Foreman Roberts

Name

Foreman Roberts

Legal name

Foreman Roberts

Website

https://foremanroberts.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Building Services Engineering Consulting (MEP)

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330), Engineering Services (54133)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

MEP (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing) Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Center MEP & Commissioning (Electrical, Mechanical, BMS, Integrated Systems Testing) (IMAFAIAH), Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

Keywords

• Mechanical electrical engineering
• MEP design services
• Building services consulting
• Data centre engineering
• BIM consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Design Services: Professional consulting engineering services for Mechanical, Electrical, and Public Health (MEP) systems design across all building sectors. Revenue is generated through project-based professional fees for design, advisory, and technical review services delivered to an international client base.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Foreman Roberts is a consulting engineering firm that designs Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) engineering systems for buildings across an international client base. The firm delivers BIM Level 2 coordinated design, critical engineering for data centres, and energy-efficient solutions that support occupant wellbeing, with sector-specific expertise spanning government, education, healthcare, arts & culture, historic, hotels, industrial, sports and workplace buildings.

Product overview

Foreman Roberts is a consulting engineering firm offering a comprehensive suite of MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health) engineering services for the built environment. The company operates as a single unified consulting practice rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Their core services include Mechanical Services, Electrical Services, Public Health Services, Critical Engineering (including data centres), Energy & Sustainability, Wellbeing, Smart Buildings, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Fire Engineering, Communications, Vertical Transportation, and Specialist Services. The company has been operating since 1955 and delivers projects across multiple sectors including Arts & Culture, Critical Engineering & Data Centres, Education, Government & Local Authority, Healthcare, Historic, Hotels & Resorts, Industrial, Infrastructure, Mixed-Use, Regeneration, Research & Science, Residential, Retail, Sports & Leisure, Technology & Media, Transportation, and Workplace.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mechanical Services Design and engineering of mechanical systems for buildings including heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and specialised mechanical installations. Delivered to enterprise clients across all building sectors as part of Foreman Roberts' MEP consulting offering.
• Electrical Services Design and engineering of electrical systems including power distribution, lighting, and electrical infrastructure for commercial, institutional and mission-critical buildings.
• Public Health Services Engineering design services for public health systems including water supply, drainage, and sanitary systems within the built environment.
• Critical Engineering Specialised engineering design for critical facilities including data centres, requiring high-availability systems, resilient power, cooling and infrastructure. Includes feasibility studies, surveys, fit-outs and detailed design for new-build and upgrade projects (e.g., Global Switch London 2, Barclays Canary Wharf, Telehouse East London, ION Trading, Worldcom).
• Energy & Sustainability Energy-efficient design solutions and sustainability consulting to support environmental performance and wellbeing in the built environment, including BREEAM assessment support underpinning the firm's track record of first BREEAM 'Excellent' data centre and St David's Library achievements.
• Wellbeing Services Engineering design focused on occupant comfort, health, and wellbeing within built environments, supporting human performance in line with the firm's stated wellbeing philosophy.
• Smart Buildings

Quantifiable outcome

• First building to achieve BREEAM 'Excellent' for design and construction - St David's Library
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: AECOM is a global engineering and infrastructure consultancy with a broad building services capability, frequently competing on large UK public sector and commercial real estate projects served by Foreman Roberts.
• Ramboll: Ramboll is an international engineering consultancy with a significant UK building services practice focused on sustainability and complex buildings - directly overlapping with Foreman Roberts' ESG-led positioning.
• Mott MacDonald: Mott MacDonald is a global engineering consultancy with a strong UK building and infrastructure practice, frequently bidding for the same government, transport, and education mandates as Foreman Roberts.
• WSP: WSP is a global engineering consultancy with a large UK building services practice that competes across data centres, transportation, and public sector work served by Foreman Roberts.
• Arup: Arup is a global engineering consultancy with deep UK presence and a full MEP, structural, and specialist engineering offering, frequently competing for the same institutional and infrastructure projects as Foreman Roberts.

Direct peers

• Cundall: Cundall is an international multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy with a strong UK MEP and sustainability practice, competing for the same building services design briefs across commercial, education, and mission-critical sectors.
• Hilson Moran: Hilson Moran is a UK-based MEP and sustainability engineering consultancy operating across similar sectors including data centres, commercial real estate, and heritage projects, making it a direct competitor to Foreman Roberts.
• Buro Happold: Buro Happold is an international engineering consultancy with a comparable MEP and sustainability profile, competing directly for high-profile cultural, education, and data centre projects in the UK and Middle East.
• Hoare Lea: Hoare Lea is a UK-headquartered MEP engineering consultancy of comparable size and vintage, focused on building services design across commercial, cultural, healthcare, and heritage sectors - a near-direct mirror of Foreman Roberts' positioning.

Regional players

• Sweco: Sweco is a European-headquartered engineering consultancy with UK operations covering buildings, infrastructure, and energy - a regional peer whose MEP and data centre work intersects with Foreman Roberts in Northern Europe and the Nordics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/foremanroberts
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/foreman-roberts

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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