
BEST PRACTICE REPRESENTATIVE 2019
THE PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW
Highlighting best practice
22 | BURROUGHS
Managing Director PiersBurroughs
The award-winning Eastham Bridge –
reconnecting local communities in 11 months
Burroughs are an independent civil and structural engineering
and project management consultancy with a strong client
and staff focus. Their projects are broad in scope and scale,
with an established presence in airports; highways, including
bridges; water and drainage infrastructure; renewable energy;
project and cost management; industrial and commercial
buildings; and a more recent move to railway systems. The
quality of these projects has won them considerable recognition
in the form of awards. This success has come through their
determination to deliver for clients while also creating a highly
supportive workplace. Managing Director Piers Burroughs tells
The Parliamentary Review
more about the business.
Burroughs was created with the sole aim of delivering for our clients, with the
ethos established at the outset of providing quality, integrity and experience. To
deliver this aim, it was important to establish the right environment to attract the
right staff and allow them to develop and excel. Above all else, we pride ourselves
on our team and on understanding our clients’ aims and requirements – in this way
we provide the right resource to manage the delivery of a client’s project within
time and to budget. We have been performing these tasks for over 30 years and
are well equipped to provide the right focus to deal with nearly any situation.
The path we took
Burroughs began in 1988 with the goal of providing civil and structural engineering
consultancy services, developing a reputation for both practical and innovative
FACTS ABOUT
BURROUGHS
»Managing Director:
PiersBurroughs
»Founded in 1988
»Located in Cardiff
»Services: Structural
engineering and project
management consultancy
»No. of employees: 35
»20 per cent of workforce
supported on day release
academic studies – providing
Level 3 to Level 7, which
translates as, for example,
BTEC to MSc
»Operates an ICE-approved
graduate training scheme
»www.burroughs.co.uk
Burroughs
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designs, as well as the ability to
engineer solutions for more complex
schemes. The scope of service very
soon developed to encompass project
and cost management as we developed
our skills, and our clients appreciated
how we could complement them by
delivering to a wider brief.
This development stemmed from
our broader and more fundamental
ambition of ensuring that quality and
delivery for our clients sits at the very
heart of everything we do. Indeed, we
are always seeking to go the extra mile
for our clients, and this linked with our
drive to understand our client’s needs
and the result of our ethos of quality,
integrity and experience regularly
results in repeat custom.
Our achievements have not gone
unnoticed:
»Our work on Ballure Bridge won
us Project of the Year (under 50
million euros) at the annual Light
Rail Awards 2015, as well as the ICE
North West Civil Engineering Award
for Medium Projects 2016.
»Our Radyr Weir Hydro Power
Scheme won us the George Gibby
Award for projects over £3 million at
the ICE Wales Cymru Awards 2017.
»The work we did for Eastham Bridge
won us the ICE West Midlands Team
Achievement Award in 2018 and
the CIHT Gwreiddiau Cymru Wales
Origins (Designed in Wales) Award
2018 at the annual CIHT Cymru
Wales Awards.
Improvement, both inside and
out
To be successful is to pursue
innovation and development, both for
the company and for our staff. We
see these aims as fundamental and
see ourselves as leaders. We strive to
remain at the forefront of our industry.
In an age which is always producing
change, our aim is to lead this process.
AI is with us, production design is in
3D, communication is entirely digital
– pushing the boundaries is not a
risk but our aim. Developing our staff
to their potential leads to delivery
being at the forefront for our clients,
exceeding their expectations.
Our local community is also important
to us, which is why we develop
relationships with schools, colleges,
universities and their students in
order to provide work experience,
apprenticeships and job opportunities.
I feel that providing a good and vibrant
place to work enhances the work-life
experience, improves relationships
and communication within the team
and results in aspirational and better
solutions. In creating the right team,
we need the range of skills offered
by apprentices, technicians, graduate
and chartered engineers, graduate and
chartered surveyors.
Developing skills and encouraging
personal development is part of our
success. We have created the space so
that our team work together to share
responsibilities across our skill sets
to monitor and encourage learning.
If the potential is there, we ensure it
is exploited. Annually, I meet all our
team in development to review and,
with their training mentor, chart the
progress made and development
achieved – recording the outcome and
encouraging the next steps.
Southern Link Road,
Phase 4 – relieving
highway congestion
around Worcester
We pride
ourselves on
our team and
on
understanding
our clients’
aims and
requirements
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