Autumn 2016
...engineering your future
updates structural civil transportation e nv i ro n m e n t a l geotechnical
Contractors ‘Get Busy’
In this issue
Promotions at BSP We’re delighted to announce a number of recent promotions from within our team, featured in this issue of our newsletter.
BSP Consulting has joined a string of contractors to help the Matt Hampson Foundation build a rehabilitation centre for those who have suffered catastrophic injury through sport. The company is providing civil, structural and geotechnical engineering support for the Get Busy Living Centre, a scheme to transform the site of a former aircraft hangar at Burrough Court Estate near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire into a specialist centre where beneficiaries of the foundation’s services will receive support. The Foundation was launched by Matt Hampson who, during an England Under 21 rugby training session in 2005, was paralysed from the neck down. It provides support for anyone suffering serious injury or disability, in particular from participation in sport or physical education or recreation. Now the Foundation has set itself a big goal to build the Get Busy Living Centre. Revised planning for the scheme has just been submitted. It includes a bespoke access road for the facility, as well as the construction of a new structural frame based on the original footprint of the hangar building, designed to stand the test of time while maintaining the overall look and feel of the iconic building. Inside, a mezzanine floor will be constructed, doubling the floor space and extending the length by one third. The project is being delivered by a number of local partners, many of which are offering their time, services, materials and expertise for free, including construction company Willmott Dixon, professional services firm MDA Consulting, architects Corporate Architecture, engineering consultants CouchPerryWilkes and BSP Consulting, PR and Marketing agency Cartwright Communications and suppliers GRS Roadstone Limited, Salus and Multifab Engineering Ltd. Matt Hampson said: “The centre was initially a dream of mine, a place for our beneficiaries to come along to and receive physical rehabilitation. Since then, our plans for this new facility have evolved and become a reality, with the centre giving us the opportunity to offer not only physical support, but, more crucially, mental support too. “With the support of our project partners who are generously donating their expertise and services, we look forward to seeing the future of the project come to its realisation.” BSP’s MD David Sumner said: “The Get Busy Living Centre is an inspiring project which will greatly benefit people who have been affected by life-changing injuries. As an East Midlands-based company, BSP Consulting is proud to be able to offer our skills to provide civil and structural engineering services for this development, working alongside other businesses.” For more information on the centre, visit http://matthampsonfoundation.org/
Regeneration project
BSP is helping to deliver the first phase of development of one of the HCA’s flagship regeneration projects following a major remediation effort.
Olympic stadium role Find out which team member from BSP trod in the steps of Olympians by taking part in an event at the London 2012 Olympics stadium. Enterprise Village schemes
BSP engineers have been appointed to look into the creation of an Enterprise Village in Lincolnshire after completing a similar project in Leicestershire.
Stop press… BSP Consulting appointed on another large regeneration scheme in Derby
...engineering your future
Supermarket sweep Work has got underway on site at the two latest Aldi store schemes involving BSP Consulting.
The company has been civil and structural engineer on five earlier projects in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire for the discount supermarket chain. Now work has just begun to build new stores on sites at Thorne in Doncaster and Burgh Road in Skegness. All of the projects have been undertaken by property development company Quora and built by Jessops Construction. The Aldi stores form part of small retail or mixed-use developments, incorporating a range of other wellknown brands.
Enterprise Village schemes
Engineers at BSP played a key role in developing a new Enterprise Village in Leicestershire and have now been retained to look at the feasibility of creating another in Lincolnshire. The company was the oversight soils engineer for Old Dalby Enterprise Village – a project which has transformed a steep hillside, brownfield site to create three horizontal plateaus using soil stabilisation techniques. This will enable the development of up to 25 fully serviced building plots, available freehold, with full infrastructure of roads, mains electricity, street lighting, mains water and sewerage. Developed by Haywood Estates (UK) LLP on a site that was formerly part of an MoD base, the Enterprise Village sits alongside the established Crown Business Park.
