Glasgow

3rd Floor South Suite
8 Nelson Mandela Place
Glasgow G2 1BT

t: +44 141 418 1900

Our Experts

Based in Glasgow’s bustling city centre, our office is ideally placed amongst the local heritage, retail and cultural amenities. Our welcoming and diverse team is working on some of the most prestigious and innovative projects in Glasgow, across the UK and around the world.

From sustainability-focused renewable energy schemes to cutting-edge education and manufacturing facilities and from award-winning infrastructure and transportation developments to major new residential communities, we are supporting schemes across a huge range of sectors. Find out more about a selection of our projects below.

You are always welcome to visit or contact us to find out more about our services and discuss how our team can support your next project.

Alun Rae
Director, Structures

Alun has over 20 years’ experience in engineering consultancy and has a strong track record in successful project delivery. A Chartered Engineer and an approved SER Certifier. Alun has played a key role in delivering high value projects, both new build and refurbishment, across a wide variety of sectors. His leadership skills bring teams together to ensure a collective and collaborative approach is taken to addressing a project’s early engineering challenges. Alun brings a hands – on approach throughout the lifecycle of a project to deliver cost certainty, value and the highest quality engineering solutions. He oversees the technical delivery of projects and ensures that resources are deployed effectively to meet all deliverables and project milestones.

He has a wealth of technical expertise across a breadth of construction solutions and materials. His specialist expertise includes due diligence, structural design, feasibility, Value Engineering, inspections and assessments.

Daryl Fossett
Director,
Infrastructure and
Environment

Daryl’s career with Waterman spans over 11 years during which time he has led the transformational change of our infrastructure and environment business in Scotland which includes the opening of our Perth Office and the addition of the Glasgow Office in 2018. A Fellow of the ICE specialising in geotechnics, Daryl has been pivotal in Waterman’s recent appointment to the Performance Audit Group Framework, extending our association with the Scottish National Trunk Road delivery vehicle for a further ten years and he is currently developing the UK’s first innovative smartphone AI road condition inspection tool.

Net Zero
& Sustainability

We ensure sustainability and net zero principals are embedded in every project at every opportunity.

Acquisition
& Appraisal

The ability to accurately assess the true value of any acquisition or asset is pivotal in the decision making process of any scheme.

Planning &
Design

Exemplary designs need the best site teams to bring them to life, and we take great pride in helping you realise your vision.

Construction & Development

We cover all sectors and span all engineering and environmental disciplines, bringing the right expertise at each stage.

Operation &
Asset Management

Our in–house expertise provides you with a total solution to help you manage and operate your assets.

Divestment

We recognise the need to optimise the value of your assets whether they are newly constructed properties or existing building stock.

Project Lifecycle Support

Latest News

Future of asset management: John Swift joins expert panel at RoadExpo Scotland

With new technology playing an increasingly prevalent role in managing infrastructure assets, our highways specialist, John Swift, will be joining fellow industry experts at RoadExpo Scotland on 28 November for a special panel debate to shed light on how the industry is embracing AI.

Tasked with discussing whether ‘AI is the Future of Asset Management’, John will be joined by fellow panel members Iain McDonald, Business Development Director at SRL Traffic Systems, William Beardall, CTO of Artificial Intelligence at AIM Group and Ruairi Charlesworth, Head of Business Development at Highway Data Systems. The debate takes place at 14:40 and will see the panel members share their views on AI, outline the benefits it brings asset managers and road planners, and run the rule over the potential pitfalls and challenges it poses.

Waterman’s Scotland team is also exhibiting at the wider two-day conference, on stand B22.

To find out more about the conference, and to see the wider programme agenda, click here.

John is playing a leading role developing Waterman’s nationwide DRIMS (Dynamic Response Intelligent Monitoring System) offering, a road conditions evaluation tool using smartphone technology. You can find out more about DRIMS here.

Road conditioning monitoring: Waterman to host webinar in partnership with The Institute of Highway Engineers

Our Daryl Fossett and John Swift will be joined by Takashi Nakaijima from CTI on 5 December to discuss DRIMS, our road conditioning monitoring system.

Lockhart Campus wins Learning Places Scotland award

The ASN school picked up the award for ‘Project of the Year – Inclusive Design’ at the Learning Places Scotland Awards.

National Manufacturing Institute Scotland wins Building Award

This inspiring creative manufacturing facility picked up another award, this time for ‘Offsite Project of the Year’ at Building Magazine’s Awards.

