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Scott Brownrigg’s Pre-Tax Profit Rises to £4.4m as UK Fee Income Grows 37%

Accounts for the year to 31 January 2026 show Scott Brownrigg's turnover up 8% to £29.7 million and pre-tax profit up from £1.2 million to £4.4 million, as UK income rose and overseas income fell.

Furkan SenNovember 13, 20262 Mins read1

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The Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre at Harwell, completed by the practice · Image: courtesy Scott Brownrigg

Scott Brownrigg has more than tripled its pre-tax profit, according to accounts for the year ending 31 January 2026 reported by the Architects’ Journal. Profit before tax rose from £1.2 million to £4.4 million, while turnover grew by around £2 million, or 8 per cent, to £29.7 million. The main driver was work at home: UK fee income climbed by 37 per cent to £21.6 million, against £15.8 million a year earlier.

Where the money came from

Lower costs helped as well. Administrative expenses fell by almost £2.5 million, which the report puts down to cheaper professional indemnity insurance and smaller payments to affiliated offices abroad. The accounts also restate the previous year’s numbers, cutting the profit reported then by about £300,000 after staff costs and employee trust bonuses were reclassified.

Income from outside Europe moved the other way. It had grown fivefold the year before, but fell from £11.2 million to £7.9 million, while fees from European countries other than the UK halved from £540,000 to £272,000. The report still describes growing the practice’s international profile as a key focus, citing live work that includes Saudi Arabia’s Medina Airport, masterplans plus hotel and school projects in central Asia, and offices for Zoom in Singapore that are now complete.

Visualisation of a large data centre clad in vertical metal fins beyond railway tracks, with a train blurred in motion — Visualisation of Scott Brownrigg’s consented hyperscale data centre at Premier Park · Image: courtesy Scott Brownrigg

UK projects behind the Scott Brownrigg figures

At home, the practice won a role on the Amazon MGM Studios development at Bray, near Windsor, and finished Moderna’s innovation and technology centre at Harwell. Its UK pipeline also includes a hyperscale data centre at Premier Park that has planning consent, and an approved retrofit adding wind turbines and solar panels to the roof of a technical college in the Royal Docks; the AJ says this microgrid would cover roughly 81 per cent of that building’s power needs.

Most of the turnover growth came in a strong first quarter. From the second quarter of 2025, the report says, economic uncertainty led clients to pause some schemes, but most were running again by the year end. Darren Comber, a practice director, said that “despite ongoing challenges posed by economic and political pressures” he remained “optimistic about the future”.

Students walking past a gated college campus of dark clad blocks, with a yellow structure on one roof — The technical college in the Royal Docks where the practice has consent for a rooftop microgrid · Image: courtesy Scott Brownrigg

Staff numbers and ownership

Headcount did not change: the practice employed 168 people, as in the previous year, although technical staff rose by five and administrative staff fell by the same number. The firm traces its origins to 1910, when Annesley Harold Brownrigg set up in practice, and its website says it moved from an employee benefit trust to an Employee Ownership Trust at the end of 2021, so that every employee shares in ownership.

For a mid-sized practice, the figures show how much margin can come from steady UK work and lower overheads, even in a year when overseas fees shrank and clients paused projects.