Knights Brown has opened a new office to meet the rising demand for energy infrastructure specialist contractors across the UK.
The new office in Norwich will operate as a regional hub for Knights Brown’s growing Transmission & Distribution (T&D) team, whose headcount now exceeds 150 people.
Bosses said the expansion reflects an increasing demand for specialist civils capability amid an industry-wide shift towards low‑carbon, renewable energy production, symbolised by the “Great Grid Upgrade”, a drive to decarbonise UK energy, including the electricity grid which originally derived energy from power stations using fossil fuels for things like heating and transport.
Knights Brown, headquartered in Hampshire, has engaged delivery of renewable energy infrastructure, including onshore wind, battery energy storage and associated grid works, across the UK for more than a decade, with East Anglia, its chosen region for the new office, one of the most active in the country for renewable energy generation and grid investment.
Work in this sector by Knights Brown spans substation and turbine civil engineering and groundworks, grid reinforcements and enabling infrastructure as well as multi‑sector delivery across coasts & ports, water utilities, infrastructure and buildings.
Knights Brown Construction recently delivered a robust financial performance, thanks to a “particularly productive” year in the energy and coasts & ports sectors, with revenue up by 15 per cent to £116.4 million, underpinned by a pre-tax profit of more than £3.8 million, well ahead of FY2024 (£2.1 million).
Alongside supporting project delivery, the new office will serve as a base for building local partnerships, developing talent pipelines and expanding Knights Brown’s social value and sustainability initiatives.
“Establishing a permanent base here signals our intent and strengthens our ability to support the major programmes of work taking place,” said David Shillabeer, head of T&D.
“This office gives our teams the proximity and platform they need to deliver projects safely, efficiently and in genuine collaboration with our customers.”
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