Introduction.
Established in 1998, Fulkers Bailey Russell is a construction consultancy firm offering tailored solutions to clients investing in construction and property within the public and private sectors.
We offer a multidisciplinary service comprising project management, cost management, building surveying, architecture and consultancy services for new build, refurbishment, repair, and upgrade projects. As part of a project team, or as a bespoke one-stop service, we strive to assist our clients in delivering successful and valuable developments.
Fulkers provides a no-nonsense, flexible, result-orientated service: A modern, forward thinking and professional practice, we value each of our clients. It is our objective to maintain a business which offers value for money and allows director attention on all projects.
What we do.
We place people, both clients and employees, at the centre of our business ethos and differentiate ourselves from the competition through our management style and culture.
This empowers our employees within an environment that encourages continuous improvement through sharing knowledge and best practice, challenge and innovation.
Our People.
Our people are passionate and dedicated to providing the best independent and innovative solutions to all our clients’ projects in a team environment that breeds success and leaves clients feeling that they have got more than they expected. Our ISO 9001 certification is testament to the quality of our service, systems and standards and our B-Corp certification demonstrates our commitment to making a positive impact in all that we do.
Our Services.
Multi-Disciplinary
Through partnership with our approved suppliers, we are able to provide a holistic multi-disciplinary service which includes, but is not limited to:
Acoustic Engineering, Architectural Design, BIM, Civil and Structural Engineering, Digital Surveying, Energy Design, Fire Management, Laser Scanning and Point Cloud, Lift Engineering, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Workplace Consultancy
Project Management
Change Management, Clerk of Works, Construction Project Management, Contract Administration, Design Management, Employer’s Agent, Energy Projects, Facilities Planning, Masterplanning, MEP Projects, Migration Management, Procurement, Programming and Scheduling, Project Governance and Control, Supply Chain Management
We are responsible for delivering a range of construction projects, all our services are geared to reduce risk, give greater certainty and to provide the best value for clients. This is why we develop our business around people.
Our people take time to understand your business and share their knowledge with the aim of generating fresh ideas. By blending our people, systems and construction market knowledge with our company, we customise our services to meet your requirements.
Cost Management
Bank Monitoring, Budget Advice, Budget Benchmarking, Building Cost Reinstatement Valuation, Cash Flow Analysis, Commercial Governance, Construction Cost Control, Contract Documentation, Design Cost Control, Development Appraisal, Due Diligence and Feasibility, Masterplanning, MEP Cost Control, Procurement Strategy, Project Monitoring, Tender Documentation, Value Management, Whole Life Cost Modelling
Building Surveying
Access Consultancy, Acquisition Surveys, Clerk of Works, Condition Surveys, Contract Administration, Defect Analysis, Design, Extension and Refurbishment, Dilapidations, Due Diligence Surveys, Employer’s Agent, Energy Efficiency, Feasibility Studies, Fire Door and Compartment Surveys, Fire Risk Assessments, Historic Building Conservation, Lead Consultant, Licence to Alter Party Walls, Planned Maintenance Surveys, Risk Management, Sustainable Construction, Whole Life Cycle Costings
Inspections, Contractor
Designer / H&S Architecture
CDM Advisor, Safety Advice,
Auditing,
Monitoring
Principal
Advisor, Designer BIM, Building Design, Contract Administration, Design, Extension and Refurbishment, Energy Efficiency, Feasibility Studies, Interior Design, Lead Consultant Services, New Build, Sustainable Construction
Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Decarbonisation
Baseline Management, Commercial Management, Data Analyst, Governance, Process Improvement and Management, Resource Management, Risk Management, Schedule Management, Strategic and Data Driven Reporting
Asset and Utilisation Reviews, Carbon Cost Tool, Carbon vs Cost, Fabric Condition, Funding Opportunities, Programme Strategy, Whole Life Cycle
Building Safety
Building Regs Principal Designer, Condition Reports, Design Management, Fire Door Inspections and Maintenance Programming, Fire Door Upgrades and Replacements, Golden Thread, Preparing Building Safety Case, Quality Control Management, Reviewing FRAEW’s, Structural/ Cladding/Fire Remediation
Big enough to cut it, small enough to care.
