November News!

It’s just one more month until Christmas and the festive feeling is beginning to spread around Glasgow with lights and decorations already beginning to appear.  The party season got off to a great start – as it always does – with the IRSE Scotland dinner, at which SVM once again hosted two tables.  A huge thank you to the organisers and to all of our lovely guests who attended and helped to make it such an enjoyable evening. 

November has seen a lot of new projects sliding into the SVM portfolio with a new design phase for the Megastream works and AFA schemes at Inverurie and Nairn.  There are some solar EV works at a Railway location on Glasgow’s South Side, while further load monitoring and reporting has been requested at Corkerhill.  In another project where we have been asked to return for subsequent phases of work, we have begun to look at the site stage of Yoker Footbridge removal, offering design advice and support during construction.  On the commercial side, we have also been asked to look at upgrades to a materials shed at one of our client’s premises. 

Our leading projects in this penultimate month of the year include UPS surveys at multiple railway sites; Inverness TMD design; Clacton wheel lathe works; Perth Modernisation; Millerhill Depot stabling roads; Cadder wheel lathe; Megastream surveys; Balgray Station AFA; and sleeper servicing design at Inverness.  We continue to be busy across the UK this November with CSMD sump pump works, replacement control panels, Motorail buffer stop lighting; and train crew accommodation in Inverness; while we also remain involved with provision of design advice for a pumping station and signalling power works in Dundee; and EP design at a yard in Perth.  Across the Central Belt we have ongoing MELF works at Yoker; design for South Gyle Station footbridge; further AFA works at Cardenden Station; and LV design on the Haymarket to Dalmeny route.  Walkway lighting at Craigentinny Depot is making good progress; as are electrification elements at East Kilbride; CETs at Craigentinny; Access For All works at Dumbarton Central and Bellgrove Stations; and electrical design at Mossend Rail Terminal.  Motherwell PSP is off to a good start as are AFA works at Falkirk Grahamston; WCML works at Law and Newton; and a rectifier survey at Greenhill.  Of course the main stations remain hubs of activity with retail design; HV Arch ventilation; design for the Caledonia Sleeper lounge; Level 4 TPE; electrical surveys, PSP and compressor works, and plant arch fire protection at Glasgow Central; and design for lighting control, ventilation refurbishment, advertising boards, calorifiers; and distribution at Edinburgh Waverley.  There are also still many projects this month that cover multiple locations across the country, including heritage migration works; auxiliary signalling power; LV AC/DC power and Telecoms surveys; works on the Aberdeen to Central Belt and Blair Atholl to Dalwhinnie routes; and ESD design between Glasgow and Edinburgh.  Meanwhile, in England, we are very active with FTN FGI renewals at Stoke and Didcot; CCTV design in Allerton; toilet refurbishments in Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes; 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. 

The commercial sector has not been neglected this month either, with new works for a Dentist surgery in Glasgow and electrical design for a workshop near Larbert; while we remain involved with the large scale Stranraer Marina expansion, one of our biggest non Railway projects to date.  Also still in progress is design for a B&B in pretty Ballater; office refurbishments in Annan and Garscadden; and two recycling plants in the Glasgow area.  

SVM are all geared up for the usual descent into Christmas and are looking forward to our famous Christmas lunch, this year being held at Chaophraya.  SVM could currently welcome experienced engineers or CAD support, so if the above sounds interesting to you and you fancy a place at our Christmas Thai feast, then send your CV and covering letter to elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk.  It could be the early Christmas present that you give yourself!