Arcadis UK are a Quantity Surveying firm, whose head office is based in London. The firm also has offices in Manchester, Leeds, Newmarket, Birmingham, Camberley, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The firm was founded by Stanley Axtell and his colleagues Messrs Yates and Hallett when they set up a Quantity Surveying business known as AYH in the City of London in 1946.

Throughout this period, the firm grew steadily and broadened both its service base to include firstly project management and subsequently building surveying and facilities consultancy and its area of operation with the opening of UK regional and overseas offices.

Following a period of retrenchment during the economic recession of the early nineties, the firm was incorporated in February 1994.

In March 1999, the holding of the major shareholders was purchased by a team of existing senior managers, led by David Thompson, already a major shareholder himself.

At the beginning of 2002, AYH restructured its operations from a skill and regional office-based structure into fully integrated market sector groups.

Darren Barrett (b. 1967 England) is a Boston, Massachusetts-based jazz musician who won the 1997 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and teaches at Berklee College of Music.

Barrett was raised in Toronto, Canada, of Jamaican parents. He attended Humber College, in Toronto, winning the Boddington's Music Brass Award for excellence in performance. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Professional Music from the Berklee College of Music in 1990. He received "an MA in Jazz Performance in 1993, and an MS in Music Education from Queens College in 1995." In addition to his work at Queens, he also attended the New England Conservatory of Music.

He is an associate professor at his alma mater, Berklee.

He frequently plays at Wally's Cafe in Boston.

With Elvin Jones

Neil McArthur is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.

McArthur made his full All Whites debut in a 3-1 win over Australia on 22 July 1922 and played just one further official international, also against Australia, losing 1-2 on 7 June 1923.

Paul Bracken is a professor of political science and business at Yale University. Professor Bracken grew up in Philadelphia. He received his Bachelor of Science (Engineering) degree from Columbia University in 1971 and his PhD in Operations Research in 1982 from Yale University.

Bracken is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, co-chairs the Board of Advisors of the Naval Postgraduate School and the U.S. Naval War College, and advises other parts of the United States government and National Academy of Sciences Task Forces. Prior to joining Yale, he was on the senior staff of the Hudson Institute for 10 years, where he led the management consulting arm of the institute. At Yale he is a Fellow of Silliman College and a member of the Elizabethan Club. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut with his wife, Nanette, an attorney. He enjoys golf, dude ranching and ham radio (K3SOC).

Bracken teaches a large course in Yale College on Strategy, Technology and War, and in the School of Management he teaches a popular course on Business, Government and Globalization, which examines the changing structure of global business. He also teaches the new SOM course on Problem Framing, the required course on integrated management thinking for all entering MBA students. His research concerns international relations, national security, and the multinational corporation.