Recent News
- 28/07/2010 Mariner’s Quay wins at Constructing Excellence in Wales Awards 2010
Mariner’s Quay, Newport, won the Low/Zero Carbon category at the Constructing Excellence in Wales Awards...
- 28/07/2010 Mariner’s Quay wins at Constructing Excellence in Wales Awards 2010
Mariner’s Quay, Newport, won the Low/Zero Carbon category at the Constructing Excellence in Wales Awards...
- 26/07/2010 Engineering Management - New Legislation and Regulations
The property sector is facing unprecedented amounts of legislation relating to energy efficiency and reductions in CO2 emissions...
- 26/07/2010 New apppointments for Hoare Lea’s Engineering Management Group
Hoare Lea has gained approval for its IPD operational engineering module from the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)...
- 12/07/2010 Hoare Lea appointed to Chobham Academy
Hoare Lea has been appointed by BAM to provide MEP services to assist with the completion of design and construction of the £32 million Chobham Academy...
- 29/06/2010 BREEAM Wales Awards 2010
Ceredigion County Council's new office building, Canolfan Rheidol, Aberystwyth, has won the BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) Wales 2010 Offices Award...
- 29/06/2010 Ceredigion’s County Council office wins BREEAM Award
Ceredigion County Council's new office building, Canolfan Rheidol, Aberystwyth, has won the BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) Wales 2010 Offices Award...
- 25/06/2010 Phoenix Heights wins at RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2010
Phoenix House, Mastmaker Road, London won the ‘Best Overseas Award 2010’ category at the Irish Architecture Awards held on 21 June 2010...
- 25/06/2010 Phoenix Heights wins at RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2010
Phoenix House, Mastmaker Road, London won the ‘Best Overseas Award 2010’ category at the Irish Architecture Awards held on 21 June 2010.
- 24/06/2010 (Building) Part L Top Tips
The revision to Part L comes with four approved documents and two guides to help you tick those energy efficiency boxes. But in case you don’t fancy reading the lot, Nick Cullen has a 12-point plan to lead you on the path to compliance...
- 03/06/2010 (RIBA Journal) Lie back and think of…
Guests at the Scarlet in Cornwall can enjoy design-led luxury while savouring the hotel’s impeccable eco credentials – well, give or take the odd bit of Chinese flooring...
- 01/06/2010 London Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2010
Phoenix House, Mastmaker Road, London won the ‘Best new development in the Affordable Homes sector’ category at the Evening Standard’s New Homes Awards on 14 May 2010
- 01/06/2010 RIBA Regional Awards 2010
Mills Bakery, Plymouth, was presented with a RIBA 2010 Award for the South West region at the awards ceremony held on 19 May 2010.
- 01/06/2010 BCO Awards 2010
500 Brook Drive at Green Park in Reading was presented with the Best Commercial Workplace award at the South West and South Wales BCO awards on 13 May 2010.
- 01/06/2010 Civic Trust Awards 2010
The new Pendleton Gateway Health Centre in Salford recently won a commendation in the North West Region Civic Trust Awards 2010. The £17 million building is the largest of the current phase of Mast LIFT schemes.
- 01/06/2010 (Building Surveying Journal) Are you sitting comfortably?
In his final article on air-conditioning systems, Keith Horsley looks at other common indoor climate control systems...
- 01/06/2010 Hoare Lea projects win at BCO Awards 2010
500 Brook Drive at Green Park in Reading was presented with the Best Commercial Workplace award at the South West and South Wales BCO awards on 13 May 2010...
- 01/06/2010 Hoare Lea projects win at RIBA Regional Awards 2010
Mills Bakery, Plymouth, was presented with a RIBA 2010 Award for the South West region at the awards ceremony held on 19 May 2010...
- 01/06/2010 Phoenix Heights wins at London Evening Standard New Homes Awards 2010
Phoenix House, Mastmaker Road, London won the ‘Best new development in the Affordable Homes sector’ category at the Evening Standard’s New Homes Awards on 14 May 2010...
- 01/06/2010 Pendleton Gateway Centre wins Civic Trust Award 2010
The new Pendleton Gateway Health Centre in Salford has won a commendation in the North West Region Civic Trust Awards 2010...