Sustainability-focused Omni Centre Car Park redevelopment wins BCI Award

The low-carbon redevelopment was named ‘Environment and Sustainability Initiative of the Year’ at the British Construction Industry Awards.

National Manufacturing Institute Scotland wins Structural Timber Award

This exceptional manufacturing scheme was named ‘Education Project of the Year’ at the Structural Timber Awards.

National Manufacturing Institute Scotland scoops Scottish Property Award

The flagship manufacturing facility in Renfrewshire picked up the award for ‘Commercial Project of the Year’ at The Herald Scottish Property Awards.

Michael Langan: How a Degree Apprenticeship kick-started my career

Michael Langan from our Glasgow team sheds light on his experiences of completing his Degree Apprenticeship in Civil Engineering.

Healthcare delivery in Caithness boosted by two new community hubs

The new facilities will reshape health and social care services across Wick and Thurso.

Waterman strengthens Climate Resilience team with key appointment

Cara Labuschagne will lead our Climate Resilience offering, supporting clients in their preparations for physical and transitional climate risks.

Waterman’s Scotland team takes to the River Tay for a water safety training day

Members of our flood, drainage, civils and due diligence teams in Glasgow and Perth took to the river for a special water safety training day.

Scotland’s flagship manufacturing facility reaches practical completion

The 11,500 sqm National Manufacturing Institute Scotland will act as a magnet for innovative manufacturing, engineering and tech businesses.

New Associate Director to shape Waterman’s DRIMS delivery

Experienced highways specialist John Swift has joined Waterman’s Glasgow team as Associate Director to take a leading role in developing Waterman’s nation-wide DRIMS (Dynamic Response Intelligent Monitoring) offering.

Waterman appointed on Scotland Excel Framework

Our structures team in Scotland have been appointed on the Scotland Excel framework which is accessible to a huge range of organisations and local authorities across the country.

Featured Projects

National Manufacturing Institute Scotland

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) is the future of manufacturing at the heart of the Advanced Innovation District Scotland. The facility will help manufacturing businesses throughout Scotland become world leaders in innovation.

Neart na Gaoithe Substation Platform

Located approximately 20km off the Fife Coast in the Firth of Forth, the NNG Windfarm will include 54 wind turbines generating a total 450MW of power.

New Town Quarter

Reimagining the former Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) 5.9-acre plot of land adjacent to Edinburgh’s UNESCO World Heritage Site over the coming years and supporting over 700 jobs.

Blindwells

The Blindwells project will deliver 1600 new homes just north of Tranent in East Lothian. In addition, the new neighbourhood will feature a new school campus along with playing fields, commercial units and business premises

Badenoch & Strathspey Hospital

Awarded Healthcare Development of The Year at the 2022 Scottish Property Awards. Fulfilling the client’s key requirements of functionality, flexibility, aesthetic quality and sustainability.

Linkwood Primary School

The school is part of the overall South of Elgin masterplan which aims to create a fully accessible and adaptable community that promotes sports and healthy lifestyles.

Broadford Community Hospital

The facility benefits from an emergency unit, out-patient department, therapy clinic, 24 bed inpatient ward along with x-ray and maternity departments.

Carntyne Primary School

The school offers pupils nine classrooms, flexible breakout areas and a drama room across a two-storey building. Externally, new facilities include a cycle shelter, outdoor teaching space and a multi-use games area (MUGA).

Blairdardie Primary School

The facility provides a flexible learning environment with 16 classrooms, a raised stage, drama room, four-court gym hall and changing room facilities.

Royston Care Home

This care home, in the north of Edinburgh, provides accommodation for elderly residents with specialist provision for dementia and bio-metric facilities.

Linwood ASN School

The Linwood Special Needs School is an all through facility bringing together three existing local schools to cater for pupils of all ages, with mental and physical support needs in the Renfrewshire Council area.

Charles Huang Advanced Technology & Innovation Centre (CHATIC)

The scheme will create a collaborative environment, designed to accelerate creativity and new ideas with the co-location community of industry, investors and academic as well as support the growth of six new research clusters.

The Ramshorn (Confucius Institute)

The Ramshorn at the University of Glasgow is a partnership with Nankai University supported by the Centre for Language Education & Cooperation and builds on long-standing research collaborations between the two universities.

Abertay University

The refurbishment of the Kydd Building at Abertay University has created a new state-of-the-art teaching and laboratory space, for their science students.

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