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The leading association for consultants and engineers
BECOME A MEMBER
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) champions infrastructure to government and other stakeholders, representing the views of around 400 members.
Membership provides access to a range of sector-specific services including: networking at world-class events, the best in industry news and analysis from Infrastructure Intelligence, and access to legal, HR and business support.
All of this helps your company to raise its profile and positively influence the sector.
Membership is available to any company with a registered office in the UK and is charged on a sliding scale based on organisation headcount, making it affordable and accessible, no matter your size.
SUPPORTING UK ENGINEERING CONSULTANCIES IN A CHANGING BUILT ENVIRONMENT
As the leading voice for UK consultancy and engineering firms in the built environment, ACE supports C-Suite, engineers, HR managers, surveyors, environmental technologists, business development managers, operations managers and early career professionals through today’s evolving industry challenges.
Whether it's tackling economic uncertainty, regulatory change, workforce pressures or building resilience, we provide practical, expert-led guidance on the issues that matter. Our trusted resources on finance, talent retention, health, safety and wellbeing, procurement, and contracts are accessed by hundreds of members each year.
As a key partner of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), and with regular engagement with UK government departments, we’ve delivered major wins on:
- Legislating to improve payment practices
- Securing further procurement reform
- Delivering best practice tools for industry
- Putting skills at the heart of Government’s agenda via the establishment of the Skills Mission Board
INFLUENCING POLICY TO DRIVE THE FUTURE OF UK INFRASTRUCTURE
ACE ensures your voice is heard at the highest levels of government. We've contributed directly to:
- The development of the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, the Government’s Ten Year Infrastructure Strategy and its delivery pipeline.
- Reforms to the Treasury’s Green Book, to deliver long-term benefits like net zero, place-based investment, and socio-economic impacts across the country.
- Secure planning reforms to drive growth and protect the environment.
We advocate for engineering consultancies of all sizes, making the case for a proportionate approach to risk, visible long-term pipelines and strategies, smarter regulation, more sustainable infrastructure investment, and improved delivery models.
Through our regular briefings, industry guidance and member webinars, we translate complex policy changes into actionable insights to help your business thrive.
CONNECTING INDUSTRY LEADERS AND SHAPING THE NEXT GENERATION
Through knowledge share and insight, we help your business stay ahead of trends in sustainability, future skills, and evolving market needs.
Our national events programme and working groups provide peer-to-peer learning and strategic networking opportunities. With over 100 events in 2025, we’ve created a hub for knowledge sharing and industry collaboration.
We also invest in future talent through ACE Emerging Professionals, providing early-career engineers and consultants with leadership and growth opportunities and a platform to influence industry direction.
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH
We provide access to leading business experts through our affiliates – PI Insurance, legal, R&D tax credits and technology – as well as dedicated services for SMEs through our forum, legal and contract support, and the recently published Guide to Net Zero.
ACCESS TO INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE
Members receive free access to Infrastructure Intelligence, ACE editorially independent news channel.
Delivering the latest sector news, features, opinions and analysis, you can also sign-up to have II’s weekly newsletter delivered direct to your inbox every Wednesday.
Plus, for a deeper dive into key areas of the infrastructure sector, check out our new magazine – published twice a year. It is the opportunity to find out more about the people, projects and policies shaping the built environment for the future.
WHAT OUR MEMBERS SAY
ACE play an essential role providing a common voice for the industry and driving legislative changes. HPF Group are proud to be active members in this process, contributing wherever possible.
Paul Roche, Group Director, Hurley Palmer Flatt
ACE has long been a champion of SMEs recognising the unique skills and capabilities that they bring to clients, whilst trying to break down barriers which make it difficult for them to trade with them.
Glyn Evans, MD, Geo-Environmental Services Limited
Our profession is stronger with a combined voice and ACE helps to provide the glue which sticks us together and allows our joined-up views to be considered by all.
Nick Taylor, Chief Executive, Waterman group
My admiration and appreciation of what ACE does has only grown as I have seen the important work it does at close hand in acting as a unified voice for the UK infrastructure sector.
Rajiv Sudan, Business Development Director, WYG
Rapid technological advances require us to change how we engage with clients and peers to maximise innovation and creativity. ACE brings together companies to leverage best practice and shape industry as one, powerful voice.
Dave Barwell, Chief Executive, UK & Ireland, AECOM
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MEMBERSHIP
To use our online membership calculator for 2025, please click here.
