Scott Wilson - Multi-Disciplinary Rail Infrastructure Consultancy

Scott Wilson Group is a global integrated design and engineering consultancy for the built and natural environments, offering strategic consultancy and multi-disciplinary professional services in the railway, buildings and infrastructure, environment and natural resources, and road sectors. With its headquarters in the UK, the Group has a worldwide network of 80 offices and over 6,000 employees.

Rail infrastructure planning, design, project management, construction supervision and asset maintenance consultancy

Scott Wilson is an international market leader in the provision of multi-disciplinary services to the railway sector worldwide, currently employing almost 600 members of staff in a company sector with a turnover of more than £60m. Approximately 70% of our turnover is based on our major multi-functional projects including West Coast Route Modernisation, London Crossrail, East London Line, modernisation of the E65 railway in Poland, the Dutch High Speed Line and Dubai Metro.

We provide consultancy services that cover all aspects of rail infrastructure planning, design, project management, construction supervision and asset maintenance across the globe.

Multi-disciplinary rail route development, light rail, station development, high-speed rail, and rail freight consultancy

Within the railway sector we are able to offer a full range of multi-disciplinary consultancy services for route development and upgrade, metro and light rail, asset maintenance and renewals, station development and upgrades, high-speed rail, design and build, and freight schemes.

Rail route development and upgrades

We have extensive experience in the design of route development and upgrade projects. Over the last five years we have been commissioned to work on every high-profile major upgrade project within the UK.

Metro and light rail multi-disciplinary consultancy

In recognition of the growing urban railway market both in the UK and overseas, Scott Wilson has established a distinct multi-disciplinary metros business unit.

To reflect the technical complexity of metro and light rail schemes we can provide a fully integrated consulting service to all parties including scheme promoters and contractors on elevated, ground level and underground railways. The unit can consult on both new and existing systems on all types of railway, including heavy rail, metro, light rail, tram and monorail.

Rail asset maintenance and renewals

Our wealth of experience relating to the maintenance and renewal of railway infrastructure assets has developed over many years with staff that can deploy the necessary multi-disciplinary skills to develop cost-effective solutions and strategies for maintaining asset performance.

Station developments and upgrades

We are able to provide a full range of services for the development of new stations or the refurbishment of existing stations, both above and below ground. We have experience of working on over 100 station schemes, enabling us to provide professional consultancy for all aspects involved in station development.

High-speed rail technical consultancy

Scott Wilson has acted as a technical adviser to lenders on many of Europe's growing high-speed rail network, providing consultancy advice on the associated engineering, economic and environmental requirements.

Rail bridge, building and tunnel design and construction

From the combined strength of Scott Wilson's wide service offering and the acquisition of Benaim Group in 2008, we are able to offer design and build services to contractors for major bridges, buildings and tunnels.

Rail freight scheme development

Scott Wilson is able to provide all the services required for the development of railway freight schemes from initial feasibility through to design and implementation

Our range of services has grown to more than 20 disciplines including:

• Civil and structural engineering including viaducts and underground structures
• Building services engineering
• Construction management
• Environmental services
• Geotechnical services
• Permanent way
• Project management
• Railway electrification and power engineering
• Safety training
• Signalling and telecommunications
• Systems engineering and technical assurance
• Trackbed investigations
• Tunneling
• Railway consultancy
• Railway operations
• Rolling stock

Our unique strength is gained from a blend of specialist multi-disciplinary railway engineering skills and from the extensive breadth of planning, environment and management expertise available from within the Scott Wilson Group.