In March 2022, the Women’s Engineering Society reported that women make up just 16.5% of all engineers. Whilst a massive increase from the 10.5% recorded in 2010, there is still room for improvement. As an IIP company, we are  keen to diversify our workforce, and ensure more women are represented in engineering roles. Studies have shown that men tend to...

We are SILVER! CBG Consultants Ltd are delighted to have achieved a Silver rating from Investors in People Thank you to all at CBG Consultants Ltd for your contribution and dedication, congratulations!  ...

Chris Travis will be joining the CIBSE Home Counties North West AGM as a panelist to debate the challenges of delivering net zero carbon for new commercial buildings by 2030, on 4th April in London. Register to attend by following the link below: http://ow.ly/aB8950Ir2yw...

We are pleased to announce that one of our projects – Crosfield School – has been nominated for: Constructing Excellence Awards (Category: Project of the Year) Construction News Awards (Category: Project of the Year) CBG Consultants were engaged by the school to design an energy efficient Senior School Building that includes a Café, Performance Space, Teaching classrooms, Library, Welfare Hub,...

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Manchester Office! Our Manchester Office is headed up by Umar Azeer, an Electrical Design Engineer and an Associate with over 15 years’ experience in the consultancy environment. Our new office space is located in the heart of the city, the address is: 1 St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 3AE Please feel...

St Paul’s Cathedral School is a co-educational preparatory school for boys and girls aged 4 to 13 and a residential choir school for the boy choristers of St Paul’s Cathedral. The school identified a need to increase capacity and improve its facilities to its pupils. The project included building a new boarding house, which was to provide accommodation to reflect...

CBG Consultants were appointed to provide M&E Consultancy Services on a new scheme for Dacorum Borough Council. The scheme looks to redevelop the Paradise Depot site to provide affordable housing which will consist of a new apartment block of 56 one and two-bedroom homes and the site will include cycle and scooter storage and a residents’ garden. The homeless charity...

There’s still time to register for next week’s Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) and CIBSE Home Counties North West Region for this upcoming CPD webinar, for which CBG Consultant’s Chris Dicks will be chairing and part presenting for with a case study on Oxford’s Christ Church Cathedral: Lighting for Historic Buildings 15 February 2022 | from 11:00 GMT Speakers:...

We are delighted to support this evening’s 25th Anniversary Macmillan’s ‘Follow the Stars’ Christmas concert. Held in the splendour of Oxford’s Christ Church Cathedral where we’ve had the pleasure of working over many years. The evening will play host to some of our best-loved actors, poets and television personalities including Dame Mary Berry, Toby Jones, Tom Hollander and Gugu Mbatha-Raw...

A small team of our Electrical Engineers attended the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) Ready Steady Light evening, an outdoor lighting competition hosted annually at Rose Bruford College. Fifteen teams competed, with an allowance of just six light fittings each, plus a few colour filters and a host of cables and tape. CBG’s allocated plot was a run of...

Happy International Women in Engineering Day from all at CBG Consultants. International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED) now in its eighth year and was launched to celebrate women in engineering around the world. #INWED is an international awareness campaign which raises the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to women in this...

His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex visited Floyds Row Homeless Centre in Oxford last week. A project we were delighted to work on with Jessop and Cook, Oxford City Council, ODS and St Mungos Community Housing Association. Floyds Row is the centrepiece of the council’s plans to transform services that will help people at risk of and experiencing homelessness...

The Kingston School of Art has gained further recognition by winning the 2021 BREEAM Award for the best Public Sector Project-Post Construction. Working with Haworth Tompkins Architects, the project involved a major upgrade and extension to provide over 10000sqm of refurbished creative space, it achieved BREEAM Outstanding and delivered a 52% reduction in operational carbon emissions. The project demonstrates how...

The Kingston School of Art continues to gain recognition in the AJ Retrofit Awards 2021 becoming winner in the ‘Higher & Further Education’ category. Working with Haworth Tompkins Architects, the project involved a major upgrade and extension to provide over 10000sqm of refurbished creative space. The project achieved BREEAM Outstanding and delivered a 52% reduction in operational carbon emissions. The...

We are delighted to see that two of our recently completed projects have been awarded in the Oxford Preservation Trust Awards. Firstly, Lincoln College on Oxford High Street, a Certificate winner in the Building Conservation category. The project involved an upgrade of a Grade II Listed former bank dating from 1866, into a new restaurant and upmarket apartments. Working with...

After an extended break during the current restrictions, I am pleased to announce that OCPN will be back for 2021. Founded by CBG Consultants in 2012, The Oxfordshire Construction Professionals Network (OCPN) is a business networking group supported by corporate sponsors who offer the opportunity to catch up with like-minded construction professionals. The monthly events are very popular and free...

We are delighted to announce that Fordham Abbey Dojima Sake Brewery has won a GAGA Construction Award. Founded 600 years ago by the Hashimoto family in Osaka,  the Dojima Sake Brewery has been brought to the UK within the historic grounds of Fordham Abbey in Ely Cambridge. Working with Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects in collaboration with Studio Cullinan and Buck...

The Stokes Centre for Urology continues to gain recognition in the RICS Social Impact Awards 2020, becoming the winner of the ‘South East Overall Project of the Year’, winner for the ‘South East’ and the ‘Grand Final Winner’ in the health category These awards are in addition to becoming Highly Commended in the ‘Building Better Healthcare Awards’ in 2019. The...

Kingston School of Art Highly Commended by the New London Architecture Awards. We are delighted to announce that the Kingston School of Art has been Highly Commended by the New London Architecture Awards in the Mayor’s Prize for Circular Design. This is awarded to projects that best demonstrate an innovative re-use of existing buildings and or re-use of construction materials,...

We are pleased to announce that Command of the Heights, Fort Amherst Chatham has been nominated for a Landscape Institute Award within the ‘Excellence in Heritage and Culture’ category. We were delighted to be involved in this Lottery Heritage Fund project, working with Medway Council in one of the country’s best preserved Napoleonic Fortresses and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The...