Foundation Capabilities

Core Engineering Disciplines

Our chartered civil and structural engineers provide the fundamental load-bearing, geotechnical, and drainage frameworks required for commercial certainty.

Structural Backbone

Structural Engineering

Design of reinforced concrete, structural steel, post-tensioned slabs, load-bearing masonry, and hybrid structures. Advanced 3D finite element analysis, embodied carbon life-cycle accounting, and Building Safety Act Gateway 2 submittal dossiers.

Discipline Lead: Daniel Singh, Director
Civil Masterplanning

Civil Engineering & Earthworks

Site infrastructure masterplanning, 3D cut-and-fill volumetric balancing in Autodesk Civil 3D, retaining structures, piling platforms, utility coordination, and remediation design for contaminated brownfield land.

Discipline Lead: Daniel Singh, Director
Municipal & Access

Highways & Infrastructure

Section 38 (Highway Adoption), Section 278 (Works on Existing Highway), and Section 104 (Sewer Adoption) technical negotiations. Junction capacity modelling, heavy pavement designs, and Road Safety Audit responses.

Discipline Lead: Daniel Singh, Director
Hydrology & Flood Risk

Surface Water Management & SuDS

MicroDrainage and InfoDrainage hydraulic network simulations. Attenuation tanks, detention basins, bio-retention swales, permeable paving systems, and National Planning Policy Framework Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs).

Discipline Lead: Daniel Singh, Director
Ground Optimization

Levels Analysis & Earthworks

Precision 3D ground contouring to eliminate expensive off-site soil removal and imported aggregate. Floodplain contour modelling and CIRIA C736 bund containment design for hazardous liquid containment.

Discipline Lead: Daniel Singh, Director
Early Due Diligence

Pre-Planning Engineering

Early technical appraisal for land acquisitions and planning applications. Utility capacity screenings, access geometry verification, preliminary flood assessments, and phase 1 geotechnical desk studies.

Discipline Lead: Daniel Singh, Director
Advanced Technical Solutions

Specialist Disciplines & Advisory

From CARE-accredited historic church restorations and RAAC structural propping to hazardous process plant HAZOP chairing, our specialist teams solve unique structural challenges.

CARE Accredited

Heritage & Conservation

Led by Conservation Accredited Engineers registered under the ICE/IStructE CARE scheme. Sympathetic interventions, non-destructive diagnostic appraisal, lime mortar repair, and historic timber frame restoration.

Discipline Lead: Claudio Corallo, Divisional Director
STA Member

MMC & Timber Engineering

Specialised structural timber design aligned with Modern Methods of Construction. Member of the Structural Timber Association (STA), engineering CLT, SIPs panels, glulam, and open/closed floor cassettes for off-site manufacture.

Discipline Lead: Regional Engineering Directors
Safety Remediation

RAAC Survey & Remediation

Comprehensive assessment of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete planks installed between 1950–1990. Non-destructive inspections, risk grading, emergency propping design, and permanent structural replacement schemes.

Regional Leads: W. Stanton (Midlands) · R. Harries (North)
Circular Decarbonisation

Building Retrofit & Repurposing

Upgrading existing buildings to deliver low-carbon commercial and residential assets. Structural alterations to widen column spans, vertical rooftop extensions, core realignments, and embodied carbon life-cycle appraisals.

Discipline Lead: Richard Harries, Divisional Director
COMAH & HAZOP

Process Engineering & HAZOP

Over a decade of specialist expertise in pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, food, and fuel terminals. Certified HAZOP chairs, LOPA, Functional Safety (SIL), DSEAR/ATEX compliance, P&ID generation, and mass balance calculations.

Discipline Lead: Craig Yates, Divisional Director
Statutory CDM 2015

CDM Principal Designer

Providing health and safety design coordination continuously since statutory inception in 1994. Pre-Construction Information compilation, design hazard elimination, and Health & Safety File governance.

Discipline Lead: Graham Ellis, Specialist Consultant
BS 5975:2019

Temporary Works Design

Design and independent Category 1/2/3 verification in accordance with BS 5975:2019 and BD2. Façade retention schemes, deep excavation cofferdams, sheet piling, tower crane foundations, and mobile crane outrigger checks.

Discipline Lead: Graham Ellis, Specialist Consultant
Forensic Condition

Building Appraisal & Condition

Acquisition due diligence surveys, structural defect forensic diagnostics, crack monitoring regimes, plant load capacity verification, and Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) asset strategies.

Discipline Lead: Richard Harries, Divisional Director
CPR Part 35 Compliant

Expert Witness & Litigation

Independent forensic engineering investigations and CPR Part 35 compliant expert reports for High Court litigation, arbitrations, and Single Joint Expert instructions regarding subsidence, structural collapse, and water ingress.

Discipline Lead: Regional Directors
Biodiversity Net Gain

Ecology & Biodiversity

Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEA), Phase 1 Habitat Surveys, protected species investigations (bats, great crested newts), Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) metrics, and BREEAM Ecology assessments.

Discipline Lead: Daniel Singh, Director
Beckett Rankine Alliance

Marine & Coastal Engineering

Comprehensive coastal and maritime infrastructure delivered via a Strategic Alliance with Beckett Rankine. Quays, piers, locks, dry docks, coastal sea defences, breakwaters, and container ports.

Alliance Lead: Regional Directors & Beckett Rankine
Multidisciplinary Management

Lead Consultant & PM

Technical project leadership managing multidisciplinary design teams from project inception to commissioning. Brief development, risk registers, stage gateway sign-offs, value engineering, and contract administration.

Discipline Lead: Richard Harries, Divisional Director
Regulatory Rigour

Building Safety Act 2022 & Gateway 2 Assurance

Under the Building Safety Act regime, Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs) require unprecedented structural scrutiny by the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) prior to commencing construction.

Clancy Consulting provides developers with complete structural design compliance statements, competence records, mandatory occurrence reporting protocols, and digital golden-thread evidence dossiers. Our experienced chartered engineers ensure design packages pass Gateway 2 assessment smoothly, mitigating the catastrophic commercial risk of site moratoriums.

Key Gateway 2 Deliverables

  • ✓ Structural Integrity Statement: Documenting compliance with Part A Building Regulations and progressive collapse resistance.
  • ✓ Design Change Management Protocol: Formal procedures to review, log, and re-certify major and notifiable structural changes.
  • ✓ Fire-Structural Interactions: Finite analysis of load-bearing performance during fire exposure in collaboration with fire engineers.
  • ✓ Digital Golden Thread Integration: 3D Revit models populated with exact material specifications and inspection sign-offs.
Technical Enquiry

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Speak directly with our senior chartered engineers to scope your civil, structural, heritage, or industrial engineering requirements across the UK.