JOB VACANCY FOR SHEQ Manager

We have an exciting new opportunity for a SHEQ Manager – Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Manager. For further details please visit Careers 

JOB VACANCY FOR MOBILE CRANE OPERATOR

Due to our continued growth, we are currently looking to appoint a CPCS Mobile Crane Operator (Blue Card) with an HGV Class 2 / Cat C Licence. For further details and how to apply visit our CAREERS page. 

Testimonial for works at St Marks Southampton School.

It is always good to receive positive feedback from clients and here we feature one testimonial relating to Sangwin Educational Furniture’s work at St Marks Southampton School.

Details Of £500m Mixed-used Development In Leeds Revealed

Leeds could see a new mixed-use development being built in its South Bank regeneration area if plans are given the go ahead. 

Built-to-rent (BTR) developer and operator PLATFORM_ is intending to build the 1.3 million square foot development on brownfield site on Sweet Street, which has been vacant for the last 13 years, Insider Media reported.

Jean-Marc Vandevivere, chief executive at PLATFORM_, said: “We are proud to present a transformational vision to create a community-first development that epitomises the very best of inclusive, modern day living.”

The £500 million project will include 1,350 BTR apartments, a gym, residents’ lounges, and co-working space.

There will also be 200,000 square feet of commercial space, from Grade A sustainable office buildings to leisure and retail outlets. 

PLATFORM_ intends to build a new public square for locals to get together and create a community atmosphere. Landscaped areas will make the site more attractive, benefiting the wider area. 

Its apartments will fit in with Leeds City Council’s Housing Strategy 2022-27 and Best City Ambition initiative, aiming to improve housing stock and quality of life for locals. 

This comes after McClaren Living was given approval from the council to build 375 apartments at Beck Yard, also as part of the South Bank regeneration area. 

The £85 million development includes 7,000 square feet of community spaces, such as a gym, lounges, and shared workplaces, as well as 30,000 square feet of outdoor space.

Commenting on the scheme, Matthew Biddle, managing director of McLaren Living, said: “It’s an excellent time to be working in the city.”

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What Is The World’s Largest Car Park?

There is a considerable number of design considerations when designing car park facilities for a new development.

There needs to be enough space to comfortably allow customers to find a space even at peak times, but not so much that they must travel a long distance to reach their vehicle. As well as this, extra land costs money, so it is important to consolidate and make the most of the space available.

As a result, concrete multistorey car parks have been a popular fixture of cities for as long as cars have been, with the earliest car parks in the first few years of the 20th century built to compensate for the exceptionally low range of petrol and electric cars during that time.

They are complex to build and car park resurfacing is a different process than it would be for a more open car park, but they have become the best way to ensure that thousands of people can find a place to park their cars near to a city or shopping centre.

Because of this disparity between square footage and usable space, most car parks are measured by capacity, and how many cars can be stored within them.

As a result, the largest car park in the world, somewhat surprisingly, is based at West Edmonton Mall, based in the fourth most populous province of Canada, Alberta.

The car park, which can hold 20,000 vehicles at full capacity with an additional overflow facility to store another 10,000, was built alongside the mall itself in 1981 as an audacious way by Edmonton, then a relatively unknown city with 500,000 people living in it, to build their way into notoriety.

It started as a large shopping mall, but with three subsequent expansions would become an all-encompassing tourist destination, complete with what was at the time the world’s largest amusement park and roller-coaster, even hosting a training facility for the then dominant Edmonton Oilers, one of the greatest NHL teams ever assembled.