About
At Source Design Services we believe our people are our greatest asset and their progression is our success.
I started at Source Design Services in 2016 as a CAD Engineer.The team made me feel welcome and valued from the first day. I worked on a multitude of interesting schemes such as the undergrounding of electrical cables for UKPN at Thorpe to Trowse substations, I was then promoted into a new role in 2018 as Civil Engineer within the team delivering electrical strengthening and customer connection schemes for UKPN. In 2022 I was promoted again to be Lead Designer . I have been supported by the SDS Management team through my employment both at team level and also through continued professional development (CPD). I have particularly enjoyed working in motivated team to deliver complex designs.
Lorena Ruiz
Lead Designer
Meet the people behind the work
Rob Campbell
Business Director
Rob Campbell
Business Director
I joined McNicholas in 2007 as Multi- Utility Business Manager, setting up and running a thriving consultancy and connections business. A two-year secondment as Head of Design for McNicholas at the London 2012 project gave me an invaluable insight into the critical importance of design to the success of a major project. In 2015 I was made Business Director of Source Design Services and built the business to a turnover of £8m p.a. McNicholas was then purchased by in 2018 and the SDS business retained and continuing to thrive serving both internal and external clients.
Michael Stockdale
Head of Design
Michael Stockdale
Head of Design
Having worked for a leading distribution network operator (DNO) for over 23 years , I took the opportunity to join Source Design Services (SDS) at the beginning of 2016 to create a design team to deliver electrical schemes for the newly formed UKPN alliance framework. My design team has successfully managed to deliver multiple schemes which involved complex trenchless installation techniques including horizontal directional drilling and micro-tunnelling. I have also successfully led the design team for a major infrastructure project for RAF from 2019 to 2022. I was promoted to Head of Design in early 2022 and have successfully managed our utility design teams including obtaining and retaining our NERS, WIRS and GIRS accreditations. I really enjoy working with our team here at SDS who are energetic and constantly finding innovative ways of finding design solutions to the challenges we face. Our leadership team are proactive and always support each other to reach our goals.
Kaitlin Weir
Quantity Surveyor
Kaitlin Weir
Quantity Surveyor
I started my career as a Graduate Engineer after one-year work placement for ITM Soil where I contributed to a number of Crossrail projects. I joined Source Design Services as a Civil Design Engineer in 2014 after completing my BSc in Civil Engineering with Sustainability at Brunel University.
My long term career goal is to be a professionally qualified engineer with multidisciplinary experience in the rail engineering sector and Source Design Services are supporting me through the process toward chartership. I am now studying towards a master’s degree in Project and Infrastructure Management.
Andrew Stanley
Operations Manager
Andrew Stanley
Operations Manager
I started my career as an apprentice Site Engineer for a national civil engineering company based in Warwick, working in a variety of construction roles to develop my capabilities. After joining McNicholas in 1998 working on a water maintenance contract for Seven Trent Water, I joined the Planning/ Design Department as a Design Manager. McNicholas then started a Multi- Utility Consultancy and Connections business for which I was Operations Manager. In 2018 I was promoted to Head of Construction for Source Design Services.
Emily Smith
Quantity Surveyor
Emily Smith
Quantity Surveyor
I joined SDS from the Rail Business within the Kier Group and have been working on our utility framework with HS2. It is a close knit team who are keen to support one another and my experience on one the largest infrastructure projects in the UK has been invaluable in aiding my professional development and my colleagues have been supporting me in my route to chartership.
Meirion Edwards
Head of Consultancy
Meirion Edwards
Head of Consultancy
SDS recently welcomed Meirion Edwards as its new Head of Consultancy. With over 30 years of experience in utilities design and planning, Meirion brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the team.
Meirion has worked for a variety of utility and consultancy companies such as Thames Water , Peter Brett Associates and DBK culminating in running his own consultancy for 13 years
Throughout his career, Meirion has been crucial in supporting numerous blue-chip developers in delivering residential, mixed-use, regeneration, and strategic schemes across the UK.
Some notable projects he has been involved in include the Kings Cross Regeneration, Kidbrooke Village SE3, and various high-rise developments in central London.
The skills, diversity and multigenerational knowledge of our people drive the development of the designs that transform what, and how our clients benefit from our services.
