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Multi-disciplinary consultancy, WYG, has recently been appointed to the Pro5 national consultancy services framework, one of the largest local government frameworks in the country.
The two year framework (which has an option to extend by a further two years) means that any local authority (and other associated public sector organisation such as the police and the fire service) can appoint WYG in the following areas of service provision:
Lot 3 - Community Research and Engagement
Lot 5 - Environmental and Sustainability
Lot 8 - Health and Safety
Lot 9 - Highways, Transport and Logistics
Lot 19 - Waste and Recycling
Colin Shields, Director of Transport based in Leicester, attributes the success to WYG’s ability to offer a combination of quality, experience and value for money...
Multi-disciplinary consultancy, WYG, is pleased to announce that Regional Director, Dr Nick Bunn, is to lead the Leeds and Newcastle transport teams, providing an integrated transport service across the Yorkshire and North East regions.
Nick has more than 25 years’ experience in traffic and transport consultancy, his main areas of expertise being masterplanning, assessing the impact of new developments on travel patterns, road safety, sustainable transport and traffic management studies, in addition to car park assessment and design...
WYG has joined the project pioneering a new commercial venture into Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)...
A contract is now underway to develop a new School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Surrey, one of the UK’s top 20 universities.
When complete, the facility will be one of just eight veterinary schools in the country and the first in the South East outside London, and will allow the university to attract top quality teaching professionals and students as well as providing clinical research facilities for local veterinary practices, institutes and industry partners.
The contract includes building services and BREEAM assessment work on three new academic buildings with a total area of 10.000 square metres and a construction value of around £22m.
The Clinical Skills Centre will include: companion animal handling and examination areas; locomotion and anatomy laboratories; a haptics laboratory (for simulation of clinical skills), a mock veterinary practice and interpersonal skills training centre to build student ability in communicating with clients and handling situations involving animal bereavement...
After several years at the planning stage, with different scheme designs and a change of client, redevelopment of a former Parcelforce depot in North West London has finally received the green light, thanks to the expertise of WYG’s London transport planning team.
The mixed-use development in NW2 comprises 230 residential units, commercial uses and associated parking and amenity space, which will help to deliver affordable housing to meet local demand...
WYG Associate Director and Chartered Landscape Architect, Mary O’Connor, as member of the Landscape Institute’s Advisory Panel, has played a key role in guiding production of the 3rd Edition of the Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (GLVIA3), having contributed to the 2nd Edition, published over 10 years ago.
The Guidelines have become an important reference document for landscape architects since the release of the 1st and 2nd editions in 1995 and 2002, maintaining and developing standards in LVIA both in the UK and overseas.
Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) is an important tool for managing landscape change and understanding its effects on landscape character and people’s surroundings...
WYG has received notification of a further 'gold' award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), making it its ninth consecutive from RoSPA...
Following a drive to diversify into new donor-funded markets, WYG has been successful with the Global Evaluation Framework Agreement (GEFA) having now secured its first commission.
This final phase of a 30-month long mine action evaluation project covers Cambodia, Mozambique, South Sudan and Sri Lanka...
WYG’s planning team in Somerset has recently achieved planning consent for a further large-scale solar farm in Wiltshire...
The next stage in progress towards a new shopping centre near Talbot Green, South Wales, which has been described as one of the biggest planning applications in the history of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council, is now underway following the Council’s resolution to approve outline planning permission at the end of last month.
The scheme builds on earlier work undertaken by WYG to secure a Local Development Plan allocation for 500 homes, 15 hectares of employment land and the new centre.
The £200m mixed-use scheme for client, Talbot Green Developments , has involved a cross-disciplinary approach involving WYG teams in delivering planning, environmental impact assessment (EIA) coordination, retail/leisure need, noise, air quality, lighting, ecology and archaeology related services, as well as early transport planning involvement.
The new town centre will include a Sainsbury’s supermarket with a net surface area of 80,000 sq ft, 280,000 sq ft (net) of other principally comparison (non food) retail floor space, 8 screen cinema, 80 bed hotel and 64 homes as well as office, community and food & drink facilities, supported by a significant highway infrastructure.
The proposal will see an area of 19 hectares regenerated, much of which is former industrial or commercial brown field land, including special provisions to protect the Pant Marsh ‘Site of Importance for Nature Conservation’. A full planning application for Phase 1 of the centre, which includes the Sainsbury’s supermarket, has also been prepared and submitted...
