About Us

Tunstall Smith King, Consulting Structural & Civil Engineers, is a niche practice formed in 2016 out of a desire to focus on creating a reliable, forward thinking practice with an emphasis on innovative, creative and efficient designs. Based in Nottingham in the heart of the Midlands we are ideally situated to serve the length and breadth of the UK.

Our services include all aspects of structural and civil engineering design together with the environmental engineering requirements such as Site Investigations, Flood Risk Assessments and Traffic and Transportation reporting. Our current portfolio of work includes large residential and mixed use multi storey developments, leisure and community projects including hotels and leisure facilities, industrial developments for the food, pharmaceutical and energy from waste sectors together with a client base including private developers, local authorities, sports and social organisations, education stakeholders, Architects and leading international charity organisations.

OUR SERVICES

Civil Engineering is one of our core disciplines. We have the expertise to provide a wide range of services to our clients including Sustainable and Traditional Drainage solutions, 3-D Earth modelling, Cut & Fill Analysis, Section agreements to Water, and Local Authority adopted works legislation.

We achieve results through a regimented process of assessing the practicality of solution iteratively until a balance of buildability and commercial acumen are achieved. We use the latest design software and innovative market tested products to help achieve a sustainable innovative design. This has helped us deliver commercially viable design providing the client with a solution to unlock the potential to develop difficult or constrained sites
Our Structural Engineering team thrive on problem solving and achieving simple, elegant and commercially viable solutions through innovation and creativity. We have significant experience in all sectors and subsequently our structural engineers have a diverse mix of expertise which can be used to cross fertilise ideas from one sector into another which can contribute to elegant and simple structures. Minimising complexities will inevitably assist in removing issues associated with costs, programme, aesthetics and form.

As a practice we are well versed in the implementation of BIM throughout all our projects and have achieved successful collaboration of BIM models from other disciplines to provide a clash free clear and concise building model which is used as the catalyst to produce of our working information.
Our Highway engineering team can offer solutions that can be developed as a stand alone service or collectively with our other infrastructure services such as drainage traffic and transportation and geo-environmental.

We have extensive experience in the delivery of estate roads for industrial developments, trunk roads and access roads for housing schemes, utilizing the latest local authority and government standards.

Our Approach

The practice operates with the Directors taking an active role in all projects. This results in good communication and teamwork, with cross-fertilisation of ideas and experience. By questioning the desired approach to a project we are able to identify problem areas at an early stage of the design and offer innovative and cost effective solutions to the client.

Our strong passion for innovation and creativity never fails to bring added value to a scheme. We embark on each project in an energetic, collaborative and proactive manner. The practice prides itself on delivering efficient, carefully-considered designs. The practice provides a complete range of consultancy services to all sectors of the construction industry.

Our Experience

Our team of engineers and Directors have significant experience in all sectors of the construction industry with particular expertise in the residential, student accommodation, mixed use and leisure sectors with project values in excess of £45million. Our experience within the industrial sector including food, pharmaceutical and energy from waste divisions have led to repeat business from some of the UK’s leading contractors due to our knowledge of working on live sensitive sites which require detailed phasing of the construction process.

The team also has considerable experience working within the education sector in previous employment, responsible for schemes under the BSF Programme, the EFA Framework and working closely with privately funded schools. Between the members of our team we have successfully delivered of 30 primary, secondary and college projects.

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Our Team

Our reputation and high level of service can only be accomplished through the people we employ. We will always listen to our staff and give them the freedom to excel at their strengths whilst mentoring, nurturing and guiding them to become great engineers.