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Desco is an award-winning MEP consulting engineering practice with offices in the UK, Middle East and Far East. Established in the UK in 1998 the practice has
the critical mass and importantly, the calibre of people, design tools and effective support systems that allow it to compete with the very best in the industry
and work on projects of all sizes.

Forming an exceptionally strong management team, the nine directors of the business each have over 20 years consultancy experience, working in the UK and
international marketplace.

The business has developed an excellent reputation for delivering a high quality, professional service, and as a result, enjoys long term relationships with an
established client base.

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We deliver services to an international client base from our offices in the United Kingdom, Middle East and Far East

Head Office: Epsom, UK Leeds, UK Doha, Qatar Manila, Philippines

Sunderland, UK

Azure House Ryebrook Studios 1 Brewery Place Town Centre Commercial Centre 40 PBCom Tower
2 Azure Court Woodcote Side Brewery Wharf Gate 4 6795 Ayala Avenue corner VA
Doxford International Business Park EPSOM LEEDS Floor 1, Office No.3 Rufino Street
SUNDERLAND Surrey LS10 1NE DOHA MAKATI CITY
SR3 3BE KT18 7HD Qatar Philippines
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+44 974 554 95732

www.desco.uk.com

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Paul Marshall Marco Ambelez Ken Beall Neil Crowe David Fittis George Gifford Kevin Hall Mike Vince David Wright
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experience in both experience in both major projects in the on major projects experience in both on major projects on major projects on projects on major projects
the UK and the UK and UK and throughout the UK. the UK and throughout the UK; throughout the UK throughout the UK throughout the UK;
overseas; Paul was overseas; Marco overseas; Ken takes Neil is responsible overseas including 3 George is and overseas; Kevin and overseas. Mike David has particular
a founder director has particular responsibility for for running a design years working in responsible for takes responsibility takes responsibility expertise in
and takes a expertise in business team in the Qatar. David takes a running a design for managing the for the operations in sustainable design
strategic overview sustainable design development and Sunderland & strategic overview team in the Middle East office in the practice’s techniques and
relating to practice techniques and also provides Northern office. on finance and Sunderland & Qatar. London & South leisure and provides
management and provides technical technical support to practice Northern office and East office. technical support to
development. support to the the project teams. management. coordinating project project teams.
project teams. delivery across the
practice.

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Desco is an award-winning practice that is proud to have

delivered a number of highly acclaimed projects.

Our business policies and practices are approved and

certified to comply with internationally recognised
industry standards.

We pride ourselves on having a highly skilled and

qualified workforce and support membership of the
professional institutions; we actively promote and
encourage continued development in association with a
number of these professional bodies.

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Our talented team of mechanical, electrical and public health engineers work together to
mep design offer the full range of design and consultancy services from surveys and feasibility studies
through to detailed design. We work on new build, refurbishment and infrastructure
computer modelling projects of all sizes delivering sustainable, affordable, well-designed building services
environmental assessments across a variety of sectors.

low carbon consultancy Our engineers bring broad-ranging knowledge and experience of conventional solutions,
bim as well as fresh thinking on alternative solutions to servicing requirements to provide

water design comfortable, functional environments.

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We utilise modern complex software packages to provide the very best means of testing
mep design and shaping the building design. At the conceptual design stage we use the software to
develop a ‘model’ of the building. Our experienced engineers can then interrogate this
computer modelling building simulation to help evaluate alternative solutions and establish the most
environmental assessments appropriate and energy efficient design.

low carbon consultancy Moving through the design process we employ technology to assist us in the detail design.
bim Our team can deliver projects using traditional 2D drawings through to fully coordinated

water design 3D building models with fly-through functions and clash detection analysis.

