BSP Consulting

Double Award Success

 We are thrilled to share news of double award success with BSP Consulting’s project ‘On Freedom’s Wings’. At the Greater Lincolnshire Construction and Property Awards 2026, organised by the Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce the life-size statue of the Lancaster Bomber won “Tourism & Leisure Project” of the year. Then, just a couple of weeks later, at the East Midlands IStructE Awards, it was named “Best New Project”.

A very proud team, we’re so happy to be involved with this once in a lifetime project.

Celebrating Chesterfield

 We spent an inspiring morning at the Celebrate Chesterfield Business Conference and Expo 2026 at the Winding Wheel Theatre in March. On a stand close to Stepnell Staveley Town Deal, Chesterfield Borough Council and Destination Chesterfield it was great to hear about the aspirations for Chesterfield to become a cultural destination and how the Staveley relief Road corridor will bring 3,500 homes to the area.

Chesterfield is set to receive almost £20 million of investment through the Government’s Pride in Place programme, designed to help communities shape their own future and improve the places they live.

Mock Interviews at Fernwood School

On the theme of supporting young people and creating positive social value, it was a pleasure to join Willmott Dixon recently for mock interviews at Fernwood School.

BSP’s Business Development Manager, Carrie Booth, joined Abi May and Terry Downes from Wilmott Dixon and spoke to some very talented students who were practicing for the world of work.

Thank you Louise

After 20 years supporting the BSP Consulting team with PR, award entries, newsletters and all round excellent story-telling, we say a fond farewell to Louise Duffield from Perfect 10 PR who retired in January. Thank you to Louise for supporting us for all these years, you will be much missed and we wish you all the best for your retirement.

New Starters

 We’ve welcomed several new starters to the BSP team over the last couple of months, as well as making some big promotions for three new directors.

Based in our Leicester office Jack Wellings started with the Traffic & Transportation team. Andrew Meehan joined as a Senior Structural Engineer and Joe Walker Structural Engineer returned to the Structures team, both based in our Derby Office.

Following Louise’s retirement, Rachael van Oudheusden from Big Old House took over as our PR consultant supporting us with PR, awards and newsletters.

Vacancies

We’re expanding our civil and structural teams in Derby and Nottingham with a number of new roles available. Find out more details on our careers page.

Nottingham Women in Construction

Newly promoted Director of Civils, Carol Ell and our structural engineering apprentice Charlotte Taylor joined a sold-out audience at Nottingham Women in Construction’s spring luncheon. The audience of property and construction professionals representing all disciplines across the sector, were inspired by a presentation from Devello Group’s Managing Director, Shruti Trivedi about her career in property law, navigating preconceptions and expecting the unexpected.

The next event is a summer gathering at Binks Yard on 3^rd June. To sign up or find out about future events, follow their page on LinkedIn.

Launch of Leicestershire Growth Plan

Our Business Development Manager, Carrie Booth attended the launch of the Leicester and Leicestershire Tourism Growth plan 2026-2032 at Jewry Wall Museum, organised by Visit Leicester where an enthusiastic audience heard from a range of speakers followed by a tour of the Jewry Wall, a renovation project BSP is proud to have been involved with.

Erika Hardy, Chair of the LVEP-Board talked about opportunities for public private sector collaboration. City Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, spoke about championing the city and wider county, to raise the economic value of the visitor economy to £2.5 billion and Zafar Saleem, Assistant Chief Executive of Leicestershire County Council shared the County’s response to welcoming 32.4 million visitors to the region.

Lady Victoria Borwick, Visit England Advisory Board Chair discussed the national outlook and how pride in place is so important, while Mike Denby, Director of Investment and Place Marketing gave the closing remarks and how local government re-organisation will affect change.

We look forward to hearing more and to find out how we can get further involved.

AI in the Built Environment

Members of the team joined an insightful breakfast event by ProCon Nottinghamshire held at Cleaver & Wake ran through how AI can make tasks easier and help us in our day-to-day work.

With a range of speakers and an expert panel including Procon Nottinghamshire Chair, Emma Atkins from Pulse Consult, Chris Clarke, Strategy and Service Improvement Director at Arc Partnership, James Garner, Head of AI and Data at Gleeds and Jonathan Williams, Partner at Xerini, the event explored how AI is positively impacting productivity in organisations, what the future holds and how the sector can embrace the opportunities it presents.

Base 51 Power in Partnerships Awards

 Invited by Langroft, the BSP Consulting team enjoyed a great night at Manhatta in alongside Devello Group, Arc Business Interiors, Futures, Stat planning, architects IMA and 24:3 celebrating the Power in Partnerships Awards.

Base 51, a local youth charity that has been working with 11-24 year olds for over 30 years, once again hosted its annual awards ceremony, to shine a light on the amazing work being done by charities, individuals and local business to support vulnerable people in the East Midlands.

To find out more and see how you can get involved visit Base 51.

Lincoln Business Shows Expo

The team headed to Lincoln join sponsors and organisers, Team Lincolnshire, for the Business Shows Group expo, to hear about the construction procurement opportunities, sponsored and organised by Team Lincolnshire. We look forward to seeing more infrastructure improvements unlock future development opportunities for the region.

Celebrating 24/3’s 5th Anniversary

As people who have been part of their journey since the beginning, members of the BSP team joined architects 24/Three in celebrating their 5th business birthday at Loose Ends in Nottingham. Great to celebrate your achievements to date, we wish you all the very best for the next five.

Newark Creative Quarter

 Influence Landscape Planning and Design hosted us for the latest Newark Creative Quarter at their Millgate office. It was a great opportunity for local networking and to hear from Millgate Conservation Society and Aspbury Planning & Heritage about the Newark area, planning updates and the Pride in Place Programme, which will see an expected £19.5 million invested into the town over the next decade.

Nottingham Rugby Construction Night Team Outing 

Organised by our MD Carl Hilton, Jason Davenport, Dan Gillen, Tom Hall, Dan Hinchley, Niall Davie, Thanos Fotiou, Ki Mclaren and Dave Miller joined the Construction night, they all enjoyed the event and had a few conversations with others from the industry.