Bridges Pound Limited, part of AM Consulting Engineers

Civil, Structural & Geotechnical Engineering Consultancy

Engineering Excellence in Water, Wastewater, Structures, Infrastructure and Temporary Works Design

ABOUT US

Established 1984 — Four Decades of Engineering Excellence

Committed to Technical Excellence, Bridges Pound Limited (part of the AM Consulting Engineers Group) is a trusted practice built on decades of expertise, delivering structural and temporary works design solutions with precision and integrity.

2026 - New Chapter Begins — Strategic growth through acquisition

Through a strategic acquisition, Bridges Pound enters a new era — combining decades of engineering heritage with fresh investment and an ambitious vision for the future.

In a significant step forward for our engineering consultancy, Bridges Pound has now joined forces with AM Consulting Engineers, bringing together decades of established engineering expertise with renewed investment and expanded capabilities.

This transition represents an evolution, not a departure. The core values, technical standards, and client relationships that have defined Bridges Pound since its earliest days remain firmly in place. What changes is the scale of our ambition and the breadth of resources available to serve our clients.

For our clients and partners, this means strengthened project delivery, enhanced service capacity, and continued access to the experienced team they already trust.

Warwick University and Arts Centre transformation – Temporary Works Design

Engineering Solutions & Infrastructure Design

Now based across three jurisdiction, Coventry (GB), Belfast (NI) and Cork (IRL), we serve clients throughout the UK and Ireland. Our experienced chartered engineering consultants deliver high-quality solutions across water infrastructure, transportation networks, and building projects through innovative design, rigorous analysis, and close collaboration with clients.

Our civil engineering consultancy delivers innovative solutions for complex infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland. We work with clients to create engineering designs and proposals that are buildable, efficient, and promote sustainable practices for water treatment, transportation, and building infrastructure projects.

Specialising in Design & Build engineering projects, our civil, structural and geotechnical engineering consultants collaborate with contractors to safely deliver construction projects of any size, scale, or complexity across the water sector and infrastructure development.

We develop an integrated approach to engineering project management and ongoing communication with our civil engineering team, ensuring smooth implementation that benefits all stakeholders and contributes to bringing innovative engineering solutions to the UK and Ireland’s infrastructure development.

Our Focus

Vision and Values

At Bridges Pound, we are committed to creating lifetime clients through trust, respect, and strong relationships. We are reliable, flexible, and driven by service excellence. Our designs are creative, sustainable, and focused on delivering long-term value for our clients, end users, and the communities we serve.

Value-added

Our civil engineering work is driven by technical excellence and a commitment to delivering high-quality, value-added infrastructure solutions. We strive to bring the best of our engineering consultancy expertise to every project across Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Integrity

We prioritise honesty, transparency, and accountability in all aspects of our civil and structural engineering work. Our designs and proposals are efficient, buildable, and aligned with sustainable engineering practices.

Creativity

We foster curiosity and creativity in our engineering consultancy, specialising in innovative civil engineering solutions that address complex infrastructure, water treatment, and wastewater engineering challenges.

Teamwork & Collaboration

We believe in the power of collaborative engineering, working closely with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and clients to deliver integrated civil engineering solutions that exceed expectations across all infrastructure projects.

Open communication & Relationships

We maintain transparent communication throughout every civil engineering project, ensuring all stakeholders - from contractors to public authorities - are informed and engaged in delivering successful infrastructure outcomes.

Our Services

Structural & Temporary Works Design Solutions

Delivering Results, Reliability & Dependability

We develop creative, comprehensive, and sustainable structural engineering solutions across the UK for building developments and transportation projects that enable communities to thrive.

Temporary Works Design

Temporary works are critical to the safe and efficient delivery of construction projects. Our experienced engineers provide practical, compliant temporary works design and specialist advice, supporting contractors and developers across a wide range of commercial developments. From design through to site support, we ensure temporary works are safe, efficient, and fully coordinated with the permanent structure, reducing risk to people, programme, and surrounding assets.

Our Services Include

Foundations and piling support
Slope and excavation stability
Shoring systems
Construction plant safety
Scaffold design
Surface and groundwater control
Site inspections
Category 3 (CAT III) independent checks

Structural Audit & Reporting

Structural audits are essential to ensure buildings are safe, compliant, and performing as intended. Our experienced engineers carry out detailed structural audits and surveys across the UK, supporting both new developments and existing buildings. Through comprehensive assessment and reporting, we help identify potential deficiencies, verify structural performance, and ensure compliance with relevant standards and safety requirements.

