Both Roger Preston & Partners and Whitelaw Turkington were acquired by Grontmij in early 2008 to bolster the company’s services portfolio as part of a series of strategic acquisitions.
The decision to bring the two expertise areas under the Grontmij brand will enhance the group’s drive to continue sharing knowledge across its international network of offices and portfolio of services.
John Chubb, managing director for Grontmij UK, said: “The strategic decision to bring Roger Preston & Partners and Whitelaw Turkington under the Grontmij brand positions us strongly to respond to increased demand for consultants with a broad range of expertise. It is the next logical step in the further enhancement of the wider, international Grontmij group and our offering.
“Bringing Roger Preston & Partners and Whitelaw Turkington under the Grontmij brand enables even greater knowledge sharing across the international group. We value both businesses, will protect the added value they offer to our customers, and bring the strength of being one of Europe’s leading sustainable design engineering consultancies to support them in the future.”
Landscape Architecture
Whitelaw Turkington was founded in 1991 and has an enviable reputation as a leading edge landscape design consultancy. The company has an extensive portfolio of projects which includes the multi-award winning shared space scheme in Ashford, Kent, the Greenwich Peninsula including Peninsula Square at The O2 Arena and the highly-acclaimed St George’s Square in Huddersfield.
The rebrand brings together the international Grontmij family of over 100 landscape architects and urban design specialists. This ensures the company can continue to provide innovative designs which not only respond to each site’s specific geography, topography, heritage and culture, but also incorporate best practice from some of the most inspirational and enduring placemaking schemes across Europe.
Building Services
Grontmij’s Building Services offering provides authoritative engineering advice and is renowned for creative solutions that satisfy demanding business objectives, whilst respecting people and the environment.
Grontmij provides a professional, director-led consultancy of engineers experienced in projects of every type and scale around the world. As well as general building consulting services, the building services division provides a number of specialisms, including building sustainability, fire safety and engineering, vertical transportation, fit-out design, communications, automation and security systems, critical facilities design and building services asset consultancy.
The Grontmij name represents the combined strength of 11,000 individuals working across the broad spectrum of services in the built and natural environment, meaning that new and existing customers have access to this wide skills base.
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Notes to Editors
In 2008, Roger Preston & Partners and Whitelaw Turkington were acquired by Grontmij as part of a series of strategic acquisitions.
Grontmij is a leading sustainable design and management consultancy active in the growth markets of water, energy, transportation and sustainable planning and design. At the core of our business is the principle of sustainability by design which is a leading value proposition for our customers. Grontmij is the fourth largest design and management consultancy in Europe with over 350 offices across Europe and a further 50 offices globally. We employ over 11,000 professionals across the world.
Our value chain of services stretches from major renewable water and energy infrastructure through designing efficient and environmentally-sensitive mobility and transportation networks to shaping our urban and green living spaces.
Whilst we are approaching our 100th anniversary, and benefit from the experience nearly a century provides, we prefer to look to the future to enhance the world we live in. By applying sustainability considerations to all our design, consultancy and management services right across the value chain, our highly-skilled, expert people are able to create lasting solutions that plan for, connect and respect the future.