Patrick Parsons Multi-disciplinary Consulting Engineers Brochure

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONSULTING ENGINEERS

Patrick Parsons is an innovative multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy that combine technical excellence and commercial awareness to bring added value to our clients.

This profile document aims to showcase the full breadth of the services we offer and also give an overview of the key sectors we operate in along with snapshot of some of our recent projects.

We hope to demonstrate that we have the technical ability, commercial acumen and solid experience to give confidence that we can be your engineering consultant of choice.

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For over 50 years, Patrick Parsons has been building the expertise and reputation to deliver exceptional engineering solutions.

Our unique range of integrated engineering services together with our highly qualified, experienced staff allow us to compete with major international companies, yet we still offer the personal service that you would expect from a smaller firm. We work in strategic partnership with our clients, this means understanding their growth ambitions and our responsibility in achieving them.

We are ambitious in our pursuit of new building techniques and our teams are diverse in thought but aligned in goals, leading to a richness of ideas. We bring together the latest technology, techniques, and innovative solutions, which makes our approach to project delivery unparalleled.

An agile truly multi-disciplinary SME

Geo-Environmental, Civil and Structural services all under one roof

Technical competence, creative delivery and distinctive service are at the heart of everything we do

An unwavering commitment to putting clients first

Our people find fresh perspectives to conventional thinking

We are committed to delivering distinctive service to our clients. The Patrick Parsons Pillars outline our focus on communication, quality, and trust. These are the foundations that enable us to build long lasting strategic partnerships, that support our clients’ ambitions and organisational goals.

COMMUNICATION

There when you need us – Our Client Service Charter is our promise to provide a level of service and communication that our clients can rely on.

QUALITY TRUST

Checks every step of the way – The processes we have in place ensure that our outputs are of the highest quality.

We act with integrity – With our focus on communication and quality, Patrick Parsons is an Engineering Consultancy you can trust.

Our unwavering commitment, clear communication and quality is why we’re first choice for so many of our clients.

GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL

Environmental

Ground investigation

Geo-Environmental appraisal

Waste management

Remediation services

Contaminated land

Geotechnics

Coal mining risks

Hydrology & Hydrogeology

Renewable energy

CIVIL

Engineering feasibility & pre-planning support

Flood risk assessment & drainage strategy

Transport planning

Roads & drainage design

Proposed levels design

Earthworks / cut and fill design

Technical support at construction stage

STRUCTURAL

Pre-purchase, due diligence & pre-planning advice

Foundation assessments & structural systems

Peer reviews

Refurbishment design & heritage work

BIM service

Temporary works reviews

Building surveys & inspections

Party wall services

We strongly believe that great client service is based on quality, consistency, and reliability. Our promises guide our decisions, people, and actions to create experiences that make our clients feel cared for and listened to.

If it matters to you, it matters to us

We go the extra mile for our work, clients and each other

We act with heart

We believe quality should speak for itself and we hold our hands up when we get it wrong

Be brave enough to be different

We’ll steer clear of the norms and support each other to find bold and exciting new ways of doing things

We are constantly increasing our social value targets across all of the group by:

Supporting our regional offices to deliver local community benefits and drive engagement

Providing employment and skills opportunities, including jobs for local people, work placements, apprenticeships and training

Raising aspirations of local schools, pupils and college students and supporting third sector and charities

Enhancing links with education and training organisations to deliver agreed programmes for up skilling.

CHELSEA CREEK

LOCATION: Fulham

CLIENT: St George

Patrick Parsons are proud to have worked on every phase of this multi-phase mixed-use development. Now in its final phase, upon completion the development will provide 823 residential units plus commercial units, office space and a basement car-park in a waterfront location extended by the addition of canals and a marina.

Located on a 7.5-acre brownfield former gas works site the project presented a major challenge in obtaining planning permission. Investigations revealed extensive contamination as well as logistical challenges with restoring and refurbishing an existing lock and providing a connection to the River Thames by creating a series of new canals which run through the waterfront neighbourhood. Our civil engineering team became involved in this project at a very early stage in order to find a solution to this challenge and enable a consented planning application. This included liaison with the Environment Agency regarding the marina and canals, as they are used as flood storage linked to The Thames.