Our Services Include

Verification of structural load conditions
Evaluation of the building's structural system
Identification of defects, damage, or deterioration
Plan and alignment checks
Assessment of maintenance and environmental exposure
Fire safety review
Electrical safety review

Structural Consultancy Works

We provide innovative structural consultancy to developers, architects, and contractors across the UK, delivering safe, efficient, and cost-effective solutions. Our team combines extensive experience with the latest structural analysis, design software, and AutoCAD.

Our Services Include

Optimise materials and layouts for efficiency and economy
Solve complex structural challenges
Integrate seamlessly with architectural and civil designs
Produce accurate drawings, reports, and specifications
Principal Designer Services under CDM 2015 – overseeing design coordination, health and safety compliance, and risk management across the project lifecycle
From new builds to refurbishments, our services are tailored to meet client goals, regulatory standards, and long-term performance

External Works and Highways Design

These specialist disciplines are often underestimated in the early design stages. Our experienced engineers deliver practical, cost-effective solutions for highways, pavements, and landscaped external areas across a wide range of UK developments. By integrating external works expertise early in the design process, we help clients avoid costly remedial works, ensuring durability, performance, and long-term value.

Our Services Include

Foundation design including formation, capping, and sub-base
Pavement and asphalt design (road base, binder, and surface course)
Advice on specialist surfaces such as porous or coloured asphalt
Site inspections during surfacing works
Resurfacing contract management
Setting out coordinates and level design
Construction detailing for kerbs, paving, edging, and lined areas
Integration with drainage and overall site design

Drainage Design and External Works

These works play a critical role in the success of any development. Our experienced engineers deliver robust surface and foul water drainage solutions, ensuring schemes meet evolving regulations, sustainability requirements, and client objectives. Using Autodesk Civil 3D, we design drainage and external works in a fully coordinated 3D environment, enabling accurate modelling of levels, infrastructure, and surface water networks while reducing risk, delays, and costly redesigns.

Our Services Include

Flood Risk Assessments
Drainage Strategies
Surface and Foul Water Drainage Design (private and adoptable)
External Levels Design
Development Road Infrastructure (private and adoptable)
Construction Details
Setting Out Information

Green Credentials

At Bridges Pound, sustainability is at the core of everything we do. We design structures with lower embodied carbon, champion innovative materials and construction methods, and work closely with clients, architects, and contractors from the earliest stages to deliver truly sustainable outcomes. We focus on real action, not words, embedding green principles into every project to create buildings that are both sustainable and future-ready.

Our Services Include

Minimising waste and promoting responsible disposal
Encouraging reuse of brownfield sites
Reducing environmental impact and disruption to local communities
Influencing framing systems and design choices for efficiency
Early collaboration with architects and stakeholders
Responsible sourcing of materials
Operating a fully electric fleet to lower operational impact

Our Sectors

Structural & Temporary Works Design Solutions

Delivering Results, Reliability & Dependability

Our engineering consultancy services are delivered across a wide range of infrastructure sectors in the UK and Ireland. Our chartered engineers have extensive experience across all engineering specialisms spanning commercial, retail, industrial, leisure, educational, health, and residential sectors – helping communities to thrive. For more information about our engineering expertise, please get in touch.

Education

Bridges Pound delivers engineering services for schools, colleges, and university campuses, designing safe, accessible, and future-proof structures that support modern teaching environments and long-term operational needs.

Healthcare

Our health sector work includes structural design and assessment for hospitals, clinics, and care facilities. We ensure compliance with stringent safety, durability, and service integration requirements critical in healthcare environments.

Commercial

Bridges Pound provides structural and civil engineering solutions for commercial developments, including multi-storey office buildings, retail units, and mixed-use schemes. Our work focuses on efficient structural layouts, cost-effective detailing, and integration with architectural and service designs to support flexible, high-performance commercial buildings.

Leisure

In the leisure sector, we work on structures such as sports and recreation buildings, hospitality facilities, and entertainment venues. These projects often require creative structural solutions that support open spaces, complex geometries, and integration with specialist services.

