Working with our client Grosvenor, WSP was appointed to undertake the masterplan design, utility infrastructure, vertical transportation, underground car park ventilation, ICT systems, micro-climate and sustainability across the Liverpool One development, a £1 billion shopping centre covering 42 acres of Liverpool City Centre. In addition WSP completed the concept and detailed building services design for the west of Paradise Street, working closely with HLP and other building services design consultants to ensure consistency of approach across the site.
Experts within our Intelligent Transport team produced NASS, a truly proactive traffic management system developed for the Highways Agency for use on the English motorway network. NASS was developed by WSP and our supply chain to monitor the current state of the motorway network and predict the build up of congestion up to an hour in advance.
Gavin English, Managing Director of WSPimc and also the current chairman of the ACE International Business Group was at the ceremony as were colleagues Matthew Sturrock and Adrian Goodwin who were on hand to receive the awards.
ACE Chairman, Geoff French said that each of the firms shortlisted, not only the winners, should be immensely proud of what they had achieved over the past twelve months.
“The current recession has set consultancy and engineering firms a certain kind of challenge,” he said. “It’s abundantly clear from both the quality and quantity at this year’s awards that they have responded in kind by producing work of the highest calibre – it’s hard to think of another country where the standard of engineering is so high.”