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Top 50 Engineers 2019
Rank UK chartered engineering staff Total UK chartered staffTotal UK staffOffices
2019 rank2018 rankFirmTotalCivil engineersStructural engineersMechanical engineersElectrical engineersOtherNon-chartered / technical engineers2018201920182019UKWorldwide
1 1 Mott MacDonald Group 2,042 1,213 198 288 250 93 1,639 3,697 3,647 7,115 7,242 38 135
2 2 Arup1  1,818 904 309 288 180 137 2,579 1,901 2,059 5,599 6,073 15 na
3 3 Aecom 1,656 922 154 201 149 230 1,338 2,767 2,743 6,054 6,769 42 630
4 new Jacobs 1,362 950 85 40 35 252 1,498 na 1,827 na 8,966 34 300
5 9 WSP2 1,097 561 122 94 144 176 4,214 na 1,208 7,191 8,100 57 456
6 6 Ramboll 725 157 170 45 32 321 298 706 770 1,293 1,328 17 300
7 4 Arcadis 707 442 20 34 4 207 277 1,789 1,688 3,351 3,763 26 292
8 7 Hoare Lea 370 0 0 236 116 18 378 369 370 859 919 11 2
9 8 BuroHappold 366 37 77 44 28 180 318 340 366 1,029 970 5 18
10 10 Mace 316 59 16 241 0 0 0 1,556 1,553 1,556 1,553 na na
11 new Hurley Palmer Flatt 222 6 9 105 102 0 58 116 224 147 303 7 3
12 14 Cundall 212 23 58 69 39 23 351 200 212 601 636 6 16
13 15 Pick Everard 185 21 10 14 20 120 46 362 396 510 541 13 0
14 16 Hilson Moran 145 0 0 64 46 35 42 157 145 246 223 4 2
15 17 Curtins Consulting 118 50 58 0 0 10 200 105 118 400 431 13 1
16 19 Royal HaskoningDHV 114 57 5 6 3 43 65 178 232 524 552 13 74
17 20 BDP3 101 5 27 47 0 22 87 529 586 878 980 6 7
18 18 JNP Group Consulting Engineers  97 39 43 0 0 15 18 91 97 123 134 5 0
19 new Hydrock 91 28 10 11 12 30 298 69 91 398 440 16 0
20 21 AKT II 75 15 29 1 0 30 167 79 75 268 318 3 0
21 new Elliott Wood Partnership 66 na na na na na 41 50 66 143 146 3 0
22 new Robert Bird & Partners 64 29 34 0 0 1 84 49 64 202 238 1 11
23 25 CampbellReith 62 8 36 0 0 18 69 53 62 153 150 5 1
24 23= Clancy Consulting 59 19 29 7 4 0 101 58 60 191 197 10 0
25 23= Price & Myers7 56 8 48 0 0 0 87 57 56 196 191 3 0
26 new CBRE 54 0 1 23 4 26 0 na 277 2,077 2,021 17 480
27 26= Ridge and Partners 46 9 12 10 15 0 116 231 264 632 660 11 0
28 30 Meinhardt (UK)  36 3 23 2 3 5 37 35 38 85 93 2 51
29 35= DSSR 31 0 0 22 8 1 41 24 32 90 96 4 0
30 35= Foster + Partners 30 0 4 9 4 13 60 395 426 1,064 1,202 1 16
31 43 McAndrew Martin 28 4 4 9 9 2 1 47 69 71 88 3 0
32= 31= NPS Group 27 4 4 2 8 9 36 202 185 727 533 18 0
32= 34 Clarkebond (UK)  27 10 12 0 0 5 50 26 27 84 91 3 0
34= new Black & White Engineering12 23 0 0 12 11 0 0 na 23 na 30 2 5
34= 40 Civic Engineers 23 3 20 0 0 0 36 16 23 76 80 4 0
36 39 Elementa Consulting 21 0 0 10 8 3 45 21 21 69 75 2 15
37= 29 TSP Projects 19 7 2 1 3 6 179 46 25 422 351 5 1
37= 48= NDC 2000 19 0 0 9 6 4 0 17 19 37 38 3 0
39= new Ingleton Wood 17 0 4 8 4 1 34 57 79 187 209 6 0
39= new CTP Consulting Engineers 17 8 9 0 0 0 21 13 17 44 43 1 0
39= new Whitby Wood 17 1 16 0 0 0 30 10 17 27 51 4 1
42= 45= Webb Yates Engineers 16 3 11 1 1 0 27 19 20 62 56 3 1
42= 44 Lyons O’Neill Civil & Structural 16 2 14 0 0 0 10 14 16 23 27 1 0
44 35= Gleeds 15 10 0 0 2 3 0 583 472 1,233 1,093 21 50
45 new Tuffin Ferraby Taylor6 14 0 0 7 5 2 4 76 87 126 146 7 0
46= new Riley Consulting 13 0 0 6 4 3 19 109 109 220 227 13 2
46= new QODA Consulting 13 0 0 8 5 0 38 9 13 46 58 4 0
48= new Gardiner & Theobald 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 668 703 813 907 9 3
48= new Hollis 12 0 12 0 0 0 21 147 162 367 408 18 5
48= 45= Rolton Group 12 0 7 1 3 1 42 11 12 74 72 4 0

Methodology and notes

Close to 300 firms were contacted for this year’s Building Top Consultants Survey. They were sent a survey form asking for details on the number of chartered staff, non-chartered and technical staff, and domestic and worldwide fee incomes. Practices were also asked questions relating to: staff recruitment, wage patterns, margins, areas of work, and work expectations. 

All data in the tables are taken directly from firms’ replies. 

The survey does not claim to list all the top consultants, as it relies upon firms completing and returning the annual survey form. For a variety of reasons, firms sometimes decide not to take part. Only those firms completing and returning the survey form are included in the survey.  Firms having any questions about the survey, or wishing to be included in the 2020 survey, should contact Martin Hewes at Hewes & Associates: www.hewes-associates.com.  

NB: “New” is used to mean that the company was not in the 2018 Top 150 consultants table.

  1. Arup: Income data for 2019 is unaudited and provisional
  2. WSP: UK chartered total includes 1,193 other chartered, not identified in any questions
  3. BDP: Totals include other chartered staff
  4. Stride Treglown: Other engineers includes town planner, landscape architects and MCIAT staff
  5. Paragon Building Consultancy: 2018/19 figures take account of 2018 merger
  6. Levitt Bernstein: Income figures are estimates
  7. Price & Myers: Fee income for 2018 is estimated
  8. TowerEight: 2018 income is an estimate
  9. Robinson Low Francis: 2018 income is subject to audit
  10. Procom Construction Consultants: Fee income for 2019/20 projected as £5m
  11. Exigere Project Services: New company for 2019
  12. Black & White Engineering: Fee income for 2019 are estimates, based on seven months of data
  13. Iesis Group: Fee income for 2019 is estimated. July year end

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