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  • The 10th GHA Livigunn Challenge

    24th Feb 2010

    The time is here for the 10th GHA Livigunn Challenge, which this year is being held in a currently secret location of the picturesque North Yorkshire. The GHA Livigunn Challenge is a fun filled schedule of outdoor activities which will test clients both physically and mentally, over the weekend of the 10th -12th of September 2010. ...more

  • GHA Livigunn Open New Southern Office

    4th Feb 2010

    From today the 4 th of February 2010, GHA Livigunn will be opening the doors of a fourth office based in Watford, Hertfordshire. Heading the Southern division will be Mike Nettleton from the Yorkshire based BSCP Leeds office. Craig Stockton, Divisional Director for the group comments ‘We recognised the opportunities available to...more

  • £114M Preston Storm Water Scheme

    18th Jan 2010

    KMI Water - a joint venture between Kier, J Murphy and Interserve Project Services - has been appointed preferred bidder together with GHA Livigunn acting as their lead designer for a £114 million storm water improvements contract in Preston with United Utilities. Working alongside GHA Livigunn will be Donaldson Associates acting as...more

  • UK's largest anaerobic crop digester

    18th Jan 2010

    GHA Livigunn working in association with Interserve Project Services have begun work for Severn Trent Water on the UK’s first large scale CHP plant that plans to provide 15GWh of electricity power generation each year from Bio Solids. The Stoke Bardolph project involves the construction of a 2 MW Energy Crop Digestion and CHP...more

  • Gunnsight 3rd edition

    4th Dec 2009

    Welcome to the 3rd edition of our company magazine Gunnsight containing articles and news about our recent projects. Included in this edition is news of our recent awards success, including the 2009 Construction News Q Award in recognition of our work on Hodder Service Reservoir, the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Silver Award...more

  • Reinforcement Article

    6th Aug 2009

    This is the fourth article by GHA Livigunn's Stewart Tennant published in Construction News, 6 August 2009. "Material savings can be made in the quantity of reinforcement for the design of normally reinforced concrete structures. But if the reinforcement is scheduled and detailed so carefully that it is curtailed at every...more

  • Gap Student wins at CTTB Awards

    4th Aug 2009

    Nathan Somerset, who is currently on a student gap placement with GHA Livigunn through The Year in Industry Scheme (YINI), has been awarded the ICE ‘Most Promising Civil Engineer of the Northwest’ award at The Contribution to the Business (CTTB) Awards held recently in Manchester. By beating seventy-five other entries Nathan will...more

  • BSCP joins GHA Livigunn

    29th Jul 2009

    GHA Livigunn, a leading North West based multi-disciplinary engineering design consultancy with offices in Cheadle and Frodsham, has today joined forces with Birkett Stevens Colman Partnership (BSCP), a Yorkshire based civil and structural design consultancy. The joining of the two companies brings together a professional workforce of over...more

  • 2009 Construction News Award

    27th Jul 2009

    GHA Livigunn were delighted to support United Utilities’ Integrated Alliance (ia+), winners of the Environmental Project Award for the Hodder Service Reservoir at the recent Construction News Quality Awards 2009 (CNQ) held in London. The £13 million new service reservoir, to supply treated water to Blackburn, the Ribble...more

  • ACE Commendation

    30th Jun 2009

    GHA Livigunn walked away with a Commendation in the small firm’s infrastructure category at this year’s ACE Engineering Excellence Awards for their detailed civil and structural design on the Ashton-under-Lyne Wastewater Treatment Works. The project, which was undertaken by United Utilities’ Integrated Alliance+ (ia+) as...more

  • Delamere CE Primary School Sponsorship

    29th Jun 2009

    The children of Delamere Church of England Primary School were thrilled to receive a brand new sports kit courtesy of GHA Livigunn, a local engineering design consultancy with offices based in Frodsham and Cheadle. The new sportswear, emblazoned with GHA Livigunn’s colourful logo on the front, will be worn at all the school’s...more

  • £10,000 for WaterAid

    16th Jun 2009

    The eighth GHA Livigunn challenge – and the third challenge in aid of WaterAid, a charity founded by the UK water industry in 1981 whose aim is a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation - took place last September in Lancashire’s Forest of Bowland and raised £10,000. A total of eleven teams...more

  • RoSPA Silver Award 2009

    28th Apr 2009

    GHA Livigunn, a multi-disciplinary engineering design consultancy with offices based in Frodsham and Cheadle, is celebrating winning one of the prestigious RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards in 2009. The Silver Award, was presented to GHA Livigunn’s Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Manager, Dave Dowson, at the...more

  • Gunnsight 2nd Edition

    21st Jan 2009

    Welcome to the 2nd edition of our company magazine containing articles about recent projects, including news of our double awards success. GHA Livigunn recently received both The Institute of Structural Engineers (IStructE) 2008 North West Region Structural Awards' Award for Small Project and an Engineering Excellence Award from The...more

