About us
Cundall Johnston & Partners LLP/Cundall is an independent, multi-disciplinary consulting practice with operations across the globe.
Established in 1976, Cundall’s engineering expertise, coupled with creativity, innovation and a deep-rooted understanding of people and communities, has allowed us to develop the best possible solutions for our clients’ projects for 50 years.
Sustainability is integral to our approach. We provide our clients with practical advice and solutions, which reduce the environmental impact of developments, provide better spaces for people and add value for the wider community.
28
Locations globally
50+
Countries projects delivered in
1300
People worldwide
500+
Awards won
1976
Established
2030
All projects will meet our zero carbon design criteria
Cundall award wins 2024-2025
Our practice has been sharing the engineering excellence, sustainability-driven innovative and collaborative solutions we prioritise just as much as ever in the past year.
We are proud to have received a huge number of accolades this year, including consultancy of the year, recognition for many of our multi-disciplinary projects, and the impact we are having in creating a more sustainable built environment. Several individuals have also been recognised for their contribution to our industry, at all levels, from Intern to Partner.
Here, we highlight just a few stand out achievements from around the world and the hard work that brought them about.
MEP awards 2024, MEP Consultancy of the Year
Cundall has been named MEP Consultancy of the Year at the MEP awards.
Our sustainability journey
2026 marks our 50th anniversary, and we are proud to look back on half a century of pioneering sustainability - across both our projects and our practice. From the very beginning, sustainability has been central to who we are, rooted in the belief of Geoffrey Cundall and our founding partners that engineering can be a force for good.
Cundall was first established in Newcastle and Edinburgh, later expanding to include a London office. Alongside the original four disciplines, sustainability (known at the time as low energy design) quickly became a key part of Cundall’s design philosophy. The early 2000s, saw our business expand its horizons with further offices in the UK and our first overseas team in Sydney, Australia. Since then, Cundall’s 28 offices continued to spread between Australia and Newcastle. What began as a small British consultancy 50 years ago has grown into a global community of over 1,300 people, all united by a shared purpose – to engineer a better, more sustainable world.
Our One Planet Once Chance Roadmap, based on our endorsement as a One Planet Company in 2012, led us to be one of the first engineering consultancies to be certified carbon neutral by the Carbon Trust in 2018 and highlighted the scale of impact we can have through our projects.
Our ZCD2030 commitment means that all designers and consultants and Cundall work collectively towards decarbonising their projects and that we are aligning our designs with the Paris Agreement’s decarbonisation trajectory.
In 2024 and 2025, we refreshed our materiality assessment from 2022 and drafted the next iteration of our One Planet One Chance Roadmap. This draft is currently under review and will be published in 2026.
Our purpose as a business is to create opportunities for our people and sustainable solutions for the planet.
Our values
2025
December: Cundall received a ‘C’ rating for our first global CDP Submission. November: We signed up for the United Nations Global Compact. August: Our operational Net Zero Targets were formally validated by the Science-Based Targets initiative.
2024
Cundall appointed an ESG director
Cundall refines our Zero Carbon Design Milestone and will begin to capture emissions data for all our design project from the end of 2025 onwards.
2022
Cundall conducted a materiality review, laying the groundwork for a new and comprehensive sustainability strategy
2021
Cundall has committed to achieving net zero carbon on all its projects by 2030. The pledge recognises the critical need for practical, science-led action to transition all buildings, infrastructure, and human settlements to net zero carbon as rapidly as possible.
2018
Cundall proudly launched an updated sustainability roadmap, featuring targets for 2020 and 2025 in alignment with One Planet Living principles. The company also attained certification as carbon neutral by the Carbon Trust.
2012
Cundall achieved the distinction of being the world's first consultancy formally endorsed as a One Planet Company by the sustainability charity Bioregional. This milestone coincided with the introduction of our initial Sustainability Roadmap in 2012.
2010
Cundall issued its first Sustainability Report, purchasing carbon credits to offset our carbon footprint
2009
All Cundall partners sign the Sustainability Policy.