Harrogate building physics team separates from business to gain 'independence'

The building physics engineering team at Harrogate-based Yonder Consulting has separated amicably from the rest of the business.

Now separated from the organisation’s mechanical and electrical engineering arm, the building physics business will now be run entirely separately.

Its 12-strong team, which will now be known simply as Yonder, is moving to Leeds before the year-end following the amicable separation.

Yonder’s building physics experts work with construction professionals, including architects, project managers and contractors, to deliver significant benefits to their buildings.

The Yonder team contributes to buildings’ passive design – their use of natural sources like the sun for heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting; leads on their design which involves deploying non-natural elements, such as boilers and electric lighting, for these purposes; and defines constructions’ ideal renewable energy sources.

Rob Gill, Yonder managing director who founded the business in 2012, said: “Building physics engineering is a specialist discipline in its own right and independence will allow us to concentrate fully on our field of expertise.

“Mechanical and electrical engineering is concerned with building services, whereas we focus on the whole construction.

“Separating will enable us to ensure passive design is rightfully prominent in a project, which maximises benefits for clients. It will also allow us to invest in our own specialism and deliver unbeatable customer care and service.”

Mr Gill is the major shareholder in the new Yonder, the remaining equity being held by his fellow executive director Nathan Evans.

Yonder’s building physics team has advised on hundreds of constructions in the public and private sectors across the UK. These have included commercial, distribution, education, healthcare, industrial, leisure and retail buildings.

Yonder places state-of-the-art technology, including dynamic simulation modelling (DSM) software, at the core of many services it offers. DSM simulates energy flows around and through a building, allowing its thermal environment and energy consumption to be predicted.

The organisation’s services include: passive design analysis, daylight calculations, indoor air quality assessments, thermal comfort analyses, energy simulations, low and zero carbon technology feasibility studies, climate change scenarios, and computational fluid dynamics, which analyses internal and external air flow patterns, heat distribution and contaminants.