Demand for the site, with plots from 100 sq m to 1,000 sq m, has exceeded expectations, with three businesses about to start building and others in the pipeline after completion of the first phase to prepare the site. Within two years it is likely to be full, exceeding the three-year expectation. Supported by LLEP through the Growing Places Fund, the development is suitable for offices, workshops, research and development and light industry. Now Haywood Estates, which has more than 20 years’ experience of creating successful and dynamic business communities across England and Wales, has also appointed BSP to carry out work as part of a feasibility study on a potential site in Lincolnshire for another Enterprise Village.
Andrew Coupe, project team executive at Haywood Estates (UK) LLP, said: “Re-modelling of a steep 6½ acre hillside construction site into three horizontal plateaus, suitable for erection of commercial buildings, required specialist expertise in order to ensure the optimum site preparation process. We commissioned BSP Consulting to assess the ground conditions, organise soils testing and complete a feasibility assessment. “BSP Consulting were then able to advise our in-house team and main contractor with regard to enhanced soil stabilisation techniques and agree the specifications for soil stabilisation using binders such as lime and cement. They also provided professional oversight of the site preparation and review of the test results on completion.”
www.bsp-consulting.co.uk BSPConsLtd
BSP Consulting
focus on.... Education West Midlands school
Special school underway
Work is just getting underway on site to build a new primary school for Warwickshire County Council. BSP is civil, structural and geo-technical engineer for Heathcote Primary School between Warwick and Leamington Spa, which is being constructed by Ashe Construction, with Lungfish Architects also part of the team. The building of the school, which will initially be open to reception, Years 1 and 2, and have 30 places in each of the year groups, as well as an onsite nursery, is being undertaken on the Scape Framework.
BSP is civil and structural engineer for a new ÂŁ10 million school for children with special educational needs being constructed in Wigston. The company earlier provided pre-planning services, including flood risk assessment and traffic and transport expertise, for the Leicestershire development, which will offer places for 125 children and young people aged between four and 19, and feature a hydrotherapy pool, sensory and interactive rooms. Birkett House will transfer from its former home in Launceston Road to the new purpose-built premises at the Wigston Academy campus in Station Road next year, once building has been completed. Contractor is Willmott Dixon, and the scheme was designed by A+G Architects.
University projects
BSP is playing a role in two key refurbishment schemes at Loughborough University. Work is currently ongoing on a fit-out and refurbishment project in the materials testing and chemical engineering laboratories, which involved the design of new mezzanine steel structures overseen by BSP engineers. Meanwhile, BSP has also been involved in plans to refurbish and renovate the Wolfson Building at the campus. Using Revit and working to BIM level 2, the company is appointed as civil and structural engineer directly for the university on the development.
New build school
A community sports facility, including sports pitches, is being built as part of the construction of a new school in Leicestershire. Work is about to start on site at Hallam Fields Primary School, Birstall, for Leicestershire County Council.
BSP is civil and structural engineer for the scheme, and will also undertake some traffic and transportation work on the new school and sports facility being constructed by Willmott Dixon. The new school, designed by kast:architects, will cater for 210 pupils aged between four and 11, and will also provide community facilities, such as meeting space and changing rooms, along with sports pitches.
...engineering your future
BSP checks out after hotel scheme A mixed-use development featuring a new Premier Inn above retail and restaurant ground floor units has opened on the site of the former magistrates court in Lewes, East Sussex.
BSP was the civil and structural engineer for the project, developed by Quora and built by contractor Jessops Construction. Featuring a 62-bedroom hotel over two storeys, the £6 million scheme also includes around 14,000 sq ft of ground floor space. BSP engineers designed the development to take account of a flood defence sewer which runs under the site. “The building is set within a sensitive historic town and we all had to pay particular focus on the materials and the detailing,” said BSP director Carl Hilton. “This was worth it, as it has resulted in a building that the whole team and the town should be proud of.”
