Buchanan Consulting Engineers is a leading independent consultancy specialising in advice to the property development industry. Our aim is to help maximise the development potential of your land through the expertise we offer.

We understand your business. What drives your agenda, what you intend your developments to achieve and how much you value professional advice which is as timely, pertinent and technically impeccable as ours. Our clients often say that we think like them and for them.

We are here for the long haul, building successful, lasting relationships with our clients based on trust, and enjoy a high level of repeat business.
And we never forget that you have a business to run.

You are in good company. Our client list includes familiar and respected names – major housebuilders, developers, landowners, agents and private individuals who have come to value our expertise in helping them to release development value.

We are good listeners and effective negotiators. We work with our colleagues in local authorities and public agencies to devise practical solutions and achieve consensus. We aim to deliver the agreements needed to progress your project as swiftly and as favourably as possible.

We understand the planning process. How the system operates and how best we can support planning applications with our specialist expertise to benefit our clients, often in partnership with leading planning consultancies.

We enjoy the challenge of ‘difficult’ sites. Including the most demanding you can bring us. Whether devising an access solution to unlock your problem site or achieving a breakthrough on its optimum drainage strategy, our ability to think creatively as we design site infrastructure means that we can offer our clients a track record of successful solutions.

We are confident in our ability to deliver.

We are proud of being opportunists, lateral thinkers and problem solvers. First and foremost professional engineers, we take a broader view of a development project than is customary, getting to its essence and designing the best pathway to achieving results on the ground.

We believe that it takes more than standard professional expertise, technical resources and support services to achieve the development you deserve. It’s our people who make the real difference. Call it a culture of confidence in our ability to deliver.

Whatever the assignment, we are adept at thinking outside the box beyond our own specialist backgrounds, bringing to the project our collective expertise and acting on your behalf with initiative and imagination.

We can make the difference and secure success.

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