Civic Engineers

Introducing The Engineers Reuse Collective - launched today! 🏗️🌍 Our team at Civic Engineers has joined forces with Buro Happold, Elliott Wood, Heyne Tillett Steel, Webb Yates Engineers and Whitby Wood to launch The Engineers Reuse Collective (tERC) — a not-for-profit initiative focused on accelerating the reuse of materials in the built environment, with the goal of achieving a Net Zero Carbon future. The first of its kind, our collective is supported by The Institution of Structural Engineers. Through knowledge-sharing, roadmap production, advocacy and collaboration, we’re working to remove barriers and push for industry-wide adoption of the circular economy. The built environment industry contributes around 25% of the UK's carbon emissions, with embodied carbon making up a significant portion of this figure. By championing reuse and circular economy principles, tERC aims to drastically reduce carbon emissions while promoting sustainable practices across the sector. Find out more in the link in comments 👇 📣 Could your company be our next member? We’re looking for additional engineering practices to join the movement and help shape the future of sustainable construction. If you're passionate about making a positive impact, reach out to our lead Andy Yates (andy.yates@terc.org.uk) to get involved. “The climate crisis is here and as engineers we need to accelerate our actions to transition our built environment to zero carbon.” 📸 Thanks to: Andy Matthews Studio #CircularEconomy #NetZero #Sustainability #tERC #Reuse #ClimateAction Gareth Atkinson Tom Webster Anna Beckett James Morgan Harriet Browning Thomas Hesslenberg Robert Mills Laura Batty Ben Tapley

It’s day ten of our #FestiveCountdown, and we’re reflecting on our growing presence in Scotland and our many 2024 milestones 🎄 ⭐ Right on our doorstep in Edinburgh, we were proud champions of Women in Property’s annual People, Place and Innovation Summit ⭐ We shared our experiences of creating climate resilient, community-focussed neighbourhoods with our tour of Northfield Grove in Edinburgh alongside RFB ⭐ Isla Jackson and our team contributed to pioneering research into the performance of raingardens with other fantastic researchers, as part of our work on the Glasgow City Region City Deal ‘Avenues’ project ⭐ We won a British Council for Offices National Award for Statkraft’s The Garment Factory, as structural engineers alongside a fantastic team

Welcoming place experts New Practice added another string to our Civic bow this year, and is the latest highlight as part of our #FestiveCountdown 🎄 Founded in Glasgow and led by Marc Cairns and Becca Thomas, New Practice is known for developing the community, creative and cultural capacity of places to connect people to decision-making processes⭐ Their focus on embedding social value and real collaboration helps us to further build on all the brilliant work our teams are doing to have a positive impact on the environment and enable people to lead happier & healthier lives.

Continuing our #FestiveCountdown, we’re celebrating the positive impact our Manchester studio has made in 2024 🎄 ⭐We won Insider North West Consultancy of the year in recognition of our strengths in sustainability and our values ⭐ A greener, healthier Stretford was unveiled with the completion of the Kingsway redesign for a more connected, community-focussed space with active travel and sustainable urban drainage ⭐Eden at New Bailey, the ground-breaking climate sensitive development we were structural and civil engineers for completed ⭐ Altrincham public realm won ICE North West and Property Week awards for outstanding placemaking, fantastic recognition for the team behind it including Planit, The LK Group, Trafford Council, Simon Fenton Partnership and our team 👏

Day seven of our #FestiveCountdown, and we’re celebrating the launch of Civic Heritage in September 🎄 Led by Oliver Cook and Katie Fletcher, Civic Heritage is archaeology and heritage consultancy working across the UK to support residential, commercial and mixed-use developments Understanding the heritage and environmental make-up of our natural and urban landscapes is key to sustainable development, and the team is helping to create healthy, climate resilient places, spaces and communities 🌍 #sustainability #archaeology #heritage #sustainabledevelopment

🎄 ‘Twas the knit before Christmas 😄 (so sorry), and engineers, heritage consultants and place experts were serving up some festive fashion, all in the name of charity..... It’s day six of our #FestiveCountdown, and we’re proud to share a sneak peak at our team’s Christmas jumper day last week, where we raised funds for fantastic cause Save the Children International #SavetheChildren #Christmasjumperday #Feelingfestive 🎅