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As MEP consulting engineers we understand the important contribution we can make in

mep design helping to achieve sustainable buildings.

computer modelling We are fully conversant with a number of environmental assessment methods and are able
environmental assessments to advise and guide clients and design team colleagues through the various processes. We
can offer:
low carbon consultancy
bim ƒ BREEAM Accredited Professionals
ƒ BREEAM Assessors
water design ƒ Energy Performance Certificates (Levels 1 to 5)
ƒ LEED Advice
ƒ QSAS Green Professionals

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We employ fully qualified Low Carbon Consultants and Low Carbon Energy Assessors
mep design who perform a fundamental role on projects to minimize the energy use and carbon
emissions from buildings both in design and operation. Our consultants ensure that the
computer modelling energy performance of both new and existing buildings meet all regulatory requirements –
environmental assessments and in most cases exceed these targets.

low carbon consultancy

bim
water design

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Desco’s skilled team of engineers and CAD technicians have been working in the 3D
mep design environment for over ten years and have considerable knowledge and the practical
experience necessary to produce fully coordinated computer models, incorporating
computer modelling detailed mechanical and electrical services data, architectural and structural information.
environmental assessments
The building information models we produce are used as shared knowledge resources to
low carbon consultancy support decision-making about a building project from the earliest conceptual stages,
bim through design, construction, installation and operation.

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Our skilled pool filtration and water features design engineers provide a specialist service
mep design to complement leisure and pool projects, delivering fully coordinated, energy
efficient solutions to ensure water is:
computer modelling
ƒ Crisp and clear in appearance
environmental assessments ƒ Safe, hygienic and comfortable for bathers and spectators
low carbon consultancy ƒ Free from smells and irritants
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bim Chemically balanced

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aviation commercial office education health

hotel & leisure industrial & process public buildings residential

retail science & technology sport transport & infrastructure

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>> The Hub - Virgin Atlantic Training Centre

A major redevelopment to transform a pharmaceutical manufacturing and process facility into a prestigious new 22,000m2 training centre for global
airline operator Virgin Atlantic Airways, comprising a training hall with various aircraft training rigs, emergency slides and rafts, aircraft door trainers,
baggage check-in desk and cock-pit mock ups for cabin and flight crew training with a glazed feature wall to allow visitors to view the area whilst
maintaining the security of the space. A feature reception area leads to a ‘town square’ with café bar, hairdressing salon, auditorium, library and
retail outlets for staff use.

>> Virgin Atlantic Hangar, Gatwick International Airport

An appointment to undertake the initial acquisition survey on an existing aircraft hangar, including a conditional report and preparation of budget
cost information for remedial works and the subsequent commission to undertake the design and site supervision of the fit-out works to the Virgin
Atlantic Airways Engineering standards.

>> Newcastle International Airport

Desco has delivered the MEP services design on various projects at Newcastle International Airport, most recently on the £3.2m new build
extension to the airport terminal building to provide 5,242ft2 of additional space across three floors including additional security search
accommodation extra luggage screening lanes. Our previous work at the airport includes the design for the new £3m Aviation Academy – one of the
largest aviation training schools in Europe; which comprised a new three story building on the site of a former aircraft maintenance hangar to
provide flexible teaching spaces and a training hangar with full aircraft mock-up facilities.

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>> Citygate Phase 2, Newcastle upon Tyne

We were engaged by Hanro Developments for the final phase of their Citygate Development - a new £40m, 10,500m2 commercial office scheme at
the head of St James Boulevard in Newcastle with a brief to deliver a high quality office development that would attract the Government Office for
the North East as an anchor tenant for the building. Rather than repeating design solutions adopted for phase 1 of the development we explored a
number of options before proposing a highly energy efficient HVAC solution comprising passive chilled beams, displacement ventilation, free
cooling, heat recovery and low water usage that ensured the building achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating which ultimately attracted the tenant to
take the building.

>> The Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne

This fifth and largest phase of the redevelopment of a banking headquarters complex in Gosforth, Newcastle, comprised a new commercial office
building with adjoining multi-storey car parking provision in replacement of the bank’s previous 1960s’ 7 storey tower block. Overall, the £40m
scheme provides 15,000m2 of high specification, flexible, open-plan office accommodation over ten storeys with extensive meeting and
conferencing facilities including external roof-top hospitality spaces, coffee shop and restaurant facilities, a two storey link building to the existing
Prudhoe Building and an adjoining multi-storey car park. Described in the media as ‘the finest building in the north’ on its completion, The Tower
development has been renamed Partnership House and is now accommodated by Eaga Partnerships.

>> Northern Design Centre

The Northern Design Centre is the newest, eye-catching building on the Newcastle Gateshead landscape. The concept of the development is as a
regional design hub that promotes the importance and understanding of good design - combined with a sense of innovation and fun.

