'Our success is based on our ability to deliver projects on time and on budget': Belfast engineering firm working on five major build to rent developments in England totalling over 5,000 homes

A Belfast building services engineering practice is now working on five of Birmingham’s biggest build to rent developments totalling more than 5,000 homes and all offering first-class amenities.

Most recently, Tate Consulting’s Belfast office has been appointed to work on a new development comprising of 456 apartments that will be delivered in a joint venture between McLaren Living and HEIM Global on Kent Street. Winvic Construction has been appointed as the principal contractor and construction is expected to complete in 2029.

Tate Consulting also recently completed work on the first phase of Moda Living and Calthorpe Estates’ 11-acre New Garden Square masterplan in Edgbaston. Known as Loudon's Yard, the scheme has already delivered 398 apartments, along with 14,000 sq ft of amenities including a gym, private dining room, co-working space and communal gardens.

Tate Consulting is now working on the second phase of the masterplan with the first of the buildings coming forward being a 37-storey tower with 462 apartments. Once complete, the residential-led New Garden Square urban community will deliver £6m of public realm, 2,400 new homes, office and retail space and more.

In Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, Tate Consulting is also working on Moda’s Great Charles Street development. Earlier this summer, Moda, alongside construction partner Sisk and a funding joint venture led by Apache Capital and its investors Harrison Street and NFU Mutual, saw the development top out. The finance deal for the scheme was the largest ever seen in a UK regional city for a build to rent development which will offer 722 apartments across three blocks ranging from six to 39- storeys.

Construction work has also commenced at Stone Yard in Digbeth after Moda and Aviva Capital Partners recently secured a major funding deal with NatWest, Homes England and the West Midlands Combined Authority to bring phase one of the landmark £200m community to life. Tate Consulting is providing a full range of MEP services on the transformational development, which will see Caddick Construction build 605 homes in its first phase, with a later phase bringing the total number of homes to 995.

Jim Lee, a director from Tate Consulting in Belfast explained: “Although we work across all sectors, throughout the UK and Europe, we have a vast amount of experience working on residential towers and we’re currently involved with some of the tallest residential buildings outside London, including developments in Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester, delivering thousands of much needed homes.

“This is particularly true in Birmingham where we’re involved with five major developments that will offer more than 5,000 high quality homes.

“A large part of our success in Birmingham is based on our ability to deliver projects on time and on budget, as well as correctly interpreting the client brief and always collaborating with the wider team at all project stages to add value, identify efficiencies and consistently deliver high performing MEP solutions.”

Tate Consulting is providing a range of commercial engineering solutions across the five developments including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP), from concept design to project handover and post-occupancy evaluation, as well as vertical transportation, building physics, fire engineering services, sustainability and building performance assessments.

Yorkshire headquartered Tate Consulting opened in Belfast in 2021 and now employs more than 10 people close to Belfast City Airport in the Belmont Office Park on Belmont Road. The company plans to expand further in Belfast at the start of next year and is currently recruiting for mechanical and electrical engineers at all levels.