March News!

It has been a sad week in Glasgow following the massive fire next to Glasgow Central station that has destroyed an iconic Victorian building which was home to many small businesses, as well as causing untold disruption to travel services into the City.  SVM would like to extend our best wishes to all those affected by the fire and to the emergency services who were in attendance at such a  dangerous incident.  Network Rail have already been in touch with SVM to provide assistance at the site and we are hoping to play a part in bringing the station back to functionality as soon as possible. 

New projects just making it into the end of this financial year include some CCTV design for Dunkeld Station and a training facility at Warrington Station.  We are also pleased to see recontrol works in Chester getting underway along with M&E design at Queens Park Station and shore supplies at Chiltern. 

March’s big hitters are led by multiple schemes at Glasgow Central Station including retail services and the ScotRail Caledonia Sleeper Lounge; sleeper servicing at Inverness; and stabling works at Dundee.  There has also been a lot of movement on two schemes across the country covering station waiting rooms and Megastream Design.  Also at Glasgow Central we remain busy with heritage migration works; HV Arch ventilation, UPS works for the CCTV, and PSP/compressor works, which are nearing completion.  Meanwhile Waverley remains home to design for lighting and lighting control; ventilation refurbishment; calorifiers; and LV distribution.  The surrounding areas in the central belt contain a host of projects with destrat fans and fluid dispensing at Corkerhill Depot; wheel lathe works at Cadder; Motherwell PSP design; South Gyle Station footbridge design; and DNO migration at West Calder.  Rectification works at pantograph monitoring sites are ongoing, as is a station rewiring project in Cambuslang; design for welfare facilities at Haymarket Depot; an active travel path and cycle shelter at Dunbar; and Millerhill Depot stabling roads.  We remain involved with design for Yoker Bridge Deck; Balgray Station AFA; MELF works at Yoker; and electrical design at Mossend Rail Terminal.  WCML works at Law and Newton are making good progress along with a rectifier survey at Greenhill; AFA works at Cardenden Station; and LV design on the Haymarket to Dalmeny route.  Further out to the North of the country we are still providing design advice following load monitoring at Milburn Yard and a granular asset survey at Inverness, which is also the location for cabin power design, TMD design; and CSMD sump pump works.  A little further South, we continue to be involved with AFA schemes at Inverurie and Nairn; provision of design advice for a pumping station; signalling power in Dundee; a level crossing at Gartly; and modernisation works and yard EP design in Perth.  At the other end of Scotland we are making ourselves at home in the Borders and Ayrshire with works at Thornhill signal box; Heritage migration works at Lockerbie station; Bowland Junction, Ayr Station and Hunterston. England is also busy place with some further station loading assessments at Hull; Clacton wheel lathe works; and FTN FGI renewals at Stoke and Didcot.  Works for Sudbrook pumping Station (serving the Severn Tunnel) are just about to get underway; while shore supplies in Scarborough, Stourbridge and Banbury have made a start.  Meanwhile Darlington resignalling and Station Car Park CCTV; Transpennine Express premises in Hull, Newcastle and York; Ravensthorpe SFC; and works on the Ferrybridge to Goole route are all ongoing.  Of course, we still have many projects that cannot be contained (geographically at least!) and spread across sites around the country such as UPS surveys at multiple railway sites; auxiliary signalling power; LV AC/DC power and Telecoms surveys; heritage migration works; EV chargers at Railway sites; and ESD design between Glasgow and Edinburgh.   

In the commercial sector, the large scale Stranraer Marina expansion continues to be our largest project and we remain involved with works for upgrades to a materials shed at one of our client’s premises; office refurbishments in Annan and Garscadden; and an organic waste recycling plant in the Glasgow area. 

Everyone is Springing into action to deliver the best service possible for all of these exciting projects but an extra pair of hands is always welcome – so if you think the above sounds interesting and you have M&E design experience, then send your CV and covering letter to elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk.  It could really put a Spring in your step!