Desco was appointed to deliver the design of the MEP services for this new creative ‘hub’. The 4,200m2, four-storey building of two ‘wings’ and a
central atrium, provides incubator units, ‘move-on’ units and general flexible spaces for new and developing businesses involved in the region’s
design and technology industries. The scheme includes meeting and conferencing facilities, design studios, dark rooms and ‘The Hub’ lounge - a
unique space filled with games consoles, TVs and sofas – a place to relax and reinvigorate creative ideas.

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>> Gateshead College Baltic Campus

This new, purpose built 14500m2 campus for Gateshead College of Further Education on the Baltic Business Park on Gateshead Quayside, which
can accommodate 12000 students, comprises state-of-the-art facilities include general and specialist teaching and learning spaces, learning
resource centre, ICT centres, art & design, specialist catering kitchens, fully-equipped hair and beauty areas - which replicate those found in some
of the nation’s top salons and various professional-standard facilities for other vocational courses including music, theatre and performing arts
subjects including recording studios and a performance theatre.The campus was built on a challenging plot of sloping land of an irregular shape.
The design team embraced these site features into a vibrant, eye-catching design solution which picked up awards and commendations at the
LABC Built in Quality and Constructing Excellence awards.

>> Sunderland Academies

Desco was appointed to deliver the MEP services design for three of six new education facilities in the Sunderland area as part of Sunderland's
£120m Building Schools for the Future programme. The projects involved transforming existing facilities to provide teaching and learning
environments fit for the needs of the 21st century, through a combination of new build and major refurbishments.

With a particular focus on energy efficiency and sustainability issues our designs for the three academies – Academy 360, Biddick Sports College
and Red House Academy, make maximum use of natural ventilation and daylighting to the teaching and learning spaces, including carbon-neutral
biomass-fuelled boilers and solar thermal hot water pre-heating to minimise energy requirements.

>> Durham University Framework

Following an application through the OJEU procedure, in 2009 Desco received a four year appointment to Durham University’s Professional
Services Framework Agreement.
To date we have received appointments for a range of refurbishment schemes across the university estate including conversions of listed
properties, new build extensions and a site-wide heating refurbishment programme.

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>> Redcar & Cleveland Primary Care Hospital

This new build integrated hospital and health centre in Redcar, Cleveland serves 100,000 people across south-east Teesside and provides
11,000m2 of accommodation over two storeys. A distinctive main entrance leads to a double height atrium with working spaces, main reception,
café and visitor facilities. The new hospital accommodates an inpatient ward comprising 32 individual rooms, with en-suite facilities and views onto
the external landscaped areas, for patients requiring respite care, palliative care, chronic disease management and rehabilitation.Other services
relocated to the new facility are an outpatient department, day theatre and endoscopy, a minor injuries unit, an x-ray and ultrasound department
(including 'docking' facilities for other types of scanners), a physiotherapy and hydrotherapy department, a day hospital, four GP practices and a
large pharmacy.

>> Roseberry Park Mental Health Hospital and Learning Campus

The multi award-winning Roseberry Park mental health hospital and learning disability campus scheme incorporates 312 inpatient beds, adult
mental health services, mental health services for older people, forensic mental health services, secure accommodation and specialist therapy suites
and is the largest facility of its type in the UK. The project was designed to maximise the use of off site pre-fabrication technologies for both the
timber framed building construction and the modularised MEP services. Desco provided a fully co-ordinated detailed design service and made
extensive use of 3D draughting, working in close conjunction with the MEP contractors and their pre-fabrication specialists.

Following the main build Desco received a number of subsequent, smaller appointments on the scheme.

>> Archie Norman House for The Children’s Trust

Run by national charity The Children’s Trust, Archie Norman House is the UK’s largest facility for the rehabilitation of children with acquired brain
injuries (ABI). We were appointed to design the new two-storey facility, which provides specialised care for highly dependent children, to replace an
ageing ward building, to accommodate a wide range of facilities including a hydrotherapy pool, multi-sensory bathrooms, a family apartment and 22
extra beds.
We have continued to work with the Children’s Trust on a number of projects around the Tadworth site.

