Who we are
4c Engineering are a close-knit, supportive team of creative engineers who love getting stuck into challenging technical problems and coming up with high quality solutions.
We maintain a focus on projects and ideas with genuine, useful benefits, whether that’s in sustainability, environment, healthcare, efficiency, or a more user-friendly design.
We are also committed to raising up the next generation of talented engineers, and have very much enjoyed accommodating summer students over the last few years.
Our background
Founding Directors Andy Hall and Jo Wilson both honed their engineering skills across a range of challenging fields in renewables technology development, and, following the downsizing of the marine energy developer they were previously working for, decided that keeping a great team together was preferable to going their separate ways.
Built on the foundation of several successful collaborative projects, the partnership with 4c Design in Glasgow provided an obvious complementary fit of creative design with rigorous engineering and analysis. Our team in Inverness has now grown to six.
“So are you just wave energy, then?”
In a word: No!
Working in small teams delivering complex R&D programmes in a challenging new field demands flexibility, and the ability to apply ourselves to just about any aspect of engineering as required: from product design and CAD draughting to design and execution of experimental test programmes, through to advanced simulation and analysis. This has given us a fantastic grounding in the physics and engineering fundamentals required to deconstruct and tackle any engineering problem, and with the range of projects we’ve been involved over the last few years, we have proven our ability to immerse ourselves in any technical problem, regardless of sector.
Meet the team
Associates
We also have a wide network of other professionals, not least the team at our sister company 4c Design, whom we can bring in to provide additional resource or specific targeted expertise for your project.
Blog
Energy innovators aim for sweet success
***April Fools' Day Alert*** Don't worry, we are aware of the limitations of sugar based thermal energy stores, we'll keep Andy's sugary snacks for eating or handing out at conferences, not for therma [...]
Reflections on a year at 4c
We round off the year with a sad farewell to Arron, who has been working with us on some ground-breaking technology this year - can't be many graduate engineers who get themselves amongst the leaders [...]
We are hiring! – Graduate Technology Development Engineer
Job Advert for Graduate Technology Development Engineer Following some recent success in securing funding to explore the development of an innovative approach to wave energy, 4c Engineering are seekin [...]
Double funding boost for direct generation technology solutions
Throughout the last year we've been working on some exciting direct generation technology alongside electrostatic generation experts, Cheros Srl (primarily Giacomo Moretti and Marco Fontana). The work [...]
Transforming lives – From wheelchair to walking – Mygo4ward prototype
Move4ward (David Powney and Jude Simms) run a neuro-physio rehabilitation centre in Elgin, and through this they identified an innovation opportunity to develop a novel system – the MYGO. The MYGO is [...]
PRESS RELEASE 8th December 2021 – EuropeWave Phase 1
Further success for Waveram project selected for EuropeWave programme Scottish technology development specialists, 4c Engineering, will collaborate with Basque and Irish firms to develop innovative Wa [...]