FRENCH ENGINEERING LIMITED

What FRENCH ENGINEERING LIMITED does

French Engineering Limited is a privately held civil engineering consultancy headquartered in Brighton, United Kingdom, founded and led by Managing Director Andy French. The firm delivers specialist engineering design services across three core practice areas: civil infrastructure engineering (highways and drainage), flood risk and sustainable drainage (SuDS), and broader consultancy services spanning feasibility studies, technical design, sectional agreements, contract administration, and design audits. Andy French is credentialed as BEng (Hons), IEng MICE, with over 20 years of consultancy and local authority experience including prior approving-authority roles.

The company's technology stack is built on standard industry tools — GIS for spatial analysis and BIM for design modelling — applied to drainage, flood risk, and highway engineering projects. Service modules include feasibility studies, flood risk assessments, drainage strategies, technical design packages, tender documents, SAB (SuDS Approval Body) technical reviews, sectional agreements, and contract administration. The firm operates as a professional services consultancy with quote-based, project-specific pricing.

French Engineering serves two primary client segments: private sector developers, landowners, and construction firms requiring civil engineering design for new developments; and public sector bodies including Lead Local Flood Authorities, Local Highway Authorities, and other statutory consultees requiring technical verification, design audits, and engineering support. The firm collaborates with structural engineers and architects to deliver integrated multi-disciplinary project outcomes. Revenue is generated through direct client engagement on a project-by-project basis, with marketing limited to a professional services website. No funding, headcount data, or financial disclosures are publicly available.

Name

FRENCH ENGINEERING LIMITED

Legal name

French Engineering Limited

Website

https://frenchengineering.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Short description

French Engineering Limited is a Brighton-based civil engineering consultancy delivering highways, drainage, and flood risk management design services to private sector developers and UK public authorities (Lead Local Flood Authorities, Local Highway Authorities), led by founder Andy French.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering Consultancy

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Engineering Services (541330)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Water, Wastewater & Hydraulics Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA), Construction Engineering & Constructability Consulting (BPAHAIAN)

Keywords

• Civil engineering consultancy
• Highways engineering design
• Drainage infrastructure design
• Flood risk management
• Sustainable drainage solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Midhurst

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consultancy Services: Professional engineering consultancy services including feasibility studies, flood risk assessments, drainage strategies, highway engineering, technical design, and contract administration. Revenue is generated through project-based professional service engagements for both public and private sector clients.
2. Technical Review and Verification Services: Checking engineer design audits, technical design checks for highway agreements, and SuDS Approval Body technical approvals. Provides verification reports and design audits for planning conditions.
3. Project Management and Contract Administration: Contract administration and inspection services, production of tender documents, project management support including ITT preparation and contract administration.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

French Engineering Limited is a civil engineering consultancy specialising in highways, drainage, and flood risk management design. The firm delivers feasibility studies, flood risk assessments, drainage strategies, SuDS solutions, technical design, sectional agreements, tender documents, contract administration, and design audits for both public sector authorities and private sector developers. Services are provided on a project-by-project basis using GIS and BIM techniques supported by the founder's 20+ years of consultancy and local authority experience.

Product overview

French Engineering Limited operates as a civil engineering consultancy offering a unified portfolio of integrated engineering services. The core offering encompasses Civil Infrastructure Engineering, Flood Risk and Sustainable Drainage solutions, and general Consultancy Services. These services are delivered through discrete but complementary service modules including feasibility studies, flood risk assessments, technical design for highways and drainage, sectional agreements, planning condition verification, contract administration, design audits, and project management support. The company serves both Private Sector clients (developers, landowners) and Public Sector clients (local authorities, Lead Local Flood Authorities) with Andy French providing direct expertise as Managing Director and Sustainable Drainage Specialist.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Civil Infrastructure Engineering Specialist civil engineering design services for highways and drainage infrastructure, delivering assessment and design solutions for public and private sector clients.
• Flood Risk and Sustainable Drainage Sustainable drainage (SuDS) solutions managing flood alleviation projects from inception to completion, including planning stage reviews, technical design, and integration with highways engineering, external works, and SuDS landscaping.
• Engineering Consultancy Services End-to-end engineering consultancy covering pre-purchase feasibility studies, flood risk assessments and drainage strategies, highway and drainage technical design, planning conditions monitoring and verification, sectional agreements, public sector engineering support, contract administration and inspection, design audits, green-blue infrastructure and SuDS projects, and project management support including ITT preparation and contract administration.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Structural EngineerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench Engineering partners and collaborates with structural engineering firms to provide embedded engineering and integrated services that complement their businesses. The collaboration enables comprehensive project delivery combining civil, structural, and architectural expertise.
• ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership and collaboration with architectural firms to provide integrated civil engineering services. Andy French is described as passionate about early involvement with architects and the wider consultant team to establish constraints, manage risk, and guide design to add value.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• WSP in the UK: Global engineering professional services firm with major UK presence in transport, water, and infrastructure — competes for the same public sector framework opportunities as French Engineering but at vastly larger scale.
• Stantec UK: Global engineering consultancy with strong UK water and infrastructure practice following Hydrock acquisition — broad incumbent offering integrated services that subsume French Engineering's niche.
• Arup: Global engineering and design firm with major UK infrastructure practice — competing broadly for the same flood risk, drainage, and highways consulting work but serving much larger clients and projects.
• Waterman Group: Established UK engineering consultancy with extensive civil, structural, and environmental capabilities — operates at a larger scale with broader geographic reach but overlapping service lines.
• Pell Frischmann: Larger UK-headquartered multidisciplinary engineering consultancy with significant water, highways, and flood risk practice — broader portfolio but overlapping core capabilities with French Engineering.

Direct peers

• Patrick Parsons: UK multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy offering civil, structural, and infrastructure design including drainage and highways — directly comparable in scale, geography, and service mix to French Engineering.
• Curtins: UK civil and structural engineering consultancy with similar full-lifecycle design services across infrastructure and development projects, overlapping directly in highways and drainage design.
• Jubb Consulting Engineers: UK civil and structural engineering consultancy with comparable regional UK presence, offering similar infrastructure design services for development and public sector clients.
• Clancy Consulting: UK structural and civil engineering consultancy serving public and private developers — directly overlapping in drainage, highways, and infrastructure design services.
• Fairhurst: UK multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy providing civil, structural, geotechnical, and environmental engineering — comparable in scale and breadth of civil infrastructure offering.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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