PROJECTWINS
DANCING BRIDGE WUXI, CHINA
AWARDS Paddington Station, London
PADDINGTON AND EMIRATES TEAMS SCOOP TOP PRIZES
WSP has won the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Historic Bridges and Infrastructure Award for the design of the refurbishment of the Grade I-listed Paddington station in London, completed in 2011. WSP was commissioned by Network Rail in 2007 to undertake a feasibility study to strengthen and refurbish part of the roof, originally completed in 1854.
The team, based mainly in the Basingstoke office, worked closely with the client and English Heritage, continuing throughout the outline and detailed design stages, and as lead consultant for contractor Morgan Sindall during the two-year construction.
peter.newman@
wspgroup.com
WSP has been named Consultant of the Year for 2011 at the annual awards of the United Arab Emirates’ National Transportation Authority, held in Abu Dhabi in January. The NTA is the federal agency that covers links between the Emirates themselves and neighbouring countries, with which WSP has a strategic partnership spanning several projects.
gurminder.sagoo@
wspgroup.ae CHINA
Professionals across WSP Asia’s Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong offices have been working together to deliver a commercial project by Suning, one of the largest electrical appliance retailers in China. The Suning Yi Gou B2C project is located in the Xuan Wu district of Nanjing City, and has a total floor area of 216,000m². WSP will be providing building services, sustainability and LEED consultancy.
sidney.chan@
wspgroup.com.hk SWEDEN
WSP has been commissioned by the municipality of Umeå, IKEA and IKANO Retail Centres to produce preliminary designs for a key part of a new retail park to the south of the city. The contract includes carrying out geotechnical investigations and producing designs for roundabouts, cycle tracks and footpaths, water and wastewater facilities, parks and car parks.
tomas.widerstedt@wspgroup.se QATAR
WSP Middle East, in joint venture with Khatib & Alami, has been awarded a major infrastructure contract by the Qatari Public Works Authority, ASHGHAL. The $90m contract is to provide engineering consultancy services for all local roads and drainage across the north of the country for a five-year period.
To read more about WSP’s growing business in Qatar, turn to page 16.
andrew.seymour@
wspgroup.com SOLUTIONS 05 SRI LANKA
WSP Hong Kong has been appointed as building services and LEED consultant on a new Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo, the latest in a number of projects it has delivered for the luxury chain. The hotel will be located along Galle Road, south of the central business district, and includes hotel rooms and serviced apartments covering 101,686m².
jackson.kwong@
wspgroup.com.hk
WSP’s bridge experts in Finland and PES-Architects have won a competition to design a new pedestrian bridge in Wuxi, China. The steel and concrete cable-stayed bridge will span a small lake close to a new bullet train station in the central park of the Huishan New City area. It is suspended from inclined pylons that resemble two dancers and has a gentle S-bend which, according to Chinese tradition, ensures a traveller will face no danger as it makes evil spirits lose their way. The bridge is expected to open later in 2012.
sami.niemela@
wspgroup.fi US
WSP Cantor Seinuk has been commissioned to design a new 40-storey Marriot Courtyard and Residence Inn in New York, in downtown Manhattan at 213 Pearl Street. The architect for the 175,000ft2
building is Nobutaka
Ashihara, and the client is Lam Golden Pearl Plaza Hotel.
tbyrne@wspcs.com
Lam Golden Pearl Plaza Hotel LLC / Nobutaka Ashihara
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