April News!

April has arrived and once again Spring sees the beginning of a new financial year and another 12 months of challenges and opportunities at SVM Glasgow.  It’s all go in the office and everyone is looking forward to the year ahead. 

This April’s newest projects include further design for lighting at Waverley Station; power alterations for the Caledonia sleeper lounge at Glasgow Central; and load monitoring at Inverness.  Extensive outline and detailed design is about to get underway in the Dundee to Montrose area; while we have also begun to look at some ECML feeder migration design.  Away from the Railway we are happy to have become involved in some design works at Greenock Ocean terminal and we have also looked at the electrical and lighting installations for a foil manufacturing facility.  

This month our leading projects include Inverness CSMD sump pumps; Cardenden AFA; Chester recontrol; REB wraparound protection; Dundee Stabling; National Megastream Design; Avanti Waiting Rooms; and design works around Law on the WCML.  As well as these we also have several projects underway across multiple sites across the country including 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.  The main stations in Glasgow and Edinburgh also remain very busy with works at the former for retail services, heritage migration works, HV Arch ventilation, and UPS works for the CCTV; and at the latter for lighting and lighting control; ventilation refurbishment; calorifiers; and LV distribution.  Across the rest of the country we are pleased to still be involved with sleeper servicing; load monitoring; a granular asset survey; TMD design; and cabin power design all at Inverness.  Moving 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; CCTV design for Dunkeld Station; and modernisation works and yard EP design in Perth.  Across the central belt there are plenty of old favourites such as 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 are 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.  A rectifier survey at Greenhill is making good progress as is LV design on the Haymarket to Dalmeny route.  Meanwhile, in Ayrshire and the borders, we remain involved with works at Thornhill signal box; Heritage migration at Lockerbie station; Bowland Junction; Ayr Station; and Hunterston.  South of the border we are still busy with works for 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 good 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 to be joined by newer works at a training facility at Warrington Station and M&E design at Queens Park Station.   

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. 

It’s been a busy start to the year with lots of exciting new projects, a visit to Rail Link Dublin and preparations for attending the Glasgow RIN event next month at the SEC.  If you are attending this event, please make sure to stop by for a chat with us!  With so much going on, we have been happy to welcome some assistance from Sai Chennam, who has joined the team on a student placement for a few months.  We hope he finds his time with us to be a great learning experience.