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>> Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel, London

A luxury 4 star hotel development on behalf of international hotel group Pestana Hotels & Resorts, this project comprised the major redevelopment
on an existing building to provide high-spec accommodation. The new development incorporates the latest in-room technology such as flat screen
TVs, iPod docking stations and Wi-Fi capability; selected rooms include splash-proof TVs in the bathrooms and unique fitness cycles to allow
guests to enjoy private workout sessions in the comfort of their own space.Extensive leisure facilities in the hotel include a spa, gymnasium, large
indoor heated swimming pool, fine dining restaurants and a bar, six events suites to cater for conferences, meetings, private dinners and cocktails
up to 500+ delegates.

>> Stobo Castle Hotel & Spa

Stobo Castle is a Historic Scotland Category A-listed hotel situated in Peebleshire in the Scottish Borders. In 2003 the luxury hotel underwent a
redevelopment programme to add new state-of-art health spa facilities, recreating the castle as a five star destination spa resort.Desco was
appointed by the client for MEP and pool water filtration design services on the project. A new build extension was added sympathetic to the castle,
fusing 19th century architecture with 21st century comfort, to facilities including a 25m ozone treated, level deck swimming pool, hydrotherapy pool,
40 treatment rooms, gymnasium, aerobics studio and sauna. Following the successful completion of Phase I of the extension, we received the
appointment to design the second phase. Phase II involved converting the original treatment rooms into a further 7 individually designed bedrooms,
and the creation of the highly luxurious Cashmere Suite, new hairdressing salon, juice bar and coffee shop.

>> Crowne Plaza, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

We are working with the developer Silverlink on a 90000m2 multi-use scheme in Newcastle City Centre. The first phase of the development, which is
currently in the design stage, comprises commercial offices, a multi-storey car park and a 260 bed hotel. We have been working closely with the
hotel operator Intercontinental Hotels Group to discuss and understand their brand standards, vision and expectations for the new hotel. The hotel
will be operated under IHG’s Crowne Plaza brand – their upscale brand, focused on the frequent business traveller. It will be delivered to a four star
plus standard and comprise 251 bedrooms and suites together with extensive business, hospitality and conference facilities and a leisure club with
swimming pool.

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>> Food Production and Processing Facility

Desco provide MEP design and consultancy services to our client, who is the world’s largest independent provider of services for airlines and
railroads. Our most recent project, completed in 2010, was a new production plant located adjacent to Heathrow International Airport, which is
Europe’s largest airline catering food production facility, producing meals for first and business class passengers. We have also delivered a series of
smaller projects for the client around the airport site, including a major refurbishment of an existing food preparation, storage and distribution facility
and conditional surveys of existing buildings. The schemes included frozen food storage, thawing, chilled, ambient and hot kitchen areas. The
projects required our team to deal with the air side services and the challenges associated with working in a live, 24 hour facility operating under the
most stringent health and safety regulations in the food service industry.

>> Nissan Battery Production Plant

A multi-million pound 25,500m2 new build facility in the UK to mass produce batteries for use in electric vehicles, created on the company’s
Sunderland motor manufacturing site, houses the production process for advanced lithium-ion batteries – to be used in the manufacture of ultra low
carbon, electric vehicles for both Nissan and its Alliance partner Renault. The new facility - one of the first of its type in the world - requires a very
close controlled environment for the production of the battery power cells. Facilities include clean room areas operating at Class 1000 and 10000,
aging ovens, charging, assembly, inspection and packing areas.

We were subsequently been appointed in an advisory capacity on two further facilities of its type in Portugal and France.

>> Barzan: On-Shore – Phase 2

Working with a team led by GCC, we are currently working on this new processing facility which will produce gas for domestic use in Qatar.
The multi-billion dollar plant, located approximately 80km north of Doha at Ras Laffan, will be operated by Ras Gas and producing 1.4 billion cubic
feet of gas per day, will play a significant role in meeting Qatar's rising domestic gas demand being created by Qatar’s continued social and
economic development.

The design is due for completion in 2013.

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>> North Tyneside Police Area Command Headquarters

This aim of this new headquarters complex for the North Tyneside police area command which was the first new police station to be built for
Northumbria Police for ten years, was to deliver a facility which fully supports a community-focused policing strategy and set new standards for
excellent policing accommodation well into the 21st century. The 9000m2 state-of-the-art development, designed to meet Home Office design
standards, is used as an operational facility for a police area command, accommodating approximately 300 people - including neighbourhood
police teams, senior management team, CID, admin support staff, major incident unit, scientific support team and includes a 40 cell custody suite.
The scheme was the first of its type to achieve the BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating; it has also achieved acclaim by various awarding bodies including the
RIBA, RICS, Constructing Excellence, LABC Building Excellence and the British Council for Offices.

