Winner
Rolton Group

The quality of entries for this award was very high, but judges awarded Rolton Group first place because of its commitment to a professional way of working, and also to training staff. Rolton has many accreditations including IIP, ISO 9001 and 14001. It is also the first professional engineering consultancy outside the USA to gain Ford Motor Company Q1 accreditation, which measures quality and customer endorsement. The consutlancy has also demonstrated healthy growth with increased turnover of 90% in the last 30 months and profit forecast to rise 8% this year. Rolton has also been practising partnering principles for a number of years, and has been a case study in the Reading Forum Seven pillars of partnering report.

Runners up

Atelier Ten
Projects Atelier Ten has been involved with include The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead; the Sloane Robinson building at Keble College, Oxford; Jubilee School at Tulse Hill. The comment from judges was: 鈥淭hese projects would shine out in any portfolio, so it鈥檚 very impressive for a small consultancy.鈥 Atelier鈥檚 philosophy is to mix innovation with pragmatism and sustainability. The consultancy is working with leading clients such as the Science Museum and Marks & Spencer on developing their sustainability and energy strategies.

Beattie Flanigan & Partners
This consultancy has shown significant commitment to training and education, actively encouraging cpd and sponsoring staff through an MSc. It is also a member of the 星空传媒 Services Best Practice Programme. Beattie Flanigan has adopted Egan principles, providing holistic, client-focused energy efficient solutions to building services engineering. The consultancy has developed a clear plan for future development and is working on key areas such as measuring customer satisfaction, supply chain management, and obtaining IIP accreditation (for which initial work has already begun).

Sure Foundation 星空传媒 Services
This consultancy has focused on its core values of an honest and pragmatic approach and taken this tactic to a wider and more varied client base, resulting in healthy business growth. Sure Foundation has also expanded on its strengths. It is helping clients recycle aged and tired buildings to bring new life to them through cost-effective solutions as in the South Plaza, Bristol. The third focus has been on client care, with the objective of achieving high client satisfaction from establishment of brief to project handover. This has involved using an impartial 鈥榗lient care鈥 engineer to listen and react to clients鈥 views.