Scientists uncovering the secrets of the world's deepest darkest oceans are looking forward to a dynamic future by celebrating the start of work on a new state of the art £4.4M facility.
Five decades of leading environmental research on the University of Aberdeen's Newburgh site will also be recognised at a special turf cutting ceremony taking place at Oceanlab, paving the way for Oceanlab 2.
Fifty years ago, University researchers moved into Culterty House at Newburgh - just adjacent to Oceanlab which opened in 2001 - with the aim of shaping our understanding of the natural environment.
The new build will provide specialised facilities for the study of global carbon cycles from estuaries to the deep sea; exploring what happens to matter when it sinks to the ocean floor.
Wallace Whittle are delighted to be providing full Mechanical & Electrical Consultancy duties as part of the retained Design Team who successfully completed Phase 1.
For more information please contact Andy Forbes
aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
Work has completed in April 2008 for our Client Udaras Na Gaeltachta for complete new mechanical and electrical services installation for the refurbishment of an existing factory located in Fintown, Co. Donegal. We worked alongside Moneybeg Planning & Engineering Ltd and Main Contractor Joseph McMenamin & Sons.
For more information please contact Stephen Kelly
donegal@wallacewhittle.com
ASDA Shaw, which incorporated a number of sustainable energy features, including natural ventilation, Northlights and daylight controls to the Sales Floor lighting, has been nominated for and won an International Green Apple Award for the Built Environment. Wallace Whittle will be presented with their award by Professor David Bellamy, OBE, at an Awards Ceremony at the Tower of London in June.
For more information please contact Tony May
leeds@wallacewhittle.com
We are pleased to announce our appointment by Stewart Milne Developments to provide full M&E design duties on a speculative £4.5M Office Development at their large mixed development site in Portlethen, Aberdeen. Other design team members are Architects - Halliday Fraser Munro, Civil & Structural - WA Fairhurst, Quantity Surveying - Gardiner & Theobald
For more information please contact Andy Forbes
aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
Works have recently been completed on a new health complex and crèche for Comhairle Ceantar Gleann Fhinne. Wallace Whittle provided full M&E design services and worked alongside McMullin Associates Architects and Main Contractor McDermott & Trearty Construction Ltd.
For more information please contact Stephen Kelly
donegal@wallacewhittle.com
This new 8 classroom school at Kilmacrennan has been successfully completed and staff and students have moved in after the Easter break. The school was completed based on Department of Education & Science Standard Generic Repeat Design Type school and consists of 8No classrooms, General purpose Room, Library, Resource Rooms and Staff facilities. Wallace Whittle provided M&E services and worked with Department of Education & Science Architects & Main Contractor McAleer & Teague Ltd.
For more information please contact Stephen Kelly
donegal@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle have recently been appointed M&E consultants for the new NHS Grampian Dental School at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as part of a multi disciplined design team. The project consists of a 4000sqm new build extension and the refurbishment of two floors of the existing Argyle House facility adjacent. Works include the extension of the existing HV east ring and the existing site wise steam infrastructure to feed new sterilization plant. The design remit also includes for the complete M&E fit out of all areas including lighting, power, data, fire alarms, HVAC and vacuum and suction gases and all associated plant. The estimated value of the project is £15,000,000.00.
For more information please contact Craig Slessor
aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle are pleased to announce their appointment to provide M & E design services for a £80M, 200,000 sqft Marischal College Redevelopment project which will see the former college converted into Aberdeen City Council’s new corporate headquarters.
The conversion will ensure the retention of all the granite elevations and preservation of the 100 year old A listed façade with the building being configured to meet the requirements of Aberdeen City Council with flexibility for general office use.
The building services shall be designed to be operated by the single tenant with modular plant configured to allow control of the various floors to suit the department occupancy levels via a mixture of natural and mechanical means.
We are working on a number of sustainable and renewable energy proposals for the development, as part of our appointment, which will see us utilising IES simulation software fully to gain Section 6 compliance while also evaluating Temperature profiles, Daylighting factors and CO2 Rates across all areas of the building.
The aim is to achieve an Excellent BREEAM Rating and to works towards an “A” Energy Rating for the building as part of a detailed energy strategy for the building.
The Project team is made up of Holmes Partnership as Architect, Arup as Structural Engineers, Doig and Smith as Quantity Surveyors and Gardiner and Theobald as Project Managers.
For more information please contact Allan McGill
glasgow@wallacewhittle.com
The St James Centre in Edinburgh, once voted one of the ugliest buildings in the U.K., is set for a £1bn overhaul after plans were revealed by owners Henderson Global Investors.
The plans would see the centre transformed from into the lynchpin of a new city quarter with retailers, hotels, apartments and offices. Public squares and rooftop gardens would also be a key feature of the scheme that is believed to be the largest redevelopment in Edinburgh's city centre for half a century.
Thousands of new jobs are expected to be created through the development, which would treble the existing amount of retail space at the centre and open up links with Princes Street, George Street and Multrees Walk.
