Morham & Brotchie Limited

What Morham & Brotchie Limited does

Morham & Brotchie Limited, trading as Morham + Brotchie Partnership, is a UK quantity surveying and cost consultancy practice tracing its origins to 1876 and incorporated in its current form in 1990. The firm operates from five UK offices (Glasgow as headquarters, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, and Burton in Kendal) and is part of the Hawkins Group, with a sister entity in A. Lamb Associates. It employs approximately 18 named professionals and is led by Managing Director David Anderson.

The practice specialises in heritage, conservation, and traditional construction cost consultancy, with a project portfolio spanning listed-building restoration, cultural and civic institutions, private estates, and commercial heritage schemes including distillery work. Named engagements cover the National Trust for Scotland, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the National Museum of Scotland, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and private clients such as the Dukes of Buccleuch, Rutland and Cornwall, alongside commercial work linked to Diageo distilleries. The firm has built a recruitment pipeline with Edinburgh Napier University to maintain surveyor capacity.

Revenue is generated through project-based professional services fees tied to construction value (typically a percentage of contract value) rather than recurring subscriptions, making revenue episodic and project-cycle dependent. The go-to-market is relationship-driven via architects, estates, and heritage trusts, supported by group-level referrals through Hawkins and A. Lamb Associates. No proprietary technology, software product, or AI tooling is described in the available data; the offering is a traditional professional services deliverable.

Name

Morham & Brotchie Limited

Legal name

Morham & Brotchie Limited

Website

https://mb-qs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Morham & Brotchie Limited is a UK quantity surveying and cost consultancy practice specialising in heritage and conservation projects, operating from five offices across the UK as part of the Hawkins Group and serving cultural institutions, private estates, and commercial heritage clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

East Kilbride

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Quantity Surveying Services: Professional services revenue generated through comprehensive quantity surveying and cost consultancy services for construction projects, including development studies, cost planning, tender documentation, interim payments, final accounts, and contract administration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Morham & Brotchie Partnership is a quantity surveying and cost consultancy practice providing cost planning, tender documentation, contract administration, and final account services for construction projects across the UK. The firm specialises in heritage and conservation projects involving listed buildings, scheduled monuments, and structures requiring traditional skills and materials such as lime plaster, stonework, and leadwork. It also offers expert witness, insurance reinstatement valuations, employer's agent services, and grant funding advisory, supported by forensic investigation capability through its parent Hawkins Group.

Product overview

Morham & Brotchie Partnership is a quantity surveying and cost consulting practice offering a comprehensive suite of professional services. The firm's core offerings include cost planning, cost monitoring and control, tender documentation, final accounts, and expert witness services. Specialized capabilities span heritage building conservation, insurance reinstatement valuations, grants and funding advisory, and forensic investigation services delivered through parent company Hawkins Group. The practice focuses on traditional quantity surveying methods with emphasis on thorough measurement, bills of quantities preparation, and close client collaboration throughout project delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Project values ranging from £150,000 to £10 million across diverse heritage and conservation projects
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Hawkins GroupcoreOthersMorham + Brotchie is part of the Hawkins Group, leaders in forensic investigation. The Hawkins structure allows each company to focus on its individual expertise, maintaining independence and flexibility, whilst benefiting from a shared business support infrastructure. The Group provides forensic investigation and construction consultancy services from offices in EMEA, APAC, and key locations in the UK.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Faithful+Gould (AtkinsRéalis): Major UK-headquartered cost consultancy offering quantity surveying, project management, and cost advisory across public and heritage sectors. Comparable service breadth but part of a much larger engineering parent.
• Gardiner & Theobald: Long-established UK cost consultancy and QS firm with comparable cost-planning and heritage-sector work. Larger scale but overlapping service lines and client base in cultural and built-heritage projects.
• WSP: Global professional services consultancy with a cost management and QS practice covering heritage, cultural, and public-sector projects in the UK. Comparable on service lines but operates at very different scale.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure and built-environment consultancy offering cost management and quantity surveying services. Competes with M&B in heritage and public-sector commissions as part of a much wider service portfolio.
• Turner & Townsend: Global cost management and project consultancy with a UK heritage and cultural-sector practice. Overlaps with M&B on cost planning and contract administration but operates at significantly greater scale across broader sectors.
• Mott MacDonald: Global engineering, development, and project management consultancy with a built-environment cost consultancy practice. Overlaps with M&B in heritage/cultural-sector cost management as part of a much broader portfolio.

Direct peers

• Robinson Low Francis: UK heritage-focused quantity surveying practice offering cost consultancy on listed buildings, scheduled monuments, and conservation projects. Closest comparable in niche specialization though smaller and less publicly documented.
• Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB): Global independent quantity surveying firm with significant heritage and conservation work in the UK. Comparable in offering traditional QS services (cost planning, BQ, final accounts) and similar tier of institutional and heritage clients.
• Currie & Brown: UK-based quantity surveying and project management consultancy with strong heritage, museums, and cultural-sector practice. Closely comparable service portfolio (cost consultancy, employer's agent, expert witness) and similar client mix including cultural institutions and heritage bodies.

Regional players

• Bruce Shaw: Ireland-based cost consultancy with heritage and conservation expertise. Comparable on heritage QS specialization and traditional quantity surveying approach; serves a primarily Irish market and does not directly compete in Scotland/England.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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