AMA Research has published the 2nd Edition of its overview of the Consulting Engineers Market in the UK, providing a comprehensive review of the major aspects of the engineering consultancy sector.

Product sectors reviewed include:

• Structure and size of the engineering consultancy sector - £10 billion market.
• Analysis of the market shares of key sectors within the consulting engineers market.
• Analysis of market shares of key consulting engineers.
• Analysis of the performance of the consulting engineers market over the past 5 years, including market segmentation.
• Market forecast for the Industry up to 2013.

In addition, the report reviews the key factors affecting the engineering consultancy sector including the impact of the economic downturn on consultants’ workload and prospects for the sector in 2009-2010 and beyond.

Areas of particular interest:

• A detailed review of leading engineering consultants and consortia in terms of fee income, size, sector strengths and project activity.
• Analysis of the performance of the building & construction sector and an outlook for the sector over the next few years including market shares of leading consulting engineers and key projects.
• Analysis of the infrastructure sector and outlook for the sector over the next few years including market shares of leading consulting engineers and key projects.
• Sectors reviewed include: Building, Road, Rail, Water, Environmental, Power, Transport Planning, Waste, Ports/Harbours, Floods/Coastal, Tunnels etc.

• Atkins, Arup, AECOM (Faber Maunsell), Capita Symonds, Enterprise Plc, Halcrow, Hyder Consulting, Jacobs Engineering Group, mMace Group, Mouchel, Parsons Brinckerhoff, RPS, Scott Wilson Group, The Mott MacDonald Group, Turner & Townsend,WSP Group.

• CONSULTING ENGINEERS MARKET OVERVIEW
• Structure and Size of the Consulting Engineers Market.
• Market Value of the Consulting Engineers Market - recent growth rates, trends.
• Analysis of total fees rendered by Consulting Engineers - 2004-2009, Public/Private mix in 2008.
• Analysis of fees rendered by consulting engineers by sector - Building, Road, Rail, Water and Environmental etc.
• Outlook for the Consulting Engineers market - prospects up to 2013, key factors influencing forecasts, impact of recession in 2009-10 etc.
• CONSTRUCTION MARKET OVERVIEW
• Value of construction new work output.
• Construction output by sector in 2008 - Public/Private, Residential/Non-Residential, Infrastructure, etc. Construction output in 2009 and Beyond.
• Planned Future Public Investment including measures announced in the Pre-Budget Report - Education, Health, Infrastructure etc.
• Impact of Public Spending cuts on the Consulting Engineers market.
• Impact of a possible change in government on the Consulting Engineers market.
• CONSULTING ENGINEERS - SECTOR PERFORMANCE
• Segmental Analysis - Consulting Engineers Performance in the ‘Buildings’ Sector - market shares of leading players, detailed review of the performance of and key projects in the education, healthcare and housing sectors, major programmes.
• Segmental Analysis - Consulting Engineers Performance in the ‘Infrastructure’ Sector -market shares of leading players, detailed review of the performance of and key projects in the roads, rail, airports/ports, power, water, transport planning, waste, ports/harbours, tunnels, flood/coastal sectors.
• Changing role of Consulting Engineers - wider service provision, project management, FM services etc.
• Timeline of major projects - 2009-2025 - Crossrail, Olympics, M25, Heathrow etc.
• Impact of recession on sector - variable impact, sector focus - transport, energy, environmental etc. Capital spending cutbacks from 2011.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS PROFILES
• Consulting Engineers - Ranking by Staff Numbers, Revenue/Fee Income.
• Key Sector Strengths - leading players by sector, market shares in Building, Roads, Rail, Airports, Power, Water etc.
• Key construction companies and consultants.
• Merger & Acquisition activity by leading consulting engineers - profiles of key acquisitions.
• Leading Consulting Engineers consortia, frameworks etc. - major players, projects.
• Consulting Engineers profiles - key consultants operating in the market - Top 20 Tier 1 and Tier 2 players - overview of fees by sector.

AMA Research has recently published the 2nd Edition of the Consulting Engineers Market report. The report should be of particular interest to engineering consultancy firms, contractors, material suppliers and construction professionals, and provides a comprehensive review of the engineering consultancy sector.

Over the past five years, there has been substantial growth in size of the consulting engineers market and in 2008 the sector grew by around 20% to reach revenues of around £10 billion, boosted by a strong performance in infrastructure, utilities and public sector construction.

The table above illustrates the growth of both UK and overseas fees generated by UK consulting engineers in recent years, with estimated forecasts for 2009-11.

The sector, especially civil engineering, is generally thought to be more robust than the contracting industry in the face of the current economic crisis and, while 2009-11 will be a difficult period, activity is not expected to decline across all end use sectors. Top growth sectors for 2009-2013 are expected to include transport, energy, water and waste management sectors, which are forecast to generate steady growth in demand over the mid-term.

Building fees currently represents the largest sector at around 25%, but this share is set to fall rapidly. Roads, rail, water and environmental sectors account for a combined share of around 40% of fee generation, with the rest of the market spread across other sectors.

This 2nd edition of our report reviews the structure and size of the overall consultancy sector, highlighting the fragmented structure - though the top 4 players have a combined share of over 30%. The report also provides an analyses of market shares of leading firms in various sectors, together with a review of key market trends and the impact of the economic downturn on the engineering consultancy market.

The report also reviews future public sector investment, the Government’s targets for capital spending and the implications for the engineering consultancy sector of a change in government including likely public sector spending levels and the future of planned infrastructure projects.

In addition, the report discusses the key factors affecting the engineering consultancy sector including the impact of the economic downturn on consultant workloads in 2008 and prospects for the sector in 2009-2010 and beyond. We also review recent merger & acquisition activity in the sector and discuss those consultancies that are realigning market strengths in response to the ‘credit crunch’.

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