How We Work
We have an unwavering focus on fully understanding the needs of our clients and delivering results, regardless of the scale or complexity of the challenge.
Consultancy
From feasibility studies for potential land purchase through to ensuring best value from the statutory utility companies our consultancy team headed by Meirion Edwards will work with your teams to deliver a complete service.
We provide all aspects of your requirements in relation to procurement of utilities for your project. Our decades of experience in the complex legislative frameworks that govern utilities allow us procure challenge and ultimately make sure that you receive the best solution both from an engineering and value perspective. At SDS we can manage the entire process of utility procurement or bring our expertise to a particular aspect of the project as required.
Working with our colleagues in design and construction we also able to offer an integrated service designing your utilities via our LRQA designers and delivering the infrastructure build via our LRQA accredited construction business
Design
SDS have a experienced team of designers that will design the entirety of your utility network. We are accredited by LRQA to design water WIRS, gas GIRS, electrical NERS and telecommunications infrastructure and our BIM enabled designs ensure that the pain is taken out of co-ordinating the designs. We have a extensive portfolio of over two hundred schemes from the London Olympic Park Multi-Utility design Southbank Place for Canary Wharf Contractors to Euston Station Multi-Utility Design for Costain Skanska. We also have the in house capability to provide your supporting requirements civil design , temporary works designs and traffic management design to enable your scheme.
Delivery
We have the capability, experience and qualifications to construct your utility infrastructure Accredited under LRQA to deliver Water WIRS, Electrical (NERS) , Gas (GIRS) and Telecommunications infrastructure we have been constructing utility networks for our clients for over a decade. We will work with the chosen utility supplier and ensure that the networks that we construct are seamlessly adopted by either the statutory utility provider or the supplier of your choice.
With decades of experience in the utility contracting world we understand the requirements of the utility companies and it is this experience that allows us to ensure that the service we provide is exemplary.
Technology & Innovation
Seamless integration between surveying, design and construction
BIM stage 2 capability
Source have the capability to integrate seamlessly with your project’s BIM requirements having worked in a virtual space on major infrastructure projects such as the Olympics and Bank Station Capacity Upgrade we will derive the BIM Execution Plan in relation to our works and collaborate with yourselves to deliver to your requirements.
Intelligent Surveying
Technologies such as Ground Probing Radar (GPR) and LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) enable us to effectively map above and below ground assets to incredible Source will take this Intelligent Surveying information and use it to derive the most effective solution for your project, as Source owns this process it enables a continuity from feasibility to detailed design
Autodesk Civil 3D
Source’s design capability is backed by its utilisation of the latest software, we work closely with our partners Bentley and Autodesk to ensure that our offer is enhanced with the latest technology in the marketplace. We use both Microstation and Autodesk software backed by our capacity to collate our data and models into a BIM environment. The transfer of this information for survey to design to as built is crucial to our clients and their continuing asset maintenance.
Mapping the Underground
Utility strikes are a major concern in our industry with the potential to cause injury and huge project delay. Source are enthusiastic about the introduction of PAS128 as it sets out the accuracy to which the data are captured, the quality expected of those data and a means by which to assess and indicate the confidence that can be placed in data. Source are involved in Mapping the Underground a continuing forum for innovation in asset mapping.
As a BIM Manager for SDS I am passionate about the ability of BIM to drive efficiencies and reduction of rework in construction. I particularly enjoy working with designers in our disciplines in a common data environment to come to the best design for the project.
Sileshi Tesma
BIM Manager
Sustainability & Social Responsiblity
Building for a sustainable world
At SDS, our purpose is to provide sustainable infrastructure solutions. Our commitment revolves around three foundational pillars, each contributing to a more sustainable world.
The first of our strategic pillars is that we aim to build a supply chain and workforce for the future. Secondly, we are striving to make a positive difference in our local communities and thirdly we have an environmental responsibility to improve our current and future environment.
By adhering to these principles SDS aims to prioritise all of its people and support ethical labour, enable social mobility and make social impact, and finally participate in building a sustainable future through supporting climate action and prioritising resource efficiency. SDS will be a driving force in building a future that is not only economically viable but also environmentally and socially responsible.
Carbon Reduction is a crucial function of a effective contemporary design business. it is at the design stage that carbon reduction technologies can be harnessed and specified for the delivery stage
Business Director
