Durham consulting engineers celebrate 60 years with “ambitious” expansion plans

TGA Consulting Engineers is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month with over 75 per cent of its targeted workload for the current financial year already confirmed in only three months.

The firm, which employs 45 staff and is headquartered in Durham with additional offices in Newcastle, Leeds, Stevenage and London, typically works on projects valued at between £6m and £60m, providing design and consultancy services across building performance, building services engineering, lighting design and low carbon design.

Business is said to have “flourished” over the last 12 months, with TGA recently making eight appointments to provide additional resources across its Leeds, Durham and Newcastle offices to cope with the demand for its services across a wide variety of new and existing buildings.

With a focus on decarbonisation, TGA is also celebrating key project wins, working with Newcastle City Council on a £16m Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), the £8.3m Morrison Busty Low Carbon Facility for Durham County Council and the Durham Custody Suite for Durham Constabulary.

Scott Graham, director at TGA, commented: “We are all delighted with the way the company is performing. The world has moved on quite some way since we were established, but we have always been committed to keeping abreast of advances in modern building technology, and there have been many in our sector, as well as growing organically.

“We have a good conversion rate of winning work at around 35 per cent, which helps, along with a great deal of repeat business from design team partners.

“We are also proud to regard ourselves as champions of workforce diversity and currently employ engineering professionals from Singapore, Malaysia, India and Burundi and are viewed as a good training ground for school and college leavers.

“In fact, our recent appointment of four graduate engineers will provide a platform for the future growth of the business.”

As the world came out of lockdown, TGA took advantage of £250k funding from the North East Growth Capital Fund, to restructure the business and implement its diversification strategy, which includes plans to double turnover in the next five years as well as open further offices in the West, North West and South West.

By Matthew Neville – Correspondent, Bdaily

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