December News!

Merry Christmas!  In the blink of an eye, another year has raced past and we are preparing to toast the end of another successful year at SVM Glasgow.  The decorations are up and we are ready to make Merry at this year’s Christmas lunch (this year being held in Arta) but before the festivities commence, there are still plenty of projects set to be left under a happy client’s Christmas tree! 

Santa’s not the only one who is busy in December as new projects continue to arrive at the SVM Office.  We’ve been looking at some mechanical elements for Ravensthorpe SFC; electrical design for West Highland Line station platforms; CCTV in a station car park in Darlington; and a fuel tank leak in Inverness.  Meanwhile, away from the Railway, we’ve assisted with some cabling issues for a site in Herriott Watt University. 

Many of our ongoing projects are also joining the festive fun with the biggest party animals being the PSP, Compressor, retail supplies and Caledonia Chambers design at Glasgow Central; design for the refit of Edinburgh IECC; refurbishment for Hull Station traincrew; Clacton Wheel Lathe; Darlington Signalling Power design; Craigentinny CET; and electrical design for the accelerated network.  We continue to remain involved in the Railway infrastructure across the country with pit lighting works, panel scope design, and train crew accommodation in Inverness; surveys on the Aberdeen to Central Belt route; water pipe diversion and signalling power works in Dundee; EMF works; and design for Blair Atholl to Dalwhinnie.  Nearer home, we have progressed with 650V signalling feeders in the Townhill area; design assistance for East Kilbride electrification works; GRIP 4 and 5 design works at Levenmouth and Portobello; LEV design for engineering; mechanical design at Motherwell MDU; works at Shields Depot; and CET/water facilities at multiple sites.  GRIP 5 AFA works are close to beginning at Balgray station, while good progress has been made with remedial works at Scotstounhill and Airdrie Stations; points heating works at Westerton Station; Yoker Bridge deck and tendering of MELF works; and Depot works covering feeder protection upgrades.  Meanwhile we remain involved with design for fuel control panels; heating, air-con and boiler replacement works at Motherwell; and DPS works at Broomloan.  Glasgow and Edinburgh stations also continue to keep us busy with Edinburgh home to ventilation design, concourse lighting, calorifier design; digital advertising boards; and distribution design.  Meanwhile Glasgow Central hosts Level 4 TPE, electrical surveys, water tank works; design for junction lighting; and the early stages of extensive CCTV works.  Heading South through Ayrshire, we have the final stages of Troon Station refurbishment and new LLPA works; Irvine MDU; booking office; platform water heating and re-energisation works at Ayr Station; and water tank design at Dumfries.  England is still a common destination this month with Transpennine Express works in Newcastle, Hull and York; replacement of copper medium telecomms to fibre on Railway SCADA sites; and various works at multiple depots including Tysley, Eastcroft and Etches Park covering road jacking, 10 car stabling, engine drop and depot protection services.  Goole swing bridge works are edging closer to completion, as are tunnel works in West Yorkshire; and CET design in Carmarthen; while we look forward to the start of design for Scarborough shore supplies.  Reactive assistance is ongoing for the Rugeley to Colwich and Welwyn to Hitchin routes, and Birmingham and Euston Stations; while Selhurst REB and wheel lathe; Ferrybridge to Goole route; and Bangor to Colwyn Bay are nearing completion.    

A merry Christmas to the commercial sector too as we continue with design for Glasgow City Council concerning fuel tanks; a waste transfer facility in Helensburgh and extensive works associated with the expansion of Stranraer marina, which are beginning to get underway.  We have also begun to look at some design in Glasgow’s famous SEC and some small scale cable calcs for a commercial unit in Hillington Park and an office property in the trendy Partick area. 

This December sees a departure from SVM Glasgow as Craig Lennon moves on to pastures new and we wish him all the best in his future career.  The eagle eyed among you may notice that this could leave an empty seat for next year’s Christmas lunch, so if the above projects sound interesting to you, please send your CV and covering letter to elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk.  For the rest of us however; the Office will be open up until 24th December and then we will be closed until Friday 3rd January for the Christmas holidays.  We’d like to wish all of our clients and collaborators a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – here’s to 2025!