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Pick Everard
	Pick Everard Headquarters, Leicester
Formerly	Pick Everard, Keay and Gimson
Company type	Subsidiary of Artelia
Industry	Construction, Consultancy, Real Estate
Founded	1866
Founders	John Breedon Everard and Samuel Perkins Pick
Headquarters	Leicester, United Kingdom
Number of locations	15
Area served	United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Key people	Duncan Green, Managing Partner
Number of employees	648
Website	www.pickeverard.co.uk

Pick Everard is a UK-based multi-disciplinary consultancy, operating primarily in the built environment. The company was founded in Leicester in 1866 as an engineering and architectural practice. It has since grown to become a national practice with over 600 employees and 15 UK offices including a head office in Leicester and offices in Glasgow, London, Cardiff and Manchester.

History

Pick Everard was founded by John Breedon Everard, a civil engineer in 1866 at 6 Millstone Lane, Leicester. Samuel Perkins Pick, an architect joined John Breedon Everard as his assistant in 1882 and as a partner in 1888.^[1]^[2]

John Breedon Everard was the son of Breedon Everard, the joint founder of the quarrying and mining business Ellis and Everard Ltd (later Aggregate Industries). He was the nephew of the brewer William Everard and in 1875 he designed a new tower brewery for Everards Brewery at Southgate St, Leicester.^[3]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Bernard Everard (son of John Breedon Everard) became a partner of the firm, which changed its name to Everard, Son and Pick. William Keay, a civil engineer who worked for Everard, Son and Pick became a partner circa 1920 and in 1925, Martin Gimson, a civil engineer became the fourth partner, changing the firm's name to Pick, Everard, Keay and Gimson.^[4] The company today is called Pick Everard.

In October 2024, 700-strong Pick Everard was acquired by Artelia, a French project management and cost consultant. Artelia had previously acquired Birmingham-based Austin Newport Group in 2020, and Suffolk-based Castons in March 2024. With Pick Everard, Artelia now had almost 1,000 UK staff, and 9,700 staff worldwide.^[5]

Services

The company's services include: advisory services; architecture; BIM consultancy; building surveying; building services engineering; civil engineering; cost consultancy and quantity surveying; environmental consultancy; facilities management consultancy; health and safety consultancy; interior design; landscape architecture; project management; structural engineering; sustainability and energy consultancy; and water engineering (including hydraulic modelling).^[6]

Office locations

The company has offices in Birmingham, Bristol (city and Bradley Stoke), Bury St Edmunds, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield.^[7]

Awards and recognition

RICS Social Impact Awards: Education Award 2020 East^[8]
Association of Consulting Engineers (ACE) Awards: Best UK Business Performance (Large Organisation) Award 2019^[9]
Celebrating Construction Awards: Integration and Collaborative Working Award 2019 and Value Award 2019^[10]
NEC Awards: Client of the Year – Highly Commended 2019^[11]
SPACES Awards: Young Visionary Awards – Highly Commended x 2 2019 ^[12]

References

^ "1905. Samuel Perkins Pick FRIBA 1905-06". Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. LLPS. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
^ "Arts & Crafts in Leicester". Ernest Gimson and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Leicester. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
^ "History". Everards. 1875: Southgate Street Brewery Opened.
^ Records of the firm, deposited per Mr T.W. Haird, in 1962 7 Friar Lane, Leicester. "Pick, Everard, Keay & Gimson, civil engineers". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/. Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU: The National Archives. Retrieved 26 December 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Morby, Aaron (29 October 2024). "French PM and cost consultant Artelia buys Pick Everard". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
^ "Services". Pick Everard. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
^ "Contact". Pick Everard. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
^ "RICS Awards". www.rics.org. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
^ "Construction industry women take centre stage at Consultancy and Engineering Awards". Infrastructure Intelligence. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
^ "Awards Winners' Database – Constructing Excellence". 9 August 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
^ "NEC4 Winners". 13 January 2021.
^ "SPACES Awards 2019 - Young Visionary Winners". SPACES – Society for Public Architecture, Construction, Engineering and Surveying. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2021.