Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd
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| Limited Company | |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Dorking, United Kingdom |
Number of locations | 10 |
Key people | Neil McDougall, Managing Director |
| Products | Systems and Engineering Technology |
| Revenue | £ 42.7 million (2012) |
Number of employees | 600 (2014) |
| Website | www.fnc.co.uk |
Frazer-Nash Consultancy is a professional services firm providing engineering, project management, and procurement advice. The company is based in Dorking, United Kingdom, and has ten other office locations around the country. It was founded in 1971 within the now-defunct Frazer-Nash Group, and is now fully owned by Babcock International Group plc. As of October 2014 it employed 600 people.
History
Frazer-Nash Consultancy was formed in 1971 as an element of the Frazer-Nash Group of companies. Computational methods for engineering analysis were becoming popular at this time, and the purpose of the Consultancy was to provide this service for the other group companies, which at this time produced a portfolio of products ranging from missile launch systems to postal sorting equipment.
When the Frazer-Nash Group went into receivership at the end of 1990, the Consultancy was bought by a group of its own senior managers. Over the next fourteen years the company expanded rapidly, opening a number of new offices and adding safety engineering to the existing core skills in analysis and design.
In 2004 the company was acquired by Devonport Management Limited (DML), partly to ensure that DML could retain ongoing access to Frazer-Nash’s nuclear engineering capability.[1] DML was subsequently acquired by Babcock International,[2] and Frazer-Nash was re-assigned to Babcock Marine.
Frazer-Nash Consultancy is now an autonomously operating element of Babcock Marine. The company retains its own profit and loss account, and is responsible for its own business planning and growth.
The company now has 10 offices, Bristol, Burton-on-Trent, Dorchester, Dorking, Glasgow, Gloucester, Plymouth, Warrington and Australian offices in Adelaide and Melbourne.
Operations
The company serves a number of engineering sectors, providing engineering analysis, procurement support, design, and safety case support:
Recent projects
Some projects that Frazer-Nash have worked on include:
- Working with UK Sport developing training aids for athletes[3]
- Independent auditor for Merlin Life Assessment Programme[4]
- Design of software tool to aid Airbus designers[5]
- Development of equipment to aid rehabilitation of soldiers[6]
- Framework contract with the Environment Agency as part of its quality checking activities for radiological waste[7]
- Ongoing work on the Royal Navy CVF Project[8]
- Engineering support to the development of a Formula One hospitality suite[9]
- Independent advice to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) in its review of safety aspects of designs for the UK's new generation of nuclear reactors[10]
- Appointed by the Hyundai Rotem Company to assess the crashworthiness of new trains in South Korea[11]
- Completed work on gas turbine exhaust replacement for BP's Bruce platform[12]
Professional accreditation
Frazer-Nash is accredited to provide training and professional development with the following institutions:
- Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- The Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Royal Aeronautical Society
- Royal Institution of Naval Architects
- Institute of Physics
Notes
- ↑ DML acquires Frazer-Nash Consultancy
- ↑ Babcock to buy Devonport for £350m
- ↑ Frazer-Nash announced as Innovation Partner to UK Sport
- ↑ Frazer-Nash receives safety contract for Merlin upgrade
- ↑ Software tools helping Airbus designers see through complexity
- ↑ Professional Engineer - Fighting Fit
- ↑ Frazer-Nash set to support EA's waste checking activities
- ↑ Frazer-Nash awarded Aircraft Carrier Contract
- ↑ Ferrari shows off its new motorhome
- ↑ Frazer-Nash Assess Reactor Safety
- ↑ Collision Analysis Experts Appointed for Train Project
- ↑ Frazer-Nash Support to BP Bruce Platform Project