  • Keep Basements Dry Article

    15th Jan 2009

    'How to keep basements dry' by GHA Livigunn's Stewart Tennant published in Construction News, 15 January 2009. 'Leaky basement problems are usually due to poor workmanship, wrong assumptions on groundwater levels or poor detailing by designers - in particular around joints and junctions with other basements or...more

  • QiC Awards 2008

    26th Nov 2008

    Quality in Construction Awards double success GHA Livigunn has successfully supported KMI plus and United Utilities Integrated Alliance North with their submissions in 2 categories of the prestigious Construction News QiC awards. In the Collaborative Engineering Design category the Integrated Alliance North team was highly...more

  • Cure Concrete Troubles Article

    30th Oct 2008

    This is the second article by GHA Livigunn's Stewart Tennant published in Construction News, 30 October 2008. "Despite what some may think, even modern high-strength concrete mixes need curing. Curing is the measure used to ensure that the immature concrete remains hydrated so that it can attain its required strength and...more

  • Ground Working Article

    16th Oct 2008

    This is the first of a series of articles by GHA Livigunns' Stewart Tennant to be published in Construction News. "Ground improvement in its various guises has been with us since at least the mid-1960s. The most commonly used techniques in the UK are vibro compaction/replacement stone columns, vibro concrete columns and...more

  • GHA Livigunn Challenge 2008

    25th Sep 2008

    GHA livigunn Challenge 2008 Video (wmv 4.7mb) - Click Here To Download Expecting to raise at least £10,000 for WaterAid and support water and sanitation projects in the third world, the eighth GHA Livigunn challenge took place over the weekend of 13 th and 14 th September in the Forest of Bowland. ...more

  • Ashton WwTW

    15th Sep 2008

    The following is an extract from a recent article in Construction News about the £35m scheme at Ashton WwTW ........ "One man’s muck is another man’s brass and judging by the amount of cash wrapped up in building the Ashton-under-Lyne Waste Water Treatment. Works there is an awful lot of muck that needs to be...more

  • IStructE Award

    2nd May 2008

    GHA Livigunn design expertise secures second IStructE award Cheshire-based multi-disciplined civil engineering consultancy, GHA Livigunn, has received The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) 2008 North West Region Structural Awards’ Award for Small Project. The award was earned for the company’s innovative design...more

  • Wigan WwTW

    15th Apr 2008

    GHA Livigunn designs innovative storm tank solution for Wigan WwTW Using highly innovative design and construction techniques, to achieve a rapid build programme, Cheshire-based multi-disciplined civil engineering consultancy, GHA Livigunn – working in association with contractor, Volker Stevin - has provided United Utilities with...more

  • Top o 'th' Cow

    26th Mar 2008

    GHA Livigunn creates innovative design solution for Top o’ th’ Cow service reservoirs Working in association with United Utilities, KMI+ and MWH, Cheshire-based GHA Livigunn has acted as lead structural design engineers for two new 4.15 mega-litres service reservoirs at Top o’ th’ Cow - an exposed rural location...more

  • Gunnsight 1st Edition

    22nd Nov 2007

    Welcome to our newsletter which contains atricles about the projects and people at GHA Livigunn. Click here to open the Gunnsight.pdf ...more

  • PE Design Capabilities

    5th Oct 2007

    Specialist process, mechanical & electrical engineering design consultancy, GHA Livigunn, of Frodsham, UK – working in association with main contractors, Boultings Nuclear – has developed a metal-free Polyethylene (PE) Reactor Sea Water (RSW) cooling piping solution that is all set to offer wide ranging safety, cost,...more

  • Being the Best

    5th Oct 2007

    Working in association with Severn Trent Water’s Engineering Team and leading UK infrastructure services company, Morgan Est., Frodsham-based process, mechanical and electrical engineering design consultancy, GHA Livigunn, has scooped two coveted Severn Trent ‘Being the Best’ gold awards. Held at the National...more

  • Recent Merger

    19th Feb 2007

    Formed following the recent amalgamation of GHA (George Hutchison Associates Ltd - the well-established Civil and Structural Engineering design consultancy) with Livingston Gunn Projects Ltd. (the multi-disciplined Process, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering design consultancy), GHA Livigunn. is rapidly establishing a reputation as one...more

  • GHA Livigunn Challenge 2006

    21st Oct 2006

    Taking place at Coniston Water in September 2006, the seventh annual GHA Livigunn challenge provided the chance for teams of architects, engineers and contractors to get involved in orienteering, mountain biking, kayaking, yomping, archery and other outdoor pursuits. More importantly, no less than £10,000 was raised for WaterAid. ...more