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SEPA staff move in to their new office accommodation at Inverdee House, Aberdeen.

 

The name Inverdee (coming from the Gaelic "the meeting of the waters") was chosen as a simple reminder that three environment organisations will be coming together, at the mouth of the Dee, in one building.

 

The building is a partnership project under the SEARS banner, providing office accommodation for staff from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Scottish Natural Heritage SNH and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee JNCC.  SNH and JNCC are due to move in shortly.

 

Further information on this project can be found under our "Offices" section of our Projects.

 

Number 1 Tanfield in Edinburgh has won the Scottish BCO Award for "Best Redevelopment of an Existing Building" 2010.

 

The Awards ceremony was held in Edinburgh  on 21 April 2010.

 

The building was  previously a 1980's HQ for Standard Life and has been developed to provide flexible suites of 10,000 to 20,000 ft², up to 220,000 ft².

 

Work has resumed on the £200m Riverside One development at Middlehaven in Middlesborough, which DSSR is responsible for developing the energy concepts and designing the M&E Services.  This substantial project involves the regeneration of the redundant waterfront quarter in Middlesbrough into a ground breaking landscape of contemporary architecture that will  feature shops, leisure facilities and 750 new homes when completed.

The first building onsite - Community in a Cube (CIAC) - will contain 80 apartments, and is due for completion in the summer of 2011.

 

Click on the following link to read what the BBC have to say about this exciting project.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8588712.stm

DSSR have just completed the Cumbria Constabulary New Divisional Headquarters' in Carlisle and  it has just received "Highly Recommended" at the North West Regional Construction Awards 2009 "North West Environmental Sustainability Award".  Award Certificate 

The Project also received approval from the Prime Minister Gordon Brown when he made a visit to the Headquarters Building during a visit to Carlisle on the 8th April 2009.

 

The Prime Minister commented "the new building represents the largest capital investment in the Police Authority’s history".

 

 

The 370 bed Royal Manchester Children's Hospital has just been completed and will open in June this year.

 

This is part of the major new acute PFI hospital project on the existing Manchester Royal Infirmary site, requiring multiple phases to construct the new hospital across the site.

DSSR has been responsible for the strategic design throughout the PFI bidding process on this site, which DSSR has worked on for many years. DSSR are responsible for the full design of Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health Building Engineering Services.

Open the following link to read about this exciting new development that DSSR are proud to be associated with. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8026692.stm

 http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Hospital-Opening-UKs-Largest-Childrens-Hospital-Opens-In-Manchester/Article/200906215300768?lid=ARTICLE_15300768_HospitalOpening:UKsLargestChildrensHospitalOpensInManchester&lpos=searchresults

The Northern Ireland Health Group (NIHG) in which we are the Engineering Services Designers has been appointed Preferred Bidder on the £200m South West Acute Hospital.

This is a new 315 bed 70,000m2 acute hospital in Enniskillen and the services incorporate Bio Mass CHP, Bio Mass Boilers, Ground Source Heat Pumps into the normal range of hospital requirements.

The consortium comprises of UK, Irish and Spanish construction companies and will be responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of the Hospital.

In April 2008, Terminal 5 went live and is now approaching design capacity with all additional flights expected to move in by October 2008. DSSR was originally selected on early 1996 to undertake the design of the Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health services for the buildings and have supported BAA for nearly 12 years to deliver this project. Our relationship with BAA however extends longer than this, as DSSR were also Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health Consultants for Terminal 4 , Heathrow and for the original North Terminal at Gatwick.

DSSR is still involved on the T5 providing technical support to BAA during the handover and post-occupancy monitoring of the various tenants within the terminal buildings. Our involvement also includes ongoing load forecasting for the T5 Campus and interconnection with the rest of Heathrow.

Prior to T5 being opened a new aircraft control tower needed to be built to replace the existing landside facility in the central terminal area to provide visual contact with all the new aircraft stands. DSSR provided Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health design consultancy for the new tower which is now a recognised landmark for the Heathrow campus.

Following on from the completion of T5 , DSSR has now been appointed by Carillion to provide detail design for the £300m satellite T5C building. This building completes the original masterplan for the T5 campus and provides airside accommodation for a further 14 aircraft stands. DSSR will also be providing post-contract site monitoring until completion in summer of 2011.
Accommodation comprises arrival, departures, retail and CIP area with baggage and transportation links to the existing T5 buildings.

DSSR has also been appointed by Balfour Beatty for the detail design of the first phase of the T2B concourse satellite building linked to Terminal 2 at Heathrow to provide 6 new serviced aircraft stands.
The departures concourse is designed to provide flexibility for both open and closed gate configurations and is treated via a displacement ventilation system using a raised floor as the distribution plenum.

In Spring 2008, News International began the transfer of printing newspapers from Wapping to Broxbourne in North London . This new facility comprises six state - of - the - art broadsheet presses with associated automatic reel handling and newspaper dispatching systems with each production line able to produce over 80,000 copies per hour. DSSR provided full mechanical, electrical and Public Health design and post – contract site services from inception through to completion. DSSR Glasgow has also completed and handed over another new printing works for News International this year in Knowsley.