Merebrook Consulting Ltd

We are a global firm of engineers, architects and business consultants, established over 50 years ago and now employing some 2,500 engineers located in 28 offices spread over eleven countries on three continents.

Merebrook Consulting Ltd is the UK division of the Spanish based Idom Group of companies and have our roots firmly in regeneration projects and have extensive experience involving brownfield and marginal land. We have teams of professional engineers, scientists and architects working in a diverse range of disciplines ranging from land contamination, ecology, acoustics and environmental impact assessments to health and safety, structural engineering design and project management of large engineering schemes.

Our pragmatic, multi-disciplined and fully-integrated approach brings our full complement of core skills and knowledge to resolve complex challenges within the built and natural environment.

This approach ensures that for any given project we bring together the very best talent in the world, irrespective of the sectors or regions in which they operate, to meet our clients' needs.

Environmental Impact Assessment Reports

Understanding the challenges facing developers, of delivering a commercially viable scheme whilst minimising adverse environmental effects are of paramount importance. Whether it is financing, planning, implementation or management of large or small scale development or key utility, transport and service infrastructure, environmental management and protection will be high on the agenda.

In order to facilitate this, an intimate understanding of the build programme and management is required, coupled with the sensitivities presented by the local environment.

Drawing on wide international experience, our combined skills and experience in assessing any environmental situation makes us perfectly placed to advise on the best strategy for Environmental Impact Assessment integration with developing policy, assessing impacts, creative design and implementation, gaining regulatory approvals, reporting publicly, managing risk and controlling costs.

In addition to environmental awareness, an increasing urban population has made Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management, and more sustainable use of resources, a most pressing and challenging environmental issue.

We are committed to providing sustainable and integrated solutions to meet the challenges presented by all aspects of waste and resource management and also to emerging recycling and Biodegradable Municipal Waste (BMW) diversion targets. These cover the whole life cycle of a project from inception to completion and asset transfer, delivering creative solutions and tangible benefits.

Renewable Energy from Waste

The way we generate and use energy is changing dynamically to meet the challenges of globally escalating power requirements and the desire for a lower carbon future.  The need to support energy suppliers and developers in meeting these future energy needs in a more sustainable manner has become a political priority, not only in the UK but globally.

Wind farms, solar arrays and ground source heat pumps; working closely with our Spanish colleagues, our combined expertise provide full technology design and support for all renewable and energy efficient generation schemes. These skill sets compliment our integrated expertise in environmental impact assessment reports, mechanical and electrical planning, Civil Engineering, architecture, design and asset management. 

Our end-to-end approach, from planning new infrastructure to the safe disposal of redundant assets, ensures we work closely with clients to pursue, promote and develop results that support their business aspirations.

Geotechnical Engineering

Unforeseen ground conditions are one of the most common sources of risk on a development project in terms of potential financial loss, caused by delays and overruns, damage to property and loss of life. Consultations from an early stage in any can help predict these risks by understanding the site conditions and, where appropriate, facilitate the changes required to foundation design or contaminated land remediation in order to achieve best value.

Geotechnical engineering is concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials and includes investigating existing subsurface conditions and materials; determining their physical/mechanical and chemical properties that are relevant to the project considered, assessing risks posed by site conditions; designing earthworks and structure foundations; and monitoring site conditions, earthwork and foundation construction.

Our long experience in ground engineering has been supported by high quality geotechnical engineering skills driven by moral and statutory duties to public health and the environment, as well as the issues of corporate liability, due diligence, and the opportunities for profitable redevelopment of brownfield sites. Project experience includes the design of traditional and more complex foundations including ground improvement techniques, piles and reinforced concrete rafts for single and multi storey commercial, residential and industrial buildings.

We also provide the facility to design and carry out Site Investigations to recover specific geotechnical data and to carry out slope stability analysis and ground stability risk assessments, and supported by the Advanced Analysis department for projects requiring detailed numerical modelling.

