Price & Myers solves collaboration issues across multiple teams with Speckle

Company

Price & Myers is a civil and structural engineering practice founded in London in 1978. With studios in Nottingham, Oxford, Manchester, and Bristol, they’ve worked on everything from satellite testing facilities to temporary artworks.

In the past 45 years, they’ve completed over 30,000 projects and earned more than 850 design awards. Today, they employ around 170 people across the UK and have operated as a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) since 2003.

Challenge

On complex, collaborative projects, Price & Myers found themselves spending more time managing files than doing engineering.

Version control was messy. Files were scattered, inconsistently named, and hard to track. Team members struggled to find the latest version, and important data was buried in folders or corrupted by manual edits. Coordinating with architects and fabricators often relied on 2D drawings, leading to misunderstandings, repeated analyses, and frustrating back-and-forth.

Things came to a head during a challenging art installation project involving dozens of stakeholders and geometrically demanding components. One engineer spent four years on the job—and much of that time wasn’t spent engineering, but on wrangling over 10,000 files (totalling 97 GB), cleaning data, and manually stitching workflows together.

That experience made one thing clear: they needed a better way to collaborate.

Solution

Price & Myers adopted Speckle to do just that! The idea was to improve collaboration and data exchange across teams and tools. What stood out most was its simplicity—team members didn’t need to be 3D software experts to use it. That made adoption frictionless, even for architects who usually worked in 2D.

I’m talking about people who didn’t even know what Speckle was, architects who didn’t usually work in 3D—but they all got on board. I didn’t feel like I was taking a risk, because it was simple. It did what it was supposed to do.

Katherine Chimenes

With Speckle, models were always accessible via a simple link. No more digging through folders or wondering which file was the latest. Team members could view models in the browser, comment directly on them, and even upload hand sketches and PDFs for discussion. This made it easier to have informed conversations and faster approvals.

Speckle also helped them connect the dots between the different tools in their stack—like Rhino and Revit—without forcing a complete workflow overhaul.

Even color-coded elements in the model (e.g., bolt types) helped the team and stakeholders make quick and accurate assessments.