Key regeneration project for BSP BSP has been appointed to deliver the detailed engineering designs for the first phase of development of one of the HCA’s flagship regeneration projects. The Avenue at Wingerworth near Chesterfield – the site of a major former coking plant – is being transformed in a huge project over several years to create housing, a school, leisure and sports facilities, as well as park and wetlands. Engineers at BSP are responsible for the detailed designs for 270 houses
that are due to be built as part of the first phase of housing, being constructed by Kier Living Central. Outline planning permission has been granted, with detailed planning now applied for. The site, which has a long industrial history that includes coalmining, a lime and iron works, and a coking plant, is thought to have been one of the most contaminated sites in Western Europe. An extensive remediation programme involving a team of experts from several
organisations has been in operation to clean up the 98 hectares - an area the size of about 200 football pitches. The project is being delivered by the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA).
CGI by IDP Architects
Warehouse park extension Engineers at BSP Consulting have been involved in shaping an extension to one of the most sought after warehouse sites in the Midlands.
To allow access to the extension site, BSP designed a bridge over a watercourse as well as SUDS drainage solutions.
The company acted as civil and structural engineer on a 53,000 sq ft unit at Centurion Park, Tamworth, built by G F Tomlinson for regeneration specialist St. Modwen, which has been taken by national furniture brand DFS. The site is adjacent to junction 10 of the M42. St. Modwen secured consent from North Warwickshire Borough Council in July 2015 for an extension at Centurion Park. The first phase of development at Centurion Park was completed in 1994, and occupiers include AAH Pharmaceuticals, Aldi, Speedy Hire and Norbert Dentressangle.
Pictured left to right are Jonathan Green, senior development surveyor at St. Modwen, and Shaun Welch, DFS, outside the unit.
...engineering your future
Promotions at BSP director.
BSP Consulting has made a series of internal promotions as the company continues to grow. Former associate director Paul Elphick, who heads up the Leicester office, has been appointed as a director, while Matthew Viggars, who leads the civil engineering team in Derby, has stepped up from associate to associate
In addition, chartered structural engineer Adam Hancocks has been made an associate, working out of the company’s Nottingham HQ, and BSP has also promoted Oliver Dike, who is based in Derby, and Craig Noonan, who works in Nottingham, to senior engineers. Managing director David Sumner said: “I am very pleased to announce these appointments made from within the company. Both Paul and Matthew have been with us for more than a decade, and Adam for more than five years, providing excellent service to our clients and working closely with their colleagues to ensure that BSP
Consulting remains one of the most highly regarded civil and structural engineering firms in the region. “The promotion of Oliver and Craig is as a result of their continued hard work and development as engineers, as well as their accumulation of experience. “As a business, BSP is growing both commercially and in terms of numbers in the team, and these appointments have been made to support our continued growth and expansion. I’d like to congratulate all of our recently promoted employees and thank them, as well as the rest of the team, for the loyalty, commitment and hard work they have shown.”
New chapter in mansion history
detached properties nearby.
BSP is proud to have played a role in helping to save a wide range of historic buildings. One of the most recent has been Grade II listed Scraptoft Hall in Leicestershire – an 18th Century Queen Anne residential mansion built in 1723 by local MP James Wigley which, until recently, had become dilapidated after falling out of use. Following redevelopment and refurbishment by GS Developments, the hall has been transformed into stunning apartments, including a penthouse covering the entire upper
Engineers at BSP designed the new additional floor extension, and undertook the general civil and structural engineering works at the site, some three and a half miles east of Leicester city centre.
floor. The former stables and courtyard area have been converted into homes, along with construction of four new
“It’s a high class development of a significant historic building and BSP Consulting has been delighted to have been associated with the scheme and to help restore the site to its former glory,” said BSP director Carl Hilton.
Planning permission for housing scheme A residential scheme for up to 66 homes in a Lincolnshire village has been given the go-ahead. BSP produced a site access design, Transport Assessment, Travel Plan, Flood Risk Assessment/Drainage Strategy and Environmental Noise Assessment to accompany the planning application for the Caulton’s Field site near Littleworth Drove, Deeping St Nicholas. South Holland District Council planning committee members gave consent in principle for the two to four-bedroom homes. BSP’s client was Grace Machin Planning & Property, who worked on behalf of the landowner to gain planning permission for the scheme.
