Bennett Freehill is one of the UK and Ireland’s leading Building Services and Sustainability Engineering Consultancies providing sustainable, multi-disciplined design services. We are qualified Passivhaus and NZEB Designers and provide Commissioning Management and BREEAM Assessments services.

Established in 1999 and rebranded in 2020, Bennett Freehill provides a quality, client focused and professional mechanical, electrical and niche sustainability engineering design service, delivering pioneering and award-winning projects such as DAERA Headquarters, Giants Causeway Visitors Centre and more recently South West College Erne Campus, UKAEA Nuclear Materials Research Facility and the Redevelopment of two CAFRE Agricultural College campuses.

We take immense pride in all of our projects and in 2021 were very proud to have delivered the South West College Erne Campus in Northern Ireland – the world’s first educational Passivhaus Premium rated building and the first UK building to achieve both Passivhaus Premium status and BREEAM outstanding accreditation. This project has been recognised as one of 26 UN Centres of Excellence for High Performance Buildings around the world and is the 2022 RICS Awards UK Project of the Year.

The business remains focused on innovative new ideas and embraces advancements in digital engineering allowing us to implement cutting edge design solutions and respond to ever-increasing legislative and regulatory requirements for new and existing buildings.

We work in collaboration with architects and professional design teams, D&B contractors and M&E sub contractors, providing innovative and practical sustainable engineering solutions of the highest quality and standard to create outstanding buildings for our clients.

Our talented team, led by Managing Partner Cormac Freehill, bring their passion, expertise and personality to every project.

Our in-house team consists of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Vertical Transport Engineers, Building Physics Engineers, Certified Passivhaus / NZEB Designers, Certified Commissioning Managers, BREEAM Assessors and BIM Professionals.

We are focused on creating a fun and rewarding environment for our team, allowing us to nurture and retain the most dynamic and technically accomplished talent in the industry. This has been recognised by winning two 2023 Irish News Workplace & Employment Awards ‘Best Place to Work (SME)’ and ‘Best Wellbeing in the Workplace Strategy (SME)’. This culture ensures we deliver pioneering, pragmatic MEP design excellence for our clients and colleagues.