Providing civil and structural engineering on all phases to date, we designed reinforced concrete flat slab frame structures utilising finite element software SCIA, to optimise element sizing and reinforcement quantities. We also provided designs for pedestrian and vehicular access bridges within the development.

Our rail team were also brought in to manage the interface with Network Rail as a railway runs adjacent to the site. Our multidiscipline teams worked closely with the client, designer and contractor

PROJECT: Deptford Foundry, London

CLIENT: Anthology (Lifestory)

316 apartments over 9 blocks with a 25 storey tower as its centre-point.

PROJECT: Silver Court

CLIENT: Walsall Housing Group

39-unit block of apartments that will provide a mixture of social and private housing, including apartments for over 55s.

PROJECT: Kings Norton, Birmingham

CLIENT: Kier

Regeneration of site of former 60s/70s tower block to provide 300 new properties and a supermarket.

PROJECT: Trent Park

CLIENT: Berkeley Homes

Multi-phase development including 117 houses, over 100 new build apartments, 6 refurbished buildings, and new infrastructure.

PROJECT: Durose Country Park

CLIENT: Redrow

New development of high-quality two, three and four bedroom family homes in historic Breadsall Hilltop.

PROJECT: Tottenham Hale

CLIENT: United Living

Residential development comprising 3 blocks with a total of 131 units including retail and a health centre.

PROLOGIS WAREHOUSE & DISTRIBUTION FACILITY

LOCATION: Coventry

CLIENT: Prologis Developments

A £15m development comprising three individual portal framed buildings, varying in size from 43,000 sq ft to 140,000 sq ft., on a former local authority waste tip.

Not withstanding deep areas of made ground across the site and landfill gas production, the design required the implementation of specialist protection measures, together with groundwater contamination control which involved the introduction of continuous Bentonite cut off wall to the periphery of the site.

To control the variability in ground conditions and to reduce the effects of differential movement within the structural framework, specialist piling and dynamic compaction measures were adapted to both the external and internal yard areas.

Due to surcharging of the existing surrounding surface water systems, significant attenuation measures were incorporated within the scheme which involved vast areas of storage tanks being installed below car parking and hardstanding areas.

PROJECT: Hurricane Park

CLIENT: Boultbee Land PLC

The site consisted of three units, ranging in size from 40,000 sq ft – 90,000 sq ft, plus office space.

PROJECT: Woodcut Farm, Maidstone

CLIENT: Clearbell Property Partners

A 33-acre greenfield development site with outline consent for a 489,000 sq ft business park consisting mainly of industrial units with some office space.

PROJECT: Nuneaton 230

CLIENT: Goodman

A new 230,384 sq ft industrial and distribution warehouse.

PROJECT: Bedford Commercial Park

CLIENT: Goodman

45-acre mixed-use development at Bedford. Unit 6 was a 405,000sqft speculative unit now being occupied by Amazon.

PROJECT: Alcester Employment Park

CLIENT: Graftongate

Plot 1 & 2 - 20,000 sq ft units

Plot 3 - 40,000 sq ft

PROJECT: Cransley Park

CLIENT: St Francis Group

Prime new Business Park development of new B1/B2/B8 units from 25,000 to 100,000 sq ft.

EBBSFLEET GARDEN CITY

LOCATION: Kent

CLIENT: Land Securities, Henley Camland

Patrick Parsons was Lead Designer of the enabling and infrastructure works for the project, which is one of the first garden cities to be built in the last 100 years.

Adjacent to the M25, the site has outline planning permission for 10,000 homes, 6 million sqft of commercial space and 3 million sqft of retail, leisure and community facilities. More than 40% of Ebbsfleet Valley will be open space and landscaped.

The site is situated on the Eastern Quarry at Ebbsfleet, and works included the design of 6 million m3 cut and fill, including quarry backfill in readiness for the residential development and dewatering of the existing filled quarry lake. An earthworks strategy plan was prepared based on the site wide earthworks remediation strategy, utilising material from borrow pits to replace existing contaminated surface materials.

