January News!

SVM Glasgow would like to welcome all our clients and collaborators to 2024 and hope that a very happy holiday was enjoyed by all.  It is very much back to business as usual in the SVM office and we are well on the way to gearing up for another exciting and inspiring year. 

We’re kicking off the New Year with lots of interesting new works, starting off gently with new phases of past projects including Singer containment; electrical design for stations at Bargeddie, East Kilbride and Bellshill; retail works at Glasgow Central Station; and CET facilities at various Railway locations.  Other new works for the Railway include wheel lathe design at Clacton; lighting of Railway Sidings in the Derby area; and design for telecoms power at multiple sites; all while we make a splash with projects involving water supplies at Yoker LMD and diversion of a water pipe in Dundee.  Furthermore, away from the Railway, we have become involved in the early stages of a project concerning wind farms, firmly encouraging the environmental responsibility that we try to bring to every project. 

Ongoing projects lighting up a dark January are headed up by multiple schemes at Etches park; lighting design at Eastcroft; design works for Tysley Depot; fire damper surveys on Railway sites; design for some train crew accommodation in Inverness; design at Balgray Station; and white diesel changeover works at 3 depots.  We have an excellent spread across the Country this month beginning in the North where panel design works are underway in Inverness and we eagerly await the green light for level crossing works in the Fort William area and LV design from Aberdeen to the Central Belt.  We have been all across the heart of the country’s railway system with the beginning of electrification design in East Kilbride; design for station vending machines at multiple sites; GRIP 4-5 design works at Levenmouth; and GRIP 5 design at Portobello.  There are still several ongoing small scale design works at Railway sites in Helensburgh; Argyle St; Aldclune Level Crossing; Blair Atholl to Dalwhinnie; and Queen St ticket office; while boiler replacement works in Motherwell; bridge deck works in the Yoker area; replacement of copper medium telecomms to fibre on Railway SCADA sites; and firewall replacement works are all making excellent progress.  AFA works remain important to the Railway with projects still ongoing at Anniesland; Dumfries and Carstairs; while Life extension works at Kirkconnel; and Caledonia Chambers retail are also making good headway.  A lot of depot works are in progress this month with electrical surveys at LMD compressors at Haymarket; CETs at Eastfield; yard design at Perth; and multiple schemes at Cadder including asset plans, substations, DHL, RSA shed, sliding gate, proposed new wheel lathe, and temporary LV supplies.  Station works remain busy at the big hitters in Edinburgh and Glasgow with works revolving around the lighting; digital advertising boards and the distribution boxes at Waverley; and junction lighting and electrical surveys at Glasgow Central.  Rounding out the South of the Country, we remain involved with station rebuild design at Troon and a station booking office in Ayrshire.  All of which takes us across the border where there is even more fun afoot!  We are well underway now with electrical design for the accelerated network in the Shrewsbury area and 2 separate Railway projects in the Darlington area for station works and resignalling.  Meanwhile, we are progressing works for Rugeley to Colwich and Welwyn to Hitchin Railway routes; while we continue to provide ongoing reactive involvement for long standing projects at Birmingham and Euston Stations; design near Widnes; Goole Swing Bridge; and works on the Ferrybridge to Goole route.  Bangor to Colwyn Bay design works remain live as do tunnel works at a site in West Yorkshire alongside those for the traffic light at Great Glen station; and Selhurst REB and wheel lathe.   

Non-railway projects are also finding a space this month with two healthcare facilities in Cambridge, one a new physiotherapy suite and the other an ophthalmic day theatre; and design works for an office refurbishment in Kilsyth.  Meanwhile lighting works at a roundabout in the North of Glasgow are underway; and we await the green light on Port Authority works at varying stages of design and implementation from Fort William in the North, Liverpool in the West and Sheerness in the South East. 

We would like to wish all of our clients and collaborators a Happy New Year and we very much look forward to working together again in 2024 on interesting projects like those above.  If that sounds exciting to you and you are an EP design engineer with experience in a consultancy setting then this could be the time to make that change and submit your CV to elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk.  Now that’s a New Year’s resolution to stick to!