Scott-White & Hookins

In recent years Scott White and Hookins have proved to be very competitive in the commercial building market and have designed an impressive collection of buildings for a wide variety of commercial clients. Many buildings have contained impressive entrance atria, staircases, lift enclosures, bridge structures and walkways to make an impact on visitors and building users. We have conceived a variety of sustainable and versatile design solutions for modern office construction, with options giving minimum use of internal columns, large beam and floor spans to provide maximum flexibility when laying out new office space.

Scott White and Hookins provide our complete range of consultancy services to the residential sector. We tailor our service to suit our client's requirements, which can vary from one-off individual architect designed houses to multi-storey residential apartment buildings. We are ever mindful that every house, flat or apartment is in fact a home for those who live within the building and attention to detail makes all the difference to client, home owner and occupier. The residential sector is the industry leader in embracing modern methods of construction as the construction industry tries to find ways to provide well designed, high quality housing that pays close attention to detail while mindful of value for money.

Scott White and Hookins experience in the industrial sector includes speculative warehousing, distribution centres, manufacturing and processing plants for a variety of clients. These type of buildings have highly specialised requirements, loading bays and purpose built, automated delivery systems. In conjunction with these types of facilities, using the latest design software combined with extensive practical knowledge, we are able to provide thorough, economic, technically sound designs for drainage, roads, hard-standings, foundations and superstructure.

Scott White and Hookins work on a very broad range of retail projects throughout the UK. These include town centre redevelopment, mixed use developments, out of town retail parks and specialist high street retailers in both food and non-food sectors. Our experience includes initial feasibility studies and site appraisals, developing master plan schemes in conjunction with the architect for planning applications, through to the final detailed design of projects, including new build, extensions and refurbishments.

Scott White and Hookins provides an integrated range of civil engineering consultancy services covering all aspects of external works, drainage, traffic, transport, highway and infrastructure design. Our civil engineers offer many years of professional experience working successfully in partnership with clients, developers, contractors and design teams to deliver sustainable cost effective solutions for sites over a wide range of sectors. Our dedicated civil engineering professionals are able to work as part of any team to create, enable and improve a site for its intended use, and aim to engineer the environment with sustainable solutions wherever possible.

Scott White and Hookins attended the Education Estates Awards Dinner on 1st November, where Southampton Solent University's 'The Spark' building won the Student Experience Award and was Highly. We are delighted to announce that Scott White and Hookins have been ranked in the top 100 civil engineering practices in the UK by New Civil Engineer. We are pleased to announce that our practice has been awarded the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Silver award. Our BREEAM assessors have achieved the UK's first refurbishment BREEAM 'Excellent' education accreditation for this this 4.3m project to retrofit Bedford College's workshop block into a modern, .

Scott White and Hookins offer a complete range of structural engineering consultancy services to guide your project from start to finish. As a Practice that prides itself on its friendly, innovative and transparent approach we are able to work as part of any team, delivering solutions and maximising value with creative thinking on all projects. Our structural engineers combine a wealth of specialist knowledge and technical expertise founded on many years of experience. This experience spans a wide range of sectors working for both public and private clients.

Doug joined Scott White and Hookins in 1987. He became a Partner in 2001 and managing Partner in 2018. He shares his time between all SWH offices. He is a chartered structural and civil engineer and works extensively in the infrastructure, education, commercial, healthcare and event engineering sectors. Paul joined Scott White and Hookins in 1999 and became a Director in 2015 based at the Bedford office. He is an experienced civil/structural engineer and a qualified BREEAM Accredited Professional/ Assessor, leading our Sustainability and BREEAM consultancy teams across the practice.