Expert Highway
Design Company

Transient Designs aim to provide a very cost-effective, flexible design service
that will achieve superb technical results for your organisation
and make real financial sense for you.

With a fully- equipped design studio and technical library
allowing service provision 7 days a week.

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Pedestrians

STUDY

Gain an understanding of the issues and how best to solve them

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Road Works

DESIGN

Create bespoke designs for urban & rural environments

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Horse Rider

AUDIT

Expert audit services approved to the latest government standards

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ABOUT US

cost effective, flexible design service

We are a Highway Design Company with extensive experience and multiple clients throughout the UK.

Transient Designs are highly motivated, have vast technical knowledge (coupled with design flair) and have excellent commercial & environmental awareness.

Keith Marsh is the Director & Lead Designer, and Lead Assessor (Auditor) providing essential “Walking, Cycling & Horse Rider Assessments” services to various clients including National Highways & their approved supply chain of international companies.

Transient Designs have a network of experts available to provide a complete of experts to provide a complete design & audit package across the UK

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Track Record

Founded in 2005, we have a proven track record of delivering a wide range of Infrastructure & Urban Design related projects across the United Kingdom

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From Start to Finish

Designing & implementing every stage and process; from site-surveys, sketching up concept designs right through to setting out & supervision on the ground.

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Delivering Results

We provide a very cost effective, flexible design service that will achieve superb technical results. Fully- equipped design studio and technical library allowing service provision 7 days a week.

The lead designer, Keith Marsh also has experience as a technical author, writing guidance literature covering issues like cycle route planning design & national best practice.

Keith has worked on major town centre regenerations. Overseeing the removal of the World’s most famous “Office” roundabout ,the 2012 London Olympics M4/A4 corridors & co-led projects that won Municipal Journal’s “ Sustainable Infrastructure of The Year award.

HOW CAN WE HELP YOU

SERVICES

Busy Street

STUDY

We speak to users, understand their problems.

Survey sites.

Identify issues most normal engineers would miss.

Analyse statistics present findings & solutions in clear pictorial reports that are easily understood & turned into scheme funding.

Aerial View Highway

DESIGN

For Urban & Rural Environments.
From concept sketch artists impressions to full autocad construction detail drawings.

Including:

  • Junctions, Roundabouts
  • Crossings, Cycleways
  • Speed reduction, Footbridges
  • Train stations, One-way systems
  • Car parks, Road works
  • Inclusive mobility improvements
Highway

EXPERT AUDIT SERVICES

Transient designs provide expert audit services approved to the latest government (DMRB GG142) standards including ….

  • Walking, Cycling & Horse Riding Assessment
  • Equality Impact Assessment & 2010 Equality Act checks
  • Self-harm & Suicide Prevention
  • Compliance with cycling infrastructure design guidance (LTN 1/20) & “Gearchange” policy/funding guidance

CLIENTS

WE ARE A TRUSTED SUPPLIER

Supplying specialist services to a range of national & local organisations including:

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HAPPY CLIENTS

National Highways

“Keith brings to the table an innovative design flair and a can-do attitude. I think you would find his experience and credentials useful on a national level.”

Sean Walsh
Route Manager West of England

British Horse Society

“Keith is a highways engineer who specializes in the movement of cyclists, equine users and pedestrians through the built environment and public realm. On that basis he brings an equity to discussion that can sometimes be lacking in this field of work.”

Slough Borough Council

Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for this Keith. Makes us look very professional ☺
Much appreciated. Have a great weekend

Thomas Smith 
Highways and Drainage Supervisor 

“He literally wrote parts of the book for TFL, DfT and is a personal friend, former colleague and employee of John Grimshaw, the founder of SUSTRANS. (You will appreciate SUSTRANS are a Bristol-based organisation, so we have a good relationship locally) He is also our lead WCHAR assessor for southwest schemes”

Congratulations, Keith! Good to see your hard work is being recognised. This recognition will certainly help bids etc. Any news on the next award, keep us posted.

Mark Reed CEng MInstNDT – AMEY

The Trails Trust

“The Trails Trust (TTT) to you as The Trust often refers to your consultant Keith Marsh of Transient Designs.

Keith is extremely generous in freely sharing his time, knowledge and resources with TTT on highway and related matters.

We don’t know who we could call on to assist us with equestrian, cycling and walking technical / road related matters if we had not come across Keith”

Rachel Thompson MBE

National Highways

Excellent work here Mr Marsh

Kat Liddington, Stakeholder Relations and Programme Development Manager, South West Operations 

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