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Engineering, environmental and planning consultancy grows by one quarter in a year

A North Wales independent engineering, environmental and planning consultancy is celebrating a 25 per cent growth in turnover in the last financial year.

Caulmert, which has offices in Bangor and St Asaph, saw turnover increase from £2m to £2.6m in the year to 31 July 2016.

And the headcount at the employee-owned firm is now set to top 50 as it enters its eighth year of trading.

Founder and managing director Mike Caulfield said: “Caulmert is definitely the biggest and fastest-growing firm in our sector in north Wales. We’re now

winning work from much bigger and longer-established rivals.“

The company also has offices in Altrincham and Nottingham and a UK project base stretching from the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Highlands to the Isle of Wight.

Internationally, it has also carried out work for clients in Indonesia, Jordan, Lithuania and Sweden.

Caulmert works in commercial, industrial, education, waste, renewable energy, residential, healthcare and infrastructure developments.

Mike added: “The scale of our projects ranges from small inspections to multi million pound developments for blue chip international clients.

“We have recruited a team of very experienced consultants drawn from both the public and private sectors and from operational, industrial and consultancy backgrounds.

“We are agile because we are small and unencumbered by many layers of management for decision-making. We look after our employees’ personal and professional development, which I think is also why we have attracted some very high calibre specialists to work for us.

“It’s thanks to their commitment and expertise that we are growing so quickly and strongly. Because we are an employee-owned, everyone benefits from our success.”

Household name clients include Stoke City FC, BET365, TGI Fridays, Airbus and Pinewood Studios.

Recent planning projects have ranged from extensions to domestic properties to large renewables schemes including solar farms.

Its waste management schemes have included anaerobic digestion plants to generate energy from waste food.

Caulmert also works on turnkey engineering projects, from conducting geotechnical ground surveys at the outset, through to project management of infrastructure and building construction, and including environmental and health and safety compliance.

Mike added: “We’ve got a well-defined growth strategy that will see us grow to 250 employees within the next few years. Then, we expect to have cemented our reputation as a forward-looking, agile consultancy with the expertise to deliver big and small projects.”

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