Engineering consultants celebrating anniversary

NEWCASTLE company that has grown to have offices around the world and been involved in a number of landmark global developments is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

- GRAEME WHITFIELD

Engineering consultancy Cundall launched in Newcastle in 1976 and now has 29 offices around the world, employing more than 1,300 people.

As well as working on local projects including Eldon Square, Pilgrim's Quarter and the Theatre Royal, the company helped deliver facilities for the 2012 London Olympics and the retrofitting of the famous Palm House at Kew Gardens in London.

The £95m-turnover business which has operations in Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Europe, as well as eight sites in the UK last year moved from its longtime base at Gosforth's Regent Centre to a new headquarters in the Bank House development.