Davis Langdon an AECOM company, is a construction consultancy firm headquartered in London

London

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, UK with 30 offices throughout the UK, Europe

Europe

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 and the Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

, and over 100 worldwide. The firm has a turnover of £154 million throughout Europe and the Middle East and £580 million globally. It has 2,239 employees in Europe and the Middle East and over 5,000 employees in more than 100 offices working in 35 countries worldwide.

History

The firm was established by Horace W Langdon in Holborn

Holborn

Holborn is an area of Central London. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running as High Holborn from St Giles's High Street to Gray's Inn Road and then on to Holborn Viaduct...

 in 1919. He was joined by Tom Every in 1921 and the firm became Horace W Langdon & Every. The firm became Langdon Every & Seah in 1969 when the contribution by Seah Mong Hee in the Far East

Far East

The Far East is an English term mostly describing East Asia and Southeast Asia, with South Asia sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.The term came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century,...

 was recognised.

In 1988 the firm merged with Davis Belfield & Everest (a firm formed in 1931 by Owen Davis who was joined in 1935 by John Belfield and in 1944 by Bobbie Everest) becoming Davis Langdon & Seah International. In July 2007 it merged with the Mackenzie Partnership, a large Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

-based practice.

In 2009 Davis Langdon acquired DEGW, an international strategic consultancy.

In 2010 Davis Langdon was acquired by AECOM

AECOM

AECOM Technology Corporation is a professional technical and management support services firm. The company is ranked as the number one design firm for 2010 and 2011 by Engineering News-Record and number one by Architectural Record. It provides services in the areas of transportation, planning,...

.

Global corporate structure

Davis Langdon and Seah International (DLSI) is an award-winning global construction consultancy and a parent firm which incorporates Davis Langdon and Davis Langdon Seah. Its services include project and cost management.

Davis Langdon has over 2,750 people in 75 offices, and it operates throughout Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and the Middle East, and the USA. Davis Langdon Seah has over 2,000 people in 32 offices in 11 countries across Asia.

Services

The specific services offered by the company include cost consultancy, project management, CDM coordinator and health and safety services, management consulting, legal support, specification consulting, engineering services, property tax and finance. The firm provides these services for clients investing in infrastructure, property and construction. Davis Langdon, LLP has worked on a number of high profile projects including facilities for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

 and Royal Festival Hall

Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...

 in London and the Eden Project

Eden Project

The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world....

 in Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

.

List of Davis Langdon office locations

United Kingdom

• London – Head Office
• Birmingham
• Bristol
• Cambridge
• Cardiff
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Leeds
• Liverpool
• Maidstone
• Manchester
• Norwich
• Oxford
• Peterborough
• Plymouth
• Southampton

Europe

Ireland

• Cork
• Dublin
• Galway
• Limerick

Spain

• Madrid

Netherlands

• Amsterdam

Germany

• Munich

France

• Paris

Italy

• Milan

Middle East

• Bahrain - Manama
• Lebanon – Beirut

• Qatar – Doha
• United Arab Emirates – Dubai
• KSA - Riyadh

Asia

Brunei

• Bandar Seri Begawan

China

• Beijing
• Chongquing
• Guangzhou
• Hong Kong
• Macau
• Shanghai
• Shenzhen
• Tianjin
• Wuhan
• Shenyang

India

• Bangalore
• Chennai
• Hyderabad
• Mumbai
• Delhi

Indonesia

• Bali
• Jakarta
• Surabaya

Japan

• Tokyo

Korea

• Seoul

Malaysia

• Johor Bahru
• Kota Kinabalu
• Penang
• Kuala Lumpur

Philippines

• Manila

Singapore

Thailand

• Bangkok

Vietnam

• Hanoi
• Ho Chi Minh City

Australia

• Adelaide
• Brisbane
• Cairns
• Canberra
• Darwin
• Hobart
• Melbourne
• Perth
• Sydney
• Townsville

New Zealand

• Auckland
• Wellington
• Christchurch

North America

USA

• Boston
• Honolulu

• New York
• Philadelphia
• Sacramento
• San Francisco
• Seattle
• Los Angeles
• Denver
• Chicago
• Washington DC

Africa

South Africa

• Bloemfontein
• Cape Town
• Durban
• George
• Johannesburg
• Klerksdorp
• Nelspruit
• Pietermaritzburg
• Port Elizabeth
• Port Shepstone
• Pretoria
• Richards Bay
• Stellenbosch
• Vanderbijlpark

