Davis Langdon

Davis Langdon an AECOM Company

Type	Limited Liability Partnership
Industry	Construction, Civil engineering
Founded	1919
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Rob Smith, Chairman, Jeremy Horner, Chief Executive
Products	Management & consulting services
Employees	5,000
Parent	AECOM
Website	www.davislangdon.com

Davis Langdon an AECOM company, is a construction consultancy firm headquartered in London, UK with 30 offices throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East, and over 100 worldwide. The firm has a turnover of £154 million throughout Europe and the Middle East and £580 million globally. It has 2,239 employees in Europe and the Middle East and over 5,000 employees in more than 100 offices working in 35 countries worldwide.

History

The firm was established by Horace W Langdon in Holborn in 1919.^[1] He was joined by Tom Every in 1921 and the firm became Horace W Langdon & Every.^[1] The firm became Langdon Every & Seah in 1969 when the contribution by Seah Mong Hee in the Far East was recognised.^[1]

In 1988 the firm merged with Davis Belfield & Everest (a firm formed in 1931 by Owen Davis who was joined in 1935 by John Belfield and in 1944 by Bobbie Everest) becoming Davis Langdon & Seah International.^[2] In July 2007 it merged with the Mackenzie Partnership, a large Scottish-based practice.^[3]

In 2009 Davis Langdon acquired DEGW, an international strategic consultancy.

In 2010 Davis Langdon was acquired by AECOM.

Global corporate structure

Davis Langdon and Seah International (DLSI) is an award-winning global construction consultancy and a parent firm which incorporates Davis Langdon and Davis Langdon Seah. Its services include project and cost management.

Davis Langdon has over 2,750 people in 75 offices, and it operates throughout Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and the Middle East, and the USA. Davis Langdon Seah has over 2,000 people in 32 offices in 11 countries across Asia.

Services

The specific services offered by the company include cost consultancy, project management, CDM coordinator and health and safety services, management consulting, legal support, specification consulting, engineering services, property tax and finance. The firm provides these services for clients investing in infrastructure, property and construction. Davis Langdon, LLP has worked on a number of high profile projects including facilities for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tate Modern and Royal Festival Hall in London and the Eden Project in Cornwall.

List of Davis Langdon office locations

United Kingdom

London – Head Office Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cardiff Edinburgh Glasgow Leeds Liverpool Maidstone Manchester Norwich Oxford Peterborough Plymouth Southampton Europe Ireland Cork Dublin Galway Limerick Spain Madrid Netherlands Amsterdam Germany Munich France Paris Italy Milan Middle East Bahrain - Manama Lebanon – Beirut

Qatar – Doha United Arab Emirates – Dubai KSA - Riyadh Asia Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan China Beijing Chongquing Guangzhou Hong Kong Macau Shanghai Shenzhen Tianjin Wuhan Shenyang India Bangalore Chennai Hyderabad Mumbai Delhi Indonesia Bali Jakarta Surabaya Japan Tokyo Korea Seoul

Malaysia Johor Bahru Kota Kinabalu Penang Kuala Lumpur Philippines Manila Singapore Thailand Bangkok Vietnam Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City Australia Adelaide Brisbane Cairns Canberra Darwin Hobart Melbourne Perth Sydney Townsville New Zealand Auckland Wellington Christchurch North America USA Boston Honolulu

New York Philadelphia Sacramento San Francisco Seattle Los Angeles Denver Chicago Washington DC Africa South Africa Bloemfontein Cape Town Durban George Johannesburg Klerksdorp Nelspruit Pietermaritzburg Port Elizabeth Port Shepstone Pretoria Richards Bay Stellenbosch Vanderbijlpark Botswana Gaberone Mozambique Maputo Nigeria Lagos Egypt Cairo

Areas of specialty

Davis Langdon delivers Cost Management and Project Management services as well as Management Consulting, Legal Support, Specification Consulting; Engineering Services and Banking, Tax and Finance and has expertise across a wide range of sectors, including:

