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What a great way to kick off March! We had the first in a series of STEM outreach activities which our STEM Ambassadors at MNP are taking part in throughout the year. On Tuesday, Rowena Neighbour led the GoConstruct K’Nex Challenge at a local school. The challenge aims to introduce children to the world of engineering by bringing it alive with a practical design and build task using K’Nex. After presenting their creations, a winner is chosen from each class to be put forward to the regional final.     Rowena has been leading this event for several years and, once again, she was incredibly impressed by the creativity, teamwork and problem solving skills on display. The energy and enthusiasm from the children was contagious – who knows, maybe it sparked a future passion for engineering in some of them!   Looking forward to more inspiring STEM outreach events throughout the year!    

Fantastic to see Westminster Fire Station has been shortlisted for the RIBA London Awards 2025! We carried out the structural and civil engineering design for this project, which involved the refurbishment of the decommissioned Grade II listed fire station, along with the construction of a new residential building to the rear. The winning projects will be announced in Spring - good luck to all involved!

Approximately 3 years ago I started work, with many others, on an endeavour that would attempt to address a fundamental question that has been posed to those who work as structural engineering professionals within the built-environment industry. That question being; 'are you competent?'. Specifically, are you sufficiently competent to be involved with the design, construction, operation, maintenance, modification, and demolition of a higher-risk building? The outcome of this task has now borne fruit, in the form of the HRB Competency Register for Structural Engineers has now begun taking applications, for more details on this please follow the link below: https://lnkd.in/e_XCX_CU At the time of writing this post, I received written confirmation from the Engineering Council yesterday that I have been placed within the HRB Competency Register for Chartered Structural Engineers. This is a significant milestone as this recognition of competence was done so with the tireless help of the staff of The Institution of Structural Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) as well as David Cormie and John Carpenter CEng, FICE, with whom I worked on the original competency objectives for structural engineers in early 2022. Finally I would also offer my sincere thanks to my colleagues at Mason Navarro Pledge Ltd for their unwavering support for making this happen.

It’s now 16 months since the fire destroyed the car park at London Luton Airport. In that time we’ve built a new drop off zone with major infrastructure upgrades, demolished the building, rebuilt a foundation system, laid drainage capable of storing 160,000 litres of sprinkler discharge, built 2 cores with 2 more in progress and now the steel frame is flying up. The first bay of 10 up in a few weeks. It is a vast site and highly constrained. A huge team effort from some amazing professionals. London Luton Airport Mason Navarro Pledge Ltd Ryebridge Construction Gardiner & Theobald LLP Fatkin DSSR CHURCH LUKAS BAM UK & Ireland B&K Hybrid Solutions Creagh Concrete GOLDMAX LIMITED Armstrong Priestley Marcoe Engineering Morrisroe Demolition Limited Lee Hobbs Stephen Vernon Tom Murray Andrew Quinn BEng (Hons) Wojciech Zujla John Clements

We are here on stand F20 at The Listed Property Owners' Club show in Olympia today (31/1/25) and tomorrow. Mason Navarro Pledge Ltd Caspar More James Lennon Matthew Armitt

Congratulations to Associate Director Jack Howard who has been elected as Chair of the IStructE North Thames Committee! On Monday Jack chaired the North Thames "Meet the IStructE President" event hosted at Imperial College. Attendees enjoyed a tour of Imperial’s structures lab, a talk from Darren Byrne of the IStructE and concluded with a talk from the new President Mohamad Al-Dah. The Institution of Structural Engineers #structuralengineering

We're back at The Listed Property Show this year, taking place at Olympia, London on Friday 31st January & Saturday 1st February. Our Conservation & Heritage team will be there to take enquiries and give advice on the refurbishment and preservation of historic buildings. Come and see us at Stand F20 if you're visiting! For more information, including the programme of talks, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eUAT7p7 The Listed Property Owners' Club James Lennon, David Rafferty, Stuart Ellis, David Mason, Jenna Sewell, Caspar More, Matthew Armitt

The end of last year saw us moving to new office space in London and Manchester to accommodate our expanding team! 📍 London: based in the leafy square of Clerkenwell Green, a few minutes walk from Farringdon station 📍 Manchester: located in Hyphen, a Grade A building with a range of on-site facilities including communal terrace

We’re delighted to be working on the refurbishment of the Kensington Forum Hotel, a 30-storey building with double storey basement. The redevelopment will upgrade the hotel to 4-star status and consists of a complete refurbishment of all hotel rooms, replacement of the existing glazed façade, re-purposing of front of house areas, the addition of spa, gym and swimming pool facilities within the basement, and a two-storey extension to roof level. Structural works include major alterations and strengthening to the primary core structure and transfer slabs as well as various cut and carve of the structure. The project is scheduled for completion in 2027. These fantastic visuals have been taken from our structural model, created by Brett Hobbs. Thomas Akrigg, Stephen Vernon, Wojciech Zujla, Catalina A Johansen Meza, Richard James, Andrew Quinn, Kennedy Chongwe Lupindula