- 27/05/2010 BREEAM Awards 2010
Horizon House, the Environment Agency's new corporate office in Bristol, won the 'BREEAM Office' award at the BREEAM Awards 2010 at Ecobuild, London on 3rd March.
- 27/05/2010 Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Awards
Hoare Lea won both 'Infrastructure (Medium Firm)' and 'Building Services (Medium Firm)' categories at the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Engineering Excellence Awards 2010.
- 02/05/2010 Hoare Lea wins at Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Awards
Hoare Lea won both 'Infrastructure (Medium Firm)' and 'Building Services (Medium Firm)' categories at the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Engineering Excellence Awards 2010...
- 30/04/2010 Building Design World Architecture Top 100 2010
Building Design magazine asked the world's top architects to give their verdict on which partner firms they most enjoyed working with. For the second consecutive year, Hoare Lea was voted within the top five in the service engineers' category
- 29/04/2010 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards 2010
Land Securities’ One New Change is to be awarded the highest accolade in the 2010 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards...
- 28/04/2010 (Building Surveying Journal) Keeping your cool
Keith Horsley gives an overview of the most common types of air-conditioning system and the issues that affect their installation...
- 05/04/2010 Hoare Lea appointed to Stone Towers, Cairo
Rooya Group has appointed Hoare Lea to provide mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) engineering services for Stone Towers...
- 12/03/2010 (Mondo) Hallowed Highbury
Hoare Lea Lighting's scheme has created an illuminated focal point at this residential development on Arsenal FC's old ground...
- 11/03/2010 One New Change wins MIPIM Future Project Awards 2010
Land Securities' One New Change is to be awarded the highest accolade in the 2010 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards...
- 11/03/2010 (CIBSE Journal) Reliable Sources
Cost pressures mean that only a small proportion of the UK building stock is protected by sprinkler systems. Craig English and Sam Bennett show how probabilistic design techniques can be used to assess the benefits of sprinklers...
- 04/03/2010 Horizon House wins BREEAM Award
Horizon House, the Environment Agency's new corporate office in Bristol, won the 'BREEAM Offices' award at the BREEAM Awards 2010 at Ecobuild...
- 02/03/2010 (CIBSE Journal) Building for the Future
Promises of hefty cuts and the possible dawn of a new political era look set to change the face of school building in England. Carina Bailey finds out what the experts think...
- 01/03/2010 (Impact) Adopt a School gets engineers into school
As Hoare Lea rolls out its Adopt a School scheme across the country, ACE's Impact magazine finds out how the pilot benefited pupils and engineers alike...
- 16/02/2010 Can the grid cope with a large expansion of renewables - a Cornish perspective
With expansions of renewables such as wind and biomass in the pipeline for the UK, is the current electricity grid able to accommodate them? Dr Ian Billington (Hoare Lea) shares his research findings and assesses the case for the southwest...
- 12/02/2010 (CIBSE Journal) CIBSE Opinion Piece - Complementary skill
Consultancies must develop the role of 'operational engineer' to help ensure that commercial buildings are run effectively, says Roger Smith...
- 05/02/2010 One New Change wins prestigious Fleming Award
One New Change has won the prestigious Fleming award at a ceremony held on Wednesday 9th December 2009...
- 05/02/2010 (Building) Leading light
The lighting community is ready to enter a new age of energy efficiency and switching off- and many end-users are on board as well. So what's the hold up? Building, in association with manufacturer Lutron, invites industry experts to illuminate the issue...
- 18/01/2010 Hoare Lea voted one of the ‘best service engineers’ by architects
In a recent survey for its 2010 World Architecture supplement, Building Design magazine asked the world's top architects to give their verdict on which partner firms they most enjoyed working with...
- 15/01/2010 Adopt a school scheme launched
Hoare Lea has officially launched 'Adopt a School'...
- 07/01/2010 Hoare Lea apppointed to Imperial College London’s L Block redevelopment
Imperial College London has appointed Hoare Lea to provide mechanical and electrical design services for the L block redevelopment...
- 07/01/2010 (FRM Journal) Brunswick conference - article by Karl Wallasch
Now in its 23rd year, the annual fire engineering conference held in Brunswick, Germany - the leading fire engineering conference for German speaking European countries - took place last September...
