Record growth for civil and structural engineering consultancy
REVENUE growth of more than 60% has seen sales soar at a Yorkshire civil and structural engineering consultancy.
Leeds-based BCS Design Group has increased sales from £3.9m to £6.4m in the year to end of August 2014.
The group’s profitability more than doubled, providing a platform for diversification and further rapid expansion in 2015.
The firm, which was established by civil engineer and managing director Steve Osbaldeston in 2003, has grown from being based in his spare room into a consultancy employing 38 engineers and staff in both Leeds and London.
The business saw growth in demand for its specialist design services for road, rail and temporary works clients across the UK including major contractors such as Balfour Beatty, Carillion and Laing O’Rourke.
Osbaldeston said: “Our reputation for specialist design is now well-established in the UK and we are enjoying increased demand as infrastructure projects see greater investment. Our step up in scale over the past few years has also opened up some new opportunities.”
BCS Design has become one of the leading designers in the rail industry and has been instrumental in the prestigious Thames Link and Cross Rail programmes including re-signalling, level crossing, power supply and station renewals.
“With the April 2014 start of the £38bn ‘control period 5’ rail investment programme by Network Rail, we are at the start of a five-year spending programme on the busiest parts of the UK rail network. This is the largest upgrade of the railways since the Victorian era,” Osbaldeston said.
“Add the huge opportunities offered for the planning and design of HS2, and we are in a very good place, as one of only a handful of specialists in our sector able to service these really transformational projects.”
Co-director Martin Cure added: “The opportunity to use our expansion and new scale to move upstream into complementary markets is something our clients are encouraging us to look at, and it is really exciting to have a whole new chapter of future growth ahead of us.”
Recent projects by BCS Design engineers include the design of rail improvements and platform extensions for a £6bn investment programme in the Thameslink network across the South East; the on-going design and maintenance of the M40 in partnership with UK Highways and surveys, ground investigation and design for 120 miles of railway for the UK’s Western Zone signalling upgrade.