About Us.
Since the company was founded we have grown into a multidisciplinary consultancy with over 170 employees. Fully owned by three equity partners, we are not restricted by corporate red tape, we are able to take an agile and flexible approach to react to our clients needs quickly.
Strong, visible leadership from our senior teams ensures a personable approach and outstanding service delivery. We really are big enough to cut it and small enough to care.
ESG.
Fulkers are a Certified B Corporation, verified by B Lab to meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. Becoming a B Corp was a huge achievement for our company and is validation of our long-standing commitment to sustainability and social responsibility.
We have also been awarded the Prestigious Silver Rating from EcoVadis, an internationally recognised sustainability platform that evaluates companies across a range of criteria, including environment, human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement practises. The Silver Medal places Fulkers in the top 25% of all assessed companies and recognises our commitment to sustainable business practices.
“While B Corp focuses on our holistic corporate responsibility, EcoVadis offers a detailed analysis of our operating practices and supply chain, aiding targeted improvements. Together, they enhance our credibility and demonstrate a commitment to ethical and sustainable practices, fostering trust with our clients, stakeholders and partners. Having both accreditations reinforces our dedication to comprehensive sustainability practices across both internal operations and external collaborations. We are one of very few companies to hold both accreditations.”
Sam Bailey, Partner
Our Commitment.
To create awareness.
Share knowledge and resource.
Use of more sustainable materials and practices.
Development of our focus on sustainable procurement process/ policy.
Develop our corporate social responsibility procurement process / policy.
Invest in people and suppliers.
Ensure sustainability is at the forefront of all client conversations.
To lead by example. Staff training.
Develop our KPI’s to reflect the above.
National Composite Phase II.
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Location: Bristol
Value: Undisclosed
The NCC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Bristol and a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to be an open-access national centre that delivers world-class innovation in design and rapid manufacture of composites and facilitates their extensive exploration. This means the project had to incorporate facilities and developed for different/diverse stakeholders for large assembly areas and research facilities (e.g. composites, bioengineering, photonics and quantum computing).
After the triumphant expansion success of the activities in Phase 1 building the National Composites Centre (NCC) and the University of Bristol were looking to build an extension to over double the existing facility to circa 194,000ft² as the existing facilities approached its capacity.
Phase II includes laboratory specification cleanrooms, freezer stores, training, conference, office and ancillary spaces. The extension houses three gantry cranes and one of the largest hydraulic presses of its kind in Europe for high volume composite manufacturing.
Due to the urgent requirements and funding flow, the second phase had a speedy track programme along with the further challenges compared to Phase 1 with the area of the site less favourable to develop.
A further significant consideration was to integrate a third-party supply chain to oversee the delivery installation and commissioning of a crucial part of the new facility, a Hydraulic Press.
The procurement strategy which overcame the challenges was set to carry out groundworks (major rock excavation) as a separate enabling package, while the main works were being procured under OJEU procedures.
The process was carried out along with procuring the design and fabrication of the steelwork, which was then novated to the selected single main contractor.
Throughout the fast track, design development period with a dynamic and changing brief the Fulkers Bailey Russell (Fulkers) staff updated cost reports, whole life exercises, and carried out option and value engineering studies.
This was progressed concurrently with the team preparing and co-ordinating the tender documents with successful negotiations resulting in a contract put in place based on NEC3 Option A (Design & Build).
One of our key outputs (due to the funding flow via a third party) was to provide a financial model and report developed by the Fulkers team to keep the client updated of the current position.
Throughout the project, we kept the client entirely up to date (as required, sometimes daily) and reviewed various strategies with them to achieve the expected outcome.
National Composite Centre Additional Works.
APC Mezzanine, £500k
Conversion of the existing mezzanine space to form new office accommodation. Works include a fully glazed screen to provide visual and acoustic separation between the office space and workshops, and a secondary means of escape in the form of a high-level escape stair into the first floor corridor.
