About Us

We are Worldwise
Consulting engineers with a proven track record.

Worldwise Limited is a practice of consulting engineers formed in 1991 that has steadily flourished by providing a personal service to clients coupled with a high degree of expertise and professionalism. We believe in giving our clients good value for money. This has led to much repeat business and an expanding client portfolio.

Company Profile


Worldwise Limited is a practice of consulting engineers formed in 1991 that has steadily flourished by providing a personal service to clients coupled with a high degree of expertise and professionalism.

We believe in giving our clients good value for money. This has led to much repeat business and an expanding client portfolio. We specialise in mechanical and electrical engineering services as required to create comfortable, safe and energy efficient environments within buildings.

Our willingness to provide for every type and size of service is reflected in the projects undertaken to date with their building services values ranging from £2K to £55M and project values to £105M. We also undertake condition surveys and feasibility reports. Contracts undertaken range in size from 200m2 to 23,000 m2 and include education, sports facilities, car showrooms, workshops, offices, computer suites, health care buildings, military sites, print works and historic buildings.

From formation of a brief through project completion to satisfactory client operation of the services, we provide a high quality of service.

We believe that good communications with clients, design team members and contractors is the key to the success of projects. We pay attention to detail from day one of our appointment. This leads to accurate control of costs and programme and a clear understanding by all parties of what the finished product will deliver.

We have experience of working with many forms of contract including traditional pre-designed and design and construct engagements using JCT, GC Works, NEC and PPC 2000 Partnering Agreements. We have acted as designers and performance specification writers and design checkers. We regularly act as lead consultant on projects with a high M&E services content and we manage all aspects of projects with an exclusively engineering content.

Low energy, environmentally friendly design solutions are high on our priority list and we like to have early involvement on projects to allow proper consideration to be given to these goals from a passive design approach for the benefit of the client and the planet.

Our People

  • Paul Cantwell

    BEng(Hons), CEng, MCIBSE, MSoPHE

    Director

  • Derek Holland

    HNC, CEng, MIET

    Senior Electrical Engineer

  • Alec Stillwell

    HND, ACIBSE

    Senior Mechanical Engineer

  • Edward Chan

    BEng(Hons), MSc, AMIMechE

    Mechanical Engineer

  • Benedict Wilson

    Electrical Engineer

  • Carole Cantwell

    Company Secretary

Organisations We've Worked With

With many years of experience working for organisations across the Dorset, Hampshire and the South, we have developed an extensive client base.
  • Civil Aviation Authority
  • Dorset County Council
  • MSI Defence Systems
  • King Edward VI School
  • HC Holdings (Southampton) Ltd
  • Church Schools Foundation
  • WRVS
  • Trowbridge Steele Design Group
  • Sansom & Williams
  • Dorset Building Design Practice
  • Merchant Design Limited
  • Kingston Maurwood College
  • W S Kirk Ltd
  • AEA Technology Winfrith
  • Poole Hospital NHS Trust
  • Ellis Belk Associates
  • David Illingworth Architects
  • Bennington-Green Associates
  • Hobbs the Printers Limited
  • Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Peter Rathbone & Partners
  • Dorset Police Authority
  • Borough of Poole
  • Paul Scott Associates
  • Weymouth College
  • Richard Blackmore Associates
  • Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education
  • North Dorset District Council
  • Plymouth Diocese
  • Trinity Architecture
  • Castle Court School
  • The Shaftesbury Society
  • Canford School
  • Read Loveless & Morrell
  • Bournemouth Borough Council
  • The Genesis Design Studio
  • James Nisbet & Partners
  • Spetisbury Construction Ltd
  • Brewer Smith & Brewer Architects
  • The Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust
  • RG Spiller Limited
  • DLM Design
  • Weeks UK Limited
  • Poynton Scrase
  • Bournemouth Transport Limited
  • Christchurch Borough Council
  • Wheelers
  • Symonds & Sampson
  • FC Denly King & Partners
  • Alexander Design
  • Gerald Eve
  • A F Noolan Limited
  • Mainsail Estates
  • Cable First Limited
  • Wam-Net 4-Sight Limited
  • David Richards Practice limited
  • Anders Roberts Associates
  • Troika Project Management
  • Castlemore Securities Limited
  • Legerstar Limited
  • Bryanston School
  • The Dorset Trust
  • AFC Bournemouth
  • NCH Action for Children
  • Phillip Proctor Associates
  • Peter Gunning and Partners
  • Hannah Levy House
  • Head Projects Limited
  • Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust
  • The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
  • Hawkins Browne
  • Abbeyfield (Wessex) Society Ltd
  • Avenues Ltd
  • Holton Lee
  • Lee/Fitzgerald Architects
  • Interserve Ltd
  • Glossbrook Construciton Ltd
  • Synergy Housing Group Ltd
  • McNaughts
  • Gleeds
  • The Soroptimist Housing Association
  • Winchester Diocese
  • Poole Audi
  • G4 Design
  • Dorset Fire & Rescue Service
  • Cable First
  • Stanbridge Earls School
  • Parrs Rock & Novelty Company
  • Chaplin Farrant Wiltshire Ltd
  • Paul Sherriff Associates
  • Morgan Carey Architects
  • Format Milton Architects Ltd
  • Poole High School
  • QP Architecture
  • Moorlands College
  • Bournemouth School
  • Longham United Reformed Church
  • The Lawn Tennis Association
  • St Anthony's School Leweston
  • West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Abbeyfielf Winchester Society Limited
  • Bournemouth Churches Housing Association
  • The Weld Estate
  • Winton Art & Media College
  • Dorset Primary Care Trust
  • BHCH
  • Trevor Osbrne Group
  • University of Southampton
  • Taffle Plc
  • BH Live
  • Davis Langdon
  • The Burgate School & Sixth Form
  • Rund Partnership
  • Talbot Heath School Trust
  • Portsmouth Diocese
  • Tapper Funeral Services
  • CBRE
  • Knoll House Hotel
  • Beaulieu Motor Museum
  • Christchurch Priory
  • Aspire Defence Services Ltd
  • 288 Group
  • Cobham Plc
  • Reken
  • Kendall Kingscott Ltd
  • Footprint Architects Ltd
  • Clarke & Brassington Ltd
  • David James Architects & Partners Ltd
  • Evans & Traves LLP
  • Studio Four Architects
  • Church Cookham Parish Council
  • Brightspace Architects
  • Bourne Steel Ltd
  • Bournemouth University
  • Playgolf Bournemouth
  • Kenn Scadden Associates
  • Harvey Electrical Ltd
  • Ellis Belk Associates Ltd
  • Bournemouth School for Girls
  • Columba Cook Architects Ltd
  • Hoburne Leisure Ltd
  • iMAT
  • iDorset
  • Bourne Estates Ltd
  • The Guinness Trust
  • Sherrin Bettle Ltd
  • Sandbourne Housing Association
  • Burns Property Management & Lettings Ltd
  • Livibility
  • Colmar Construction Ltd
  • E3 Consulting
  • Plymouth CAST
  • G3 Systems Ltd
  • Dorset Healthcare NHS University Foundation Trust
  • Hamilton Townsend
  • Dumpton School
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