January News!

Happy New Year and welcome to 2025!  We hope that all our clients, colleagues and collaborators had a wonderful time over the festive period and we look forward to the start of another year that is already shaping up to be full of challenges and opportunities. 

New projects for the new year have already begun with some refurbishment works at a Polmadie relay room; traincare facilities at Dundee; some fire protection for a plant arch at Glasgow Central Station; and some REB wraparound protection at multiple railway sites.  We are also getting an early start on non Railway projects for 2025 with power design for an organic waste disposal plant and some assistance for an area of land in Drumchapel. 

Meanwhile, the rest of the country remains abuzz with our ongoing projects, the largest of which being design for station platforms on the West Highland main line; Transpennine Express premises in Hull, Newcastle and York; Clacton wheel lathe works; various projects around Glasgow Central Station including retail; PSP/compressor works, Level 4 TPE, electrical surveys, water tank works and the early stages of extensive CCTV works; Darlington signalling power; and design for the accelerated network.  Several of these are projects in England and we do remain busy South of the Border with other projects including mechanical design for Ravensthorpe SFC; CCTV in a station car park in Darlington; 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.  Nearing the end of their time with us are Goole swing bridge; tunnel works in West Yorkshire; CET design in Carmarthen; Selhurst REB and wheel lathe; Ferrybridge to Goole route works; and Bangor to Colwyn Bay.  However, we look forward to the start of design for Scarborough shore supplies and continue our reactive assistance for the Rugeley to Colwich and Welwyn to Hitchin routes, and Birmingham and Euston Stations.  Meanwhile, back in Scotland, we are kept busy from coast to coast with Inverness providing pit lighting works, panel scope design, fuel tank works and train crew accommodation.  Surveys on the Aberdeen to Central Belt route are ongoing, as are water pipe diversion and signalling power works in Dundee; EMF works; and design for Blair Atholl to Dalwhinnie.  Across the central belt 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; mechanical design at Motherwell MDU; works at Shields Depot; and CET/water facilities at multiple sites.  Craigentinny CET detailed design and works for the refit of Edinburgh IECC are making good progress as are those for fuel control panels; heating, air-con and boiler replacement at Motherwell; and DPS works at Broomloan.  We look forward to the beginning of GRIP 5 AFA works at Balgray station; while we’ve begun to make headway 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.  The main Edinburgh stations are still home to ventilation design, concourse lighting, calorifier design; digital advertising boards; and distribution design; while Ayrshire and the Borders see 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. 

The commercial sector had also had a Happy New Year 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.  We have also begun to look at some design in Glasgow’s famous SEC and some small scale works for a commercial unit in Hillington Park; an office property in the trendy Partick area; and a site at Herriott Watt University. 

We are excited for everything that 2025 will bring for SVM, we can’t wait to reconnect with all of our trusted clients, collaborators and colleagues and also make some new connections along the way.  So, if the above sounds interesting to you then the new year is a great time to look for a change, and send your CV and covering letter to elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk.  New Year, new you!