NEW WORKSHOP & STORAGE FAILITIES: INVERNESS
Estimated Cost: £600,000
Civil and structural engineering input was concentrated on the construction of concrete lay down areas and the structural designs of two new buildings to house a workshop and storage facilities and a separate washbay with associated drainage.

Additional civil works also included the development of a sustainable solution to the containment of potential oil discharges from the stored plant and machinery within the site.

OIL CONTAINMENT: VARIOUS SITES
Estimated Costs: £22,000 to £40,000
Civil engineering input was concentrated on developing a sustainable solution to the containment of potential oil discharges from the stored plant and machinery within the site.

Sites designs to date include sub-stations at Lochearnhead, Milton of Balgonie by Dundee, Arnish on the Isle of Lewis, Lochcarnan on South Uist, Glencoe (Highlands), Insh in Aberdeenshire, Kinloss (Morayshire) and Glendevon.

REMEDIAL WORKS: LOCHCARNAN, SOUTH UIST
Estimated Cost: £750,000
Civil and structural engineering input concentrated on the remedial works to the roof cladding system and associated steelwork that had been damaged during the hurricane which hit the island in 2004.

BIO-REMEDIATION REDEVELOPMENT OF SOLSGIRTH, ALLOA
Estimated Cost: £undisclosed
MMA were responsible for a detailed environmental investigation of the former Solsgirth mine.

MMA worked up and agreed a remediation strategy with SEPA, and the Local Authority’s Environmental Health Officer, and provided a full time site presence monitoring its implementation. 

STRUCTURAL DESIGN: OUR DYNAMIC EARTH, EDINBURGH
Cost: £600,000
MMA were consulting structural engineers to Premier One Constractor for the FutureDome and Earthscape Scotland Galleries.

These are major additions to the attrractions at Dynamic Earth. A new sunken gallery with a domed roof  was built to form Earthscape Scotland. The Globe, Slice Through Scotland (tilted slabs) and Scotland’s Journey (standing stones) required innovative foundation designs.

STRUCTURAL DESIGN: ASPIRE CENTRE, CARNEGIE COLLEGE
Cost: £1.2m
Working as part of a design and build team, employed by Muir Timber Systems, MMA carried out the detailed design of the new Aspire Centre situated at the rear of the complex. 

This involved the detailed analysis of the roof and wall panels, based on the main contract drawings and performance specification.

CIVIL & STRUCTURAL DESIGN: FMC TECHNOLOGIES, DUNFERMLINE
Value: £2.5m
Over recent years McGregor McMahon & Associates have had numerous appointments from FMC.  Works have included the formation of a new access, installation of overhead doors, new jib and overhead crane, the development of a greenfield site to accommodate 150 car parking spaces and associated SUDS drainage to comply with Scottish Water and SEPA’s requirements.

More recent commissions included an extension to the workshop with a RC testing tank.  To accommodate the extension, civil works involved diverting the existing drainage and services around the proposed building footprint and installing a new drainage system which met the requirements of SEPA, Scottish Water and Fife Council’s flood officer. 

CIVIL & STRUCTURAL DESIGN: DEDRIDGE RETAIL PARK, LIVINGSTON
Value: £6.0m
McGregor McMahon designed, and subsequently administered, the contract for the site enabling works.

Following on from this MMA were novated to the Design and Build Contractors to erect a new B&Q warehouse on one of the plots.

MMA therefore provided a full range of services including the formation of platforms, the provision of the necessary roads and utilities infrastructure, the  installation of piled retaining walls, the formation of a detention basin and the structural design of a steel portal framed building.

STRUCTURAL DESIGN: PROCLAD, GLENROTHES
Value: £undisclosed
McGregor McMahon and Associates were brought in by contractors, Richard Street, to provide design advice for the installation of an oil quenching tank at the ProClad’s existing facility in Glenrothes.

The tank was sunk some 3m below the existing floor level and adjacent to the foundations and columns to the portal frame superstructure.

MMA carried out an initial inspection of the existing ground and foundations and designed a reinforced concrete tank to suit.

CIVIL & STRUCTURAL DESIGN RUGBY STORE, CAVALRY PARK, PEEBLES
Value: £1m est
Working with Cameron Harris, as part of a D&B team, we have recently completed the design and supervision of a new retail unit and headquarters for Rugbystore at Cavalry Park in Peebles.

Our remit included the structural, roads and drainage designs. In addition to this, the site of the unit lay on an area of the River Tweed floodplain and our remit therefore required the provision of suitable floodplain compensation measures.

STRUCTURAL DESIGN, CDM CO-ORDINATOR: CITY QUAY, DUNDEE
Value: £9.5m
City Quay is a £9.5m development of the former Panmure Shipyard on Dundee’s South Victoria Dock Road.

The development comprises 73 units with the existing buildings and new build 6 storey apartments. The flats, formed in a steel frame provide a prominent feature to the waterfront skyline.

Project Engineer, David Hunt, said that one of the main issues that had to be addressed was the variability of the existing buildings with walls proving to be neither parallel, nor plumb!

INVERLEITH PLACE EDINBURGH
MMA were employed, alongside architects Norman Gray + Partners, by Life Property Development to convert, extend and alter a Georgian Villa into 9 apartments.  

The villa, located on the prestigious Inverleith Place, and overlooking Edinburgh’s Botanic Gardens. Originally built in 1826, works included the demolition of the east wing, to permit the construction of a penthouse. The structural design reflected the need to conserve the building fabric.