Haden Young — North Glasgow College

We had set up “Professional Architectural Drawing Services” to provide drawings for building warrants, planning consent, and project management, mainly in the residential property development market.

However, in light of the new volatility in the domestic market (the “credit crunch”), we restructured and we decided to move away from the domestic sector altogether.

North Glasgow College at Springburn

As Professional Architectural Drawing Services — we have been asked to provide on-site facilities for the new RMJM (Robert Matthew, Johnson Marshall)/ Greenroom M&E design for the new college at Springburn –

• North Glasgow College.

2008-09 Edit:This was a difficult project for a great many reasons, probably the most important being the degree of business change.

For example, in May 2007, the main contractor, Barr Construction was taken over by McLaughlin & Harvey and the company restructured.  This project was reprogrammed and restaffed. The next month — in June 2007 — the project architects, RMJM, merged with New York based Hillier Architecture, forming a 1200 person ’super-studio’. RMJM restructured, and the design consultants for electrical and mechanical services, Greenroom Building Services, became a distinct entity.  Later, in August 2008, Greenroom was sold off as a completely independant entity. The hundreds of radiators for the project were supplied by Quinn Radiators.  In April 2008, this company closed a factory under a great deal of controversy with the unions, workforce and newspapers. See amicus the union.org.

Links:

• www.rmjm.com/
• greenr.co.uk/
• www.northglasgowcollege.ac.uk/
• www.hadenyoung.co.uk/
• www.barr.co.uk/

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