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Witham Team Additional Information

21/10/2009

About The Witham Redevelopment Team:

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has an international reputation for design quality, environmental expertise and architectural innovation.  Its Creative Re-use Team combines specialist conservation skills with design flair to provide an innovative approach to existing buildings. The team comprises individuals with specific conservation training and high levels of experience in a broad range of historic building projects, including conservative repair, creative re-use and new work in historically sensitive contexts.

FCBS has been the architect for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 1988, designing the Underground Gallery, and a new visitor centre that incorporates meeting rooms, education spaces and a 120-seat auditorium.  It has also been involved in a Feildbarn project in the Yorkshire Dales demonstrating revolutionary (and invisible) rural regeneration, providing innovative reuse for thousands of redundant field barns by inserting a free-standing eco-pod inside the existing structure, providing holiday accommodation (and in turn a source of income), and demonstrating that re-using and renovating places is possibly the most sustainable approach of all.

Recently FCBS has completed a number of projects in the North of England, including a new-build, highly-sustainable monastery, Stanbrook Abbey, and a new academic complex for Leeds Metropolitan University.

 

WYG Engineering is an internationally renowned consultant for the built, natural and social environment and has recently been recognised as both the NCE/ACE and Contract Journal 2008 Consultant of the Year, as well as being recognised for work in the field of sustainability. The following are a selection of awards recently acquired:

·   Winner NCE Major Consultant of the Year 2008

·   Winner Contract Journal Consultancy of the Year 2008

·   Winner Sustainable City Award for Sustainable Building 2008

·   Winner British Expertise Open Award for Sustainability 2007/08

·   Winner ACEI Innovation Award 2008

·   Winner APM Award for Programme of the Year

WYG has recently completed the £28m refurbishment and extension to the Grade II listed Great North Museum and £24m new build City Library in Newcastle upon Tyne.  It is also in the process of completing the £40m Rockliffe Hall project which is a sympathetic restoration and extension of an 18^th Century Grade II listed country house at Hurworth near Darlington into a five star hotel resort.

 

Billinghurst George and Partners, Stockton is the largest independent Civil and Structural engineering consultancy in the Tees Valley.  It has a reputation for designing quality, economic, sustainable buildings working closely with the architects to develop and deliver their envisaged concepts. Led by Partner, Ian Walker, they will bring vast experience of working not only on listed buildings, but also working within restricted sites adjacent to the general public.

BGP has recently been involved with the refurbishment work at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, specifically strengthening floors to enable the ‘glass cube’ to be supported as a new display space in the Textiles and Dress gallery, and strengthening various elements of the roof space for the introduction of further storage and library space.

It has also completed the design of the new Shaw Bank Youth Hub project in Barnard Castle which is currently at tender stage.  This project, with both indoor and outdoor facilities, will provide dance studios, performing and recording studios, and dining and kitchen areas as well as overnight accommodation.  Externally there is a water sports lake, mountain bike trail and sports pitches.  The facility is designed to make minimum impact on the surrounding area, and so is set into the terrain making best use of the natural topography.

 

EC Harris LLP, Newcastle, is a Built Asset Consultant generating value for its clients, people and the community through a network of 46 offices and 3,000 staff. Its focus is on generating positive outcomes from investment and expenditure in built assets nationally and internationally. We look forward to applying this global knowledge and attitude locally, managing the construction costs on the Witham project in Barnard Castle.

This project will be undertaken from our north eastern offices in Newcastle upon Tyne and Teesside, with an experienced and capable team selected for their successful performance on relevant projects within the north east. EC Harris LLP is currently working on schemes at Wynyard Park, Middlesbrough Council and most recently The Workplace in Newton Aycliffe for its sponsor, Jane Ritchie - all making a positive contribution to the local community and its people by improving quality of life, the environment and educational opportunities.

 

Todd Milburn Partnership, Newcastle, are experts in CDM Coordination in the North East.  Over the past 20 years, they have specialised in guiding clients through the construction process in relation to construction health and safety, risk management matters and their legal obligations.  They aim for uncompromising health and safety, whilst enhancing the buildability of the project and achieving best value for the client.

TMP has worked on a number of high profile projects in the North East including Slaley Hall Resort, a De Vere hotel and golf course in Hexham, Northumberland; Newcastle General Hospital; the Grace Darling Museum in Bamburgh and Nepia House, a £6 million office development on Newcastle Quayside.

 

Edward Strickland is a rural chartered surveyor and qualified project manager.  He has spent ten years working as Major Projects Sponsor with The Royal Parks.  He had previously delivered a number of major rehabilitation projects overseas in countries including Afghanistan, Laos and Georgia.

 

William Weston has previously worked as CEO West Yorkshire Playhouse, CEO The Royal Parks and Executive Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company.