What Dragonfly Consulting does

Dragonfly Consulting (legal entity Dragonfly Environmental Consulting Limited) is a privately held UK specialist environmental consultancy founded in 2007 and headquartered in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, with additional offices in Birmingham (opened March 2021) and London. The firm delivers expert technical advisory and assessment services across acoustics, air quality, construction environmental management, and workplace health and safety, with supplementary capability in expert witness work for planning and legal proceedings. It employs approximately 11 staff including qualified acoustic consultants with Institute of Acoustics (MIOA) membership and a Principal Air Quality Consultant with full project lifecycle experience.

Name

Dragonfly Consulting

Legal name

Dragonfly Environmental Consulting Limited

Website

https://dragonfly-consulting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Dragonfly Consulting is a UK environmental consultancy founded in 2007 that delivers acoustic, air quality, construction management, and workplace health and safety assessments to developers, architects, contractors, and planning consultants across the UK from offices in York, Birmingham, and London.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

York

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Professional Consultancy Services: The company generates revenue through providing expert consultancy services in acoustics, air quality, and environmental safety. Services are delivered to commercial, industrial and private clients from concept through to post-completion. Revenue is project-based, with engagements typically scoped for specific assessments, surveys, and ongoing consultancy support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Dragonfly Consulting is a specialist environmental consultancy providing acoustic, air quality, and environmental safety services for UK development projects. The firm delivers assessments, planning support, design advice, compliance monitoring, and expert witness testimony across residential, commercial, industrial, healthcare, education, and renewable energy sectors from concept through design, build, and post-completion stages. Services are sold as scoped consultancy engagements to developers, architects, contractors, local authorities, and planning consultants.

Product overview

Dragonfly Consulting is an environmental consultancy providing specialist services in acoustics, air quality, and environmental safety. The company operates as a service-based consultancy with nine interconnected service offerings: Building Acoustics, Commercial Development, Residential Development, Renewable Energy Development, Air Quality, Construction Management, Industrial & Logistics, Health & Safety at Work, and Expert Witness & Legal Services. These services work together to support clients across planning, design, construction, and operational phases, covering both assessment/consultancy and compliance verification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Building Acoustics Acoustic design and assessment services for buildings covering sound insulation, internal room acoustics, external noise impacts, and pre-completion sound insulation testing to demonstrate compliance with Building Regulations, Approved Document E, BREEAM, and the Building Safety Act. Targeted at design teams for residential, commercial, healthcare, and education buildings.
• Commercial Development Acoustic and air quality consultancy for commercial developments from feasibility through planning to completion, helping secure planning approval and ensuring buildings perform as intended. Targeted at commercial developers, contractors, and architects across offices, hospitality, retail, and mixed-use schemes.
• Residential Development Noise and air quality assessment services for residential developers from planning through to completion, supporting successful approvals and helping create high-quality living environments. Targeted at housebuilders and residential developers.
• Renewable Energy Development Environmental assessment for renewable energy projects including wind turbines, battery energy storage systems (BESS), solar farms, and energy centres, supporting planning applications and ensuring compliance with noise limits and local authority requirements. Targeted at renewable energy developers and operators.
• Air Quality Specialist air quality consultancy including assessments, dispersion modelling, baseline reviews, construction dust risk assessments, odour assessments, and planning condition discharge support. Targeted at planning applicants, developers, architects, and project teams needing to satisfy planning and environmental requirements.
• Construction Management Management of noise, vibration, and dust impacts during construction, including Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) development, Section 61 applications under the Control of Pollution Act 1974, and ongoing compliance monitoring. Targeted at contractors and developers managing live construction sites.
• Industrial & Logistics Noise and air quality assessments for industrial and logistics facilities including distribution centres, warehouses, manufacturing sites, and data centres, supporting planning approval and operational compliance. Targeted at industrial developers, logistics operators, and manufacturers.
• Health & Safety at Work Workplace health and safety services covering noise exposure assessments, vibration monitoring (HAV/WBV), air quality monitoring, and compliance with the Control of Noise at Work Regulations and the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations. Targeted at employers and occupational health teams across industrial and commercial workplaces.
• Expert Witness & Legal Services Independent expert witness services for planning appeals, licensing hearings, environmental noise disputes, and legal proceedings involving acoustic and air quality matters. Targeted at solicitors, barristers, local authorities, planning inspectors, and developers involved in acoustic or environmental disputes.

Named customers11 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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AI maturity

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Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sharps Redmore: Sharps Redmore is a UK-based acoustic consultancy providing noise impact assessments, building acoustics, and expert witness services. Highly comparable as a niche acoustic consultancy competing in the same planning, construction, and renewables segments as Dragonfly.
• Hydrock (now part of Stantec): Hydrock was a UK-based engineering and environmental consultancy with strong acoustics, air quality, and planning support practices serving construction and development clients. Directly overlaps with Dragonfly's service mix and target customer base in the UK market.
• RSK Group: RSK is one of the UK's largest environmental and engineering consultancies, offering acoustic, air quality, ecology, and planning support services across construction, infrastructure, and renewables. Directly comparable to Dragonfly as a UK-based environmental consultancy serving developers, planners, and contractors.
• Cundall: Cundall is an international engineering consultancy with established acoustic, building physics, and environmental teams serving UK construction and development clients. Overlaps significantly with Dragonfly in building acoustics, planning support, and multi-sector client base.
• Hoare Lea: Hoare Lea is a UK engineering consultancy with a specialist acoustics and air quality team supporting building design, planning applications, and post-completion testing. Comparable to Dragonfly in core service offerings (building acoustics, environmental noise) and UK developer/architect client base.
• AWN Consulting: AWN Consulting is an Ireland/UK acoustic and environmental consultancy offering noise impact assessment, air quality, and vibration services to developers, planners, and industry. Comparable in service portfolio and project-based revenue model, with adjacent geographic footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Arcadis: Arcadis is a global design and consultancy firm with UK environmental, acoustics, and planning capabilities serving property, energy, and infrastructure clients. Functions as a broad incumbent competitor with deeper bench resources than Dragonfly on large, multi-disciplinary tenders.
• Buro Happold: Buro Happold is an international engineering consultancy with established acoustics and building performance practices serving UK real estate and infrastructure developers. Comparable at the broader level as an engineering incumbent whose acoustics team competes with Dragonfly for premium UK projects.
• WSP: WSP is a global engineering and environmental consultancy whose UK practice includes large-scale acoustics, air quality, and planning teams serving infrastructure, property, and renewables. Competes with Dragonfly on larger multi-disciplinary bids where its scale and integrated services are a differentiator.
• AECOM: AECOM is a global infrastructure consultancy with significant UK presence in acoustics, air quality, and environmental assessment for construction, transport, and energy projects. Comparable as a broad incumbent that competes on larger programmes, while Dragonfly competes more on specialist, mid-sized engagements.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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