Independent Multidiscipline Built Environment Consultancy
Ridge & Partners
Founded in 1946 and now home to 1,300 people across 14 UK locations, Ridge & Partners is one of the UK's leading independent built environment consultancies. Operating across engineering, architecture, planning, cost management, project delivery and compliance, Ridge brings a genuinely integrated multidiscipline offer to every project — from single-discipline commissions to full end-to-end delivery. Partner-led and independently owned, every client has direct access to a business owner from day one, with relationships built on expertise, accountability and trust accumulated over nearly 80 years.
Ridge multidiscipline services are available individually or in any combination — providing a fully coordinated one-stop-shop across planning, management, design and engineering for the total development lifecycle. With strong experience across all sectors and a proactive, partner-led team that takes personal responsibility for results, Ridge brings genuine integration and commercial certainty to even the most complex projects.
· Development & Land Advisors
Ridge's Property Consultancy team provides strategic development and regeneration advice, asset management consultancy and development appraisals — acting as a trusted long-term advisor to developers, landowners and public sector bodies across complex schemes.
· Architecture · Planning Consultants
· Transport Planning · Sustainability Consultants
A top 50 architecture practice with 25 years of award-winning delivery, backed by an experienced planning team with a strong track record securing consent across residential, commercial, regeneration and strategic land. Transport planning and sustainability consultants complete a full pre-application to planning approval service.
· Structural Engineering · Civil Engineering
· Building Services Engineering · Building Surveying
· Geo-Environmental Consultancy
Ridge structural, civil and building services engineers deliver technically rigorous, carbon-conscious design across all building types and scales. Their chartered building surveyors support clients across acquisition, disposal and portfolio management, with one of the largest surveying teams in the UK property sector.
· Project Managers
· Quantity Surveyors / Cost Managers
Ridge cost managers and project managers are embedded across every sector, providing commercial certainty and programme leadership from feasibility through to completion. Supporting over 70 long-term framework agreements with private and public sector clients.
· Health & Safety Consultants · Fire Engineers
· CDM Consultants · Expert Witness
Ridge Health & Safety consultants act as Principal Designer under CDM and the Building Safety Act. Their Fire Safety team includes qualified Fire Engineers and accredited Fire Risk Assessors operating under BAFE SP205, with expertise in Higher Risk Buildings and the Building Safety Act 2022. Expert Witness and Advisory Services are available across multiple disciplines for dispute resolution and litigation support.
Cadent Gas Headquarters, Coventry
Commercial, new build headquarters Full project and cost management for a £40m, 100,000 sqft regional headquarters for Cadent Gas, delivering a BREEAM Very Good rated building for 1,000 staff — managing 250+ tenant-led changes during construction while maintaining programme and budget certainty throughout.
Green Man Lane, Ealing
Residential regeneration, structural and civil engineering
Full structural and civil engineering design for a £155m mixed-tenure regeneration scheme delivering 770 new dwellings, retail, community facilities and a primary school — requiring complex phased delivery within a fully occupied existing estate.
One Horton Heath, Hampshire
Strategic infrastructure · Civil engineering lead consultant on a 2,500-home mixed-use development for Eastleigh Borough Council, delivering an Infrastructure First strategy, securing planning approvals and designing roads, drainage, utilities, cycleways and green spaces ahead of residential delivery to ensure community amenities were in place from day one.
Disciplines
- Structural
- Civil
- Building Services
- Building Surveying
- Architecture
- Planning
- Transport
- Sustainability
- Cost Management
- Project Management
- Fire Safety
- Health & Safety
- Geo-Environmental
- Development Advisory
What we do
Project type
- Residential
- Commercial
- Mixed-use
- Regeneration
- Industrial & Logistics
- Infrastructure
- Retail
- Science & Research
Typical project size
- All scales from feasibility to major capital programmes
Geographic comfort
- UK-wide - 14 UK office locations
- International project experience
Stage of involvement
- Feasibility
- Pre-application
- Planning
- Design
- Delivery
- Post-occupancy
Open to connecting with
- Developers
- Landowners
- Local authorities
- Contractors
- Investors
- Housing associations
What we deliver
A genuine one-stop-shop across planning, design, engineering, cost management and compliance, individually or as a fully coordinated multidiscipline team from inception to completion.
Nearly 80 years of trusted client relationships across all major sectors, with over 70 long-term framework agreements in place.
Partner-led delivery on every commission, direct access to a business owner from day one.
How we like to work
Ridge operates as a long-term trusted partner, with a named partner accountable for every client relationship from first conversation to completion. Whether engaged as a single discipline or full multidiscipline team, they take personal ownership of outcomes — listening carefully, challenging constructively and staying the course on complex programmes. Their national reach and 14 office locations ensure the right expertise is always close to hand.
KEY CONTACTS
Tim Leigh
Partner, Project Management (Oxford)
Leads project management commissions from the Oxford office, bringing 20 years of experience managing large complex project teams across multiple stakeholders and sectors.
Andy Cottrell
Partner, Cost Management
Senior contact for cost management and quantity surveying commissions, with extensive experience delivering commercial certainty across residential, commercial and regeneration schemes.
Alexandra
Gerrish-Ives
Partner, Project Management (Reading)
Leads Ridge's Reading project management team, with 27 years of experience across residential, regeneration and public sector schemes for local authorities, housing companies and NHS trusts.
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