James Watt Dock gets the green light
26.04.10
A £180m project to redevelop James Watt Dock in Greenock has been approved by Inverclyde Council's planning board. Hulley & Kirkwood have provided M&E assistance to the development in order to get it to planning stage which now has the go-head to proceed. The development will see more than 1,000 homes built along with 12,000 sqm of retail and business space. A 100-bed hotel will also be built along with a 400-berth marina. Its centerpiece will be the restoration of Scotland's largest surviving cast iron and brick industrial building - the sugar warehouse.
H&K have been appointed to work with Cruickshanks, the high voltage substation business of Balfour Kilpatrick, to connect the £8m Clyde Wind Farm into the electricity transmission network. Clyde wind farm is set to become Europe's largest onshore wind farm, capable of powering 320,000 homes. It will be built in clusters of turbines near the M74 close to Abington and will have a total generation capacity of 548 megawatts.