- 16/12/2009 (Health State Journal) Atrium and artwork appeal to the heart
The new Bristol Heart Institute (BHI), part of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UH Bristol), and one of a number of specialist regional cardiology and cardiac surgery centres built in England over the past decade in line with Department of Health regional cardiac provision strategy, opened to its first patients in May...
- 16/12/2009 (BSD website) Allies & Morrison and Hoare Lea design for former Arsenal football ground
Depending on your footballing allegiance, Arsenal's historic ground, Highbury, was hallowed turf or small and soulless - it was nicknamed the library because of the fans' lack of noisy support...
- 28/11/2009 Park Hall School wins at the Excellence in Building Schools for the Future Awards 2009
Park Hall School, Solihull, won the 'Best Design for a New School' award at the Excellence in Building Schools for the Future (BSF) awards...
- 16/11/2009 Bristol Heart Institute wins at the Building Better Healthcare Awards
The Bristol Heart Institute - a new 53 million specialist cardiac hospital in Bristol won the 'Best Use of Visual Art' category...
- 12/11/2009 Cabot House achieves highest score ever awarded under BREEAM 2006
The Environment Agency's new Cabot House office in Bristol has achieved the highest score ever awarded under BREEAM 2006...
- 15/10/2009 (BSD) When One’s Enough
Germany's regulatory approach to single-stair high-rise buildings makes good sense, say Karl Wallasch and Boris Stock...
- 21/09/2009 Low-cost biomass electricity : more wires or more traffic?
The attached paper is based on research carried out by Ian Billington (Partner, Hoare Lea) as part of his PhD. It attempts to answer a simple question: 'if least-cost options are to be pursued, will an expansion of UK electricity generation from energy crops require strengthening of the electricity grids or will it involve more physical transport of fuel?'...
- 13/09/2009 (FM World) Grade Expectations
It is possible to improve EPC and DEC ratings for existing buildings if FMs seek advice and align improvements with tenant refurbishments or scheduled plant replacements...
- 28/08/2009 Hoare Lea Appoints new Partners - Justin Spencer and Peter Wells
Hoare Lea announces that Justin Spencer and Peter Wells have accepted invitations to join the partnership...
- 07/07/2009 (Building Surveying Journal) Improving Your Grades
Glenn Massey discusses what influences an EPC rating and how this will help a building surveyor make a more efficient assessment...
- 03/07/2009 BS 9999 - An article for the German Fire Protection Association Journal
Performance and risk-based principles used for fire safety engineering concepts are becoming more common internationally...
- 26/06/2009 (Construction News) Research Complex at Harwell
Super microscopes, 'Diamond Light' - and innovative procurement. Martin Spring from Construction News reports on the Ruther Appleton Laboratory...
- 25/06/2009 Hoare Lea wins at Building Services Awards 2009
Hoare Lea won 'Best Use of IT' and 'Training Initiative of the Year' at the Building Services Awards 2009...
- 27/05/2009 Datacentre Leaders’ Awards 2008
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), in partnership with Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers, scooped two awards at the prestigious Datacentre Leaders' Awards 2008 ceremony held in London on 17 December 2008
- 27/05/2009 Building Services Awards 2009
Hoare Lea won 'Best Use of IT' at the Building Services Awards 2009, which took place at the London Hilton, Park Lane, on Wednesday 17 June.
The 'Best Use of IT' award was presented to Hoare Lea for its work on the converged network infrastructure at Cabot Circus
- 27/05/2009 Building Design World Architecture Top 100 2009
In a recent survey in Building Design's World Architecture supplement, architects were asked to give their verdict on the firms that make the best partners and Hoare Lea featured joint second in the service engineers' category
- 27/05/2009 BCO Awards 2009 - Midlands & East Anglia Region
Hoare Lea acted as environmental, mechanical and electrical engineer for the award-winning Nicholas Wilson House. The office building located in Dormer Place, Leamington Spa, was announced winner of the Projects up to 2,000m2 category at the BCO Awards Midlands and East Anglia Region 2009.
- 27/05/2009 Building Services Awards 2009
Hoare Lea won 'Training Initiative of the Year' at the Building Services Awards 2009. Additionally, Hoare Lea's wide range of professional development activities in 2008 was recognised through the 'Training Initiative of the Year' award
- 27/05/2009 RIBA Awards 2009
The University of Plymouth's Scott Building houses the Faculty of Arts printing, media and photography departments. Hoare Lea acted as the framework mechanical and electrical engineers responsible for the refurbishment and new extension for the building.
