SOLUTIONS MARCH 2012


CONTENTS 04 NEWS 06 HEALTHCARE FOCUS 10 ON SITE AT BOND STREET STATION 14 SSAB STEELWORKS, SWEDEN 15 THE SECRET LIFEOF BRIDGES 16 POSTCARD FROM… DOHA


Front cover Great Ormond Street Hospital Photo: Nicola Evans, WSP Group


Editor Bridget Kennerley WSP Group Communications bridget.kennerley@wspgroup.com


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This issue of Solutions coincides with the announcement of WSP’s results for 2011, and once again our performance proved resilient in the face of varied and often challenging markets.


Our private sector activities showed some improvement, though constraints remain on confidence and funding across the general landscape. With the exception of the UK, the public sectors in the regions in which we work generally improved as the year progressed.


In this month’s magazine we highlight two markets in which we are increasing our engagement worldwide – healthcare and rail. Our focus on healthcare reflects our growing global reputation – leading to our recent success in winning Odense Hospital, Denmark’s largest ever hospital project, among others – and demonstrates our pioneering work in the UK, US, Sweden, Germany and Australia. We also feature one of our flagship rail projects, Bond Street Crossail station in London, where we are lead consultant. Further significant appointments from both Crossrail and Network Rail have followed in the UK, including our role as lead design consultant on the redevelopment of London Bridge station and, more recently, a place on not one but two frameworks for the new high-speed London to Birmingham rail link.


Client care is a key pillar of our business strategy, and a theme that runs through every story in the magazine. Whether we are designing a complex steelworks refurbishment in Sweden, running structural diagnostic tests on bridges in the US, masterplanning sustainable cities in Scandinavia or engineering high-rise office and hotel developments in Asia, our priority is to understand and respond to our clients’ business requirements with the very best solutions.


I hope you enjoy this insight into just a few of our many, varied projects around the world, and I look forward to telling you more about our work in other markets and sectors as the year progresses.


Chris Cole CEO, WSP Group plc


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