March News!

March slowly and steadily makes its way towards the end of the first quarter of 2021 and it continues to be incredible that time can be passing so quickly and slowly simultaneously!  At least the nights are growing a little longer and warmer, providing more opportunity to be outdoors and meet others somewhere other than on a computer screen.  Hopefully the progress achieved during this latest lockdown continues steadily and normality will slowly start to return at a safe pace. 

This month remains very busy for SVM but we are always able to find room for some new projects within our portfolio.  In the past few weeks we have begun to look at some new MEP and bonding design that is part of large scale Railway works at Slateford – a site with which we are already very familiar.  Another well known site to us is Perth Depot and we have also now been instructed to return here in order to produce some design associated with the shore supplies.  Meanwhile, a little further north, we have become involved in GRIP stage 4 works at Dalcross and, away from the Railway, we are in the process of completing tender documents for a local housing association’s site in Partick. 

Inverness remains a popular destination in March with projects relating to a Railway Yard, Depot LV and HV upgrades, Motorail sidings and carriage stabling works while not too far away the construction phase at Aberdeen Station plus a separate project in the area concerning lighting gantries are ongoing as is some railway yard lighting in Dundee.  Newer projects for DB design works in the Cathcart area; ‘Access for All’ design works in Croy, Port Glasgow and Johnston; and platform extension design at Linlithgow and Horsham are all getting off the ground this month, while we continue to await instruction for Railway projects in Reading and South Shields.  Large projects elsewhere include GRIP 5-8 design in the Reston area; design for Portobello Junction; and a scheme on the Ferrybridge to Goole line, while design works covering a Depot and rail sidings in the Fort William area is also ongoing.  Close to home we continue to provide design advice for some departure roads and fuel dispensing works at Corkerhill Depot; works around the retail spaces in Glasgow Central Station; design works for Carstairs MDU; and signalling feeders in the North of the city wheras, towards Edinburgh, we remain involved in railway works in the Law and Newton areas; the Edinburgh Recontrol scheme; heating and ventilation works at Edinburgh Waverley station; and signalling, UPS design and rewiring in the Motherwell area.  Ayr Station is another project still receiving attention in March while good progress has been made on a 650V feeders renewal scheme in Middlesbrough and Whitehouse; mechanical design in the Hambleton area; and our large scale scheme at Goole Swing Bridge.  Also still very much a feature of our portfolio South of the Border are the next phase of station design works in the Liverpool area; shore supplies design in Crewe; large scale signalling works on the Rugeley to Colwich line; and our long running project at a Birmingham Station.  Away from the Railway in March we are happy to remain involved with a retail park in Wishaw, a residential development in Edinburgh and works at an Alloa leisure centre.  We continue to provide design support for a large, Victorian residential property in Castle Douglas; elements of the Clyde Gateway regeneration scheme; and Glasgow’s famous Bell’s Bridge. 

SVM are continuing with home working being the default position but with a couple of people being present in the office every day so that clients can always get in touch for any design requirements.  As we head to the end of another successful financial year, we cross all of our appendages that the next one will take us all into much better times.