- 27/05/2009 British Council for School Environments Awards 2009
Nicholas Hare Architects has won an 'Inspiring Design' award for the Golden Lane Campus at the British Council for School Environments Industry Awards 2009. Hoare Lea acted as the MEP consulting engineers for the project with Hoare Lea Acoustics providing specialist acoustic advice.
- 27/05/2009 British Council for Offices 2009 - National Awards
The 8,000m² Microsoft headquarters, which can accommodate up to 700 staff, was planned to improve flexibility, collaboration, technology and identity, which in turn will aid staff attraction and retention.
- 27/05/2009 Building Better Healthcare Awards
The Bristol Heart Institute - a new 53 million specialist cardiac hospital in Bristol won the 'Best Use of Visual Art' category at the Building Better Healthcare (BBH) awards on 12 November 2009.
- 27/05/2009 Excellence in Building Schools for the Future Awards 2009
Park Hall School, Solihull, won the 'Best Design for a New School' award at the Excellence in Building Schools for the Future (BSF) awards on 12 November 2009.
- 27/05/2009 BCO Awards 2009 - South West & Wales Region
Hoare Lea acted as environmental, mechanical and electrical engineers on three of the four award-winning projects announced at the BCO Awards 2009, South West and South Wales Region.
- 15/05/2009 Energy from Waste Contract Signed
Hoare Lea has been commissioned to undertake the detailed design of the M&E systems for Jersey's La Collette Energy from Waste Facility...
- 15/05/2009 Jersey’s Greenest Building
Hoare Lea recently completed the BREEAM assessor role for 44 Esplanade in Jersey. The office development is being hailed as an example of best practice and a model of environmental cooperation...
- 14/04/2009 (Datacenter Dynamics FOCUS) Datcentre Awards 2008
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) were double-winners on the night, as its development at Hanslope Park in association with Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers was also successfully recognised in the Leadership in the Public Sector category...
- 14/04/2009 (BSD) EPC Ratings Game
What's the best way to improve a building's EPC rating? Glenn Massey advises engineers where to focus their energy...
- 27/05/2008 BCO - Commercial Workplace Awards
MEPC's development is a 38,000ft2 speculative office building within an established business park. The judges considered that the building did a good job providing a very attractive working environment within a clean flexible floor plate.
- 27/05/2008 BCO - Corporate Workplace awards
The NFU's new corporate headquarters setting is exceptional: quiet, tranquil and evocative, without any sign of pressure on development density which often forces a more rigid approach.
- 27/05/2008 BREEAM Awards
The Scheme is the first retail project of its kind to achieve the highest BREEAM rating of 'Excellent'. For more information click on Cabot Circus BREEAM awards
- 27/05/2008 RIBA Awards 2008
The centre provides a light and uplifting learning space for postgraduate students. It also gives the department a ground floor presence within the campus. Environmental performance was a key design driver for the new building, which achieved an Excellent BREEAM rating.
- 27/05/2008 Building Services Awards 2008
Hoare Lea won 'Large Consultancy of the Year' at the Building Services Awards 2008 which took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday 23rd June.
- 27/05/2008 Building Services Awards 2008
Hoare Lea won the 'Innovation of the Year' category for Lancaster University's Postgraduate Statistics Centre. The incorporation of ventilation towers with solar-driven chimneys was applauded by the judges as an innovative solution
- 27/05/2007 Michelmores and Western Morning News’ Commercial Property Awards
The Alexander Building, University of Exeter, has been awarded Building of the Year at Michelmores and Western Morning News' Commercial Property Awards.
Hoare Lea was appointed by the University of Exeter to design the mechanical and electrical services for the new building
- 27/05/2007 British Council for Offices
Chelsea Building Society won the Corporate Workplace South of England (Outside M25) and South Wales category.
- 27/05/2007 Building Services Awards 2007
Hoare Lea won both Large Consultancy of the Year and Best Office of the Year at the Building Services Awards 2007 which took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday 25th June.
- 27/05/2007 British Council for Offices
Baskerville House, Birmingham, won the Refurbished/Recycled Workplace category for The Midlands and East Anglia. Hoare Lea provided specialist mechanical, electrical, lift, public health, fire, lighting and acoustic design services.
