Welcome to Western Building Consultants, your premier destination for exceptional structural engineering and civil solutions in Cheltenham and the surrounding areas.
Our team of Chartered Building Engineers is dedicated to providing top-notch services tailored to your specific needs. When it comes to engineering, we’ve got you covered.
At Western Building Consultants, we specialise in a range of structural engineering solutions to meet your requirements. Our team of experienced engineers has worked on various projects throughout the South West of England, from large-scale contemporary new builds to smaller-scale extensions and remodelling.
We are also experts in fabrication techniques that enable us to create complex designs with minimal effort. Techniques such as 3D printing and laser cutting allow us to produce models and prototypes quickly and accurately.
Our Civil Engineering services cover a broad range of projects, from infrastructure development to site planning. We excel in designing and managing projects involving roads, bridges, drainage systems, and more. Our team ensures that your civil engineering project meets safety standards, environmental regulations, and budgetary constraints. We can also assist in the following areas:
Structural Engineering is at the core of our expertise. We provide precise calculations and designs for various structures, including buildings, bridges, and industrial facilities. Our goal is to ensure structural integrity, safety, and efficiency in every project. We’re committed to delivering innovative and cost-effective solutions tailored to your needs.
The benefits of choosing us for your structural engineering needs include fast turnaround times, a collaborative design approach, extensive experience, customized workflow, and much more.
We offer precise structural calculations for various types of beams, including steel, timber, and glulam beams. Whether you need to create openings between rooms or plan a domestic extension, we have the expertise to make it happen. Open-plan layouts are a popular trend, and our cost-effective service includes a site visit and transparent pricing per beam.
Our team of experienced Structural Engineers provides accurate and reliable calculations for both residential and commercial structural projects. Residential projects include:
On the commercial side, we can provide calculations for the remodelling of premises and new commercial projects involving steel, concrete, or timber frames.
Energy Assessments and Site Testing are essential for optimising energy efficiency and compliance with environmental standards. We offer comprehensive assessments to evaluate energy consumption, identify improvements, and enhance sustainability. Our site testing services ensure that your project meets environmental and regulatory requirements, minimising its impact on the environment.
Our sister company, Cook & Edwards Ltd, specialises in providing consultant services to corporate-approved inspectors, acting as Chartered delegated inspectors for plan checks and site inspections to secure Building Regulations approvals.
Western Building Consultants can assist you in navigating the building control approval process, offering technical specifications and plans. We excel at transforming conceptual planning drawings, often from planning consultants, into technically feasible solutions, including sustainability enhancements and innovative technologies.
For instance, we’ve incorporated specialist building methods like ICF, straw bale, and SIPS panels in various new build projects. If your project lacks Building Regulations approval, we can provide strategic advice and necessary evidence, such as structural calculations or U-value assessments, to demonstrate compliance.
Our experienced professionals can help you address the approval process, whether it arises during a property sale or due to neighbour complaints, drawing on their extensive knowledge of both private and public sector building control requirements.
Whether you’re planning a project, dealing with drainage, or navigating complex regulations, Western Building Consultants is here to make your journey smooth and successful.
Contact us today to discuss your specific needs or for a quotation.
Being socially responsible and promoting excellent ethics is at the forefront of our business. Our staff are happy and content and this is shown through our positive approach to your project. We work to the highest professional standards as required by both the RICS and CIAT. You can rest assured that when you employ WBC you will be supporting an organisation that champions local, national and international projects through schemes such as FairTrade, Mentoring Plus and the Bath percent club. This is backed up by a rigorous Corporate Social Responsibility Policy. We sponsor many grass roots sports clubs such as Combe Down Rugby Club, Frome Park Bowls Club & Cardiff Harlequins.
We are realistic with timescales and honest about what you will receive. Most people underestimate the time involved with a building project, but we are upfront about what is involved and will be clear about how long a project might take. Throughout the project we will continue to update you about progress and will advise you if there will be a disruption in the timetable.
We have vast planning experience and are adaptable to most architectural styles and ages of buildings. We are perfectly able to adapt to the style of your property from contemporary to traditional, urban to rural. We have designed projects in most styles and can use our broad experience to help design the best solution for your property, using whatever construction technology best suits your needs. Whether you plan a modest alteration or something spectacular WBC can help you achieve your project goals.
We employ qualified professionals with a variety of skill sets and the latest training. many of our employees have specialist post graduate qualifications. We also train selected staff through university programmes and professional qualifications to ensure our clients get the best trained surveyors and up to date advice. You will receive a professional, comprehensive and cohesive consultation and guidance throughout the project, ensuring that your development is handled with a consultant level of knowledge.
We are here for you when you need us, with our survey to completion guarantee. You won’t be left alone, we will fit in wherever you need us in the project or guide you through the whole process. You will have the knowledge that someone is always at hand whatever level of service you need.
Whilst offering exceptional value for money we also bring a positive, approachable, pragmatic, realistic and well rounded attitude to your project. You will feel at ease discussing issues with your project, our pragmatic approach to design and refurbishment means that we can often deliver built in VALUE. One example of this is recognising where cost savings can be made in the design without compromising the overall scheme and offering a higher standard of technical specification over many of our competitors, this reduces the need for outside engineering input and ultimately saves you money in fees. We are grounded which means that we can deliver a build in a cost conscious manner in order to make sure our projects are buildable.
Where we do not have the in house skills to tackle an element of a project we are well networked locally to utilise outside consultants that we have built up relationships with over many years. You will get the best of local knowledge and be introduced to like minded trusted suppliers with excellent professional services.
We can provide the majority of services required for a small project in house, making us practically a one stop shop. Having most services in house means that we are often fully accountable for the professional services on your project, this ensures simplicity, communication and efficiency. By utilising a multi-disciplinary approach we are able to keep professional costs for the project extremely competitive and hassle free, essentially you only pay for one set of overheads.
We have unparalleled technical knowledge and produce comprehensive architectural designs and surveys. You will be getting market-leading technical advice that has been approached with imaginative problem-solving techniques. This helps us to identify potential problems with a build before they arise.
Our knowledge adds value, an example of this is that most architects do not provide any advice on the structure of a building during the building regulations approval stage, relying on a structural engineer to produce all work relating to the super structure. At Western Building Consultants we provide structural advice on many areas, such as timber design for floors and roofs, limiting the scope of the engineers work and saving you money.
Having a large team of surveyors means that your project is unlikely to be held up due to other circumstances, there will always be at least two surveyors familiar with the project therefore continuity and a personal service will be retained. On larger schemes a bigger team will be assembled with the required specialist knowledge to fully support your project.
Merlin House
No 1 Langstone Business Park,
Priory Drive
01633982588
Commerce Park, Unit R17, Marshall Way
01373488566
Western House,
2 Rush Hill
01225789307
Sophia House,
28 Cathedral Road
02922679366
Kingston House,
Lydiard Fields
01793234516
Studio 1a,
31 Berkeley Square
0117 3294290
Unit 2, Byre Workshops, Winterbourne Court Farm Barn, Church Lane, Winterbourne
0117 3294290
