Consulting Civil Engineer Services for Cambridge
Enabling the landscape to serve client needs. Discover how Richard Herrmann Associates Ltd can support your endeavour, from the provision of a new car park to changing the topography with retaining walls. We’ll do what it takes to ensure your installation delivers.
At Richard Herrmann Associates, we offer trusted, detail-driven consulting civil engineer services in Cambridge. With more than 38 years of proven experience and over 6,500 clients served nationwide, we are known for providing precise, dependable, and technically advanced civil and structural design solutions. Every project is overseen by a Chartered Engineer, ensuring expert analysis and accountability from concept to completion.
Providing Structural Feasibility and Design
Our consulting civil engineer services begin with structural feasibility and design, evaluating whether your vision aligns with engineering realities. We analyse the viability of projects from both technical and regulatory perspectives, offering practical design alternatives where needed. This early-stage insight helps architects and developers make sound decisions that reduce delays and future costs.
Executing 3D Modelling Analysis
With sophisticated 3D modelling analysis, we simulate the structural behaviour of proposed builds under various conditions. This analytical approach allows us to optimise designs for safety, efficiency, and compliance, essential for high-specification environments such as hospitals, data centres, and educational campuses.
Integrating Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Our integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) ensures collaborative, data-rich planning. This approach improves coordination among architects, engineers, and contractors while reducing the risk of clashes and rework. We use BIM to support project accuracy and timeline certainty, which is vital for large-scale infrastructure and commercial developments.
Delivering Civil Engineering Design
As an established consulting civil engineer, we provide civil engineering design for roads, drainage, utilities, and infrastructure frameworks. Our designs are technically robust, regulation-compliant, and tailored to the operational needs of each client, whether public or private sector. We serve as a dependable technical partner from initial planning through to completion.
Designing Bridges for Safety and Longevity
From pedestrian walkways to vehicle bridges, our bridge design solutions are based on load analysis, durability considerations, and environmental context. Our designs ensure structural safety, long-term performance, and aesthetic integration with the surrounding built environment.
Investigating Building Movement
We conduct precise building movement investigations to assess subsidence, settlement, and structural distortion. Our reporting and recommendations guide appropriate remedial works, helping clients manage risk and preserve asset value.
Verifying Calculations with Rigor
Our secondary verification of calculations ensures no critical detail is overlooked. As part of our broader consulting civil engineer services, we offer peer review for complex structural systems, giving clients and stakeholders confidence in the reliability of design outputs.
Conducting Submission Checks
We carry out building control submission checks, ensuring that all design documentation meets current codes and regulations. This process improves the likelihood of swift approvals and helps avoid costly revisions later.
Inspecting On-Site Construction
We provide on-site construction inspection to verify that builds are completed in line with design intent and regulatory standards. These inspections ensure that structures are constructed safely, to spec, and with long-term durability in mind.
Richard Herrmann Associates is proud to support architects, developers, and construction teams with expert consulting civil engineer services in Cambridge and throughout the UK. Whether it’s structural design, BIM integration, or civil infrastructure, we bring clarity, precision, and decades of trusted experience.
Contact us today to discuss how we can support your next project with reliable, technically-led engineering consultancy.
The foundations of infrastructure and innovation
Civil engineering is the unseen framework that supports everything from roads and bridges to drainage systems and utilities. And it starts with getting the fundamentals right, integrating essential systems that allow your structure to function as intended. By working with developers and local authorities, we can deliver everything your project needs, whether that’s an access road or flood risk management system, with each element carefully considered in the context of the site’s geography, environmental conditions, and project specific needs.
As a forward-thinking firm, Richard Herrmann Associates Ltd designs with a long-term view, ensuring that the infrastructure we create will stand the test of time while minimising environmental impact. Sustainability is a key focus in our work, and we believe our clients can utilise this to reduce your development’s carbon footprint and enhance the project in the long run. From concept to completion, we have the technical expertise and project management skills needed to ensure your infrastructure surpasses the highest standards. Learn more from our team in Cambridge.
Utilising advanced computer simulations
Utility infrastructure is the lifeblood of any development, and getting it right requires careful planning and coordination. We work closely with utility providers to guarantee all systems are installed in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, avoiding conflicts or delays during construction. The use of advanced computer simulated vehicle tracking also allows us to ensure that road and access layouts are achievable for various vehicle types, such as refuse collection lorries, heavy goods vehicles, cars and vans. To this end, RHA is a partner that considers everything, including those factors you may have overlooked.
Versatile civil engineers, considerate of your needs
Our civil engineering design services can take us in many different directions, but usually involve advising clients on suitable road and car park layouts or designing the pavement or hardstanding construction, including permeable surfaces. That said, we’re always ready for a new challenge, and find great satisfaction in helping you overcome the complexities of even the most unique of projects. Given our experience in the industry – over 3 decades! – we provide construction details for items such as kerbs, steps, ramps and handrailing and carry out design and detailing of entire drainage systems for both foul and surface water, including attenuation within crates, swales, and ponds. Choose us for expertise you can trust.
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