to turn their ideas into reality through innovative, inclusive and sustainable solutions. We take pride in every commission, no matter the size. Our drive for top quality service applies whether we’re helping to restructure a national industry, plan a transport network, deliver healthcare management training, introduce new business practices or restore a wildlife habitat.

Sustainable solutions

We are committed to working in partnership with our customers and supply chains to incorporate sustainable solutions into our projects. We are experts in sustainable design, construction and management, seeking to include sustainability as a driver at the most critical conceptual, planning and feasibility stages of all our projects – addressing the whole-life costs and impacts from a truly multidisciplinary viewpoint.

We are also acting to reduce our own impact and have committed to an active programme to make significant year on year reductions in our per capita carbon emissions.

Innovation

We pride ourselves in finding ways to solve existing challenges and tackle new ones. The value of our innovation can be measured by the prestigious awards our people and projects win – over 200 in the last three years.

Our expertise

The immense scope of our business demands a huge variety of expertise, which we’re able to provide in house. Adding to our capabilities in mainstream technical and management disciplines, we’re skilled in specialist fields as diverse as ergonomics, telematics, information management, cost consultancy, corporate sustainability, nuclear engineering and organisational reform. Our global resources and depth of experience also mean we’re ideally equipped to meet the changing demands of public private partnerships, PFI, full privatisation and asset transfer.

Our track record

We’ve made our mark on some of the greatest engineering feats in the last 100 years – from London’s underground railway in the early 1900s and Egypt’s Aswan Dam heightening in the 1920s to the Channel Tunnel and Hong Kong’s new airport in the 1990s. We’ve also helped provide over 100 000 MW of private sector power capacity world-wide and new water supplies for vast cities such as Shanghai and Karachi.

Our role on Bangladesh’s ‘Strengthening Health and Population for the Less Advantaged’ reform programme is one of many ways in which our technical and management expertise is helping improve healthcare in low and middle income countriesToday we’re contributing to an even greater spectrum of development around the globe. Just the briefest cross-section ranges from urban regeneration in the UK, river basin management in central Asia, transport systems in Taiwan and the USA to healthcare initiatives in India and Africa, education planning in China and environmental capacity building in Romania.

Our people

Our principal differentiator is the quality of our staff.

Our success is fuelled by their dedication, enthusiasm and ingenuity. Many of our engineers, environmentalists, planners, economists, cost consultants, project managers, safety experts, IT specialists, educationalists, healthcare advisors and management consultants are recognised as innovators or world authorities in their fields. Understanding that to work with the best we must be the best, we promote professional excellence and knowledge management, which is why continuous learning and skills improvement are ingrained in our company culture.

Community spirit

As a multinational company with a global reach, we recognise our obligation to make a positive contribution to communities in which we work. At a corporate level we engage and support local communities sponsoring a number of charity projects each year. We also encourage and support our staff who invest enormous time and energy in a range of charitable, educational, disaster relief and development work around the world.

Global presence

With major offices and centres of excellence across the globe, we bring our skills and resources directly to our customers, wherever they or their projects are based. Each office has in-depth knowledge and understanding of local conditions and practices, backed by our worldwide resources – enabling us to offer services around the clock, around the world.

What we stand for

• adding maximum value to our customers’ business – and thereby our own
• being ethically, environmentally and socially responsible
• working to deliver the aspirations of our staff, community and customers alike
• helping improve the quality of life for today’s generation and sustain resources for tomorrow’s