2. An Introduction to Capita Symonds Capita Symonds is one of the largest and fastest-growing consultancies in the design, engineering, environment, management and infrastructure markets. With over 4,000 staff across the UK and internationally. We offer an unrivalled scope of services and a unique blend of professional and technical skills to schemes of all types and complexities. We are a wholly-owned division of The Capita Group Plc, a FTSE 100 member and the UK’s leading provider of integrated professional support service solutions. We have delivered, or are currently delivering some of the most high profile projects in the UK for a range of private and public sector clients and major corporate investors. We have been involved in the delivery of Wembley Stadium, the 2012 Olympics, major headquarters for international banks, as well as some of the largest mixed-use development projects and regeneration projects. We are a strategic partner to ExxonMobil and British American Tobacco across the EMEA. We are a consultancy and management business that can deliver the full range of services we provide though single point responsibility throughout the project life cycle, using entirely in-house resources. These services are shown on the chart opposite.
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4. UK Offices Belfast Berkhamsted Blackburn Bristol Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Hulme Edinburgh Ely Glasgow Liverpool London Manchester Redditch Romsey Sheffield Watford
21. What Benefits can Capita Symonds provide to you? 1. A Strong Property & Infrastructure UK Brand As the Consultancy arm of the Capita Group, Capita Symonds is in a market leading position, by headcount the 5th largest Consultant in the UK. Our Client’s can lever this position to demonstrate strength and resilience to funds, developers, central government and local government and other key influencers. 2. A broad range of in-house Multi-Disciplinary Services From ‘front end’ support at project inception, stakeholder management and the like, through to downstream delivery of major projects or programmes of work, Capita Symonds has every service in-house to be able to deliver any property or infrastructure project, providing a “one stop shop” integrated consultancy service. All too often, we take over projects where fragmented teams have been working in a disjointed way. 3. International Exposure and Track Record We have carried out a number of major complex international projects, where we are providing project management and a range of technical design services. If, after critical review the project offers significant opportunity, we put our full weight and financial muscle behind our client or consortia group, wherever they are doing business. 4. Relationship with Banking World Given that most major projects require external funding, we have close relationships and are respected by the leading international banking organisations. This gives our Client’s confidence that their projects will receive the required levels of funding support, and will be critical to the successful launch of a clients initiative. 5. Delivery of Major, Complex Projects When the English Football Association’s subsidiary, Wembley National Stadium Ltd (WNSL) needed to close the deal with Multiplex to deliver Wembley Stadium, they selected Capita Symonds to support them, working night and day for 9 months and in close collaboration with WNSL. Some 2 years later, Capita Symonds were once again called in to “rescue” the project, overseeing the supply chain and broking deals that would guarantee opening of the stadium ready for the Cup Final in 2007. 6. Providing a Strategic Partnership We do much more than simply delivering projects. We focus on delivering a comprehensive service to clients across their portfolio, rather than one off discrete projects – where Client’s receive the benefit of continuous improvement in efficiency, cost reduction and knowledge retention through feedback of ‘learning points’ from project to project. We can support you at all stages of a project or programme, and our understanding of the key risks and challenges that the team will be facing means that we can direct effort where it is most needed. 7. Reputation The reputation that we enjoy means that we are recognised for doing many things very well. Capita Symonds is regularly recognised across the property and construction world through a string of awards. In 2006 we were awarded the Association of Consulting Engineers coveted ‘Consultancy of the Year’, and in 2008 we were shortlisted for the Contract Journal’s award. Our people, projects and performance receives continuous industry recognition for achievement when benchmarked against our competition.