WYG has today received confirmation from the Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government that Peel Holdings’ controversial Liverpool Waters development will not be called in by the coalition Government.
This decision means that Peel Holdings can now press ahead with the £5.5 billion investment that is expected to create up to 20,000 jobs in the city of Liverpool over the next three decades...
A consortium led by WYG is providing professional expertise on two new major public transport projects in Bulgaria...
Work has started on a new 8,000 square metre abattoir and meat processing facility in Hortonwood, Telford, which should be operational by July 2013, just eight months after formal planning submission was lodged with the Local Planning Authority (LPA)...
As in previous years, WYG set aside a week last October to run a series of seminars and networking events up and down the country...
In what has now become an annual tradition, WYG recently took over an entire Chinese restaurant in Liverpool city centre to celebrate Chinese New Year with more than 100 of its key clients and contractors.
The event, to see in the year of the ‘’Water Snake’, was held on the 12th day of the 15 days of Chinese New Year celebrations, which traditionally sees friends invited to dinner to celebrate the year that has gone and the year that is to come.
WYG's Chief Operating Officer, Graham Olver, joined clients and the WYG team for the evening.
With its Liverpool office located in the Cavern Quarter, “birth place” of the Beatles and the heart of the city, WYG has a strong presence in the Merseyside region.
The city has the longest established Chinese community in Europe, and was twinned with Shanghai shortly before its World Expo in 2010 which WYG sponsored...
The team investigating the case of the “buried Spitfires of Burma”, which includes WYG Principal Archaelogist, Martin Brown, is planning to present its findings at an event in June.
Global video game company, Wargaming.net announced that they believe their team of archaeologists, historians and scientists has solved the mystery which has intrigued and captivated the world since the first rumours of buried aircraft began to spread among servicemen returning from South East Asia in 1946...
WYG Regional Director for Planning, Paul Grover, will be the keynote speaker at the forthcoming Westminster Social Policy Forum in London on 12 February...
WYG is delighted to announce the appointment of Ralph Henderson as General Manager in the Gulf area, based in Abu Dhabi...
WYG’s Ankara office has recently won a major two-year 1.95 million Euro contract with the Ministry of the European Union (EU) to deliver technical assistance for building EU affairs capacity in Turkey’s Governorates, in anticipation of the country’s accession to the European Union...
WYG Poland’s Krystyna Gurbiel has recently taken up office following appointment as Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Poland, where amongst other responsibilities, she will work closely with the European Commission.
Krystyna leaves WYG after six years where she was a director and advisor, with responsibility for a portfolio of evaluation, research, analysis, consultancy and training services for the public sector.
With a presence in Poland since 1999, WYG is headquartered in Warsaw and has offices in a number of key locations throughout the country...
International multi-disciplinary consultancy WYG has recently been shortlisted for the British Expertise International 2013 award for ‘Outstanding International Development Project’ for its work on the Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF).
According to the judges, the finalists are “among some of the most respected UK professional services firms working internationally and the strength of the entries means that achieving a place among them is a remarkable achievement.”
The International Development award is presented for the most sustainable and influential development project undertaken by a UK-based company, with key criteria including: Sustainable Result; Achieving Customer Satisfaction; Teamwork and Working with Local Partners, and Meeting Changing Needs and Cultural Challenges.
The Western Balkans Infrastructure Projects Facility (IPF1), a joint initiative of the European Commission, the Central European Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and the European Investment Bank, pools funding to leverage loans for priority infrastructure and socio-economic development projects which are the key to the long-term stability of the region...
International multi-disciplinary consultancy, WYG, is currently celebrating winning a number of major awards for projects at the University of Liverpool and Manchester Metropolitan University...
As part of its ongoing plan to build overseas revenues which currently stand at around one third of total business, international multi-disciplinary consultancy WYG recently opened a second office in Turkey.
In conjunction with the Ankara office, the new Istanbul office will allow the Group to expand its global project management and technical consultancy operations in the country, to further penetrate public and private sector market sectors including: Defence & Justice; Energy & Waste; Urban & Commercial Development; Planning, Environment & Transport; Mining & Metals; and Social Development & Infrastructure...
WYG's, Martin Brown, is joining an historic project to locate and excavate a number of World War II spitfires allegedly buried at the end of the war because they were surplus to requirements.
It’s taken UK aircraft enthusiast, David Cundall, more than 14 years to survey potential sites and to secure permission from the government in Burma/Myanmar and backing from computer gaming company, Wargaming.net, before any excavation work could begin...
