Services

At ARD Consulting Engineers, we provide comprehensive structural and civil engineering services, survey and inspection solutions, and sustainability support. Our structural engineering team handles projects ranging from small domestic renovations to complex multimillion-pound structures, using best practices and advanced software to ensure balanced, high-quality designs. In civil engineering, we specialise in drainage, highways infrastructure, retaining walls, and more, focusing on buildability, sustainability, cost, quality, and schedule.

Our survey and inspection services offer crucial data collection from feasibility studies to construction and asset management, including topographic land surveys, laser scanning, and structural inspections. Committed to sustainability, we support clients in achieving NetZero goals and sustainable construction practices through carbon calculations, life-cycle analysis, and sustainability governance. Our passion for sustainable design drives us to inspire industry change and deliver innovative, eco-friendly solutions.

Our structural engineering team is able to deliver small one-off domestic beams designs for that home renovation project, to multimillion pound, complex structures for Distribution Centres, Breweries & Factories.

Structural design is generally defined as being from the ground up, but can include basement and subterranean structures.

By adopting best practice alongside tried & tested design methods and software, our solutions are shaped throughout the design process by weighing up buildability, sustainability, cost, quality and programme. All of these aspects are balanced to best serve the needs of our clients.

Features that make this possible

Steel Portal Frame
Multi-storey Steel frame buildings
RC Flat slab design and Concrete Frame Buildings
Steel frames and bespoke structures
Retrospective structure/building justification
Masonry design

Aluminium design
Stainless Steel design
Lintel & padstone design
Timber frame design
Connection design & FE Analysis
3D structural modelling

Civil engineering design work is needed on many construction projects, involving work at or below ground level.

From drainage & highways infrastructure to retaining walls and internal concrete floor slabs, our design solutions founded in tried & tested methodologies.

By adopting best practice alongside tried & tested design methods and software, our solutions are shaped throughout the design process by weighing up buildability, sustainability, cost, quality and programme. All of these aspects are balanced to best serve the needs of our clients.

Features that make this possible

Cut & Fill/Volumetrics
Drainage Design
Pavement design
Road layout and kerb designs
Concrete Hardstandings/Slabs
Industrial floor slab designs and load capacity checks
Retaining walls/structures
Lagoon/Reservoir slope design
Earthworks/fill specification

Civil3D and PDS design
Soakaway design to BRE 365
Ground improvement
Traditional Foundation design
Piled Foundations and Piling Design
Slab/hardstanding rehabilitation
Cover Slabs and sink hole treatment design
Slope analysis and design

As project demands progressively change, the need for collating relevant data early in the project timeline is critical to ensuring decision makers can determine the viability of a project.

Our upfront survey and inspection services cover most aspects needed from feasibility studies to construction start, and as-built records to asset data management.

We are also able to offer bespoke packages of inspection to suit most project needs.

Features that make this possible

Topographic Land Surveys
Measured Building Surveys
Ground investigation and contamination surveys
Laser Scanning (Building elevations, building internals, external site)
RC Structure Inspections
Inspection of Highways Structures – CS 450
Containment Systems inspections to Ciria 736
Structural Monitoring Coordination

Aerial Drone
3D photogrammetry models
Flat bottom tank inspection (EEMUA P159)
Silo and Tank Inspections
Steel frame building inspection
General construction/building inspection and remedial reports
Trials pits BS 14688
Concrete slab investigation

With the introduction of the NetZero goals and in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), sustainability is at the heart of everything we do.

With increasing pressure and focus from society on the impacts of the construction industry, we are committed to supporting our clients, constructors, peers and end-users delivery on their sustainability goals.

We are striving to become a leading force of sustainable design, and whilst implementing sustainable construction will not be easy, we are passionate about this and know this will inspire change in others.

THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development