1. Hotels, Sports, Culture – Hotels & resorts; Sports & venues; Culture & arts
2. Commercial – Offices; Fit-out; Business parks; Data centres
3. Transport, Infrastructure and Remediation - Transport, infrastructure & remediation; Airports; Industrial, process, distribution & manufacturing
4. Residential – Private residential; Affordable housing
5. Retail – Developers; Retailers
6. Public – Schools, Further education; Higher education; Private healthcare; Public healthcare; Administration, defence, custodial & justice; PPP/PFI

List of notable projects

Davis Langdon has worked on the following high-profile projects:

• Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
• Shard London Bridge, London, UK
• Tate Modern, London, UK
• Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
• Eastside Park regeneration, Birmingham, UK
• British Empire and Commonwealth Museum "Abolition of Slavery Exhibition", Bristol, UK
• National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, UK
• Paradise Project delivering Liverpool 1, Liverpool, UK
• The Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre at Kings Waterfront, Liverpool, UK
• Norwich Theatre Royal, Norwich, UK
• Alexandria Library, Egypt
• Beirut Central District, Lebanon
• British Council, Egypt
• British Embassy, Bahrain
• Central Bank of Kuwait
• Commercial Bank Tower, Doha, State of Qatar
• Dubai Waterfront, UAE
• Grand Egyptian Museum
• Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, UAE
• Mall of the Emirates, Dubai
• Commerzbank, Frankfurt
• Elephant House, Copenhagen Zoo
• Legoland, Germany
• Rennes Viaduct, France
• Beijing International Airport, China
• Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, China
• World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
• Hong Kong Stadium, China
• University Biological Science Building, Hong Kong, China
• Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, China
• Mainetti Factory, Shenzhen, China
• Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
• The Infinity Tower, Bangkok, Thailand
• Central World, Bangkok, Thailand
• Seoul International Finance Centre, Korea
• The Rockwell Centre, Manila, Philippines
• Adelaide Botanical Gardens, Australia
• Gateway Bridge Upgrade, Brisbane, Australia
• The Lakes Resort, Cairns, Australia
• Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, Alaska
• The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Smithsonian Institution, Patent Office Building, Washington DC, USA
• Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, USA
• Mondavi Center for the Arts, University of California, Davis, California, USA
• Baha Mar Resort, Bahamas
• Central Terminal Building, Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa
• V&A Waterfront Marina, Cape Town, South Africa

Awards

It has been the recipient of a number of industry awards including being voted Top International Construction Consultant for fifteen successive years and was named Building magazine’s Construction Consultant/Surveyor for three consecutive years. The firm was named one of the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ for four consecutive years, in 2008 was placed at number 19, and was the only project and cost management consultancy to be included in the top 50.^[4]

Davis Langdon has won the following awards in recent years:

• Building magazine’s “Consultant/ Surveyor of the Year” in 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Runners up in the top four in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2002.
• Building magazine’s “Project/Construction Manager of the Year” 2004
• World Architecture’s “Top International Cost Consultant” for 17 years in succession as voted for by the world's leading architects and their clients.
• One of the Sunday Times '100 Best Companies to Work For' for the fifth year in 2009.
• Winner in Computer Weekly’s ‘Best Places to Work in IT’ in 2005 and second place in 2006
• Davis Langdon PKS has been named one of the “Best 50 companies to work for in Ireland”
• Davis Langdon placed in twelfth position in the Management Partners’ Forum (MPF) top 100 professional services firms to work for.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Davis Langdon & Seah International: History
2. ^ Davis Langdon: History
3. ^ Mackenzie Merger
4. ^ Sunday Times (2008-03-09). "19. Davis Langdon". The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. London: The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/career_and_jobs/best_100_companies/article3477968.ece. Retrieved 2008-06-07. "A happy and motivated workforce has provided a firm base for property consultancy Davis Langdon." 

Further reading

• Meikle, Jim, Thinking Big: The History of Davis Langdon, Black Dog Publishing, 2009 ISBN 9781906155711

External links

• Official site