Engineering Project Management

Merebrook Consulting Ltd have core expertise in Civil and Geo-environmental Engineering which clearly demonstrate our ability to project manage and resource ground engineering works for schemes ranging from small contaminated land remediation to large groundworks and geotechnical projects.

Our site engineers are complemented and supported by contracts management experts and quantity surveyors in the field. On any project, especially where we have been involved in the assessment of ground conditions and the design of foundations, roads and drainage, we could not be better placed to prepare the groundworks or remediation/construction contract and to facilitate the role of project manager, contract administrator and site engineer. The role of Construction Design and Management Consultant is a service enjoyed by many of our clients on a variety of prestigious projects.

Civil & Structural Engineering

Unifying structure and architecture with practical and innovative solutions, the disciplines of Civil and Structural engineering encompass a wide range of skills from geotechnics and tunnel design to bridges, highways, power generation, lighting and water engineering.

Through our broad, multi-disciplinary skill base and experience across a wide spectrum of engineering services, we deliver a high value service based on our knowledge of economic feasibility, site selection and evaluation, engineering design and infrastructure.

Our engineers carry vast experience of civil engineering design from estates road and drainage and ground-modelling to large projects for the petro-chemical and power industries. This is complimented by a wealth of experience in the design of more traditional single and multi storey buildings, including hotels, apartments and housing, from foundations through to the finite element analysis of more complex superstructures in steel, concrete and timber.

Land Regeneration

Minimising client risk and maximising the commercial opportunity whilst having a good appreciation for the environmental, physical, social and economic dimensions are of paramount importance to our regeneration specialists.

Working alongside many of the nation’s mainstream partners in the regeneration sector affords us a unique insight into the identification, purchase and development of some of the largest and most challenging brownfield sites in the UK in recent times.

Our multi-disciplinary approach encompassing both urban and rural initiatives, and coupled with the rolling out of the ‘sustainable communities’ policy, means we are ideally placed to make financially sound recommendation for areas of decline to whilst bringing benefits to environment, local enterprise, communities and generation of job creation, skills and training opportunities.

Architecture

The integration of architecture, engineering, cost consultancy, urban and product design results in architecture that is both sensitive to the environment and human needs and yet profits from the advance of technology.

This close relationship allows the opportunity to explore how extraordinarily prolific the dialogue between the world of ideas and the world of technology can be. A holistic design approach balances the social, technical, environmental and economic requirements of a project with those surrounding land, material and energy usage.

Our projects reflect a multi-disciplinary philosophy, responding to the opportunities presented by client and site and expressing the technologies and materials from which they are made. This philosophy is that a multidisciplinary practice, combining the skills of Architects with those of the various Engineering disciplines results in the highest standard of design and realisation. Grouped in work teams in accordance with the main areas of focus, i.e., construction systems, bearing systems, energy systems and cost control, the architectural division has the necessary specialists to collaborate, advise, develop or supervise projects.

With the support of one of Spain’s largest Architectural practices,  we are able to offer UK clients high quality architectural design services and with 50 years experience can boast a large number of successful high profile projects.

Health & Safety

Now, more than ever, organisations need to manage every aspect of Health & Safety with the same degree of expertise and to the same standards as their other business activities.

Whether for office, retail centre, residential property or industrial premise, there needs to be an understanding of the commercial implications associated with Health and Safety and a clear and concise appreciation of the risks that need to be managed in order to prevent harm to people, premises and business.

In the construction sector our health and safety specialists have applied their vast expertise to developed behavioural safety programmes, and offer full capabilities in asbestos surveying and extensive experience in project management of asbestos removal. Within the industrial sector our Occupational Hygiene team have vast experience and understand concerning the prevention of ill-health from work, through recognition, evaluation, control and remediation of the risk.

By listening carefully to the requirements of our clients, our team of dedicated professionals provide a planned approach to addressing all elements of industrial and construction Health & Safety. These services include development of full Safety Management Systems that are both robust and simple to implement, scheduled safety inspections, investigations into specific incidents and cost effective solutions to eliminate or control the risks to ensure legislative compliance.