>> Ordnance Survey Headquarters

We were appointed as the client’s technical advisors to oversee the installation, testing and handover of the MEP services on the new 14,000m2
headquarters building for the mapping agency, Ordnance Survey. The new development, named 'Explorer House', comprises a business centre,
atrium, open plan offices arranged over three stories to accommodate 1,000 employees and a 400m2 data centre.

The building design employs passive techniques including the optimum building orientation and massing to control thermal overheating and
maximise energy efficiency, and includes ground source heat pumps and a state-of-the-art building management system which optimises energy
use and thermal capture.

>> World Heritage Site Visitor Centre

Number 7 Owengate in Durham, a Grade II Listed property, is a former almshouse dating from the early 19th century. Now owned by Durham
University, the property is located at the gateway to the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Site, making it the ideal property to convert into a much
needed visitor’s centre. The aim of this project was to develop it into a new facility designed specifically to attract visitors and provide a stimulating
environment for information and learning; the team’s brief for the redevelopment was to provide a robust, low maintenance, sustainable design
solution; the scheme involved refurbishment of the existing listed building and addition of a single storey new build extension. In addition to static
and interactive displays permanently on show, the centre hosts temporary exhibitions and events.
The redevelopment project took the top award in the Tourism & Leisure category at the RICS Renaissance Awards 2012.

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>> Barratt Great West Quarter, Brentford

This project, part of the urban regeneration of the Great West Road Corridor in west London, comprised the redevelopment of the old Smithkline
Beecham HQ brownfield site in to a new, mixed-use residential development. The project, delivered over a number of phases and completed in
2010, provides in excess of 750 private and affordable residential units in 11 apartment blocks, a hotel, commercial offices, retail units, restaurants,
creche and educational facilities, a landscaped piazza as well as an 8 acre underground car park. Our team was appointed to undertake detail
design of the site infrastructure, car park, residential, commercial and retail areas. We provided advice on the renewable energy strategy to meet
with the Mayor of London's energy targets for the site, which comprises CHP district heating with biomass boilers, solar and geothermal water
heating and photovoltaic electricity production as well as being supported from the local utility supply companies.

>> Central Link, Newcastle–upon-Tyne

The overall Downing Plaza development which comprises offices, a hotel, extensive retail space and a 462-bed student village known as Central
Link, will ultimately form an impressive gateway to Newcastle City Council’s Science Central masterplan for the Gallowgate area of Newcastle city
centre. Central Link is situated next to the new Newcastle University Business School – on which Desco also provided an overseeing role on behalf
of the university. Desco was initially appointed by Downing Developments in an overseeing capacity on Phase 2 of the Downing Plaza development
which comprised Block CDE of the Central Link student accommodation development. We received subsequent appointments to provide
performance specification for the third phase of the development – Block F of Central Link which provides approximately 400 further student
bedrooms and fourth phase – Block A providing a further 400 bedrooms.

>> Mowbray Apartments, Sunderland

Situated within a conservation area adjacent to the listed Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, this redevelopment scheme included retaining and
adapting part of the original 1817 Mowbray Park Hotel and integrating it into a new build extension.

Overall the development provides 37 luxury open plan style studios, apartments and duplexes around a central atrium; the development also
incorporates an Italian restaurant as basement level.

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>> Eldon Square Redevelopment

The £150m regeneration of Eldon Square, delivered in three phases has provided some 468,000ft2 of new retail space and has included the historic
Old Eldon Square being regenerated by new landscaping, the provision of double height restaurants and a feature entrance to a new scheme mall
overlook the square. emodelled to provide glazed elevations and terracing. A new secure and comfortable bus station, with a modern, glass-fronted
waiting area, has been created at the north side of the scheme providing direct access for buses to the shopping centre. The existing shopping
centre between Clayton Street and Newgate Street has been rebuilt and extended to create the new award-winning St Andrew’s Way which
comprises a new anchor four storey department store and two-level modern shops along a wider mall. There are also new shops at street level.

