About Us

With almost three decades experience, we’ve built up an amazing team of surveyors and project managers who are client focussed, offering bespoke solutions as we recognise every project is unique.

We get to know our clients and their requirements, developing meaningful relationships that help us provide the best results.

We are pledging more time to environmental and sustainable governance in the way we work and with our clients. We are ISO certified, a member of the UK Green Building Council and have set our net zero targets for 2030.

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Our purpose

To work in partnership with our clients to conserve and enhance the built environment in a way that protects and improves the health of people and the planet.

Our vision

To be recognised as a forward thinking, employee owned, market leading commercial practise with our ESG factors embedded into our advice and projects. To become known as the UKs go-to building consultancy and project management practise.

We also work to a set of core values that are the principles, behaviours and beliefs that are at the heart of our business and drive our business decisions:

  • We are proactive and responsive.
  • We are collaborative and promote a team ethic.
  • We are pioneering through our use of technology and willing to evolve.
  • We are approachable and sociable.

Our journey

In September 2022, we became employee-owned trust, which means our people have a controlling interest in Trident and its future. We believe it is important to listen to our people and we encourage everyone at Trident to have their say and get involved. We have created various committees that feed into our senior directors, ensuring all voices are heard. The committees are voluntary, meaning everyone can get involved, from across all areas of the business, bringing together a plethora of experience and knowledge.

1998
  • Roger Watts, Trevor Dowd and Matt Clare create Trident
  • New service: Building Surveying
  • First surveyor employed
2001
  • Trident becomes a limited company
  • First 'Trident Day' in Amsterdam
2002
  • Recruited our first graduate surveyor
  • Achieved ISO 9001
2003
  • Second office opened in Glasgow by Scott Young
2005
  • Dan Roe joins London City office
  • Colin Wilson joins Glasgow office
  • Reached 20 employees
2006
  • Achieved Investors in People
  • Owen Pottle joins our London City office
2007
  • Manchester office opened, our 3rd office
2008
  • Trident's 4th office opens in Bristol
  • Trident rebrands
  • 10 years of Trident, 'Trident Day' held in Barcelona
  • Trident's 5th office opens in Liverpool
2009
  • Achieve Investors in People: Silver
  • Achieve Carbon Neutral status
2010
  • Achieve ISO 14001
  • Our 6th office opens in Edinburgh
  • New service: Project Management
2011
  • Our 7th office opens in Birmingham
2012
  • Our 8th office opens in Leeds by Keith Richards
  • David Juniper joins our London City office
  • London Marathon completed by Matt and Trevor
2013
  • 62 staff employed
2014
  • Dublin office opened by Freddie Millar
  • 72 staff employed
2015
  • Achieve Investors in People: silver
  • Dan Brooks-Dowsett joins our Bristol office
  • 85 staff employed
2016
  • Darron Owens joins our Birmingham office
  • Trident rebranded
  • 89 staff employed
2017
  • Trident rebranded
  • 94 staff employed
2018
  • Trident celebrates 20 years
2019
  • Melissa Osborne joins to launch our new Conservation service
  • Awarded Property Week best place to work
2021
  • Daksha Mistry becomes first female director
2022
  • Trident becomes employee owned
  • Dan Roe becomes Managing Director
  • Jamie Clark is promoted to head up our Leeds office
  • Louise Logan becomes first female board Director
2023
  • Trident becomes a LandAid foundation partner
  • Trident sets its Science Based Targets
  • Achieved Investors in People: Gold
  • London office moves to a new location
  • Trident partners with PREACH Inclusion
2024

 

  • Trident becomes B-Corp certified
  • Trident recognised in The Sunday Times, 'Best Places to Work'
1998
  • Roger Watts, Trevor Dowd and Matt Clare create Trident
  • New service: Building Surveying
  • First surveyor employed
2001
  • Trident becomes a limited company
  • First 'Trident Day' in Amsterdam
2002
  • Recruited our first graduate surveyor
  • Achieved ISO 9001
2003
  • Second office opened in Glasgow by Scott Young
2005
  • Dan Roe joins London City office
  • Colin Wilson joins Glasgow office
  • Reached 20 employees
2006
  • Achieved Investors in People
  • Owen Pottle joins our London City office
2007
  • Manchester office opened, our 3rd office
2008
  • Trident's 4th office opens in Bristol
  • Trident rebrands
  • 10 years of Trident, 'Trident Day' held in Barcelona
  • Trident's 5th office opens in Liverpool
2009
  • Achieve Investors in People: Silver
  • Achieve Carbon Neutral status
2010
  • Achieve ISO 14001
  • Our 6th office opens in Edinburgh
  • New service: Project Management
2011
  • Our 7th office opens in Birmingham
2012
  • Our 8th office opens in Leeds by Keith Richards
  • David Juniper joins our London City office
  • London Marathon completed by Matt and Trevor
2013
  • 62 staff employed
2014
  • Dublin office opened by Freddie Millar
  • 72 staff employed
2015
  • Achieve Investors in People: silver
  • Dan Brooks-Dowsett joins our Bristol office
  • 85 staff employed
2016
  • Darron Owens joins our Birmingham office
  • Trident rebranded
  • 89 staff employed
2017
  • Trident rebranded
  • 94 staff employed
2018
  • Trident celebrates 20 years
  • Stuart Algar joins to launch our new Right's of Light service
2019
  • Melissa Osborne joins to launch our new Conservation service
  • Awarded Property Week best place to work
2021
  • Daksha Mistry becomes first female director
2022
  • Trident becomes employee owned
  • Dan Roe becomes Managing Director
  • Jamie Clark is promoted to head up our Leeds office
  • Louise Logan becomes first female board Director
2023
  • Trident becomes a LandAid foundation partner
  • Trident sets its Science Based Targets
  • Achieved Investors in People: Gold
  • London office moves to a new location
  • Trident partners with BAME in Property
2024
  • Trident becomes B-Corp certified

Trident in Numbers

“It would be no exaggeration to say that becoming an employee owned business marked an epoch in the history of Trident Building Consultancy. It has been a year of tremendous change, and one that has set the foundations not just for the future direction of the business, but for our renewed values and ethos, and the way in which we regard and appreciate one another. I firmly believe this was the start of something monumental for Trident and we will only build on that.”
Dan Roe, Managing Director