Botswana

• Gaberone

Mozambique

• Maputo

Nigeria

• Lagos

Egypt

• Cairo

Areas of specialty

Davis Langdon delivers Cost Management and Project Management services as well as Management Consulting, Legal Support, Specification Consulting; Engineering Services and Banking, Tax and Finance and has expertise across a wide range of sectors, including:

1. Hotels, Sports, Culture – Hotels & resorts; Sports & venues; Culture & arts
2. Commercial – Offices; Fit-out; Business parks; Data centres
3. Transport, Infrastructure and Remediation - Transport, infrastructure & remediation; Airports; Industrial, process, distribution & manufacturing
4. Residential – Private residential; Affordable housing
5. Retail – Developers; Retailers
6. Public – Schools, Further education; Higher education; Private healthcare; Public healthcare; Administration, defence, custodial & justice; PPP/PFI

List of notable projects

Davis Langdon has worked on the following high-profile projects:

• Royal Festival Hall
  Royal Festival Hall
  The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...
  
  , London, UK
• Shard London Bridge
  Shard London Bridge
  Shard London Bridge is a skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London. When completed in May 2012, it will be the tallest building in the European Union and the 45th-tallest building in the world, standing tall...
  
  , London, UK
• Tate Modern
  Tate Modern
  Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
  
  , London, UK
• Eden Project
  Eden Project
  The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world....
  
  , Cornwall, UK
• Eastside Park
  Eastside, Birmingham
  Eastside is a district of Birmingham City Centre, England currently undergoing a major redevelopment project. The overall cost when completed is expected to be £6–8 billion over a period of ten years which will result in the creation of 12,000 jobs. 8,000 jobs are expected to be created during the...
  
   regeneration, Birmingham, UK
• British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
  British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
  The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum was a museum in Bristol, United Kingdom exploring the history of the British Empire and the effect of British colonial rule on the rest of the world....
  
   "Abolition of Slavery Exhibition", Bristol, UK
• National Waterfront Museum
  National Waterfront Museum
  The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea or NWMS is a museum situated in Swansea, Wales, forming part of the National Museum Wales. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage....
  
  , Swansea, UK
• Paradise Project delivering Liverpool 1, Liverpool, UK
• The Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre at Kings Waterfront, Liverpool, UK
• Norwich Theatre Royal
  Theatre Royal, Norwich
  The Theatre Royal is the largest theatre in Norwich, Norfolk, England. It presents a large range of drama, dance, comedy, music and other entertainment...
  
  , Norwich, UK
• Alexandria Library, Egypt
• Beirut Central District
  Beirut Central District
  The Beirut Central District or Centre Ville is the name given to Beirut’s historical and geographical core, the “vibrant financial, commercial, and administrative hub of the country.” At the heart of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut Central District is an area thousands of years old, traditionally a...
  
  , Lebanon
• British Council
  British Council
  The British Council is a United Kingdom-based organisation specialising in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales, and in Scotland...
  
  , Egypt
• British Embassy, Bahrain
• Central Bank of Kuwait
  Central Bank of Kuwait
  The Central Bank of Kuwait was established in 30 June 1968 to offer a flexible currency system on behalf of the State of Kuwait. The Central Bank is currently building their new building in the Sahrq area....
  
  
• Commercial Bank Tower, Doha, State of Qatar
• Dubai Waterfront
  Dubai Waterfront
  The Dubai Waterfront was expected to become the largest waterfront and largest man-made development in the world. The project is a conglomeration of canals and artificial archipelago; it will occupy the last remaining Persian Gulf coastline of Dubai, the most populous emirate of the United Arab...
  
  , UAE
• Grand Egyptian Museum
  Grand Egyptian Museum
  The Grand Egyptian Museum , also known as the Giza Museum, is a planned museum of artifacts of ancient Egypt. Described as the largest archaeological museum in the world, the USD 550 million museum is scheduled to open in 2013...
  
  
• Jumeirah Beach Hotel
  Jumeirah Beach Hotel
  Jumeirah Beach Hotel is a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The hotel, which opened in 1997, is operated by the Dubai-based hotelier Jumeirah. The hotel contains 598 rooms and suites and 19 villas. This wave-shaped hotel complements the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab, which is adjacent to the...
  
  , Dubai, UAE
• Mall of the Emirates
  Mall of the Emirates
  The Mall of the Emirates is a shopping mall in the Al Barsha district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was developed by Majid Al Futtaim Properties under the leadership of its CEO, Peter Walichnowski, who was also the developer of "Bluewater" near London, Europe's most successful shopping mall....
  