>> Selfridges Department Store, Oxford Street

We have been delivering MEP services for Selfridges on the upgrade of their famous department store on Oxford Street in London. The multiple
projects include a major ‘back of house’ upgrade of the existing electrical and chilled water distribution infrastructure, provision of new rising
electrical bus-bars and final circuit distribution, installation of new sprinkler mains and refurbishment/replacement of existing air handling and HVAC
systems serving sales floors and administration offices.

All of the works have been carried out whilst ensuring the retail space remains fully operational, limiting any disruption to the customers’ shopping
experience.

>> Commercial Bank of Qatar

Desco has been working in conjunction with Design Consultant Architects Qatar delivering design duties for a series of new facilities, branch
refurbishments, relocations and fit-out projects for Commercial Bank of Qatar to meet their Concept VI model.
Specific branch projects include Hyatt Plaza, Hamed Medical Centre, The Pearl ATMs, Al Wakrah and Grand Hamed Street.

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>> Northumbria University School of Applied Science

The project, on the university’s City Campus, included the major refurbishment of three floors within the existing building, carried out on a phased
basis to provide teaching, research and development areas for applied sciences. New facilities provided included laboratories for
Histology/staining, biology, synthetic organic chemistry, food technology, gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), instrumentation, food
and environmental chemistry and tissue culture.

The new facilities incorporated specialist laboratory equipment and process gases such as nitrogen, hydrogen, acetylene, natural gas were provided
to the laboratories.

>>NETPark Discovery Centre

Further to our previous projects on the NETPark Science and Technology Park, Desco was appointed by County Durham Development Corporation
to develop the MEP design for their NET Park Discovery Centre – a development comprising two buildings with a mixture of flexible office,
laboratory and clean room space, in self-contained units to accommodate small and medium sized enterprises and research groups working in the
science and technology industry. Located within NETPark’s parkland setting, the units have been designed with many sustainable credentials such
as solar panels and angling the buildings away from the sun to cut down on solar gain and thus reduce the need for air conditioning and achieve
BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating under the current assessment methods.

>> International Centre for Life

Working for the client Newcastle University, Desco delivered MEP services design and consultancy on the major upgrade and refurbishment of
laboratory areas within the International Centre for Life building to provide a new human genetics research and development facility.
The 1000m2 of newly refurbished space over three floors of the four storey building, will incorporate tissue culture rooms, autoclave areas, GMP
production facilities and Home Office licensed areas including cold rooms, freezer rooms and cryogenic stores.

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>> Arc Leisure, Matlock

This new state-of-the-art sport and leisure facility for the community of Matlock in Derbyshire, known in its development stages as the Central Area
Leisure Centre (CALC) - “the biggest single development” Derbyshire Dales District Council had undertaken, includes an eight-lane main pool with
moveable floor that meets regional competition standards, a learner pool, wet play area, large, full-height sports hall to accommodate regional
standard badminton courts, indoor hockey, basketball, volleyball, five a side football, cricket practice and netball, wet and dry changing areas, main
reception area, a café, meeting room, spectator seating, a 50-station fitness suite, a community facility and a second sports hall, known as the
‘Studio’, to accommodate gymnastics, martial arts, aerobics, dance classes and private functions.

>>Aspire Academy, Doha

Our Middle East team is currently delivering MEP design and consultancy services for this new-build fitness centre and office complex within
Qatar’s Aspire Zone.

Adjacent to the 2006 Asian Games Aquatic Centre, the new facility is spread across three floors with a flexible design which will enable the fitness
centre to be converted to an office at any time.

>> Winsford Lifestyle Centre, Cheshire

This new lifestyle centre was built to replace the former leisure centre in Winsford, Cheshire. Desco’s appointment was to deliver the MEP services
and pool water consultancy. The complex offers its users extensive facilities including a 25m swimming pool, a learner pool, fitness suite, dance
studio, health suite, squash courts, meeting facilities and function room, multi-use hall designed as a flexible space to be used for a range of indoor
sports, such as basketball, netball, five-a-side football and racquet sports or as a 500-seat entertainment auditorium including a gallery, to host both
sporting and non-sporting events, cyber café, restaurant and bar.
The building was designed to achieve current Part L carbon footprint compliance, and in addition with the introduction of rainwater recovery, solar
thermal panels and a CHP unit, exceeds this by achieving more than a 25% further reduction.

