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Festival Gardens bid update

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!

The council has been searching for a developer or investor for the 90-acre site for a number of years, and exploring different procurement routes. The latest launched in March; Ion and Midia both submitted expressions of interest, and due to similarities in their proposals suggested to the council they work together on the scheme.

Curtins were part of the 1980s Festival Gardens project and so it is very exciting to be part of one of the biggest and most ambitious regeneration projects on Merseyside and in the Northwest.

The focus for the end of this year, and start of next, will be on developing a combined masterplan between the development teams then coordinating with a remediation strategy for the former landfill site.

Curtins’ Nottingham Office complete Survival of the Fittest

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!

Curtins is taking steps towards changing the STEM skills gap

Date: 8th October 2018

Curtins is taking steps towards changing the STEM skills gap

Curtins is taking steps towards changing the STEM skills gap. Our dedicated STEM Ambassadors develop relationships with local schools to champion careers in STEM and increase awareness of opportunities available for a career in engineering.

Our Leeds office has been working closely with the Ruth Gorse Academy (TRGA) in Leeds to provide information, advice and guidance to their pupils through a number of initiatives over the last year, including careers fairs, assembly talks and presentations about Women in Engineering.

We have also been involved in their ‘Career of the Week’ initiative where they provide real life profiles to their pupils to help them discover what is involved in specific careers, and what the academic routes to entry are. Last week Leeds’ Niamh McCloskey provided students with more information about what a career in Structural Engineer involves. Find out more in TRGA’s newsletter here.

Winners at Insider Property Awards South West 2018

Date: 5th October 2018

Winners at Insider Property Awards South West 2018

We are extremely pleased to announce that we picked up the award for Engineering and Project Management Consultancy of the Year at last night’s Insider Property Awards South West 2018. The event was held at Bristol’s Marriott City Centre Hotel and was compèred by Mark Watson.

We are very proud of this achievement as were up against some tough competition in our category, including Arup, J4 Projects, TFT, Alder King.

Well done team!

New Appointment | Dublin Transport Planner

Date: 26th September 2018

New Appointment | Dublin Transport Planner

We are very pleased to announce that Rachel Ivers has joined Curtins as a Senior Transport Planner in the Dublin office.

Qualified as a Spatial Planner, Rachel attended Delft University of Technology, a leading European engineering university, to undertake her masters in Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics. From experience gained working abroad, she has transferred her knowledge to a wide range of sectors both in Dublin and internationally.

Rachel is vice-chair of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport’s (CILT) Policy Committee as well as sitting on the committee of the Transport Planning Society (TPS).

Rachel’s skills lie in having a wide range of knowledge obtained through her spatial planning and transport engineering backgrounds to achieve a holistic and considered approach to transport related projects.

Work begins on £8m Stawberry Field development

Date: 4th September 2018

Work begins on £8m Stawberry Field development

Work on the £8 project to transform Strawberry Field in Woolton, Liverpool, into a visitor centre, training centre and community café is now officially underway.

The new two-storey development was designed by Hoskins Architects and will provide learning space to up to 40 young adults, as well as an exhibition area in which the site’s original gates will be displayed. The gates are recognised as “an important cultural asset” by the council due to their association with famous The Beatles song about the former children’s home. The development features a gift shop and museum, and the woodland area around the site will be retained.

The project is expected to take around two years to complete and will be operated by The Salvation Army.

We are extremely proud to be providing Civil & Structural Engineering services on this fantastic project, alongside a professional team including Gleeds and Hoskins, with Robertson as contractors.

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*Images courtesy of Hoskins Architects

Building Awards 2018: Curtins shortlisted in two categories

Date: 29th August 2018

Building Awards 2018: Curtins shortlisted in two categories

We are thrilled to announce that we are finalists in two categories at this year’s Building Awards!

We have been nominated for both ‘Engineering Consultant of the Year’ & ‘Offsite Project of the Year’ for our work with PCE & Kier on the Capella Project at the University of Cambridge.

This year the awards, which are ‘the industry’s longest running and most prestigious recognition of excellence’, have seen a record number of entries – over 130 in total, across 22 categories.

Needless to say we are extremely proud to have been shortlisted not once, but twice!

280-apartment build-to-rent scheme in Sheffield approved

Date: 17th August 2018

280-apartment build-to-rent scheme in Sheffield approved

The green light has been given to Panacea Property Development this week to develop over 280 build-to-rent flats at the Well Meadow regeneration development in Sheffield.

The new development is the penultimate phase of the development and will include two buildings with a total of 284 residential built-to-rent apartments.

We are thrilled to be engineers on the project, with architects MCAU & Leach Rhodes Walker and Zerum as planning consultant and project manager.

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Plans for new Euro Garages service station in Merseyside

Date: 16th August 2018

Plans for new Euro Garages service station in Merseyside

Blackburn based company Euro Garages has put together plans for a new service station in Merseyside.

The plans include a 5,100 sq ft petrol station, two drive through restaurants and a coffee shop on land next to Junction 1 of the M58 near Maghull.

EG Group is one of the fastest growing companies in the North West of England, with the firm recently completing a multi-million expansion in the US.

Ran by brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa, the company completed its £1.53bn acquisition of 762 convenience stores in the states from Kroger Co.

We are very proud to have provided a range of services, from Geotechnical and Transport Planning to Structural Engineering, on various Euro Garages projects – most recently the firm’s Headquarters in Blackburn.

Chorley Council grant planning permission for Botany Bay redevelopment

Date: 16th August 2018

Chorley Council grant planning permission for Botany Bay redevelopment

FI Real Estate Management (FIREM) have secured planning permission to create a retail outlet village, 288 homes and 300,000 sq ft of logistics space at the Botany Bay site in Chorley.

Four separate outline planning applications were submitted by FIREM for the 91-acre M61 site, described by the developer as a project of “national and regional significance”.

The projects within the masterplan include:

300,00sqft of industrial employment and office space
The retention & refurbishment of Botany Bay – potentially to house a mix of retail, food and beverage and commercial units, or a hotel.
A new pedestrian street featuring as many as 70 retail units, principally targeted at designer outlets, and covering a total of 250,000sqft, with a public realsm facing the Liverpool-Leeds canal.
FI Real Estate is also proposing housing across two plots – a 12-acre site to the south is set to include 100 homes, whilst a 17.4-acre plot to the east of the site is set to include 188 homes.

We are extremely proud to have provided Transport Planning services on this fantastic project.

For further information on our Transport Planning services, see here.

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