Wallace Whittle have been appointed alongside architects bdp & Allan Murray Architects, the £850m proposals are based around a modern three-level, five storey galleria modelled on the city's famous Baroque-style crescents as well as similar developments in cities such as Milan.
The plans were revealed for the first time by Henderson Global Investors at the launch of an exhibition in the existing centre on Leith Street as part of an eight-week consultation period. Allan Murray described the ideas, which will see the entire complex, except the John Lewis building, torn down after nearly 40 years.
The unique project provides us with many challenges, not least in developing a common low carbon integrated energy strategy and currently we are looking at providing the entire site with energy including power, ventilation, heating and cooling from a central energy centre utilising CHP machines and Absorption & Electric Chillers.
With a 3 level 1600 space car park created below ground beneath the retail and leisure destinations it is important that we establish engineering solutions which operate efficiently without effecting other elements of the scheme aesthetically or with noise or odours.
The team based in our Edinburgh Office, less than 100 yards from the site, have been proactive and innovative in developing services which will provide a safe and comfortable environment in a sustainable and low carbon manner.
Proposals currently include up to 30 escalators and 25 lifts to transport the visitors and residents through the 18 or so levels of this diverse and exciting scheme.
HGI are confident that SJQ would attract key shops to the city, with the firm predicting that, if given the go-ahead, demolition could begin in 2010 with the quarter completed in 2015.
For more information please contact Colin Lawrence
edinburgh@wallacewhittle.com
We are pleased to announce our appointment by Bailey to provide M & E design services for a £28M Regional Sport Centre in Aberdeen providing northern Scotland with a sporting hub capable of hosting international sporting events. The project, which has attracted lottery funding, is a joint venture between the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen City Council and Sport Scotland and will have the following facilities:
- One of the largest indoor third-generation synthetic pitches in the UK
- Indoor and outdoor athletics training facilities – including track, throwing and jumping
- Large multi-sport games hall (the size of nine competition-standard badminton courts)
- Fitness suite, studios and performance gym
- Water-based floodlit hockey pitch
- Sports performance and science laboratories
- Four squash courts (two glass-backed for competition)
- Indoor and outdoor spectator facilities
- Café and crèche
For more information please contact Andy Forbes
aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
After some 3 years input to the design, construction and delivery of a significant number of Metro nodes and MSANS throughout the UK with both Mansell Construction and Interserve project services as Supply and delivery partners, Wallace Whittle are nearing the completion of Tranches 1–4.
The process was at times extremely demanding but with co-ordinated design groups in our Edinburgh, Leeds and London offices we delivered projects from Inverness through to Brighton in this time.
The benefits of this completely new digital network are being felt by many BT customers and will continue through the next few years are the complete UK is delivered Broadband to Television services over the Network.
For more information please contact David Clabby
london@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace whittle are pleased to announce that following on the success of the ongoing construction of Phase 1 of the above, we are continuing our good relationship with Berkeley Homes group and have been appointed to provide detailed planning input to both phases 2 & 3.
Both these plots are exciting in their own way and indeed bring different problems that need addressed, not least of all is the inclusion of the Cross-rail station for Woolwich which is included within Phase 3.
Top class Architect in the form of Munkenbeck & Marshall and Allies and Morrison are leading the team for phases 2 and 3 respectively.
For more information please contact David Clabby
london@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle are delighted to announce that we are engaged by Lend Lease as M&E Consultants on the first two residential blocks on the Stratford site.
Lend Lease appointed 47 Architects in 2007 to look at the mammoth task of delivering the accommodation for the ODA and thereafter legacy works. We are working up designs with Architects Patel & Taylor for the first two mansion blocks.
For more information please contact David Clabby
london@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle have been appointed to provide design services for the redevelopment of Riber Castle, at Matlock in Derbyshire.
Riber Castle, located 200 metres above Matlock, was designed and built in 1862 by John Smedley from locally quarried Gritstone. Planning consent, for conversion of the English Heritage Listed Building, into twenty six luxury apartments, together with redevelopment of the former outbuildings and castle grounds to provide twenty further residences was granted following a Government Enquiry.
There are a number of ecological issues to be addressed as part of the redevelopment, due to bats and newts having taken up residence in the castle and grounds and work is currently in hand to safely relocate these protected species away from their current habitats, before the work of restoring the castle begins, which is currently scheduled for May 2008.
We are working with the developer on a number of sustainable and renewable energy proposals for the development, as part of our appointment.
For more information please contact Tony May
leeds@wallacewhittle.com
Wallace Whittle provided full mechanical and electrical design services and supervision for this new modern 5 Star Youth Hostel in Co. Donegal. The Hostel consists of a dining room, kitchens, conference room, internet library, admin office, three floors of bedrooms (60 No. bed capacity), managers flat and a plantroom / switchroom area.
Energy efficient designs were incorporated in the form of a wood chip boiler installation and energy saving controls for all communal area lighting.
Wallace Whittle worked alongside GM Design Associates Ltd - Architects, Brian Canavan Associates - Quantity Surveyors and Main Contractor Dorrian Construction Ltd in completing this modern youth hostel.
