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Each year over the festive period, we choose to make donations to a local charity in lieu of giving Christmas cards and gifts to one another. This year we have again chosen to make donations to Off The Fence Trust Limited, a local charity working to provide important poverty outreach services across Brighton and Hove especially throughout the winter season. Our team are looking to donate a variety of warm, winter clothing items to help with the charities Antifreeze initiative. Well done to all the team at HOP for their generosity, and a massive thank you to Off The Fence Trust Limited for all the important work they do to help those in need all year round. To find out more about the work Off The Fence Trust Limited do please click here https://lnkd.in/dhSjYJt #engineering #festiveperiod #christmasdonations #engineeringlife #structuralengineering #civilengineering #marineengineering

HOP are delighted to announce the new Child Development Centre (CDC) at Crawley Hospital has been recognised and recently won the ‘Best Refurbishment’ project award at the IHEEM Healthcare Estates Awards. The new CDC will provide children of all ages with a range of multi-disciplinary services within a new, bright space relocated from its former location within the hospital. HOP undertook the Structural and Civil Engineering design input for the refurbishment. Our work was delivered from early Client-side RIBA design stages through to a Design & Build appointment with the Contractor. This included a thorough building assessment to review overhead hoisting, service distribution and a major remodelling of the building’s floor layout. Specialist access equipment and a bespoke audiology consultant space, required an innovative self weight trade-off, to accommodate the proposed load increase for the specialist environment. A huge congratulation to everyone who was involved on the project for all their hard work! Images courtesy of Jefferson Sheard Architects 🙂 #engineering #structuralengineering #civilengineering #marineengineering #engineering #engineeringlife

Big things are happening at Worthing Hospital 🚨 Today marks the beginning of a ground-breaking £7m expansion of our Emergency Department at Worthing Hospital! 🎉 Joined by urgent and emergency care colleagues, capital development teams, and construction partners Morgan Sindall Construction, we celebrated the start of building works for a new Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) in West Sussex. The new UTC will provide urgent medical help for non-life-threatening conditions, offering appointments via NHS 111 and equipped to diagnose and treat common illnesses. Hospital Director, Stephen Mardlin shared, “We’re delighted to see the construction begin on this £7m expansion of our Emergency Department because it will have such a transformative effect for our patients, A&E colleagues and the rest of the hospital.” West Worthing MP, Rebecca Cooper, praised the investment, highlighting the positive impact on local healthcare. She said: “Such a significant investment in the town’s Emergency Department and creation of a new Urgent Treatment Centre is excellent news for everyone living locally.  “Speaking with staff today, it’s great to hear how excited they are to improve access and facilities for patients. I am delighted to see the works get underway and cannot wait to return next year when the UTC opens to the public.”  Worthing Hospital’s Emergency Department, the busiest in West Sussex, will see significant improvements, treating at least 40,000 patients a year with the new UTC. Designed by Crowther Architects and constructed by Morgan Sindall, the new facility is expected to be ready by Autumn 2025. This investment is part of University Hospitals Sussex’s commitment to expand and modernise the Trust’s Emergency Departments. 🌟

HOP have been providing fast track structural engineering support and design services to make safe Worthing Pier following storm damage and loss or damage to several of its legs. The situation needed temporarily closure of the pier in October, to keep people safe and enable stabilisation works. A multidisciplinary team from Worthing Borough Council, Mackley, HOP Engineers and others have carefully managed the situation. The pier is exposed to complex tide and wave action from the sea. It also has a rich history of intervention including having been ‘severed’ during WWII to prevent it being used as a landing stage during invasion. Understanding and predicting how such a structure might react and balancing conservation and safety, yet minimising disruption is highly challenging. HOP fast tracked an inspection, advised and assisted development of a plan to tackle the challenges, recommending and designing a new steel support structure such that the deck could be secured in the area.   HOP Directors Tristan Banks and Nigel Hosker said “It is testament to a great team and supply chain, that works of this nature can be successfully delivered in as little as 5 weeks. It has very much been the Teams focus to get the pier open again as soon as possible, so the public can enjoy promenading, soaking up its heritage and its offerings”.. J.T.MACKLEY & CO.LIMITED Worthing Borough Council To find out more about how HOP have assisted please visit Worthing Borough Council's website 🙂

