50 Years of Beautiful Engineering

What is Beautiful Engineering to you?

A sunlit office that’s just the right temperature. A museum where even the ventilation grilles are elegantly detailed. Perhaps a classroom where the teacher can be heard but the road outside can’t. Or maybe you find satisfaction in a well planned plant room.

We are Max Fordham and we bring buildings to life with beautiful engineering.


198 CAL wins retrofit award!

We are delighted that 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning has been named among the winners of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2023. The awards, hosted…

Cockpit Studios retrofit: Construction underway at Deptford site

Construction is underway for Cockpit’s transformation of their maker space in Creekside, Deptford. The designs include a dramatic opening-up…

Now extended! The exhibition celebrating our founder Max will run until 19 April

We are excited to announce that the exhibition celebrating the life and work of our founder, Max, has been extended! The exhibition, at the…

11 prizes at the Greater Cambridge Design and Construction Awards!

We are delighted to have had our best-ever year at the Greater Cambridge Design and Construction Awards – taking home 11 awards. Our projects…

A problem shared is a problem halved

Stress, the final frontier. We are all facing pressure from seemingly every angle right now, on the back of a persistent fatigue plaguing many…

Q&A with Mark Palmer, Director and Edinburgh Office Leader

Last month, Mark Palmer (our Edinburgh Office Leader) was interviewed by Urban Realm for their annual Engineering Survey. Mark wrote about the…

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Remembering Max

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Net Zero Carbon Guide

Latest Opportunity

CALLING ALL EXPERIENCED ENGINEERS AND SPECIALIST CONSULTANTS – LONDON, CAMBRIDGE, MANCHESTER, BRISTOL AND EDINBURGH

London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh or Manchester


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Featured Project

The Courtauld Institute of Art