Works now well underway on the third phase of this prestigious quality project. After having successfully completed the refurbishment of the 269 bedrooms, a major plant replacement/ refurbishment of main central boiler and air handling plant we are now refurbishing the main public and kitchen areas.
So far (fingers crossed) all of this has been achieved with guests still in the Hotel!
Project closure will be early 2012, after that Hotel will again be a show piece on the Edinburgh Scene.
For more information please contact Stewart McKechnie
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle are currently involved in a framework partnership with Lend Lease which to date has delivered 9 schools throughout South Lanarkshire. All schools have been delivered either on or before the programmed hand over date.
Each School has achieved a Very Good BREEAM rating and has reduced it’s overall energy consumption by adopting the use of Biomass Boilers.
The framework has since received a further 11 schools for the next phase from SLC, aiming to deliver them by 2013/2014.
For more information please contact Barry McKeane
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle were part of design team responsible for delivering a new £50 Million 6 storey office block for Aberdeen City Council. The building utilises the façade of the existing Grade A listed building Marischal College in the heart of Aberdeen City Centre.
The design team successfully negotiated all co-ordination issues associated with a new development within the restraint of the existing façade to deliver the project on programme.
The office also successfully gained a BREEAM rating of Excellent.
For more information please contact Barry McKeane
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
Ambitious plans to establish a new energy hub in Aberdeen have received a major boost as two of the world's major energy corporations and a leading offshore drilling contractor revealed their intentions to establish new UK North Sea offices in the city.
Drum Property Group plan to invest over £100 million in creating state-of-the-art office complexes and global training facilities for Apache North Sea Limited, Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd and Transocean Drilling UK Limited at the Prime Four business park being developed on the outskirts of the city. This move is expected to act as a catalyst for additional significant investment at the park and underlines the long term future of the UKCS as a major oil and gas producing province.
Drum has planned Prime Four as a world class business park which will anchor key oil and gas firms in the north east and make a major contribution to the local and national economies. It will not be a standard industrial estate-type development, of which there are already several in Aberdeen. The buildings will instead provide sustainable, high quality office accommodation in attractive, properly planned and landscaped settings.
Wallace Whittle are delighted to be providing Drum with a full Mechanical, Electrical & BREEAM consultancy service on the project working alongside Halliday Fraser Munro as Project Managers, Architects & Planners, Fairhurst as Civil & Structural Engineers, Mcleod & Aitken as Quantity Surveyors & CDM Coordinator and OPEN as Landscape Architects.
For more information please visit http://www.primefour.co.uk/
For more information please contact Andy Forbes
aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle have been shortlisted in the “Green Business of the Year” category at the 2011 Scottish Business Awards. The Awards, to be held at the EICC in February, are intended as a showcase for excellence in Scottish business and to celebrate entrepreneurship whilst encouraging both mature and start up activity.
The judges were impressed how Wallace Whittle embraced Sustainability in a holistic approach across the business. The shortlist includes several Scottish heavyweights including Stagecoach, Wiseman Dairies and First Group, so we are in good company.
In all there are Ninety Scottish business’ listed across thirteen categories.
For more information please contact Brian Mayberry
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle have expanded their scope for BREEAM Assessment services and now cover the following schemes via our own in-house qualified BREEAM Assessors:
• Healthcare
• Education
• Offices
• Retail
• Industrial
• Data Centres
• Multi-residential
• Code for Sustainable Homes
• EcoHomes
• Bespoke
• International
• In-Use
Wallace Whittle are currently working within these schemes providing assessment services from Pre Assessment through to Post Construction certification.
For more information please contact Angela Reid
sustainability@wallacewhittle.com
To be built within the constraints of the existing site, this new building will provide 80 bed residential accommodation for Students of Knightswood School of Dance in Glasgow, for Glasgow City Council.
Currently at Full Business Case stage, the development will be designed to incorporate both passive and low carbon technology to meet the current Building Regulations.
For more information please contact Raymond Kelly
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle have been appointed by NHS Ayrshire & Arran to design the replacement electrical infrastructure for Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.
The project is being undertaken in 3 phases to avoid disruption to the hospital.
The first phase which involved the replacement of the 11kV network has now been completed. The works included new utility connections into the site and a new hospital MV board. The new infrastructure consists of a 2km 11kV ring and four package substations.
Design works to replace the main LV infrastructure are now ongoing.
For more information please contact Stephen Phimister
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
(Client confidentiality prevents release of full project details)
Wallace Whittle were asked to consider solutions to replace an Electrical Control & Monitoring System (ECMS) in a Client’s legacy data centre.
Wallace Whittle investigated a number of solutions and provided a design which allowed a phased replacement without any downtime in the data centre.
The solution was successfully implemented over a 12 month period and cumulated in a full programme of Integrated Site Testing.
The Client described this as one of the most technically challenging projects ever undertaken in a live data centre.
For more information please contact Stephen Phimister
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
Plans to build a major international business park near Aberdeen Airport with the potential to create up to 2000 jobs have been unveiled. Investment in the development, called ABZ, is expected to be in the region of £100million.
North-east business Ribnort is behind the 54-acre park, which will feature a mixture of high specification office and industrial units, along with a new four star airport hotel.
George Stevenson, founding director of Ribnort, said they hope to have units ready for occupation from summer 2012.
He said: "Commercial development land, including high standard office and industrial accommodation, is in desperately short supply in Aberdeen, particularly in the north of the city, which is the main driver of ABZ.
"Attracting new and retaining existing major business headquarters in the North-east is vital to the economy and, with a huge shortfall in developable land it is our hope that this proposal will help to maintain the city's vital position in the wider Scottish economy by providing capacity for inward investment from the energy sector and beyond.”
Ribnort is working in cooperation with Aberdeen Airport to develop the site, which lies adjacent to the airport’s south perimeter.
Aberdeen Airport managing director Derek Provan added: “I am delighted that after a number of years in the planning, Ribnort Ltd and Aberdeen Airport Ltd have been able to deliver a robust development plan for this site, which offers growth to the airport in line with our 25-year master plan and strengthening economic growth for the region.”
Wallace Whittle are delighted to be part of the multi-disciplinary professional team appointed by Ribnort to deliver this important project for the region.
For more information please visit http://www.abzbusinesspark.com
Or contact Andy Forbes aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
The new Beauty Hall at Selfridges Exchange in Manchester was successfully delivered on programme and opened on 26th September, 2011.
The project is part of a £20M phased remodelling of this exclusive department store and includes a Beauty Spa and Tanning Studio and doubles the size of the Beauty Hall renowned for exclusive brands.
For more information please contact Colin Lawrence
edinburgh@wallacewhittle.com
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