Will Rudd

Will Rudd (Glasgow) managing director MJ O’Shaughnessy details the conservation expertise required to regenerate the historic Advocate’s Close site in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is coming alive again as lockdown eases and people can visit once more. It is a city that thrives on

Shirley Evatt at Will Rudd Davidson, who is the lead engineer on the project to transform the old Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh into the university's new Edinburgh Futures Institute, discusses the challenges of the project as well as her views on women in engineering. Two centuries ago, very few

Eildon Housing Association has teamed up with Buckholm Ltd to deliver high quality affordable homes on a designated housing site at Buckholm Corner in Galashiels which has lain vacant for a significant number of years.

Kingdom Housing Association has appointed Smith Scott Mullan Associates to its framework for architect and multi-discipline design team services.

Managing director MJ O'Shaughnessy on how Will Rudd's approach to blue-green engineering is creating responsible environmental solutions. With a year to go until Glasgow hosts COP26 Climate Summit, engineering probably isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when considering how we tackle c

Work is under way to design around 150 brand new affordable homes at the former Silverlea care home in North West Edinburgh following the appointment of construction firm Hart Builders. The City of Edinburgh Council-led development, which could start on site as early as Summer 2022, aims to bring th

Leo Shand explains how the use of a 3D model has helped collaborate on the new Virgin Hotel in Edinburgh. The new Virgin Hotel in Edinburgh is a flagship project that involves the redevelopment of three existing Grade A-listed buildings and a new build to create a 5-star hotel with 225 bedrooms. The

Plans have been unveiled to construct a large-scale renewable energy park designed to deliver between 150 – 200 megawatts of green energy to supply to the Scottish grid, with the capacity to power tens of thousands of homes across the north-east of Scotland. It is estimated that 1500 jobs will

In discussing conservation engineering and the work structural engineers do to repair, protect and conserve our building heritage, Gillian Ogilvie talks specifically about her own work at The Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Conservation engineering is about repairing and preserving what is there. Howe

Consulting engineers Will Rudd has appointed two new managing directors to lead its Glasgow and Edinburgh offices. The appointments of MJ O’Shaughnessy and Gillian Ogilvie mark a new chapter for the successful privately-owned engineering consultancy which employs over 80 staff in Scotland

Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) has submitted plans for a new ‘modular village’ for business units in Inverness Campus.

Bennetts Associates has submitted a formal planning application for its transformation of the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh, a project which was recently delayed by a year. The practice has prepared a design statement on behalf of Capital Theatres as part of the application for planning permissi

Contracts for design work on two key Inverness Campus projects awarded before the COVID-19 lockdown are progressing well thanks to remote working.

Funding has been agreed on four early years projects being delivered by hub West Scotland on behalf of East Dunbartonshire Council. Under the partnership, three new two-storey facilities will be developed in beside Brookwood Library in Bearsden, at Southbank Road in Kirkintilloch and at the former S

Pupils, teachers and local councillors in Airdrie have celebrated key milestones at the sites of two new joint campus primary schools which are being delivered by Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure. The first school taking shape on Petersburn Road will provide a new home for Petersburn