HOP are thrilled to share details of our completed project with Morgan Sindall Construction over at Southlands Hospital. We were instructed to help provide the Structural and Civil Engineering design for the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at Southlands Hospital. Phase 1 of the new centre is located within the existing hospital and a refurbished area will provide an X-Ray suite, comprising three new imaging rooms, a CT scanner and two MRI scanners, providing diagnostic imaging alongside consulting and treatment suites for outpatient services. Phase 2 is also within an existing part of the Hospital and includes four new ultrasound rooms, two treatment and lung function testing rooms, a specialist gynaecological treatment area and reconfiguration of the X-Ray section. Morgan Sindall Construction CROWTHER ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS LLP Paine Manwaring Ltd A huge congratulations to all those who were involved the end result looks fantastic! If you would like to learn more about our works over on Southlands Hospital, then please visit the project page on our website https://lnkd.in/e3p37RCu

We recently held our annual HOP Day Out training event, on a lovely sunny Friday afternoon ☀️ This HOP event has been running for over ten years and it gives everyone the chance to work collaboratively in teams whilst trying out a number of new activities. This year we embarked on a scavenger hunt across East Sussex stopping off at various different HOP projects along the way and finishing up at the Modelo Lounge for some refreshments and a well-earned dinner. It was brilliant to see all the Team putting their heads together to solve clues, carve pumpkins or build a Da-Vinci Bridge, whilst enjoying the sunshine and fresh air. The Teams travelled to some lovely locations and had some scrummy food when we reached our final destination. A huge thank you to Ridgeview Wine Estate, Avtrade, Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, Sea Lanes Brighton, Kingsway to the Sea and then the Modelo Lounge for hosting us!  #engineering #structuralengineering #civilengineering #marineengineering #engineeringlife #training #stafftrainingday

HOP are pleased to be involved in this project as Civil and Structural Engineers, we cannot wait to see the finished results! 😀 #engineering #structuralengineering #civilengineering #marineengineering #engineeringlife

Who doesn’t like a slice of cake…?!? We do and recently held our annual HOP Macmillan Coffee Morning, which was definitely more about the cake. The team constructed various sweet (and some savoury) goodies…. then got together to demolish them shortly after, whilst raising money for a charity that is hugely important to many of us at HOP. Together we raised over £130 for Macmillan! Good job Team and great effort by everyone who took part! 🎉 #engineering #macmillan #macmillancoffeemorning #structuralengineering #civilengineering #marineengineering #engineeringlife

Beautiful, sustainable and swimmable! HOP provided Civil and Structural Engineering expertise to the new The Reeds accommodation at the South Lodge Hotel in Crabtree, West Sussex. The eight Eco Lodges are ‘off-grid’ and served by a reed-bed treatment system. Rainwater harvesting adds to the overall sustainability of the project with surface water runoff re-circulated in the adjacent swimming lake. The structure works in harmony with the surrounding woodland to minimise the impact on existing trees and ecosystems. Available to book now!  https://lnkd.in/eYNGkJ-U FELCE & GUY PARTNERSHIP LLP #engineering #civilengineering #structuralengineering #marineengineering #engineeringlife

HOP Director Tristan Banks and Marine Engineer Lily Stephenson, were thrilled to speak at the #WomenInConstructionSussex / RIBA event on Thursday. HOP have had significant involvement on several projects at Sussex Yacht Club ⛵ over the last 8 years including the: slipway enabling works, the design of the fantastic new building, demolition of the old clubhouse and the design work for the new proposed flood wall. It was a great evening to catch up with friends & colleagues, share some of our knowledge on the project and take in some of the splendid views the River Adur had to offer us. Thank you to ECE Architecture & ECE Planning for hosting! 😊 #engineering #structuralengineering #marineengineering #civilengineering #engineeringlife #womeninconstruction