Ryden grows project management team: implications for UK infrastructure delivery
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Ryden has appointed former CBRE and Turner & Townsend director Roddy Morrison as a partner, as its building consultancy and project management arm grows to around 30% of the Scottish commercial property consultancy’s business. The expansion follows a partnership with Lambert Smith Hampton that added three partners in 2025 – James Paterson, Fraser Ross and Paul Lafferty – and underpins work on projects such as Kadans Science Partner’s Health Innovation Hub and the Lucent redevelopment at 50 Bothwell Street in Glasgow. Ryden is targeting further commissions in infrastructure, utilities and renewables, supported by in-house design and cost consultancy.
Technical Brief
- Project management now constitutes roughly 30% of Ryden’s total fee-earning activity.
- New partner Roddy Morrison brings prior director-level delivery experience from CBRE and Turner & Townsend.
- Partnership with Lambert Smith Hampton in 2025 injected three additional partners into the project management leadership.
- Recent workload includes Kadans’ purpose-built Health Innovation Hub in Glasgow, implying complex life-science fit-out coordination.
- Completion of Lucent at 50 Bothwell Street involved managing refurbishment logistics within a constrained city-centre commercial block.
- Multiple city-centre office refurbishment instructions indicate repeat exposure to live-building phasing, occupier decant and services upgrades.
- In-house design capability allows Ryden to integrate early-stage layouts with cost planning and programme risk assessments.
Our Take
With project management already accounting for 30% of Ryden’s business, the 2025 intake of three partners from Lambert Smith Hampton signals a deliberate push to compete more directly with multi‑disciplinary consultancies such as CBRE and Turner & Townsend on complex Scottish schemes.
Kadans Science Partner’s involvement at Glasgow’s Health Innovation Hub places Ryden into the same life‑science and innovation‑led client space that several of the 805 Infrastructure stories highlight as a growth area for urban regeneration in the UK.
CBRE’s role in the St Peter’s Place housing expansion in Salisbury, noted elsewhere in our coverage, suggests that Ryden’s strengthening of its project management offer comes as large asset managers and advisers are increasingly steering both residential and specialist commercial projects, raising the bar on programme controls and reporting expectations for regional consultancies in Scotland.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
Related Articles
Related Industries & Products
Construction
Quality control software for construction companies with material testing, batch tracking, and compliance management.
Mining
Geotechnical software solutions for mining operations including CMRR analysis, hydrogeological testing, and data management.
CMRR-io
Streamline coal mine roof stability assessments with our cloud-based CMRR software featuring automated calculations, multi-scenario analysis, and collaborative workflows.
HYDROGEO-io
Comprehensive hydrogeological testing platform for managing, analysing, and reporting on packer tests, lugeon values, and hydraulic conductivity assessments.
GEODB-io
Centralised geotechnical data management solution for storing, accessing, and analysing all your site investigation and material testing data.