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Some fantastic drone shots as we start to see the unique shape of the new Paisley Grammar School emerge on site. The project, designed by Ryder Architecture for Renfrewshire Council is delivering secondary school accommodation for 1,380 pupils on the site of a former Chivas bottling plant. State-of-the-art teaching facilities will include in- and outdoor sports facilities, workshops, kitchens, and a 300-seat theatre. With classrooms split across three teaching wings, long column free spans create double and triple height plazas within the building. Given the site’s industrial history, our geo-environmental team worked to investigate and remediate ground contamination, collaborating with our civils team overseeing the earthworks to ensure this didn’t hold up the programme. The school is set to welcome pupils in 2026. #engineeredbywoolgarhunter #civilengineering

Thanks to Seraya Sigsworth for a great lunch and learn #CPD session with our Civils team, highlighting the surface water management benefits of trees and explaining how Green-tech's TreeParker system can be integrated into #SuDS design.   #naturebasedsolutions #greeninfrastructure #urbantreeplanting #sustainableengineering

Congratulations to our clients Drum Property Group and Moda for their success at the Scottish Property Awards Friday night!   Moda, Holland Park in Glasgow won Build to Rent Development of the Year award.   Drum's Merchant City development, Candleriggs Square won the Large Regeneration of the Year award. The Social Hub (B Corp™) at Candleriggs Square won Student Accommodation of the Year as well as Development of the Year (Commercial Buildings). Drum Property Group also won Property Company of the Year.   We're proud to have played a part in the success of these award-winning developments.

𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 The last Scottish Property Awards nominated development Woolgar Hunter worked on this year is Drum Property Group's Merchant City development incorporating Candleriggs and The Social Hub (B Corp™). The project delivered 300 new BTR flats and a 500 bed apart-hotel in a development that brought a long disused site back to life. Drum Property Group is nominated for Property Company of the Year, while The Social Hub is nominated for Commercial Development and PBSA Development of the Year, and Halliday Fraser Munro are nominated in Architectural Excellence for their work on the building. Candleriggs is nominated for Regeneration Project and BTR Development of the Year. This was the second major city centre masterplan Woolgar Hunter has engineered for Drum, following the Barclays campus at Buchanan Wharf. Good luck to all the nominees! 📷 GRAHAM Group/Candleriggs

𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 Another Scottish Property Awards shortlisted project Woolgar Hunter worked on this year is the Moda's Holland Park BTR development, which is shortlisted for BTR Development of the Year, while HAUS Collective is nominated for Architectural Excellence for the project. The development comprises 433 apartments of varying sizes in a masterplan of four connected towers, occupying a full city block. The premises also contain significant tenant amenities, including a gym, cinema, games room and 'sky lounges' with panoramic views of the city. The project also made a real commitment to bolstering jobs and skills in the local community. 24 apprenticeships were created working on the project, while 120 young people received on-site training or experience. Good luck!

𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 The next Scottish Property Awards nominated building Woolgar Hunter worked on is East Calder Primary School, developed by West Lothian Council and Hub South East Scotland Limited. They are nominated for Public Development of the Year, while designers NORR are nominated in Architectural Excellence. The LEIP 2 funded project set out to design a building that could serve as an exemplar in whole life carbon reduction, while providing a fun and nurturing learning environment for 460 pupils. The unique triangular building form creates dynamic hallways and exciting learning spaces, while the school's energy performance levels meet Passive House standards. Woolgar Hunter has worked on many schools with Hub South East, including primary, secondary and ASN facilities, and we're delighted to add this fun, highly sustainable West Lothian development to the list. Good luck!

𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 Ahead of the Scottish Property Awards this week, we wanted to spotlight some of the nominated projects Woolgar Hunter has worked on this year. First is Aurora, developed by Forma Real Estate Funds and HFD, shortlisted for Best Commercial Development, Best Deal and Best Net Zero Project. The project extensively refurbished the iconic Bothwell St building, delivering over 170,000sq ft of flexible Grade A office space. The new development is one of the most sustainable office developments in Scotland, with net-zero operational carbon, and has remarkable tenant amenities including a fitness suite, roof terraces and extensive cycle infrastructure. This project was the latest in a long working relationship between Woolgar Hunter and HFD, including a number of developments on Bothwell St. Good luck for the big night!

𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗘𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘀𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮 The WH team enjoyed a great presentation last week from FemEng in Botswana. The group of female and non-binary engineering students from the University of Glasgow organise international outreach trips, designed to encourage schoolchildren, particularly girls, to pursue careers in STEM. The team presented on the success of their 2024 trip to Botswana - which Woolgar Hunter Engineers sponsored - with more than 1000 pupils attending their interactive workshops on understanding core engineering concepts, as well the plans for their upcoming summer 2025 trip. WH Project Engineer and FemEng alumni Paola Pappas presented on our work across a range of sectors, giving the students greater insight into some of the work engineers in Scotland are doing today. FemEng International trips saw a 50% increase in applications to STEM courses at the University of Rwanda, following trips there in previous years. We are delighted to work with FemEng and support their work to reduce access barriers to engineering for women both in Scotland and internationally.  

𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 🏆 The Woolgar Hunter team is looking forward to the ACE Consultancy and Engineering Awards this week, where we're pleased to have been shortlisted for Best Consultancy in our category. 2023/24 was a strong year for Woolgar Hunter which saw growth in our Glasgow and Manchester offices, completion on a number of major projects across the UK, and awards recognition for our projects from the BCO National Awards and the IStructE. We're delighted to have that recognised by the ACE among all the other nominees. #CandEAwards2024 #Civilengineering #engineeredbywoolgarhunter

Woolgar Hunter are still accepting applications for both graduates and summer placement students to join our busy, growing Glasgow office in 2025, within our Building Structures, Civil Engineering Infrastructure and Geo-Environmental teams. This is a great opportunity to work on a wide range of project types and scales both close to our base in Glasgow, and across Scotland and the UK. Be it an award-winning city centre office development, a super low-carbon school or a cutting-edge whisky distillery, you will see the broad spectrum of projects being built in Scotland. You will also see projects at various stages of their development, from initial scheme design through to construction stage, offering great experience and a well-trodden route to chartership via our Graduate Training Scheme. We work in a friendly studio environment that is creative, collaborative, practical and design focussed. Successful applicants will work closely with a professional and highly experienced team of engineers and technicians – we’d love you to join us. Applicants can email your CV and details to recruitment@woolgarhunter.com