For more information please contact Stephen Kelly
donegal@wallacewhittle.com
We have just completed full M&E services design and supervision for a new health centre in Fintown, Co. Donegal for the Health Service Executive. The architect on the project was Moneybeg Ltd and the main contractor Terence Ponsonby Ltd.
The Board would like to congratulate the following members of staff on their recent promotions – Martin McAdams (Belfast) and James Barber (London) now fill the positions of Director in their respective offices.
Ian Gillespie, Susan Cochrane (both Aberdeen) and Craig Armstrong (Edinburgh) have moved up the ranks to Associate Director level.
The Board would also like to welcome Mike Baird and Jonathan Taylor to the Company, they both join us as Associate Directors in the Edinburgh and London offices respectively.
Livingston is changing fast as construction of The Elements forges ahead at pace.
Little over a year ago the site was an operating Car Park. Now the buildings are sprouting at a phenomenal rate and the tricky bits have started!
The new Centre is scheduled to open in time for Christmas shopping 2008 and will provide c 375,000 sq.ft. of retail and leisure space, introducing Debenhams and Marks & Spencers as the town’s first department stores.
Our design includes many sustainable features such as daylight harvesting, displacement ventilation with natural exhaust, rainwater harvesting and solar heating of DHWS.
For more information please contact John Finlayson edinburgh@wallacewhittle.com
We are delighted to be working alongside Knight Frank and TCD Architects for Developer Seletar Shipping on this ambitious scheme to redevelop part of Aberdeen Docklands.
The development comprises around 46,500 sq ft of Grade A office space with integral car parking over six levels. The new open plan office accommodation will be available for lease in individual floor plates ranging from 7,500 sq ft to 14,000 sq ft or in combinations of up to a maximum of 46,500 sq ft. The 4th floor and ground floor space is already "under offer" and significant interest has already been expressed in the remainder, despite the lack of a formal marketing campaign.
Seletar Shipping is keen to ensure that the building is environmentally conscious and will incorporate energy efficient design to minimise the building's carbon footprint and recycling facilities for each floor. Additional features will include full curtain walling at 3rd & 4th floor levels incorporating a roof terrace to both floors, and a full height central atrium featuring a bespoke Helical staircase and water feature. There will also be a catering concession on the 2nd floor overlooking the entrance foyer.
The building will also be fully DDA compliant. Two levels of integral car park offer a generous car parking ratio of one space for every 350 sq ft.
New Horizons House is close to a range of amenities, including the bus and train station and the new Union Square Retail/Leisure Development, the Boulevard Retail Park and the Beach Leisure Centre. Seletar also provide a courtesy bus service which operates between the Waterloo Quay development and the city centre, for use of the occupiers of the development.
For more information please contact Andy Forbes aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
Peacock Visual Arts in partnership with the city's arts education and arts development teams are currently developing schemes for a new 'iconic' building in Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens.
Wallace Whittle are delighted to be working alongside internationally acclaimed Architects Brisac Gonzales who have been very clever and innovative with the design since the building not only shelves discretely into the existing gardens but will open access to the gardens up considerably in what has always been a sensitive yet neglected part of the city centre.
The environmentally friendly building, which it is intended will harness geo-thermal and solar energy to heat it, will largely be built underground and be no higher than the height of the existing wall along Union Terrace. The council hopes this will create a thriving cultural quarter in the area, with the Art Gallery and His Majesty's Theatre both nearby.
For more information please contact Andy Forbes aberdeen@wallacewhittle.com
ASDA’s first 'green' store at Shaw in Oldham opened on 3rd August 2007.
The store is the first ASDA store to be constructed from a sustainable timber-frame and Wallace Whittle provided a number innovative design solutions to reduce carbon emissions. These solutions consisted of natural ventilation, north-lights and day-light linking to the sales floor lighting, which are predicted to reduce carbon emissions by 40% and provide a saving in energy costs in the order of £30,000 PA, when compared to a “standard” ASDA store.
Through a series of sensors located around the sales floor, the natural lighting levels achieved from the north-lights are monitored and the lighting levels are automatically adjusted to reduce energy consumption.
A thermodynamic model of the store was produced by Wallace Whittle, using IES modelling software which allowed the design solutions to be modelled and predictions of the carbon emissions and energy savings to be determined.
For more information please contact Tony May leeds@wallacewhittle.com
In 1991 Wallace Whittle designed the necessary Building Services for Islay's first indoor public swimming pool. Prior to this the hardy folk of Islay had to learn to swim in the sea, which was no doubt character building but a bit tough for our "soft" generation.
The building to house the pool was donated by the McTaggart family then owners of the neighbouring Bowmore Distillery one of the finest Islay Malts. The distillery engineers worked with ourselves to develop a heat recovery scheme utilising warm waste water which originated from Bowmore's private loch, from their processes which via a system of heat exchangers provided heat to the pool water.
This year we were invited back over to assist in engineering further enhancements to the scheme which has resulted in the system now heating pool water, hot water for showers and ventilation supply air. All now controlled from a sophisticated computer based Building Management System.
For more information contact Stewart McKechnie glasgow@wallacewhittle.com