Workshop 3 Extension, £1.5m
Construction of a new build extension to the existing Workshop 3 for purposes of storage, plant, substation, LV switchroom and a fatigue rig room. Works also include various elements within the existing Workshop 3 to accommodate specialist equipment as part of the iCAP research and development programme.
Wing of Tomorrow Programme, £6m
Programme manager and project manager for the 4 key work packages to reconfigure the existing NCC building for new customers to use. The largest packages included the relocation of the Liquid Resin Cell team and refurbishment of the space for Spirit Aero’s use, and the construction of a new build extension for use by Airbus. Both spaces have received a new gantry crane.
Wing of Tomorrow Phase 2, £2m
Programme & Project manager and for 2 key projects to undertake cleanroom environmental upgrades in the main Workshop 1, and to complete the Engineering environmental improvements in a live building by phasing the works and move management.
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Location: Bristol
Value: £10m
Culina Logistics.
The Fulkers team was involved directly with the client, the members of the design team and the contractor to deliver the Culina Logistics chilled warehouse unit, of 175,000ft² GIA, within the projects allocated budget and timescales.
This new build project included substantial earthworks, landscaping and infrastructure works within the constraints of a working business park.
CARISBROOKE SUON DEVELOPMENTS
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Location: Haverhill Value: Undisclosed
Vectura Expansion.
Location: Chippenham
Value: £1.5m
This project consists of the refurbishment of existing storage areas to provide a mixture of Class C and D clean room space.
The Vectura site is an existing operational facility located in Chippenham, approximately 20 miles east of Bristol. Due to the demand in services the refurbishment of this facility is now required to expand the sites manufacturing, research and development capabilities.
The planned expansion area comprises of the existing warehouse which will provide around 8,000ft2 of research and development area.
VECTURA GROUP
Industria.
BEFIRST REGENERATION
Location: Barking
Value: £30m
The project aims to showcase how the 1.8-acre under-utilised sites in a Strategic Industrial Location (SIL) can be transformed into a model of how industrial land can be used in much more intensive ways.
The development will include 25 units for flatted factory usage, and 20 units for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) use with service yards accessible via a helical access ramp. A public café and business lounge will also be available to all tenants on the ground floor.
The development will provide viable, attractive workspace that is well suited to the market, contribute high quality design to its urban context, and set a high standard in sustainability.
The project will also act as an exemplar of delivering Good Growth and industrial intensification for the benefit of other boroughs facing similar challenges.
Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS).
IAAPS is a new research and innovation facility for advanced propulsion systems to deliver future generations of clean and efficient vehicles. Based at the Bristol & Bath Science Park, it will be industryled and compete on a global scale within the automotive propulsion research arena.
Fulkers Bailey Russell is providing cost management services for this facility which will host a range of state-of-the-art experimental research platforms to enable precise systems-level investigations to be conducted including whole vehicle assessments, in particular under real-world driving conditions.
IAAPS will be designed for the future, enabling deep insights into the complex nature of transitioning to ultra-low emission vehicles. As the industry moves away from combustion engines, the centre will not only develop more efficient performance, but develop battery and electric car technology. Its location on the Bristol and Bath Science Park will create a regional hub for associated industries and research.
Through its open innovation model, the vision will enable academics, automotive industry partners and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) to conduct transformational research and have access to world-class research infrastructure and people. This will promote greater collaboration and the sharing of expertise to advance knowledge.
High growth small businesses are vital to economic growth, and many of the UK’s most exciting innovations are fostered by SME’s. IAAPS will offer SME’s facilities that will create opportunities to build and expand their businesses.
IAAPS is expected to stimulate more than £67m in additional automotive research investment by 2025, creating an extra turnover of £800m for the UK automotive sector and supporting about 1,900 new jobs.
The West of England Combined Authority and Local Enterprise Partnership will also provide support for the project, with the allocation of £10m through the region’s Growth Deal.
UNIVERSITY OF BATH
Location: Bath
Value: £30m
Commonwealth Laboratories.
Imperial College London are one of our more recent higher education clients. Fulkers Bailey Russell first began working with the prestigious College in September 2020 and in the years since our first appointment we have developed a strong working relationship resulting in multiple repeat commissions across the client’s portfolio in two campuses in West London.
