Pell Frischmann
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Pell Frischmann is a multi-disciplinary engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 consultancy with an annual turnover approaching £50 million. Pell Frischmann employs over 1,150 staff worldwide with its head office located in London, 16 offices across the UK and international offices in India, the Middle East, Turkey and Romania [1].

Key areas of business include: Buildings, Building Services, Land Development & Regeneration, Traffic & Transportation, Highways & Bridges, Railways, Environment & Process Technology, Water & Wastewater, Power, Fire Engineering and IT & Telecommunications.

The original Company was founded in 1926 by Cecil Pell who subsequently formed Pell Frischmann and Partners with Wilem Frischmann
Wilem Frischmann
Wilem William Frischmann, CBE, FICE, FIStructE is a leading engineer, the chairman of the internationally recognised firm of consulting engineers, Pell Frischmann and generally considered to be one of the foremost engineers of his generation due to his reputation gained on technically...

 in 1972. The Group became a limited company in 1984. Until the late 1960s the Group's activities centred on Structural Engineering and Mechanical and Electrical Building Services.

Pell Frischmann Group has acquired a number of companies, including the Department of Transport's West Yorkshire Road Construction Sub-Unit (1981), 70 staff from the Infrastructure Directorate of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation joined the Group to form Pell Frischmann Milton Keynes Ltd (1988), Pell Frischmann Water Ltd was formed in 1990 as a joint venture between the Pell Frischmann Group and South West Water
South West Water
South West Water provides drinking water and waste water services throughout Cornwall and Devon and in small areas of Dorset and Somerset. South West Water came into being in 1989 with the privatisation of the water industry...

 plc. EPD Consultants was acquired from Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty plc is a British construction, engineering, military housing, rail and investment services company. It is one of the largest construction companies in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world...

 (1998) and De Leuw Rothwell Ltd (2000) was a new company set up safeguarding the jobs of a number of staff following the collapse and subsequent liquidation of the former De Leuw Rothwell.

In 2002 the various offices were consolidated under one umbrella company and in September 2003 the company was restructured and changed its trading company name to Pell Frischmann Consulting Engineers.

Major subsidiaries include Frischmann Prabhu providing expertise in the Asia-Pacific region and Conseco International which focuses on projects in the Middle East and was recently awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise for work in the reconstruction of Iraq.
Notable projects include:-

- Centre Point
Centre Point
Centre Point is a substantial concrete and glass office building in central London, England, occupying 101-103 New Oxford Street, WC1, close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station. The site was once occupied by a gallows...



- Tower 42
Tower 42
Tower 42 is the second tallest skyscraper in the City of London and the fifth tallest in London overall. The original name was the National Westminster Tower, having been built to house the National Westminster Bank's International Division. Seen from above, the tower closely resembles the NatWest...



- Liverpool One

- Home Office Head Quarters (2 Marsham Street
2 Marsham Street
2 Marsham Street London has been the headquarters of the Home Office, a department of the British Government, since March 2005. Before this date the Home Office was located at 50 Queen Anne's Gate.-History:...

)

- New Street Square, London

- 7-10 Old Bailey, London

- Oxford University

- Hunts House, Kings College London

- Cornwall House, Kings College London

- Paddington Central

- The Point, Paddington

- Al Zeina Beach Development, Abu Dhabi

External links

Pell Frischmann Website http://www.pellfrischmann.com

Frischmann Prabhu http://fpindia.com

Conseco International http://www.pfgulf.com
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