Sectors

At ARD Consulting Engineers, we provide tailored engineering solutions across various sectors, including agriculture, commercial, food & beverage production, manufacturing, industrial, healthcare, and residential. With over 20 years of industry knowledge, we offer extensive and cost-effective advice, from initial concept through planning applications and construction support.

In agriculture, our unique insights ensure compliance and effective collaboration, while our commercial services focus on understanding complex client needs to deliver timely results. We optimize engineering solutions for the food & beverage and manufacturing sectors, ensuring our designs fit critical business processes. Our industrial expertise delivers robust, practical solutions for harsh environments, and our healthcare services support timely construction projects. For residential clients, we specialize in civil and structural design, collaborating within larger teams to deliver comprehensive solutions.

ARD provides extensive and cost-effective advice and services to support the agricultural industry, based on over 20 years knowledge of the industry through family and upbringing.

Our unique knowledge and insight of the agricultural industry enables us to provide up to date advice and guidance in relation to construction works, and how your projects can maintain compliance with the relevant statutory requirements.

For our agricultural clients we support projects from initial concept, through planning applications, tender design, and construction support. We also work well providing smaller parts of larger project and enjoy effective collaboration within larger teams.

Agricultural clients often require the following services:

Surveys and inspection (SAFFO and CIRIA 736)
Master planning and scheme development
Planning applications
Ground investigation works
Detailed design work for civil and structural aspects
Lagoon and reservoir designs
Retaining walls
Steel structures and platforms
Grain stores

Portal frame designs and storage sheds
Yard areas and hard standings
Drainage designs (surface, foul and effluent)
Containment bunding assessment and design
Foundation designs
Slope stability and engineering
Construction phase attendance
EA permit applications
Negotiation with local authorities and the Environment Agency

We provide a full range of services to facilitate construction within the commercial sector.

Whether the project is a simple storage building, office block or state of the art factory facility, our team deliver results on time and to specification.

We believe that understanding our clients complex needs fully, and communicating effectively with them and the wider project team is how we provide the best value solutions.

Commercial clients often require the following services:

Surveys, inspections, and appraisals (structural, drainage, civil)
Master planning and scheme development
Planning applications
Building regulations applications
Existing building modification
Ground investigation works
Detailed design work for civil and structural aspects
Landscaping design
Retaining walls

Portal frame designs
Steel frame building designs
Concrete frame building design
Yard areas and hard standings
Drainage designs
Foundation designs
Construction phase attendance
Negotiation with local authorities and the Environment Agency

We provide a full range of services to facilitate construction within the food & beverage production sector.

Much like the manufacturing industry, optimising engineering solutions to best fit the processes that are critical to a business is our main focus. We strive to understand how a particular part of the food production process works, its key considerations, and how our solutions can best fit into those requirements. This can be a simple as ensure ‘no ledge’ construction details is completed to avoid the accumulation of dust, or the total encapsulation of the construction in question to avoid contact all together.

Food Production clients often require the following services:

Surveys and inspection (structural, drainage, civil)
Master planning and scheme development
Planning applications
Building regulations applications
Existing building modification
Ground investigation works
Detailed design work for civil and structural aspects
Retaining walls
Sumps and pits design and detailing

Portal frame designs
Steel frame building designs
Concrete floor designs and detailing
Yard areas and hard standings
Drainage designs (surface, foul and effluent)
Foundation designs
Construction phase attendance
Negotiation with local authorities and the Environment Agency

We provide a full range of services to facilitate construction within the Manufacturing sector.

Much like the food production industry, optimising engineering solutions to best fit the processes that are critical to a business is our main focus.

We strive to understand how a particular part of the manufacturing process works, its key considerations, and how our solutions can best fit into those requirements. Avoiding things like columns in the middle of a production line is what we excel at.

Manufacturing clients often require the following services:

Surveys and inspection (structural, drainage, civil)
Master planning and scheme development
Planning applications
Building regulations applications
Existing building modification
Ground investigation works
Detailed design work for civil and structural aspects
Retaining walls
Sumps and pits design and detailing

Portal frame designs
Steel frame building designs
Concrete floor designs and detailing
Yard areas and hard standings
Drainage designs (surface, foul and effluent)
Foundation designs
Construction phase attendance
Negotiation with local authorities and the Environment Agency

We provide a full range of services to facilitate construction within the industrial sector.

In our experience, the industrial sector is where robust engineering, practical construction, and value come together.

Our experience of the aggressive industrial environments gives us critical insights to enable us to deliver the correct solutions for a project’s needs.

Industrial clients would include manufacturers and handlers of raw materials; steel, concrete, bulk materials, bulk liquids, and timber to name but a few.

Industrial clients often require the following services:

Surveys, inspection, and assessments (structural, drainage, civil)
Master planning and scheme development
Planning applications
Building regulations applications
Existing building modification
Ground investigation works
Detailed design work for civil and structural aspects
Retaining walls
Steel structures and platforms
Sumps and pits design and detailing
Portal frame designs

Lifting frames
Impact protection
Temporary works
Blast walls
Steel frame building designs
Concrete floor designs and detailing
Yard areas and hard standings
Internal floor slab
Drainage designs (surface, foul and effluent)
Foundation designs
Construction phase attendance

With the current stresses on the Healthcare system globally, we are well placed to provide a broad range of services in a timely manner to support most construction related aspects of the industry.

Healthcare clients often utilise off-sight manufacture, modular, temporary, depending on critical time and quality requirements.