NOTTINGHAM OFFICE 12 Oxford Street, Nottingham. NG1 5BG DERBY OFFICE 5 Pride Point Drive, Pride Park, Derby. DE24 8BX LEICESTER OFFICE Suite B, Floor 3, 24 De Montfort Street, Leicester. LE1 7GB SHEFFIELD OFFICE Top Floor, Sheffield Studio, Vincent House, Solly Street, Sheffield. S1 4BB
Tel: 0115 704 3300 Tel: 01332 374 880 Tel: 0116 204 7766 Tel: 0114 272 1589
Out and about New starters
70th celebration
Centre stage
BSP has welcomed a number of new faces in recent months, strengthening the teams across the firm’s offices. Civil engineer James Oldham and structural technicians Stephen Garratt and Daniel Gillen have joined the company’s Nottingham headquarters. The Derby team has welcomed civil engineer Sharon Liu and graduate structural engineer Alessandro Ninfa. During October alone we welcomed back structural engineer Andy Middleham to Nottingham, and welcomed structural engineer Sara Farmani and graduate civil engineer James Hennell to Leicester, civil engineer Sam McGuingan to Derby, and civil engineers Tom Haywood and Steve Hardman to Nottingham.
Hot shots
Representatives from BSP were very pleased to join construction company Robert Woodhead Ltd at a masquerade charity ball to celebrate the firm’s 70th anniversary and to raise money for the Prince’s Trust and St Mary’s Church, Edwinstowe. The evening raised £15,000 through the raffle, auction and tickets, and the Nottinghamshire-based group is now very close to meeting and even exceeding its fundraising target of £25,593 (£1 for every day the firm has been in business).
Our MD David Sumner is once again joining other professionals from the East Midlands property and construction sector to play a role in Hot Property, the annual live gig in Nottingham which raises money for charity. Guitarist David, pictured performing at last year’s event, will be joining others on stage at Pryzm for the evening on 10th November, which this year has the theme of Hollywood. For details and ticket information, visit www.nottinghamhotproperty.com
Charity drive Pitch perfect
Pictured are guests at BSP’s final clay pigeon shooting event of 2016, held at Lakeside Clay Shoot & Fishing Lakes at Wymeswold, Loughborough. We’re hoping to stage similar sessions next year, once the nights become brighter.
Links with Lincs BSP has strengthened its ties with Lincolnshire after becoming a member of the county’s Chamber of Commerce and following the appointment of business development director Jef Todd as chairman of the judging panel for the Lincolnshire Construction Awards 2017. The company has been involved in many projects across Lincolnshire over several years and has welcomed the opportunity to play an increasing role in the county’s construction sector, added Jef.
Admin assistant Hannah Rawson danced in the steps of Olympians when she took part in the opening ceremony of West Ham United FC’s new home in the converted London 2012 Olympic Stadium. She was one of around 150 dancers involved in the event organised by project company Pro-Excel who Hannah was first introduced to through school and who she has danced with in the past. The dance routine, learned in an eight-hour rehearsal the day before the event, was followed by the unveiling of T-shirt flags and then the singing of the National Anthem on the pitch. “All in all, there was an amazing atmosphere when I was on the pitch and it was a really unique event to be a part of,” said Hannah.
Having taken part in the Kier Charity Endurance Day, along with almost 50 other companies, BSP was delighted to hear that a total of £13,152.08 was raised for The Kier Foundation in partnership with The Alzheimer’s Society. Our business development director Jef Todd and business development coordinator Carrie Booth teamed up with representatives from Linsco Recruitment, Nottingham, for the racing at Whilton Mill race track, Daventry.
Carrie’s committee role We congratulate business development coordinator Carrie Booth who has been appointed to the committee of networking group Nottingham Women in Construction. Carrie will be responsible for maintaining the organisation’s database and supporting general communications for NWIC. Call her if interested in finding out more about the group.