SLR opens new Manchester office

SLR Consulting has moved into a brand new Manchester workplace primarily based in Dale Road within the Northern Quarter, because of a wholesome portfolio of labor within the north west and progress throughout all points of environmental and sustainability providers.

With over 2,000 staff, serving purchasers throughout greater than 20 nations globally, SLR Consulting is a world sustainability consultancy headquartered within the UK. Since receiving new backing from monetary investor Ares Capital Administration, the agency has been quickly upscaling its capability through recruitment campaigns, and a stream of acquisitions.

Now,SLR has continued to ramp up its capability, with the launch of a brand new workplace within the north west of England. The Manchester hub may have house for greater than 100 workers, and consolidate the agency’s a number of groups throughout the town right into a single location.

The transfer may even see SLR consolidate its Optimised Environments (OPEN) group into the bottom, and Vectos – a transport planning and infrastructure design consultancy which merged into SLR in 2021 – serving to to additional help purchasers within the area. These embrace the Pink Financial institution masterplan, the £400 million mixed-use scheme at First Road, and a number of other regeneration initiatives for Manchester Metropolis Council.

Jaimie Ferguson, director at OPEN, famous, “Since turning into a part of SLR, we have now mixed our collective expertise, making a group with outstanding creativity and design qualities that complement already robust technical and environmental skills. This new workplace marks the subsequent stage in our integration, and we imagine it is going to permit us to extend our sharing of information and experience, which may solely profit our purchasers.”

Alongside this consolidation, the workplace primarily based in Dale Road, in Manchester’s northern quarter, will permit SLR to develop its group throughout its suite of 35 technical providers. Initially in-built 1903 as the pinnacle workplace for the textile big Richard Howarth & Co, the Grade II listed house at 35 Dale Road has been reimagined into places of work, with SLR taking the whole prime ground of seven,500 sq. ft.

Talking on the hub, Adam Smith, transport planning director at SLR, added, “Our transport planning and infrastructure design groups already work intently with OPEN and different SLR environmental specialists, however bringing collectively the groups into one collaborative house won’t solely imply extra integration and knowledge sharing, however will replicate the breadth of what we will provide to purchasers, driving higher high quality.”

The thriving know-how scene of the north west continues to draw consulting companies to Manchester, seeking to profit from the market. Recently, FTI Consulting and MI-GSO | PCUBED each expanded into the town, whereas has additionally moved its Manchester group into a brand new workplace there.