Frankham Consultancy Group Ltd

A multi-disciplinary consultancy with over 20 years of rail experience, Frankham Consultancy Group specialises in depot, station, and infrastructure design. Today, it supports schemes of various sizes, taking a fresh, customer-focused approach. With RISQS approval and a trained, highly competent team, the group counts Network Rail, London Underground, and a range of TOCs, developers, and contractors among its clients.

Its talented and trained staff work to bring innovative ideas to life, focusing primarily on rail structures. Their areas of expertise range from building surveying and engineering, to building services engineering and architecture.

These staff strive to uphold Frankham Consultancy Group Ltd’s core values – Safety and Wellbeing, People, Impeccable Service, Respect & Integrity, Innovation and Teamwork.

Frankham Consultancy Group Ltd’s PTS-competent rail specialists can act as CEM and CRE across a range of disciplines. Working closely with TfL, they hold track accustomed and track competent certifications, and have experience of open line, depots, lineside buildings, and stations.

The group provides both internal and external training, including:

• Site Keeper Training.
• Confined Spaces Training.
• PASMA and IPAF.
• CDM training.

Frankham Consultancy Group Ltd also holds the following accreditations as part of a suite of management procedures and policies:

• ISO 9001, 14001, 45001.
• RISQS

With structural examination competencies, the group’s team can create work package plans WWP and task briefing sheets TBS for those going on site, as well as undertaking quality checks for designs and supporting design review meetings for quality, buildability, and safety.

Frankham Consultancy Group Ltd’s rail services include:

• Accessibility services.
• Boundary and party structure matters and disputes, rights to light advice.
• Contractors Responsible Engineer (CRE) and Contractors Engineering Manager (CEM).
• Works programming and cost management.
• Design using GRIP stages.
• Electrical engineering.
• Support with feasibility, design and works monitoring.
• Hidden Critical Element Investigations.
• Interim and terminal dilapidations surveys/negotiations
• Landlord and lessee license to alter.
• Topographical and measured surveys.
• TfL and Network Rail technical applications and approvals.
• Planning applications, including listed building consent.
• Rail Side Development Advice (BAPA) Asset Protection Negotiation
• STE2, STE3, STE4, STE5 & STE6 Examination Competencies
• Vertical Transportation Engineering.

Frankham Consultancy Group ltd carried out investigations on behalf of Network Rail, working as the Principal Contractor under its Core Contractors Safety Case. During the commission, Amec Group Ltd appointed it as Multi-Discipline Designer for the main roof refurbishment contract.

The solution Frankham Consultancy Group Ltd developed meant that works could be carried out without disruption to passengers.