So, we're not sure what happened on Friday to day five of our #FestiveCountdown? 🤔 We think the elves may have been playing their games or perhaps the team Christmas parties started too early 🥳 .....anyway, it's never too late to post so here goes, and we’re in Leeds with our growing team there, celebrating a great year with some fantastic highlights: 🎄 As session partners to UKREiiF, we welcomed more than 250 of our clients, collaborators and colleagues to our event at Bomba Paella as part of the fringe programme.  🎄 We shared our experience of creating resilient neighbourhoods at Climate Innovation District, the UK’s largest sustainable urban living project with fbe Leeds  🎄 We reached exciting milestones at our projects across Yorkshire, including:   - The opening of the penultimate building as part of the refurbishment of Wakefield’s Grade II* listed Rutland Mills into a creative hub, Tileyard North;   Topping out at The Store House, the new retail and student development at Briggate in Leeds  - Completing the restoration of Doncaster Corn Exchange, bringing it back to its former glory  - Sustainable housing at Ordnance Lane in York receiving the green light, a project that will deliver healthy, low carbon homes and green space for the community #Leeds #engineers #sustainability #structures #Yorkshire #transport #urbaninfrastructure #civils Leah Stuart Paul Morris Andrew Elder Billy Brand Hannah Keighley

Our #FestiveCountdown sees us celebrate achievements across our team, with Civic Earth going from strength to strength in 2024 🎄 Just a few of our highlights included: ⭐ Welcoming new team members across our studios and growing our presence across the UK ⭐ Working on landmark projects, including Oldham Council’s Civic Centre, the first step in the plans to transform the town centre; the transformational £65m Blackpool Multiversity, a state-of-the art higher education campus; and the Mayfield development in Manchester, the home of the city’s first new park in 100 years. ⭐ Sharing our insights on soil health, biodiversity and embodied carbon, helping the industry in its response to the climate crisis #soilhealth #biodiversity #geotech #geoenvironmental

Day three of our #FestiveCountdown and we’re celebrating our team’s achievements in London and the big strides they have made for climate resilience and the circular economy. Just a few highlights include 👇🎄 ⭐ Winning a British Construction Industry sustainability award for our breakthrough ‘urban mining’ initiative - reusing tonnes of pre-war steel from our project The Elephant at FORE Partnership’s TBC.London in a collaborative effort with Webb Yates Engineers & more ⭐ Taking clients and collaborators behind the scaffold at The Elephant, the refurbishment of the former House of Fraser on Oxford Street, to see material reuse in action ⭐ Being at the heart of the launch of The Engineers Reuse Collective, a not-for-profit group with leading UK engineering firms joining forces to accelerate reuse in the built environment ⭐ Joining Opportunity London to help attract investment into London’s low-carbon built environment, and supporting NLA’s #Retrofit conference ⭐ Winning ‘Place of the Year’ at The Pineapples Awards for Gascoigne Estate Phase 2's transformation into one of London’s most liveable, sustainable neighbourhoods with White Arkitekter & Be First Regeneration Limited #London #TeamCivic

Our #FestiveCountdown continues with a look back on our growth in Ireland this year 🎄 Just some of our many highlights include: ⭐ Opening our new home in Dublin on Lad Lane and welcoming associate Dave Keane who joined us as our active travel lead   ⭐ Working on Dublin’s landmark College Green Dame Street Public Realm ⭐ Contributing to Taoiseach’s Report of the Dublin City Taskforce, identifying a 10-point plan to rejuvenate Dublin City Centre and make a meaningful positive difference ⭐ Winning ‘Social Impact of the Year’ at the National Property Awards for Ireland’s first raingarden pilot scheme, which engages with schools and the community in Cobh to improve biodiversity and climate resilience ⭐ Authoring best practice guidance for incorporating nature-based sustainable drainage systems, for both Ireland’s National Transport Authority and Local Authority Waters Programme #Dublin #Ireland