Quality Hotel owner Mike Chawla has appointed Portland to provide full structural engineering consultancy for the refurbishment and restructure of the hotel following extensive fire damage in November. After surveying the hotel, Portland is redesigning and refurbishing the areas that are salvageable in addition to designing structures to rebuild what has been deemed beyond repair. Portland will be working with project partners including cost consultant Fitzsimons and architect Street Design.
A further contract win for Portland is the new Birtley Young Peoples’ Club. The facility is set to accommodate pre-Olympic training during London 2012, as well as providing a potential base for boxing teams competing in the Glasgow Commonwealth games 2014. Portland is to provide structural design services to the project working with Whelan Construction, Lumsden Wood Partnership and Coachhouse8.
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