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For civil, structural, MEP & consulting engineering firms

Engineering firm websites that respect the buyer.

The decision-makers reading your site are technical. They want data, project facts and team credentials, not marketing copy. Build a site that gives them what they need fast.

Brief us on your projectSee the 15 engineering sites we benchmark against
The problem

Why most engineering firm sites lose the buyer.

Engineering firm websites are the most consistently underbuilt category we audit. The work is highly technical. The buyers are highly technical. The sites are written by marketing departments who've never read a procurement spec. Five patterns we see almost every time.

  • 01

    Marketing copy where technical fact belongs

    "We deliver excellence." The buyer needs the engineering, the scope, the load case, the deliverables. Not adjectives.

  • 02

    Project case studies without numbers

    No span, no capacity, no construction value, no key team member. Procurement teams can't shortlist you from this.

  • 03

    Team page that hides the engineers

    Three executive bios. The 80 chartered engineers behind the work are invisible. Buyers want to know who they'd actually work with.

  • 04

    Service pages structured like the org chart

    Buyers don't search for 'Building Services Group'. They search for 'MEP design for healthcare facilities'. The site doesn't speak their language.

  • 05

    No proof of code, standard or jurisdiction expertise

    Engineering is a regulated profession. The site rarely shows which codes, jurisdictions and certifications the firm actually works in.

What we build instead

A site engineered for technical buyers.

Project pages with the data procurement actually needs. Team depth visible. Regulatory and code expertise surfaced. Built fast, structured for clarity, easy to keep current.

  • Project case study template with span, capacity, value, schedule, team credit
  • Project archive filterable by sector, code framework and jurisdiction
  • Team page surfacing every chartered engineer with relevant specialisms
  • Service pages mapped to buyer search behaviour, not internal org chart
  • Code, standard and jurisdiction matrix (IBC, Eurocode, BS, AS/NZS, etc.)
  • Publications, technical papers and industry-talks archive
  • Careers section with technical-discipline taxonomy
  • Procurement-friendly contact paths with auto-routing by sector
  • Schema markup, sitemap, Search Console wiring
  • 30 days of post-launch optimisation against real traffic

Three sample budgets

What a $15k, $35k and $70k engineering site actually buys.

  1. Standard build6 weeks

    $15k to $25k

    10 to 15 pages. Technical project case study template. Filterable project archive. Team page with every chartered engineer. Service pages mapped to buyer queries. CMS.

    Best for: Firms with 5 to 30 engineers. One or two offices. One discipline (civil, or structural, or MEP).

  2. Multi-discipline build8 to 10 weeks

    $30k to $50k

    Everything above, plus separate landing pages per discipline (civil / structural / MEP / geotechnical) with shared design system. Discovery sprint. Service-and-sector matrix. Content strategy.

    Best for: Multi-discipline practices. Firms with 30 to 200 engineers. National or regional reach. Acquired practices needing to harmonise brand.

  3. Consulting platform10 to 14 weeks

    $55k to $90k

    Corporate site plus separate marks for major practice groups (e.g. transportation, water, energy, buildings). Research and white-paper publishing. Multilingual. Bidder portal integration.

    Best for: Large consulting engineering firms. 200+ engineers. International presence. Firms competing for federal, infrastructure or international work.

These are real ranges from real projects. We don't do hourly billing. We don't hide costs in change orders. The number we quote is the number on the invoice.

Adjacent work

Work in adjacent technical verticals.

We've shipped websites for technical firms whose buyers also read fine print: environmental technology, business consultancies, financial services. The instincts that make a technical site work apply across.

The process

Six weeks from kick-off to launch.

Most projects in this space take three to six months because most agencies are still scoping discovery as a Phase 0 paragraph and treating production as the work. We invert that. Discovery is two weeks of real work. Production is four. Launch isn't the end of the engagement.

  1. 01 · StepWeek 1

    Discovery

    Working session with the operator (not just marketing). Audit of the existing site, competitors and search behaviour. The brief comes out of this week, not into it.

  2. 02 · StepWeek 2

    Strategy & content

    Positioning. Architecture. Copy for the homepage and the project case study template. Photography brief. Sector pages mapped to buyer search intent.

  3. 03 · StepWeeks 3 & 4

    Design

    Visual system, page designs, brand application. Designed in code rather than Figma so the team sees the real artefact, not a flat mockup.

  4. 04 · StepWeeks 4 & 5

    Build

    Next.js production build. CMS configured. Project case studies migrated and rewritten where needed. Analytics, schema, Search Console wired.

  5. 05 · StepWeek 6 plus 30 days

    Launch & optimise

    Go live. Daily review of real user behaviour for the first 30 days. Two or three rounds of changes against what the data shows. Most agencies stop at launch. We don't.

Frequently asked

Questions engineering firms tend to ask first.

Do you understand procurement and pre-qualification?
Yes. We build sites whose project case studies are written for procurement teams, not marketing departments. Project value, schedule performance, safety data, diversity participation, code compliance, key team members. The information a PSQ form actually needs.
Can the site host downloadable technical papers and white papers?
Yes. We support a publications module with PDF hosting, citation metadata, search and tagging. Some firms gate technical papers behind an email signup. We can build that too.
How do you handle multi-jurisdiction work (US, UK, EU, AU)?
Code and standard tagging at the project and service level. Filterable by jurisdiction. We've shipped this for firms working across IBC, Eurocode and AS/NZS environments.
Will the site help with recruiting chartered engineers?
It should, and we design for that. Discipline-specific careers landing pages. Surface depth of chartered staff. Show the work, not just the firm. The engineering labour market is tight. The site is part of the recruiting stack.
Can we integrate with our CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, Deltek Vision)?
Yes. Contact forms route to your CRM with auto-routing by sector. Deltek Vision integrations need a few extra days. Salesforce and HubSpot are standard.
What if we already have a working WordPress site?
If it works, keep it. We can do a design-and-content refresh on your existing platform for $12-18k. We only recommend a rebuild when the existing platform is genuinely holding the firm back.
Let's talk

What are you trying to make happen?

Most projects start with a 15-minute conversation. We listen to the brief, ask the right questions and tell you straight what we can handle and how. No retainer required to start.

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