Month: April 2023

DSSR Building Consultants are dedicated to promoting, improving and supporting the mental health of our staff. In conjunction with this commitment to our colleagues, we are delighted to be able to help and support our local charities and community.

In light of this, our DSSR Harrogate office is in the fortunate position to be able to donate £600 to ‘Mind in Harrogate District’, an independent charity founded in 1973, run by local people for local people, affiliated with National Mind and the Mind federation.

Even though 1 in 4 people have mental health problems, most of us don’t get the help we need. ‘Mind in Harrogate District’ offers a number of support services to anyone struggling with their mental health.

Courtesy of Goodson Associates, we can now show the completed de-kit facility we helped to design for Co-operative.

DSSR provided performance duties including establishing concept design, utility applications and planning stage building performance modelling to meet the energy legislative requirements for the COOP new Build De-Kit facility at Newhouse.

The new industrial facility looks immaculate and we are very proud to have been part of the design team.

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The DSSR team in Glasgow was recently treated to ten-pin bowling!

What followed was a surprising amount of strikes, a respectable amount of spares, and not as many gutterballs as there should have been with the free drinks promotion.

Thank you to the team at Bowlarama for a fantastic event, and the DSSR social committee for organising yet another excellent team building session.

Congratulations to the team winners of Stuart Brand and Paul Fagan!

DSSR is pleased to see the application was submitted and validated for a 420,000 sq ft unit at Omega West.

This is the final phase of the 2.2m sq ft scheme, with DSSR acting as building services consultant, following the grant of planning permission by the SoS in November 2021.

DSSR is excited to see the 4th building at the Omega West Development reach this key stage. With a BREEAM Excellent Certification and EPC A rating being key targets that DSSR are helping to deliver, this is expected to be another high-quality development demonstrating best sustainability practice.

– Fiona Williamson, DSSR Regional Director

Please join us in congratulating DSSR Associate, Tony Williamson, who after a 40-year career (including 16 years with DSSR), has officially hung up his Ductulator and decided to enjoy early retirement.

Tony is greatly loved across DSSR for his warmth, humour, and endearing personality—to say nothing of his wide breadth of engineering knowledge, attention to detail and preparedness, and the outstanding organisational skills he demonstrated across the unbelievable range of projects he has been involved in across the world.

Everyone at DSSR wishes him an excellent and well-deserved retirement.

Recently, Kirsten and Bill visited a local charity, Possobilities with a view to helping them out with some sponsorship.

Over the last 33 years, Possobilities has developed into one of the most respected voluntary organisations in Glasgow. They have a proven track record of offering support and respite to disabled and vulnerable people in our community.

Possobilities give members with disabilities access to the resources they require and support them to grow, learn and develop so that they can achieve their goals within society rather than feel isolated in their own homes. Their purpose-built centre at Possobilities gives their members confidence to grow in a safe environment at their own pace while also encouraging them to try new things.

When we visited, they were contemplating whether or not they could afford Easter, so staff in Glasgow had a whip-round and delivered over 100 eggs in time to brighten up their easter.

We will be doing more with this excellent charity; they are clearly operating at the margins where small donations can make a big difference. We’ll keep you in touch with our plans as they develop.