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!

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.

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!

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.

Date: 18th September 2018

Billboard… A focus on Manchester

The latest issue of our Billboard magazine focuses on Manchester, in particular the regional and national growth, as well as Tall Buildings,  public Sectors & Project News. Click here to read.