Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants

What Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants does

Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) is a privately held UK firm based in Cambridge, founded in 1985. Its offering spans five interlocking activities: environmental software, consultancy, research, forecasting, and software support and training. The combination suggests a vertically integrated model in which the firm both develops scientific modelling tools and applies them on behalf of clients, with training and support services reinforcing software adoption.

The firm operates at a small scale of 11-50 employees and serves customers whose requirements map to environmental and atmospheric science workflows - the kind of users typical of CERC's niche, such as research institutions, environmental regulators, and consultancies that depend on specialized forecasting and dispersion models. No pricing model, named customers, distribution channels, partnerships, awards, patents, or integration stack are documented in the source data, and the company website at cerc.co.uk was not extractable at the time of the data pass (rendering only a verification/loading page), so technical detail on the underlying software platform, its architecture, or its differentiation cannot be confirmed from this input.

Given the lack of revenue, funding, and ownership disclosure, the business model is best characterized in qualitative terms: revenue is plausibly generated through a mix of software licensing, bespoke consultancy engagements, funded research contracts, and recurring training/support services, which is the standard monetization pattern for a niche scientific software and services firm of this profile. The absence of any disclosed M&A, fundraising, or leadership-change activity limits further inference about the firm's current commercial trajectory.

Name

Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants

Website

https://cerc.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants is a privately held Cambridge, UK firm, founded in 1985, that delivers environmental software, consultancy, research, forecasting, software support, and training to scientific and environmental-sector clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Modelling Software

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Air Quality & Emissions Management (BPAHAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Environmental Compliance & Permitting (BPAHAJAA), Permitting, Siting & Environmental Impact (EIA/NEPA) Advisory (EUAMANAB)

Keywords

• Environmental software
• Air quality modelling
• Atmospheric dispersion
• Environmental consultancy
• Forecasting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants develops and supplies environmental modelling software and delivers consultancy, research, forecasting, software support, and training services to organizations. The combined offering enables clients to license scientific software tools for air quality and atmospheric analysis and to obtain expert advisory and forecasting engagements from the same vendor.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Environmental Modelling Software Proprietary environmental and atmospheric modelling software products developed by CERC for use by organizations undertaking air quality, emissions, and environmental analysis.
• Environmental Consultancy Expert environmental consulting services delivered to organizations requiring air quality and emissions analysis advice, environmental impact assessment support, and specialist scientific input.
• Research Services Applied scientific research services in environmental and atmospheric science commissioned by government, academic, and commercial clients.
• Forecasting Services Specialist forecasting services for air quality, meteorological, and environmental parameters provided to organizations requiring predictive scientific outputs.
• Software Support Ongoing technical support for CERC's environmental modelling software products, delivered to licensed software users.
• Training Training services for users of CERC's environmental modelling software, covering use of the tools and underlying scientific methodology.

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Trinity Consultants: Trinity Consultants is a much larger EHS consulting firm offering air quality permitting, dispersion modeling services, and regulatory compliance support across multiple geographies — overlapping with CERC's air-quality consulting practice.
• Ricardo plc: Ricardo offers environmental and air quality consulting alongside engineering services, frequently conducting dispersion modeling studies that compete with CERC's project work.
• SLR Consulting: SLR is an international environmental and sustainability consultancy providing air quality assessment and dispersion modeling services, often tapping CERC-style software — competing for the same permitting and impact-assessment mandates.
• Bureau Veritas: Bureau Veritas is a global testing, inspection, and certification firm with an environmental services practice covering air quality monitoring and emissions consulting — broadly comparable to CERC as an industrial EHS service provider.
• Wood Group (Wood plc): Wood provides environmental and air quality consulting services to industrial clients, often overlapping with CERC on air emissions assessments and permitting for major oil & gas and infrastructure projects.
• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): ERM is a global environmental, health, and safety consultancy that runs air quality and dispersion modeling projects for industrial clients, often using tools like ADMS — comparable to CERC at the project-services level though far larger in scale.

Direct peers

• Lakes Environmental Software: Lakes Environmental is a direct peer — both companies develop and license proprietary atmospheric dispersion modeling software (e.g., AERMOD View, CALPUFF View) and provide consultancy and training to industrial and regulatory clients worldwide.
• BREEZE Software (Trinity Consultants): BREEZE is a direct competitor offering Gaussian and advanced air dispersion modeling software, incident consequence analysis tools, and noise modeling used by the same industrial EHS customer base as CERC.
• ADMS Developers (Cambridge) - ADMS-Roads / ADMS-Urban (CERC family): CERC's own ADMS suite family (ADMS-Roads, ADMS-Urban, ADMS Industrial) competes with comparable domain-specific dispersion products from Lakes Environmental and BREEZE — included here as the anchor's own flagship benchmark product line for reference.

Regional players

• Numtech (NUMTECH): Numtech is a French/European specialist in atmospheric modeling, air quality studies, and environmental consulting using proprietary and third-party dispersion tools, serving a similar European industrial customer base as CERC.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cercuk
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cambridge-environmental-research-consultants

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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