January News!

It’s a new decade and SVM would like to wish all our clients and collaborators a very Happy New Year and all the best for a prosperous 2020.  With the holidays but a fading memory, SVM are back and firing on all cylinders for what promises to be a busy and challenging year ahead.

2020 is already shaping up with large scale works for Goole Swing Bridge, Inverness Depot and railway design works at Reston and East Linton.  A new phase of works on a railway site in Birmingham is getting underway while additional AFA works at various Scottish sites are also at the initial survey stage.  Away from the Railway we have works for the NLB at Sumburgh Head; we’ve been asked to provide design advice for a large residential property in the Scottish Borders following fire damage; and have also been asked for our expertise at a commercial office belonging to a plumbing company in the Edinburgh area.  All of which leads to a very healthy first half of the year.

Still going strong in 2020 are Waverley Station with projects for concourse lighting and design for the toilets; various works at Glasgow Central station including DBs and LCPs, depot protection, retail and operational supplies; and LNER station surveys.  650V power supplies in Wellingborough and Sharnbrook are a big project this month while tunnel lighting control on the Glasgow subway is ongoing as are renewal works from Blair Atholl to Dalwhinnie; and rationalisation works in the Carstairs area.  Design works at Bristol and for staff accommodation at Ayr and Arbroath stations are progressing well and similar progress has been made on lub oil issues and footbridge lighting at Railway properties in Craigentinny and Falkirk respectively.
 Edinburgh IECC design related to the alarms is now underway along with various works in the North of the country with Banavie Swing Bridge, Highland Mainline; HEP East; and Caledonian Sleeper stabling facilities.  Electrical design at Blackpool is coming to a close while, also South of the Border, we remain involved with the station concourse works at Doncaster; further stages of works at Birmingham New Street station; and ongoing miscellaneous works in Birmingham and London Euston.  Our commercial sector involvement is also in good shape this month with ongoing works for Scottish lighthouses including works encompassing EPCs, surveys, controls, turbines and renewal issues surrounding the mercury baths supporting Fresnel lenses; provision of design advice for Glasgow’s Tidal weir; a water treatment site in the Cupar area; and office refurbishment works in Finnieston, Liverpool and East Kilbride.  We continue to provide technical reinstatement advice at St Andrew’s University and a luxury countryside hotel; while EVCP installations in Blantyre and water distribution issues in Bearsden are nearing completion.

It's a good start to 2020 and we are pleased to see that things look promising for our clients too with Story Rail holding the opening ceremony for their new Glasgow office this month – to which SVM were delighted to receive an invite.  We wish them all the best in their new premises and look forward to delivering many more
successful projects together.  It’s going to be a busy year with a lot of exciting things happening so if you would like to be a part of it all (and you have consultancy/rail experience) please submit your CV to Elise McLean, elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk.  We look forward to hearing from you