Over the last few months Archibald Shaw have enjoyed working a variety of new and exciting projects. These are a few of our most recent projects. Bird is the Word A replacement footbridge lift was delayed at the last minute after a group of nesting chicks were discovered tucked away to the rear of […]
Read MoreWith the arrival of new team member, a host of new projects and Christmas to contend with, the past six months at Archibald Shaw have flown by. Here are a few of our recent highlights. Fresh Talent In September we welcomed Pawel Loin, a Graduate Engineer, to the Chichester office. With a recent BEng […]
Read MoreSchool Challenges We have three school projects for the West Sussex Local Education Authority currently under construction, but one in particular has offered a few additional challenges. A 6m deep, 3m diameter foul water sewer and shallow culverted river conflicted with proposals for two school buildings. These difficulties were efficiently overcome through detailed investigations on and off […]
Read MoreSpaghetti Towers Although Christmas is a distant memory now, we couldn’t resist sharing with you our close of play activity on Christmas Eve. In true engineer fashion, The Archibald Shaw Chichester office set about designing and building marshmallow and spaghetti towers. Planning procedures were put aside to allow three teams to compete to build the […]
Read MoreNewbury The Newbury team have been busy progressing structural engineering appraisals and designs on both historic and new buildings, including St. Thomas’ Church Hall, Hermitage Village Hall and industrial and office buildings in New Greenham Park. Meanwhile Neil Grinham has recently donned his shorts to complete a 30-mile ride with Axis Architecture in support of The Elizabeth Foundation. […]
Read MoreIn Newbury… School and college developments seem to be the flavour of the summer and have been keeping the Newbury team on their toes. Designs for a New Art and Technology Building at Ashfold School near Aylesbury have just been completed. Design cues have been taken from the adjoining Grade 1 Listed Jacobean mansion, which […]
Read MoreFor Peter it’s time for a change After 32 years Peter feels that it’s time to retire from the partnership but the great news is that he is now engaged as a consultant. Peter has widespread experience in structural engineering in the UK and West Indies on steelwork, load-bearing masonry and timber engineering, as well […]
Read MoreIt’s an exciting day for us all here at Archibald Shaw – we have a brand new website. Here you’ll be able to find out more about Archibald Shaw, meet all the team, discover our range of services and get up-to-date with all our news. So welcome, have a good look around and let us […]
Read MoreHello Well, it is fair to say it has been an eventful 12 months. Nevertheless, I am pleased to say that during this period we have seen completion of a number of sizeable projects and our client base is also reasonably active. Perhaps in times like these we turn more to those who can provide […]
Read MoreWe have included images of many projects, all benefiting from our Civil and Structural Engineering expertise, such as commercial offices for Legal and General in Hove, Reading special needs school, quarry works in South Wales, through to the louvered roof structure on Canary Wharf tower. We are currently progressing with many interesting and varied projects […]
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