WYG articles

Foreign Office Architects’ design for a John Lewis store and cinema at Hammerson’s Highcross Quarter shopping centre in Leicester dramatically synthesizes the complexities of site and programme. Much of the drama depends on effective engineering strategies to provide various spans for the store atrium, auditorium, loading bay and to minimize vibration and sound transfer between the different parts. Entered by ascending an amphitheatre at one corner, the store’s interio

A stunning new footbridge is set to transform Stockton-on-Teesriverside, inspiring the community and creating a raft of new jobs.

Infinity Bridge, so-called because together with its reflection it forms the shape of the mathematical symbol for infinity, has been funded by Tees Valley Regeneration and its partners English Partnerships, One NorthEast and Stockton Borough Council as a way of attracting developers to Stockton-on-Tees’ North Shore.

WYG has played a cent

The N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown Road Improvement Scheme – a new 37km section of motorway – was the first Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) type contract to be undertaken in Ireland.

Under ECI, WYG PH McCarthy (together with Hyder and Grontmij) were appointed as designers at an early stage in the development of the design to prepare the EIS, preliminary design and detailed design. Together with the contractor, Roadbridge Sisk JV, WYG PH McCarthy came up with innovative

In 2005 npower renewables began investigating the possibility of building one of the largest wind farms in Wales.

The farm would consist of 65 turbines standing up to 137 metres high on around 2,600 hectares (ha) of hillside near Llanbrynmair in Powys.

To help enhance the impact of the wind farm, npower renewables propose an extensive habitat restoration scheme following clearance of over 1,700 ha of coniferous plantation. WYG have played an integral role in developing the

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