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>> First Transpennine Express Railway Station Upgrade Programme

Desco was appointed to deliver the MEP services design for the upgrade of a series of railway stations across the Transpennine Express route in
Teesside and North Yorkshire.

Projects at stations in Thornaby and Northallerton included the full refurbishment of the station building, ticket office and customer waiting areas.
The major refurbishment of Middlebrough’s Grade II listed station building included upgrade of the ticket office, waiting areas and the refurbishment
of empty trading space to provide a new café area.

>>MetroCentre Transport Interchange

As part of the major redevelopment of the MetroCentre shopping and leisure complex in Gateshead, comprising the redevelopment and extension
of the centre to provide an additional 35,000m2 of retail space and a new 1100 space multi-storey car park, we completed the M&E design for a new
state-of-the-art public transport interchange.

The new bright and airy interchange development, which links directly into the MetroCentre shopping area, replaces the old bus station and
provides visitors with an improved, comfortable waiting environment, features electronic display boards and creates a welcoming arrival point for
visitors travelling to the centre by rail or on one of the 100 buses that travel through the interchange from throughout the North East region.

>> Multi-Storey Car Parks

Our team has a vast amount of experience in the design of large multi-storey car parking facilities from standalone, above ground car parks in busy
town centre environments, including a futuristic mechanised car parking development which allows cars to be ‘stacked’, to undercroft car parks and
those designed to link through to existing premises such as the £8m car parking facility adjoining The Tower commercial headquarters development
in Gosforth in Newcastle upon Tyne and the new multi-storey car park built to compliment the redeveloped Red Mall at the MetroCentre shopping
and leisure complex.

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“in spite of the pressures of very challenging timescales; Desco’s proactive and innovative approach to new challenges has been particularly
impressive…The input and commitment the Desco team has shown throughout the relationship with Nissan has been invaluable to the success
of these projects.”
Graham Bagley, Construction Manager - Nissan Europe

“their engineers are technically adept, diligent and we can always rely on the practice to deliver a high quality, professional, client-focused
service, on time and to budget…”
Paul Hood, Regional Building Services Manager - Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd

I've been impressed by Desco's performance, commitment and ability to work flexibly on projects from early feasibility stages, through detailed
design to project hand-over. My experience of Desco is that they are a professional team who can be depended upon to deliver a quality
service…”
Paul Hopson, Asset Projects Team Leader - Durham County Council

“The Desco team have been meticulous in preparing detailed infrastructure studies in order to determine the most appropriate servicing
strategy, recognising the sensitive nature of the site; they have played a vital role in the assembly of our planning application. Desco have a
proactive approach to project delivery and have been instrumental in helping foster an excellent working relationship between all members of
the design team…”
Ian Stewart, Development Director– Silverlink Holdings Ltd.

“...it was great to hear you talk about the project to the prospective contractors …It really is that enthusiasm for and, commitment to detail that
will make this building something we will all be proud of. I have to say it's a real pleasure working with you and your team.”
Martin Swatton, Martin Swatton Design

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“The team are highly motivated, very conscientious and have consistently delivered a high quality service to Kajima. DESCO have many
strengths, which include:
• Attention to detail
• High regard for sustainable and efficient design
• The need to work as a team
• Technically very strong
• Effective quality focus
• Highly professional...”
Richard Coe, Senior Development Manager – Kajima Partnerships Ltd

“The team have been known to us for many years and are competent professionals who provide an exceptional standard of service working
with us to ensure delivery of complex projects with often very tight timeframes and reduced budgets. They provide us with solid advice to
achieve a high standard of completed works…”
Sarah Godfrey, General Manager, Property & Facilities – Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd

“Desco represents the very best in creating unique, functional and affordable M&E design solution. They commit to building a supportive,
respectful, client-centred relationship ……”
David Cheatham, Chief Executive – Gateshead College

“I just wanted to relay my thanks for the excellent M, E and pool filtration support that Drivers Jonas has received on this project. As Project
Manager, it has been really appreciated and supported my role to Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council which enabled the satisfactory
conclusion to an excellent facility.”
Paul Denson, Project Manager - Drivers Jonas Deloitte

“The Council has been most impressed with Desco's performance, both in terms of quality and clarity. Also, Desco have been able to meet the
very tight deadline… in addition, the advice from Desco on the use of renewables has been invaluable…”
Dave Brooks, Director of Planning and Development Services – Derbyshire Dales District Council

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