Further works included the design of comprehensive land drainage and storm water storage systems and adoptable highway, as well as adoptable surface and foul water pumping stations and rising mains to offsite outfall in the River Thames.

PROJECT: Birchall Garden Suburb

CLIENT: Tarmac

New garden community with 2,550 homes, situated adjacent to an existing landfill in Welwyn Garden City.

PROJECT: Drakelow Park & Walton

Bypass

CLIENT: Drakelow Developments

One of the largest brownfield site development opportunities in the East Midlands.

PROJECT: Kingsnorth, Medway

CLIENT: Goodman

60 Hectares of vacant land on the Isle of Grain, Medway previously used as an area to deposit PFA from the Power Station.

PROJECT: Wixams, Bedfordshire

CLIENT: Gallagher Estates

Former storage depot transformed into a new community, consisting of four villages and offering up to 4,500 new homes, amenities and educational facilities.

PROJECT: Gateway South

CLIENT: Segro

Comprehensive redevelopment of land at the former Rock Farm sewage treatment facility. It will create 3.7m sq ft of manufacturing (B2) and warehouse (B8) employment space.

PROJECT: Whitley South

CLIENT: Segro

New engineering facility adjacent to Jaguar Landrover’s headquarters at Whitley.

HURSTPIERPOINT HIGH STREET

LOCATION: Sussex

CLIENT: Hurstpierpoint & Sayers Common Parish Council

Patrick Parsons were appointed by Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common Parish to investigate the road safety and congestion issues along the High Street. Hurstpierpoint High Street is an old village centre, which was not designed for use by cars and had narrow footways, making it uncomfortable and unsafe for pedestrians.

Initially, we undertook a feasibility study to investigate the issues, including speed surveys and accident statistics, before developing a number of options. These options were then consulted upon and public opinion helped to determine which option was taken forward.

We were then appointed to carry out the detailed design of the preferred option, negotiating the S278 Agreement, organising the Tender process and supervising the works. The final option included a new footway, existing footway widening, new pedestrian crossing points and traffic calming in the form of kerb buildouts and priority/give-way arrangements.

PROJECT: Walton on Thames High Street

CLIENT: Elmbridge Borough Council

One of Elmbridge Borough Councils flagship projects, which involved paving and street scene improvements along the entire length of the High Street.

PROJECT: Cheltenham High Street

CLIENT: Cheltenham Borough Council

A European Union funded scheme, to rejuvenate an ageing High Street. Works involved repaving new planters, benches, street lighting and associated services diversions.

PROJECT: Aldershot Parking Study

CLIENT: Rushmoor Borough Council

Full survey of the parking situation within the town centre, including the level of use of the off-street car parks and on-street parking and duration of stay.

PROJECT: University of Surrey

CLIENT: University of Surrey

A, Travel Plan was required, with updates on an annual basis. We were commissioned to organise multi-modal traffic surveys over a number of years.

PROJECT: Godalming & Farnham

CLIENT: Surrey County Council

As part of a drive to improve road safety within various urban centres across the County, we were appointed to investigate area wide road safety issues within Godalming and Farnham.

PROJECT: Treetops, Old Portsmouth Rd

CLIENT: Cala Homes & Southern Housing Construction

The works included a right turn lane, a pedestrian refuge island and a new Pedex with MOVA signal controlled pedestrian crossing..

PROJECT: Distribution Warehouse

CLIENT: AB Inbev

65,000 sq ft warehouse, canopy and loading docks facility at AB InBev, Samlesbury.

PROJECT: Dry Goods Extension

CLIENT: Princes Foods

Portal frame extension of existing building for dry goods storage, which also incorporated a new production line.

PROJECT: Office & Canteen Extension

CLIENT: Princes Foods

New extension and remodelling of existing building to form new offices, canteen and welfare facilities.

PROJECT: Magor Brewery Alterations

CLIENT: AB Inbev

Installation of eight new fermentation tanks, within a live brewery. Civil and structural services, included the design of new foundations, drainage and structural support steelwork.

