We’re the property and construction consultancy where every discipline works together without barriers. It leads to the best possible results for our clients and comes from a simple philosophy: finding the better way.
How do we do it? By bringing together individual expertise to achieve collective excellence.
We support you from first ideas to final delivery, providing expert guidance at every stage of your project.
With proven experience across multiple sectors, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities each one presents.
Public sector organisations can access our expertise through a range of national and regional framework agreements, providing a compliant and efficient route to appoint McBains for consultancy services.
Blackpool, Lancashire
A purpose-built office building for staff of the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) in the heart of Blackpool town centre.
Services
Project Management, Building Services Engineering, Civil & Structural Engineering, Architecture
Sectors
Office & Commercial, Civic & Government, Regeneration & Urban Development
Brighton, East Sussex
Stage 1 of the major 3Ts Redevelopment to deliver a modern, clinically-renowned and world-leading teaching hospital.
Services
Cost Management, Project Management, Clerk of Works / NEC Supervisor
Sectors
Healthcare
Rugby, Warwickshire
McBains was appointed for Phase 1B of Symmetry Park Rugby; a 111-acre site with planning permission for 2million square feet of logistics space.
Services
Cost Management
Sectors
Industrial & Logistics
Luton, Bedfordshire
Feasibility study to transform Luton Central Library into a mixed-use community hub with active frontages, aligned to town centre programme.
Services
Architecture, Civil & Structural Engineering, Cost Management
Sectors
Civic & Government, Retail
Culham, Oxfordshire
Multi-disciplinary design services for a new office building for UKAEA and Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP).
Services
Architecture, Civil & Structural Engineering, Sustainability & ESG, Digital Engineering (BIM), Cost Management, Building Services Engineering, Health & Safety
Sectors
Office & Commercial, Science & Technology
Limassol, Cyprus
Construction of beachfront complex development.
Wellingborough, N. Northants
Up to 1000 new homes together with an employment area, sports pitches, extensive green infrastructure and associated highway network.
Services
Housing & Masterplanning
Sectors
Residential
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Extensive refurbishment across 8 floors of a high-rise office development to create a new northern headquarters for NatWest.
Services
Cost Management
Sectors
Office & Commercial, Retrofit
Harlow, Essex
Regeneration scheme to create new western gate-way to Harlow town centre with new arts facilities, residential homes & enhanced public realm.
Services
Architecture, Civil & Structural Engineering, Building Services Engineering, Sustainability & ESG, Cost Management, Project Management, Health & Safety, Clerk of Works / NEC Supervisor
Sectors
Civic & Government, Residential, Hotel & Leisure, Regeneration & Urban Development
Various, UK
Trusted consultant since the 1980s, providing QS, PM & EA services to the management, maintenance & development of SEGRO's property portfolio.
Services
Cost Management, Employer's Agent, Project Management
Sectors
Office & Commercial, Industrial & Logistics
Halkidiki, Greece
Upscale renovation programme of the Ikos Oceania, a 5-star luxury hotel resort in Nea Moudania, northern Greece.
Services
Project Monitoring & Due Diligence
Sectors
Hotel & Leisure
Southwark, Central London
Mixed use development, across three towers up to 27 storeys high, within the Elephant & Castle regeneration zone.
Services
Cost Management, Building Services Engineering, Project Management, Sustainability & ESG, Architecture
Sectors
Residential, Hotel & Leisure, Retail
Blackpool, Lancashire
A new divisional headquarters building for Lancashire Constabulary on the outskirts of Blackpool.
Services
Building Services Engineering, Sustainability & ESG, Civil & Structural Engineering, Architecture, Digital Engineering (BIM)
Sectors
Civic & Government, Blue Light, Office & Commercial
Piraeus, Greece
The renovation of the landmark Piraeus Tower - Greece’s second tallest building.
Services
Asset Management, Project Monitoring & Due Diligence
Sectors
Office & Commercial, Hotel & Leisure, Retail
Battersea, Greater London
We provided project monitoring services to a consortium of funders for Phases 1, 2 and 3 of works on the iconic, Grade II* listed Power Station.
Services
Project Monitoring & Due Diligence
Sectors
Residential, Hotel & Leisure, Office & Commercial, Regeneration & Urban Development, Retail
From soaring labour costs and record insolvencies to booming data centres, tighter Building Safety Regulator oversight and rising inflation forecasts, McBains’ latest Construction Market Report reveals the risks, opportunities and game-changing shifts reshaping the industry through 2026 and beyond.
Contact: Colin McCaffrey, Director of Cost Management
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