  , Dubai
• Commerzbank
  Commerzbank
  Commerzbank AG is the second-largest bank in Germany, after Deutsche Bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.-Activities:Commerzbank is mainly active in commercial bank, retail banking and mortgaging. It suffered reversals in investment banking in early 2000s and scaled back its Securities unit...
  
  , Frankfurt
• Elephant House
  Elephant House
  Elephant House, also known as the Edward Gorey House, is the home on Cape Cod that Edward Gorey, author, illustrator, puppeteer and playwright, lived and worked in when he left New York City....
  
  , Copenhagen Zoo
• Legoland
  Legoland
  Legoland is a chain of Lego-themed theme parks. They are not fully owned by Lego Group itself; rather they are owned and operated by the British theme park company Merlin Entertainment.The chain currently consists of:* Legoland Billund...
  
  , Germany
• Rennes Viaduct, France
• Beijing International Airport, China
• Jin Mao Building
  Jin Mao Building
  The Jin Mao Tower is an 88-story landmark supertall skyscraper in the Lujiazui area of the Pudong district of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. It contains offices and the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel. Until 2007 it was the tallest building in the PRC, the fifth tallest in the world by roof...
  
  , Shanghai, China
• World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
• Hong Kong Stadium
  Hong Kong Stadium
  Hong Kong Stadium is the main sports venue of Hong Kong. Redeveloped from the old Government Stadium it reincarnated as Hong Kong Stadium in 1994...
  
  , China
• University Biological Science Building, Hong Kong, China
• Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, China
• Mainetti Factory, Shenzhen, China
• Mandarin Oriental
  Mandarin Oriental
  Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group , a member of the Jardine Matheson Group, is an international hotel investment and management group with luxury hotels, resorts and residences in Asia, Europe and the Americas...
  
  , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
• The Infinity Tower, Bangkok, Thailand
• Central World, Bangkok, Thailand
• Seoul International Finance Centre, Korea
• The Rockwell Centre, Manila, Philippines
• Adelaide Botanical Gardens
  Adelaide Botanic Garden
  The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a public garden at the north-east corner of the Adelaide city centre, in the Adelaide Park Lands. It encompasses a fenced garden on North Terrace and behind it the Botanic Park...
  
  , Australia
• Gateway Bridge Upgrade, Brisbane, Australia
• The Lakes Resort, Cairns, Australia
• Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
• The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Smithsonian Institution
  Smithsonian Institution
  The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
  
  , Patent Office Building, Washington DC, USA
• Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, USA
• Mondavi Center for the Arts, University of California, Davis, California, USA
• Baha Mar Resort
  Baha Mar
  Baha Mar is a resort located on the island of New Providence, The Bahamas owned by Baha Mar Resorts Ltd. and managed by CEO Sarkis Izmirlian. On 30 March 2010 an agreement on the redevelopment of the resort was announced. The project will be financed by China Exim Bank while construction will be...
  
  , Bahamas
• Central Terminal Building, Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa
• V&A Waterfront Marina, Cape Town, South Africa

Awards

It has been the recipient of a number of industry awards including being voted Top International Construction Consultant for fifteen successive years and was named Building magazine’s Construction Consultant/Surveyor for three consecutive years. The firm was named one of the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for four consecutive years, in 2008 was placed at number 19, and was the only project and cost management consultancy to be included in the top 50.

Davis Langdon has won the following awards in recent years:

• Building magazine’s “Consultant/ Surveyor of the Year” in 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Runners up in the top four in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2002.
• Building magazine’s “Project/Construction Manager of the Year” 2004
• World Architecture’s “Top International Cost Consultant” for 17 years in succession as voted for by the world's leading architects and their clients.
• One of the Sunday Times '100 Best Companies to Work For'
  The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For
  Since 2001, the Sunday Times newspaper has published annual lists of the best companies to work for in the UK. The award is highly valued by its winners.The list ranks Britain's best companies to work for based a number of criteria...
  
   for the fifth year in 2009.
• Winner in Computer Weekly
  Computer Weekly
  ComputerWeekly was a weekly magazine for IT professionals which was published by Reed Business Information for over 40 years. The magazine was available free to IT professionals who met the circulation requirements...
  
  ’s ‘Best Places to Work in IT’ in 2005 and second place in 2006
• Davis Langdon PKS has been named one of the “Best 50 companies to work for in Ireland”
• Davis Langdon placed in twelfth position in the Management Partners’ Forum (MPF) top 100 professional services firms to work for.

Further reading

• Meikle, Jim, Thinking Big: The History of Davis Langdon, Black Dog Publishing, 2009 ISBN 9781906155711

External links

• Official site