EARTHWORKS

At an early stage we develop site-wide strategies including levels and bulk earthworks. We look at all structures across the site creating 3D models of the existing ground profile, the preconstruction stripped surface model, the formation surface profile and the final surface profile. The models are compared using 3D software to arrive at the optimum design.

We produce all necessary drawings, sections, calculations and reports to support the site-wide strategy. The earthworks also consider the phase by phase construction showing where materials can be stored and where materials can be recycled through to the completion of works.

BIM CAPABILITY

BIM COMPLIANCE

Patrick Parsons are committed to leading the way on complex and challenging projects, aiming to reduce project risk. We are BIM Level 2 accredited.

We have adopted a company-wide BIM strategy to meet the Government’s requirements for Level 2 BIM on all government projects, as well as building the foundations for BIM Level 3 and beyond.

We continually measure our performance to comply with best practice as defined in PAS 1192-2: 2013, supporting and improving competence.

BIM PROTOCOL

• Adopt BIM Execution Plan in conjunction with architect and consultant team

• Adopt Quality Plan for external and internal communication of BIM documentation

• Regular clash detection workshops

• Regular Model circulation to team

• Unique identifying tags to allow quantification of materials

BIM PROTOCOL

• The use of BIM is integral to the early design stages and continues through to client hand over with integral building operations and maintenance

• Ensures a greater understanding of the project and our design vision together with allowing us to coordinate the design elements of our design team colleagues to ensure compatibility in designs and minimise areas clashes that exist

• Patrick Parsons has extensive experience of contributing to project BIM utilising Tekla and Scia for analytical modelling and Revit for geometrical modelling

FLOOD RISK

Drainage strategy and flood risk are often the key to a successful planning application.

We can support your planning application with a full Flood Risk Assessment. This is completed in accordance with National Planning Policy Framework. This will include an assessment of flood levels, hydraulic modelling of adjacent watercourses, evaluation of the safe route of escape and evaluation of level-by-level or volume-by-volume flood compensation.

Current planning practice also requires a sustainable drainage strategy to be developed to balance the challenges of the project with the drainage capacity of the site.

Our specialists can support you with this, as well as providing assessments of existing drainage systems, offering bespoke advice and technical solutions.

PROJECT: Dorset County Hospital

CLIENT: Prime (UK) via Stripe

Flood risk assessment to support the development of a new car park and ancillary facilities.

PROJECT: Sure Store

CLIENT: C4 Projects

Flood risk assessment to support the development of a new car park and ancillary facilities.

BSc PGDip FGS Senior Partner Geo-Environmental

Chris joined Patrick Parsons in 2014 and now heads up the Geo-Environmental Discipline. He leads a nationwide team of engineers who undertake site investigations and land assessments all over the UK.

Chris has over 20 years’ experience in environmental and geotechnical consultancy covering the whole of the UK. His areas of expertise include ground investigation, foundation design, contaminated land assessment and remediation, mining investigation and treatment schemes and value engineering.

Chris and his team focus on providing clients with clear cost-effective development solutions.

BSc CEng MIStructE EurIng Senior Partner of Civil Engineering

Stephen has over 30 years’ experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment, based mainly in central London and the South East, supplemented with working overseas in Europe, the Middle East and India.

Stephen has sound experience of working in most sectors including residential, commercial, education, industrial and technology, from major refurbishment of historic structures to new build mixed developments and from retrofit basements to high rise. This involves working closely with clients at initial consultation and advisory stages and collaboratively with the wider design team.

BEng (Hons) CEng MIStructE Senior Partner of Structures

Conor heads up the Structures Department and has over 30 years experience in the industry. He has an overview of many multidisciplinary projects in the practice and is responsible for the production of structural engineering design packages for a wide range of clients.

Conor has extensive experience working in the residential development sector in the South East of England, working on projects ranging in scale from 20 to 1000+ units with overall project values of up to £500 million. These schemes have included commercial, restaurant, office accommodation, health centres, theatres, cinemas and refurbishment works, including building conversions of historic and listed buildings.

Chris Storey

Stephen Grindley

Conor Murphy