A 2yr build cycle with a challenging on-site environment

Designing and laying multi-utility infrastructures is no easy task. But when Core won the contract for Mactaggart and Mickel’s Lennoxtown development things proved even more complicated.

The £500k contract meant Core had to bring gas and water mains over a newly built bridge and remove a low voltage overhead line at the former hospital site. As well as being home to Celtic Football Club’s new training facility, the site is being converted into a large housing development.

The hospital’s former gardener and his wife still lived on one of the original properties on the site and the utility work spelled disruption for the couple.

Removing the overhead line meant the couple would be left without any power which would have caused problems for the gardener’s wife, who required constant access to her chair lift. “It was a hugely complicated job,” said Steven Hand, Project Coordinator. “This is quite a complex task under normal circumstances but we had to come up with a way to cause as little convenience as possible to the couple. “We were able to organise our works to be completed in just one day while the lady visited her day care centre. This meant arranging linesmen, joiners and excavation teams to work together, to very strict deadlines.” The couple were extremely grateful to Core for working around their needs.

Following the hard work by the team, the development now has a new substation, while the high voltage diversion and mains connections for the site and the neighbouring Celtic training ground are all complete.

Core began work on this contract in March 2007 with the final connections due to be completed in December 2008.

Bring it on!