Retail

We support retail projects from flagship stores to large retail parks and centres, delivering structural designs that balance architectural intent, robust load-bearing capacity, and clear spans for retail fit-outs. Our experience helps keep programmes on track and cost plans controlled.

Industrial

Our industrial sector expertise covers portal-framed factories, storage and distribution facilities, and complex production buildings. We provide full structural and infrastructure design, ensuring efficient load paths, clear internal planning, and robust foundations tailored to heavy use and industrial processes.

Residential

We provide structural engineering for residential developments, ranging from single homes to high-density multi-storey schemes. Our services ensure safe, efficient structures that satisfy planning, adoptable infrastructure requirements, and long-term performance expectations.

Civil Engineering Excellence - design to build

We are a purpose-driven civil engineering consultancy focused on delivering practical and effective infrastructure solutions that shape the infrastructure supporting everyday life across the UK and Ireland. Our work is grounded in technical expertise and engineering excellence. We prioritise collaboration and building strong client relationships, fostering trust and confidence in our civil engineering services across water infrastructure, transportation, and building sectors.

Our Clients

Our civil engineering consultancy works with leading contractors and infrastructure clients across the UK and Ireland.

ISO certification

Bridges Pound is now part of AM Consulting Engineers which has been awarded ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001 Certification

ISO 9001 - Quality Management

We adopt quality management principles for our civil engineering consultancy which ensures that our infrastructure projects and design services are managed within a framework committed to achieving client satisfaction through continual improvement across the UK and Ireland.

ISO 14001 - Environmental Management

We maintain a robust environmental management system for our civil engineering projects to help improve environmental performance through efficient resource use and waste reduction, gaining competitive advantage and stakeholder trust across all infrastructure work.

ISO 45001 - Health & Safety Management

Our civil engineering consultancy provides a safe and healthy workplace for all staff and project sites, as well as proactively improving occupational health and safety (OH&S) performance across water infrastructure and construction projects throughout the UK and Ireland

Testimonials

Client Testimonials -Structural Engineering Projects

"Bridges Pound provide us with an exceptional service and are always on hand to help with requirements both in the design and construction stages and have been our go-to on civil and structural engineering!"

Rohin DhandDhand Capital, Leeds

"We have delivered the redevelopment of 78 St James' Street through a global pandemic, creating an ultra-modern workspace with the very best amenities in a stunning heritage environment and have attached a stellar line-up of occupiers to the building who see the value of their teams being able to work together in a best in class business environment."

Alexander MorrisHead of Development, Bentall Green Oak, London

"The sheer complexity of building this project in such restricted space, right above a live Underground Station, makes it an engineer's dream. It is also testament to the exceptional collaborative culture at the heart of the entire project team, whose commitment to engineering excellence has been evidenced throughout."

Alison CoxDhand Capital, Leeds

Why Choose Bridges Pound for Your Infrastructure Projects?

As a leading civil engineering consultancy based in Belfast, (Northern Ireland) and Cork (Ireland), we deliver comprehensive engineering solutions across water infrastructure, structural design, and geotechnical projects throughout the UK and Ireland. Our experienced chartered engineers combine technical excellence with local knowledge to provide cost-effective, sustainable engineering solutions for contractors, developers, and public authorities. From water treatment facilities to transportation infrastructure, our multidisciplinary civil engineering consultants work closely with clients to ensure infrastructure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest professional standards.

Our Case Studies

'Design to Reality' Case Studies

Our D2R case study series showcases a range of project examples, highlighting how our design expertise translates to real-life improvements in infrastructure we use every day — including roads, water supplies, wastewater treatment, network installs, and structures.

Examples of our expertise include:

Westfield Stratford Shopping Centre

Achieved over £3m savings on the external paving package through design specification optimisation

Paris Gardens, London

Delivered complex air rights structures without foundations where other consultants had struggled.

Insurance Audits

Provided Latent Defects Insurance audits, reviewing projects totalling nearly £1 billion, including multi-storey residential, office, and commercial buildings.

Podium and Transfer Structures

Successfully engineered challenging podiums and transfer structures for residential-over-retail schemes, including 67 Southwark Street and Paris Gardens.

FEA-Driven Design Optimisation

Reduce slab thicknesses safely while avoiding post-construction issues, currently advising clients on remedial works where previous designs were insufficient.

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