CNP heads for Cardiff

Fast growing consultant CNP is opening an office in Cardiff in the New Year. The firm is seeking two QSs and an environmental consultant for the new branch, which will open its doors in the city centre on 1 January.

CNP has already recruited four building surveyors for the office. They include Jon Stone, who joins from GVA Grimley and will run the Cardiff practice.

The move is in response to CNP’s increased workload in Wales, Bristol and the Southwest, said Andrew Chisolm, managing director of CNP.

It is also part of a plan to expand the 100-strong firm’s quantity surveying capacity from five people to 15 by the end of 2007. Until now CNP has been better known as a building surveyor.

The new QSs will provide cost consultancy and they will also bolster CNP’s expanding technical group, which provides environmental services. CNP expects this group, currently 11-strong, to triple in three years.

The firm is on target to hit record turnover of around £12m for this financial year. Last year its turnover was £8.1m.

CNP recently opened an office in Dublin. Chisholm said the firm was likely to open a further branch in the 2007/8 financial year in Edinburgh.

CNP is headquartered in Esher, Surrey, and has offices in London, Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester and Dublin.