Our work within the Commonwealth Building comprises four separate laboratory projects across two floors of the building situated on the Hammersmith Campus.
There are two projects running concurrently on Level 7, one of which is funded by a grant. Due to us being engaged several months after the other members of the consultant team, we have taken the time to get to know the internal and external project team while the tender and contractor appointment were carried out, this includes the protocols and processes unique to the client that need to be followed and produced for every project.
On Level 4 our team are working on the refurbishment of a section (half of a floor plate) of Level 4. Collaborating with the project team for RIBA Stages 2-3 and the project is meeting the programme with end users fully engaged in regular meetings.
Brinsea Building Laboratory.
Location: Bristol
Value:
The new Brinsea Building replaces existing facilities on the campus, providing a commercial property management facility supporting the local community and providing case load for academic studies, and an Anatomy Study Centre providing a nationally renowned teaching programme for veterinary students.
The building adapted and extended a previous commercial unit on the site to create the new facilities.
The design was developed in conjunction with technical staff to ensure that potential contaminants are controlled through passive zoning of the building, and active systems to manage airflow, drainage and cleaning.
This project provides commercial and academic facilities to generate case load and support the new graduate entry programme for veterinary students and post graduate studies in veterinary science.
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
£2.5m
Advanced Engineering Centre.
2017 saw the completion of the new Advanced Engineering Building. The Fulkers Bailey Russell team have delivered a range of services to the university’s cutting edge £14m Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) on the Moulsecoomb campus.
The building, opened in September 2017, will become one of the world’s leading engineering research buildings and will extend the university’s Advanced Engineering Centre which works with local engineering companies on innovative research in partnership with the automotive industry to allow for industrial knowledge-exchange.
Following the successful delivery of this project on time and to budget, Fulkers Bailey Russell were asked to project manage the delivery of their first test cell laboratory in the new facility for a pioneering multi cylinder split cycle engine project.
UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON
Centre for Advanced Performance Engineering.
The University of Bolton is one of the UK’s leading centres for the study of Advanced Performance Engineering and are building a new flagship three storey 4,100m² building to acknowledge the wider portfolio of engineering courses the University will provide.
The University envisage a high impact building situated on a major junction within Bolton’s Education Hub.
The Centre for Advanced Performance Engineering will have a highly visible frontage to the main road similar to a quality showroom or motorsports
research facility while housing workshops, offices, demonstration theatre and associated subject hubs to the rear of the building in a more basic structure. The new build will project a distinct identity reflecting the intended use of the building rather than a replica of traditional university facilities.
The University’s procurement ethos is to generate maximum value that will support the delivery of its strategic development plan, stimulate Bolton’s economy and provide quality employment opportunities in the area for the people of Bolton and its students.
UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON
Location: Lancashire
Value: Confidential
Bath Spa University purchased the Nicholas Grimshaw designed, former Herman Miller factory on Locksbrook Road in 2016, and are in the process of transforming it into a fantastic new University Campus.
The Grade II Listed factory in Bath is designed to reflect the manufacturer’s philosophy of open, inclusive and democratic working spaces that can be adapted to suit their purpose.
The building is in a central location and close to student accommodation on Lower Bristol Road and Oldfield Park. As a former factory used by Herman Miller, it is part of Bath’s history.
The building structure uses a simple primary and secondary beam system with columns on a 10 x 20m grid to create a 6,000m² space with only two rows of nine columns.
To achieve the client’s aspirations for the building while continuing to function as a ‘place of making’, careful consideration was given to developing the mechanical and electrical design so that space was still able to promote collaboration, flexibility and community.
Low life-cycle cost components were developed alongside the use of passive elements of the building to limit internal temperatures and minimise energy use. The majority of MEP services were exposed, so careful coordination was required
with the building and structural elements to meet aesthetic requirements while maintaining the clients needs to allow for flexibility in use as well as futureproofing systems.