- 27/05/2007 The Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards
Falcon Wharf has won 'Apartment Block of the Year' at The Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards.
- 27/05/2006 The Regeneration Awards
At The Regeneration Awards, organised by Building, Building Design, Property Week and Regenerate magazines, on 4th December 2006, Bishops Square won the Best Commercial-led Regeneration Project Award.
- 27/05/2006 BCI Awards
The Evelina Children's Hospital has been awarded the British Construction Industry (BCI) Judges Special Award for the building that the judges consider to be particularly inspirational.
- 27/05/2006 National Energy Efficiency Awards - UK CEED in partnership with EDF Energy
The Environment Agency Building - Red Kite House, collected the top prize in the commercial construction and renovation category at the National Energy Efficiency Awards run by UK CEED in partnership with EDF Energy.
- 27/05/2006 British Land Awards 2006
British Land has presented Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers with a Corporate Responsibility Award. To achieve this award Hoare Lea Sustainability provided technical advice on sustainable energy strategy options at British Land's developments at Regent's Place and Canada Water
- 27/05/2006 Sustainability Awards 2006 - Building
Hoare Lea's project Adnams Brewery wins Sustainable Client of the Year.
- 27/05/2006 British Land Awards 2006
British Land has presented Hoare Lea Consulting Engineers with a Corporate Responsibility Award. To achieve this award Hoare Lea Sustainability provided technical advice on sustainable energy strategy options at British Land's developments at Regent's Place and Canada Water.
- 27/05/2006 Building Services Awards 2006
The judges agreed that Hoare Lea was the clear winner in this category. They were particularly impressed by the practices commitment and investment in training and its involvement in influential groups including the CIBSE Carbon Task Group and the BCO Green Issues Group.
- 27/05/2006 Building Services Awards 2006
Hoare Lea's efforts over the past year impressed the judges so much that, again, they announced it a clear winner, commenting that: "The depth and breadth of services Hoare Lea offers and their involvement in the industry sees them recognised as the best of the best at this year's awards."
- 27/05/2005 British Council for Offices
InfoLab21, Lancaster University, won the national and regional award in the 'Corporate' category. The judges stated 'The space and quality standards now form the basis for Lancaster University estates procurement planning, and will set an example for other seats of learning'.
- 27/05/2005 Light 2005
Hoare Lea Lighting's innovative design for the Apollo, Victoria was named as one of the Top 10 UK Architectural Lighting Schemes in the last decade.
The lighting solution used LEDs on a scale not previously seen. Energy efficiency, low maintenance and running costs were also achieved.
- 27/05/2005 IAS/OAS Awards 2005
The Environment Agency Building - Red Kite House,was voted the winner in the "Best Bespoke Development outside of Central London" at the 2005 OAS/IAS awards.
The awards recognise construction and design excellence within new industrial and office developments.
- 27/05/2005 British Council for Offices
NATS Corporate and Technical Centre, Solent Business Park in Hampshire won the national and regional award in the 'Commercial' category. The judges called the offices 'exemplar workspace'.
- 27/05/2003 British Council for Offices
On the 7th October 2003, at the British Council for Offices Awards - Osborne Clarke was announced the Corporate Regional Winner for Offices, in the South of England and South Wales. Hoare Lea's role: Services Engineer
- 27/05/2003 Building Services Awards 2003
Hoare Lea was the first firm to have won this award twice (having won it at the inaugural event in 1998).
- 27/05/2003 Building Services Awards 2003
Hoare Lea was the first firm to have won this award twice (having won it at the inaugural event in 1998).
- 27/05/2003 British Lift Industry Award
280 Bishopsgate offices, London, was awarded the British Lift Industry Award for best new lift project over £100,000.
- 27/05/2003 Lighting Design Awards
At the Lighting Design Awards held at the Park Lane Hotel on 20th March 2003, Hoare Lea Lighting won the Heritage Award for their innovative design of the Apollo Victoria Theatre.
- 27/05/2003 British Council for Offices
At the British Council for Offices Awards - Workforce Academy, Ebenezer Street, won the fit-out regional award for small projects in London.
- 27/05/2002 Building Services Awards 2002
Hoare Lea won the 'Engineers taking the lead' award at the Building Services Awards 2002. Hoare Lea won the award based on demonstrating good services engineering within their own working environment.
