Cyril Sweett
At the cutting edge of new service development in areas such as sustainability, whole life performance & benchmarking, Cyril Sweett offers a complete range of specialist consulting services.
A world class, global construction consultant operating from 63 offices in 27 countries, the organisation’s 3,000 professionals are focused on their clients' needs, with an ethos of maximising the value they can add to their clients’ businesses and projects.
With a reputation founded upon a commitment to service excellence, consistency and effective delivery they are the only all employee-owned firm of their kind in the UK, their management & staff offering a level of commitment unrivalled by their competitors.
Sustainability
Sustainability is a key element of government policy, and investors, procurers and planning authorities expect industry to achieve ever higher standards of sustainability performance.
Cyril Sweett has a team of expert specialists working on sustainability in the built environment. Expertise includes environmental assessment, eco-efficiency (waste, water, energy and materials), materials sourcing and procurement, green design, corporate responsibility and planning and regeneration.
Drawing support from other in-house technical experts, we ensure that sustainability is successfully and cost-effectively integrated into any stage of the development lifecycle.
Services we provide:
- Performance assessment (BREEAM Offices, BREEAM Retail, BREEAM Schools, Bespoke BREEAM EcoHomes and the Code for Sustainable Homes)
- Brief development (best practices and policy requirements) and bid evaluation
- Life cycle assessment, eco-efficiency and design solutions
- Options appraisal – (objective and consultative evaluation)
- Strategy development
- Research for leading industry bodies such as CLG, WRAP and English Partnerships
The team provides support and solutions for all stakeholders within the construction industry. Working closely with our cost consulting and project management colleagues, we make sustainability aspirations a reality by helping client and developer teams to prioritise opportunities and develop value for money and deliverable solutions.
The team is growing rapidly delivering work to support commercially viable sustainable developments and have a range of opportunities from Consultant level to Associate Directors.
Candidates will have some experience of sustainability issues:- be from an Engineering / Construction / Environmental background and / or APC qualified:- have good client facing skills, and the ability to think laterally and generate ideas. Key factors are enthusiasm for the subject, bringing tangible sustainability consultancy related skills / experience and a positive and proactive team working attitude.
Cyril Sweett Consulting
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Employee Ownership Culture – We are a wholly employee owned business. This promotes a feeling of ownership, an entrepreneurial spirit and unity across the company. As only current employees can hold shares, profits flow back to the staff in the form of share dividends and a profit share bonus. There are tax efficient save-as-you-earn schemes which enable the purchase of shares at a significant discount, employees can also invest directly in company shares. Shares have performed strongly over the past five years with a reliable 8-9% dividend and an approximate 17% annual capital value growth.
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Opportunity & Development – The Consulting structure is very flat and there is a young dynamic and professional team with a friendly culture where no idea is a bad idea. With the group expanding by approx’ 25% year on year there are many opportunities for people to grow with the business and develop their careers. The management philosophy is to empower people and provide the environment in which they can excel. This philosophy has reinforced a strong focus on two way communication so that people feel part of the totality of the business and get recognition for their successes. We have an active career planning process (The Career Highway) through which people are encouraged to set objectives for their development with the support of a mentor from within the business. Career planning is supplemented by a structured set of training programmes which seek to maximise people’s development, including moving across teams to gain diverse experience.
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International Network – We have an international network of partners (DGJones, Drees & Sommer) through whom we realise exciting opportunities both to work with international clients and also on specific overseas projects. We have a number of initiatives in this area such as a drive to leverage our PFI knowledge into the growing European PPP market. We are expanding further internationally with offices in Paris, Madrid, Dubai and India.
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Benefits – We offer competitive benefits packages and focus on ensuring people are rewarded commensurate with their career development. In addition to the normal car allowances, pension, health benefits, etc, our package is enhanced with items such as share purchase schemes, annual profit share, season ticket loans, discount computer purchase schemes and free gym membership (London). There is a strong social scene with a funded social committee that promotes cross company events.
Cyril Sweett Business Facts
Cyril Sweett is a multi service property related consultancy. We have approximately 650 staff with a head office in London and a network of regional offices. There are further offices in Paris, Dubai, India and Madrid and an international network of partnerships with Drees & Sommer (Germany, Central & Eastern Europe) and DGJones (Middle East & Asia Pacific).
The UK business is split approximately 60% Cost Consulting, 30% Project Management and 10% Consulting. We work in multiple sectors offering property related consultancy services. Key sectors include health, education, commercial, retail, leisure, life sciences, transport and residential. The company has a particular strength in PFI / PPP. Our mission states that we want to be ‘the best at everything we do’. This encapsulates our approach to our work; we focus on the areas where we have expertise and aim to excel in those areas.
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