One of the crucial significant design features of the project included the raising of the existing roof height to allow for the creation of a mezzanine floor and provide additional critical space. Given the nature of the current deep plan building, new north lights and clearstory glazing was incorporated into the new roof design to provide natural light into the high-quality internal environment that the University was seeking. A new rooftop pavilion was also included to provide a high value, multi-use space which offered the University the potential to enhance the campus provision and reputation significantly.
Another notable feature of the design is the completely demountable cladding system of fibreglass, louvres and glazing, which allows staff to rearrange the position of window and facade building panels to accommodate necessary changes in use.
The new central campus will accommodate university facilities currently spread over several sites in and around Bath into a unique location with a vision as an academic incubator for the creative industries, fostering design thinking, entrepreneurial exploration, technological and skills development.
Dyson Hangars.
The renovation, refurbishment and fit-out of an existing 1930s and 1940s Type E aircraft hangars at the client’s airfield in Hullavington. The completed facilities provide research and testing facilities as part of the client’s £200m investment to develop electric cars.
The works for each hangar were split into three main packages comprising of shot blasting and repainting of the existing structural steel frame, strip off of the existing grass roof and roof membranes and re-provide new, and fitting out of the empty hanger to create laboratories, testing facilities, staff and office facilities and accommodation and all
mechanical and electrical services to the specialist directly procured equipment installed by a third party. Each package was tendered and procured under a JCT 2016 Design and Build contract with amendments.
The projects provided challenges in the amount of change and variations instructed post contract. Due to the functional requirements being innovative and on the cutting edge of development, the users’ needs alongside clarity from the specialist third party equipment supplier did change, and the building had to adapt to meet the changing brief.
DYSON
Location: Wiltshire
Value: £800k
New Integrated & Logistics Facility.
Fulkers were appointed to provide full lead consultancy mutli-disciplinary design services for the extensive adaptation of an existing high-bay warehouse building in Croydon, South London to provide a facility which would combine two separate service divisions for the London Fire Commission.
The building brought together a storage facility and specialist workshops which service, repair and commission the wide range of equipment used by the fire and rescue service in London.
A significant element of the design process was the research into the specialist equipment used by the Fire Brigade in the course of their fire and rescue services, and how workshop and storage facilities could be developed to meet the unique requirements presented by equipment ranging from hose clips to breathing apparatus, and up to inflatable dinghies.
Fulkers were responsible for the detailed design of specialist workshop areas such as the repair and maintenance of breathing apparatus (cylinder testing, maintenance and recharging), face mask testing, textile manufacturing, high line and water rescue equipment, gas tight suit manufacture and testing.
LONDON FIRE BRIGADE
Location: London
Value: Undisclosed
Additional Experience.
The Fulkers team members also have extensive experience in delivering projects within the science and research sector whilst under previous employment. A selection of this experience can be found below.
Airbus A400M Maintenance & Logistics Support, Facility Fit-out, RAF Brize Norton, £3.5m Fit-out phase of a large hangar, warehouse and offices. Management of complex client take-overs for areas required for aircraft maintenance
Airbus Wing Integration Centre, Bristol, £30m
Works for a new office building and hangar for testing aircraft wings
Brixton Estates/Segro
Various facility surveys and fit outs
Everything Everywhere (EE), Darlington Feasibility study for a new large-scale telecommunication call centre
John Lewis Partnership, £1.2m LED Replacement lighting project to eight distribution warehouses
Metropolitan Police, £28m
Delivery of a new warehouse with office space
Various Projects, Australia
Various projects covering: civil, roads, infrastructure, substations, data centres, high end research facilities, dangerous goods facilities, specialist research equipment, including virtual reality, modern manufacturing, RF shields, faraday cage, 3D printers, nuclear magnetic resonance, x-ray diffraction and marine aquaculture facilities, complex laboratories, logistics facilities, workshops, warehouses, carbon fibre production facilities and factories
Waitrose, Aylesford Regional Distribution Centre Refurbishment, £5m
Commissioning and upgrading facilities to meet Waitrose Operational Standards - Four large Warehouses (Ambient, High Bay FVH and Chilled) and associated ancillary buildings
Waitrose, Brecknell, £2m
Delivery of a new chilled warehouse
