Adam Sewell

Adam Sewell

BEng MEng MIStructE CEng

Director and Trustee

Adam joined us in 1996 and brings nearly 30 years of distinguished practice to his engineering work across the firm.

Adam has worked on a broad range of structural and civil engineering projects. His experience encompasses a range of new buildings and complex refurbishment works that include award-winning schemes for some of the nation’s most well-known museums, art galleries and institutional buildings. He has also overseen our work at the Palace of Westminster during the last decade, ensuring we continue to provide comprehensive structural engineering advice with clarity and precision on complex and challenging sites.

He specialises in complex refurbishment works to existing sites and has delivered major and award-winning refurbishments at the Tate Britain, British Museum, the Royal Academy, the V&A, the Royal College of Music and the historic theatre at Alexandra Palace which had been closed for over 70 years, using his wide range of experience to inform the over-arching civil and structural engineering strategy and to tease out responses to site specific constraints. At Tate Britain, Adam oversaw the delivery of the Transforming Tate Britain project which opened in 2013. The knowledge he built up on this project, continues to feed into our work advising on art installations at the building and on the lawns outside Millbank.

Adam is responsible for maintaining a strategic overview of our structural engineering approach and ethos. He is also the Director who oversees the wider day-to-day management of the practice, including our highly respected in-house learning programme and the management of our buildings on Cowcross Street, London.

It is Adam’s belief that developments should be affordable and without the need for large carbon investments. With this in mind, he actively sparks discussions over opportunities for rationalising the impact of civil and structural engineering works on the environment.