Mitchell seeks clients who’ll make a consultant’s life less ordinary: Interview Keith Mitchell, PBA

Keith Mitchell, the chairman of consultant Peter Brett Associates, likes nothing better than helping clients with strategic transport advice and pushing the boundaries of thinking. He spoke to Andrew Forster about the current state of play in the transport consultancy marketplace

"We have never been an organisation that is very happy about providing a commodity product. Ultimately, one of the things that we are trying to do is offer something that is a bit more interesting, a bit more innovative." Keith Mitchell

"We have never been an organisation that is very happy about providing a commodity product. Ultimately, one of the things that we are trying to do is offer something that is a bit more interesting, a bit more innovative." Keith Mitchell

Peter Brett Associates is such an established name in the UK transport consultancy sector that it’s easy to overlook a very basic question: who is, or was, Peter Brett? Ah, says Keith Mitchell, PBA’s chairman, the late Peter Brett was a structural engineer originally with consultant Arup but who in 1965 set up his own consultancy practice based in Reading.

PBA is therefore fast approaching its 50th anniversary and Mitchell is about to notch up 30 years with the practice himself....

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