Best Heritage Project – IStructE Awards 2021
A Hyper-Collaborative Project A New, Influential Role for the Structural Engineer THE SILK MILL – THE MUSEUM OF MAKING In 2017, GCA Consulting Engineers and six other organisations formed…
Construction Excellence Awards 2021
GCA recently entered one our recent projects – The Museum of Making at the Silk Mill in Derby, a £17m conversion of a Grade II listed Mill, and site of…
Redevelopment of Daimler Powerhouse
We worked alongside one of our regular Clients to renovate an existing creative arts space for Imagineer Productions. Our involvement included the introduction of new mezzanine floors, vertical extensions, specification…
HMS Victory Figurehead Display
On 20th June 1815 a letter was written by the Royal Navy’s Board of Admiralty instructing the production of a replica figurehead sculpture which was to be made on the…
Dudley College – Institute of Transformative Technology
GCA have been working for two years on the Dudley College Institution of Transformative Technology, leading the civil and structural engineering design for this complex project. The site has been…
The Silk Mill Museum of Making
The Silk Mill, the first fully mechanised factory in the World, is relaunching as the Museum of Making, which is attracting national press attention: www.theguardian.com/building-a-legacy-worlds-first-factory-rises-again-as-a-museum-of-making GCA have led the structural…
Stacked – A Public Art designed for a traffic roundabout in Prescot
Commissioned by Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council Artist: Martin Heron Fabricator: Art Fabrications GCA worked closely with the Artist and Fabricator to carry out the structural design for the public sculptures celebrating…
One Colmore Row Entrance Modification Design
K02325 – One Colmore Row Clients Architect: Associated Architects Clients Engineers: Cundall Main Contractor: Overbury Contractors Engineer: GCA GCA’s brief from Overbury was to convert the tender package information into…
James Thomson becomes a Conservation Accredited Engineer
Managing Director James Thomson has been awarded Conservation Accreditation by the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Institution of Structural Engineers, and joins the CARE register, of Engineers with outstanding…
Institution of Structural Engineers Award GCA ‘Best Conservation Project’
GCA Consulting were awarded ‘Best Construction Project’ in the 2020 IStructE East Midlands Awards, by the Institution of Structural Engineers, for Wirksworth Heritage Centre, a £2m conversion of a listed…