February News!

2024 is very much in full swing now and we certainly have our hands full as we speed towards the end of this financial year.  It’s very rewarding that so many of the new projects with which we are becoming involved are with well-known clients that have received our excellent service for many years; but it has also been exciting to have been approached by some eager Valentines, with whom our relationship is just getting started. 

Late winter warmers brightening our days in February include some design for DBs at Paisley; load monitoring at a Cumbernauld station; and heating and air con works at Motherwell MDU.  Lighting design has been requested for Glasgow Central junction and Dunkeld Station, while we are also assisting on the AFA schemes with temporary works at Carstairs.  Further afield we have becoming involved in some LEV design for engineering and a data centre in Didcot, yet still have found time to move away from the Railway to look at assisting with Building Control acceptance for a commercial unit in Dumfries. 

There are plenty of ongoing works this month as well, with the most prominent being lighting at Waverley station; fire damper survey works; white diesel changeover design at 3 depots; refurbishment works at Caledonia Chambers; and AFA works at Balgray Station.  Works covering replacement of copper medium telecomms to fibre on Railway SCADA sites have made good progress this month as have several projects for one long standing client based around Eastcroft, Etches Park, Clacton and Tysley Depot.  Once again in February, we are covering a lot of ground, with the North of the country providing design for train crew accommodation and panel design works, both in Inverness; diversion of a water pipe in Dundee; level crossing works in the Fort William area and LV design from Aberdeen to the Central Belt.  Heading South, we remain involved with 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.   Containment works at Singer are now well underway, as are retail works at Glasgow Central Station; and CET facilities at various Railway locations.  There are still several ongoing small scale design works at Aldclune Level Crossing; Kirkconnel life extension works; Blair Atholl to Dalwhinnie; and Queen St ticket office; while boiler replacement works in Motherwell; bridge deck works in the Yoker area; and design for telecoms power at multiple sites are all making excellent progress.  Existing AFA works at Anniesland and Dumfries are ongoing while Cadder depot continues to buzz with works concerning asset plans, substations, DHL, RSA shed, sliding gate, proposed new wheel lathe, and temporary LV supplies.  Depot works reman popular this month with electrical surveys at LMD compressors at Haymarket; CETs at Eastfield; and water supplies at Yoker; while works remain busy at the big stations in Edinburgh and Glasgow with works revolving around the digital advertising boards and the distribution boxes at Waverley; and electrical surveys and retail works at Glasgow Central.  We still venture into the West of Scotland for station rebuild design at Troon and a station booking office in Ayrshire, which is currently entering a new phase of works.  Crossing the border, it remains busy ‘down South’ with lighting of Railway Sidings in the Derby area; electrical design for the accelerated network in the Shrewsbury area and 2 separate Railway projects in the Darlington area for station works and resignalling.  Ongoing works are continuing for Rugeley to Colwich and Welwyn to Hitchin Railway routes; while we remain involved with ongoing reactive works 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; and Selhurst REB and wheel lathe.   

Away from the Railway, we continue to provide design support for 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.  Lighting works at a roundabout in the North of Glasgow have entered a new phase; and we are in the very early stages of a project concerning wind farms, firmly encouraging the environmental responsibility that we try to bring to every project. 

There is a lot going on at SVM, with many interesting challenges just waiting to be solved.  So if the above sounds exciting to you, and you are an EP design engineer with experience in a consultancy setting then don’t be a secret admirer, submit your CV to elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk.  Happy Valentine’s Day!