Following a sustained increase in demand for design projects over the past financial year, multidisciplinary design, engineering, and construction specialist, BES has expanded its design team with 14 new roles.
The move follows ‘a bumper year’ for the firm, with 10 independent design commissions completed over the past 12 months, representing a combined value of £2.5 million. The company has also delivered a similar number of projects totalling circa £50 million during the same period, which combine design, engineering, construction, and commissioning.
Located across the UK, and spanning the pharmaceutical, biopharma, healthcare, and medical devices sectors, the design projects have leveraged the expertise of BES’s multidisciplinary design team, including process, architecture, HVAC and electrical engineering. Comprising both feasibility studies and concept design, several of the commissions have led on to full turnkey construction contracts. Many of the design projects have been process-led and involved complex technical challenges.
Design services have been an integral element of BES’s multidisciplinary offering since the company was established almost two decades ago. Focusing on early engagement to ensure value engineering, buildability, and cost and schedule certainty at design stage, the company utilises the breadth of knowledge and experience to assist clients in making informed decisions about their capex projects. The 14 new roles span varied design disciplines, including process engineering, architecture, HVAC, and electrical, bringing the company’s design team to 44 professionals.
With significant capital projects on the horizon, BES is continuing to identify talent to join its design team, in addition to ‘training home-grown skills’ with its apprenticeship programme.
Managing director, Steve Marsh, said: “We have always had a strong design team, and our people strategy ensures we have consistently recruited specialist skills at the right level to deliver reliably high service levels to clients as we grow.
“Over the past year, our design team has been pivotal to our growth, and we are very proud of the way in which they have overcome the challenges of the pandemic and adopted new technology to provide a first-class service to our clients.”
