Date: 19th December 2018

Billboard – a focus on Leeds

The latest issue of our Billboard magazine focuses on Leeds; Student Accommodation, as well as Diversity, Recognition & Project News. Click here to read.

Date: 18th December 2018

Curtins Promotions 2019

We have experienced yet another successful year, which has seen business milestones reached, further targets set, as well as individuals continuing to progress and develop in their careers at Curtins. We are pleased to announce the following promotions, which will come into effect from January 1st 2019.

Technical Director:
David Sandbrook will take the position of Technical Director in Manchester and will be responsible for key aspects of the management of Manchester’s civils and structures business unit. David has been at Curtins for ten years and has worked on some of our most interesting and challenging projects such as the multi-award winning Number One Riverside in Rochdale and the current Circle Square development.

Associates:
Affan Nagori, Dean Saxton and Matt Lomas will be promoted to Associates.

Affan is a member of our Civil and Structures team in Manchester and has built strong relationships with both clients and colleagues in his eight and a half years in the business. This promotion is in recognition of his increased responsibility in team management and project delivery and wider contribution across the office and the company.

Dean has been responsible for the management of the Civil and Structures engineering team in Cardiff in 2018. He has grown the team and secured new projects across different sectors with a new client base and built a strong and robust Business Plan for continued growth in 2019.

Matt has been with Curtins just three years but in that time has made a significant impact on the EBU team by expanding our client base and service offering, with significant commissions secured with Harworth Estates and Leeds University. He has been promoted to reflect the extra responsibility and wider contribution he has made across the business unit.

Digital Delivery Manager:
Lee Barnett is promoted to Digital Delivery Manager. Lee has played a pivotal role in the development and implementation of our digital delivery policies, protocols and processes across the company which in addition to developing company best practice and generating operational efficiencies, has led to our BiM level 2 accreditation in 2018. Lee continues to develop our digital delivery strategy to create further efficiencies across the business and represent us in the wider industry on various platforms.

All of these individuals embody our Curtins’ values and promote the ethos of the company in the work they do.

Date: 28th November 2018

West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce ‘Raising the Bar’ Awards…

Curtins is thrilled to have been awarded Winner of the ‘Economy (large)’ category at the West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce ‘Raising the Bar’ Awards last night at Leeds Civic Hall. The awards are in recognition of the contribution that businesses make to their local region, celebrating achievements across four categories; Community, Economy, Education and Environment.

Local businesses are encouraged to assess their social impact by benchmarking themselves against other businesses with similar demographics, allowing companies to not only support the local area, but also learn from their peers and target future activities to meet social impact goals and ensure continual improvement.

We were honoured to receive the ‘Economy’ award, and also be recognised as a finalist in the ‘Education’ category, for the work and support we carry out with local schools and universities including mentoring students at Universities, STEM Ambassador work in local schools, providing work placements internships & work experience opportunities, and our involvement in recognising Women in Engineering.

The evening showcased the amazing work that all the businesses across West and North Yorkshire are carrying out and the contributions they are making to the local economy and communities.

Date: 11th November 2018

Billboard – a focus on kendal

The latest issue of our Billboard magazine focuses on kendal, in looking to the future, as well as Next Generation, Curtins Care & Project News. Click here to read.

Date: 31st October 2018

Green light given for Liverpool Municipal Buildings hotel

Liverpool City Council have granted planning consent for Singapore-based hospitality group Fragrance to convert the grade two-listed former council headquarters into a 189-room hotel.

Plans for the new four-star hotel include a spa, swimming pool, ballroom, lobbies on both the Lower Ground and Ground floors, a bar, restaurant and conference hall.

The professional team includes ourselves as structural engineers, architects Falconer Chester Hall, Turley as planner, Crookes Walker on M&E, Auditive as acoustic consultant, Turley Heritage, Tyrer Partnership on ecology and TTHC on transport.

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Date: 30th October 2018

Curtins achieve BSI BIM Level 2 Kitemark Certification

During 2017, Lee Barnett our BIM Co-ordinator (pictured) developed our BIM processes and we successfully achieved BIM Level 2 Verification from BSI. This recognises that our business has the necessary processes in place to work on BIM Level 2 projects across our offices.

Throughout 2018, we have further developed our BIM specialism, with the aim of achieving a BIM Level 2 BSI Kitemark from BSI. And we are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have now achieved the BSI BIM Level 2 Kitemark Certification!!

This recognises that we are successfully delivering BIM Level 2 projects in our offices; and there only a very small number of consultants in the industry who have achieved this certification. Needless to say, we are extremely proud that Curtins remain at the forefront of the engineering application and use of BIM within the built environment.

We recognise that our BIM process forms an important part of our QMS processes and we are working to better integrate these two management systems, improving on the quality and efficiency of our delivery. We have also further refined our digital delivery capability to ensure a consistent approach across our specialisms, particularly the Civil & Structural Engineering disciplines.

Lee Barnett, BIM Coordinator, collecting the award & certificate at Digital Construction week.

Date: 19th October 2018

Curtins Leeds volunteer at Brodsworth Hall

Four members of our team in Leeds spent a day at Brodsworth Hall (near Doncaster) this week, after taking up the opportunity to volunteer as part of Gardiner & Theobald‘s English Heritage CSR programme, Stone Circle.

Curtins joined around 15 other engineers, architects and industry peers in carrying out various maintenance work around the grounds, followed by a tour of the Grade 1 listed Victorian building and a spot of networking and drinks.

CSR & Curtins

At Curtins we take pride in fulfilling our obligations to be a good corporate citizen, not just for our people, but the wider society. We recognise that in our industry we have a critical role, and opportunity, in making a positive impact for the clients and communities in which we work, and by making informed choices and conscious designs, we strive towards achieving this goal. More information can be found here.

Date: 17th October 2018

Yorkshire Structural Engineering Awards 2018

We are delighted to have picked up the ‘Large Structures by a Large Company’ award for The Piazza Learning Centre York at Friday’s ‘Yorkshire Structural Engineering Awards 2018’.

Congratulations to the whole team, who worked tirelessly to create a striking world class facility and a striking beacon of architecture and engineering.

Date: 12th October 2018

Festival Gardens bid update

We are very excited to see that the ION development team we are a part of has been successful in the bid for the £700m Festival Gardens regeneration project in Liverpool!

Date: 8th October 2018

Curtins’ Nottingham Office complete Survival of the Fittest

We would like to give a massive Curtins shout out to our team in Nottingham, who completed the Rat Race Survival of the Fittest obstacle course at the weekend at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.

The team did a fantastic job as the weather was not on their side – 8 degrees Celsius outside and heavy rainfall – managing to raise over £1,500 for the British Heart Foundation!

If you would like to support the team, donations are very much appreciated and can still be made via the team’s My Donate page, here. Thank you!