Hoare Lea
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Hoare Lea is a firm of consulting engineers specialising in mechanical, electrical and environmental engineering (building services engineering
). Founded in 1862, Hoare Lea remains an independent partnership with offices located in Birmingham
, Bristol
, Cambridge
, Cardiff
, Isle Of Man
, Leeds
, London
, Manchester
, Oxford
, Plymouth
and Poole
, as well as a growing international presence.
.
Lea pioneered both electrical lighting and methods of efficient heating and air conditioning systems. In 1882, Lea supervised one of the first electrical lighting systems installed in a public building at Birmingham Town Hall
. Other notable examples of Lea's work include the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
, widely recognised as one of the first air conditioned buildings in the world.
Lea died in 1912 leaving control of the practice to his son, Fred M. Lea, also an engineer and his long-standing principal assistant. During the inter-war recession the firm continued to design for public buildings, and in 1939 Donald Lea amalgamated the Practice with that of Edwin S. Hoare and Partners of Bristol to form Hoare Lea.
(IPD) scheme developed for graduate engineers pursuing Chartered Engineer status. The scheme comprises on-the-job training as part of a design team; a two-year lecture programme focused on technical, management and communication subjects, and construction site experience. Hoare Lea have recently established an exchange programme with a leading UK architectural practice.
Hoare Lea's IPD scheme is also accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology
(IET), the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
(CIBSE) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
(IMechE).
In addition to its IPD scheme, Hoare Lea has a national Continuing professional development
(CPD) programme with two stands – a management development programme and a technical update programme.
The management programme has a series of one-day courses covering a range of management and leadership topics, mainly small-scale workshops delivered by in-house and external presenters, trainers and facilities. The technical programme includes updates in the principal engineering disciplines, covering technical and regulatory developments and case studies as well as sustainability workshops.
Hoare Lea offers options for further study and many employees attend specialist courses and conferences and undertake academic qualifications to support their continuing development.
At the 2010 Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Engineering Excellence Awards, Hoare Lea won both 'Infrastructure (Medium Firm)' and 'Building Services (Medium Firm)' categories. The awards were presented to Hoare Lea for its work on the converged network infrastructure at Cabot Circus and for Warwick Digital Laboratory.
At the 2009 Building Services awards, Hoare Lea’s professional development activities were recognised through the ‘Training Initiative of the Year’ award. Hoare Lea also won the ‘Best Use of IT Award’ for its work at Cabot Circus. In 2008 Hoare Lea won both ‘Large Consultancy of the Year’ and ‘Innovation of the Year’ at the Building Services Awards. This was the third year in succession and the fifth time in the eleven years since the awards were established, that Hoare Lea received the ‘Large Consultancy of the Year’ award.
Other notable award-winning projects include Horizon House, Bristol, winner of the BREEAM Offices Award 2010 and One New Change, London, Overall and Mixed Use Winner of the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2010.
Building services engineering
Building services engineering, technical building services, architectural engineering, or building engineering is the engineering of the internal environment and environmental impact of a building...
). Founded in 1862, Hoare Lea remains an independent partnership with offices located in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
, Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
, Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
, Isle Of Man
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...
, Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Plymouth
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...
and Poole
Poole
Poole is a large coastal town and seaport in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester, and Bournemouth adjoins Poole to the east. The Borough of Poole was made a unitary authority in 1997, gaining administrative independence from Dorset County Council...
, as well as a growing international presence.
History
Hoare Lea was founded by Henry Lea in 1862. With an expertise spanning the mechanical and electrical disciplines, he was the first person to advertise himself as a Consulting Mechanical Engineer when he opened his office in BirminghamBirmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
.
Lea pioneered both electrical lighting and methods of efficient heating and air conditioning systems. In 1882, Lea supervised one of the first electrical lighting systems installed in a public building at Birmingham Town Hall
Birmingham Town Hall
Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert and meeting venue in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. It was created as a home for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival established in 1784, the purpose of which was to raise funds for the General Hospital, after St Philip's Church became...
. Other notable examples of Lea's work include the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
The Royal Victoria Hospital is a hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
, widely recognised as one of the first air conditioned buildings in the world.
Lea died in 1912 leaving control of the practice to his son, Fred M. Lea, also an engineer and his long-standing principal assistant. During the inter-war recession the firm continued to design for public buildings, and in 1939 Donald Lea amalgamated the Practice with that of Edwin S. Hoare and Partners of Bristol to form Hoare Lea.
Services
The firm has a range of specialist teams to complement its mechanical and electrical engineering discipline.- Acoustics: Engineering, architectural and environmental
- CGI: Architectural 'lighting accurate' visualisations, animations, interactive and real-time presentations/walkthroughs
- Communications: Integrated systems for the workplace
- Engineering Management: Post occupancy professional advice
- Expert Witness: Forensic investigation & dispute resolution
- Fire Engineering: Detection, protection and fire and smoke control
- Lighting Design: Architectural, technical, display and daylighting
- Research & Development: Researching and addressing the issues of climate change and the broader environmental agenda
- Security: Advise on security-related design issues, design security systems and manage security projects
- Virtual Engineering: Building and system performance simulation
- Vertical Transportation: Lifts, escalators and vertical access equipment
- Sustainability: Specialist consultancy across all sectors of construction, property development and management
- Public Health: Hot and cold water systems, foul and surface water disposal systems and sewage pumping
- Refrigeration: Dry expansion and flooded, ice storage and pumpable ice slurries, CO2 systems, heat pumps and secondary refrigeration systems
- BREEAMBREEAMBRE Environmental Assessment Method is a voluntary measurement rating for green buildings that was established in the UK by the Building Research Establishment . Since its inception it has since grown in scope and geographically, being exported in various guises across the globe...
: Demand for green buildings simulation
Professional Development
Hoare Lea has a comprehensive and structured Initial Professional DevelopmentInitial Professional Development
Professional development may be separated into two distinct phases, Continuing Professional Development and Initial Professional Development.- Definitions :...
(IPD) scheme developed for graduate engineers pursuing Chartered Engineer status. The scheme comprises on-the-job training as part of a design team; a two-year lecture programme focused on technical, management and communication subjects, and construction site experience. Hoare Lea have recently established an exchange programme with a leading UK architectural practice.
Hoare Lea's IPD scheme is also accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a British professional body for those working in engineering and technology in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers , dating back to 1871, and the...
(IET), the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers is a British professional engineering body based in London, England that represents building services engineers...
(CIBSE) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the British engineering society based in central London, representing mechanical engineering. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers...
(IMechE).
In addition to its IPD scheme, Hoare Lea has a national Continuing professional development
Continuing Professional Development
Continuing professional development or Continuing professional education is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives.-CPD research:...
(CPD) programme with two stands – a management development programme and a technical update programme.
The management programme has a series of one-day courses covering a range of management and leadership topics, mainly small-scale workshops delivered by in-house and external presenters, trainers and facilities. The technical programme includes updates in the principal engineering disciplines, covering technical and regulatory developments and case studies as well as sustainability workshops.
Hoare Lea offers options for further study and many employees attend specialist courses and conferences and undertake academic qualifications to support their continuing development.
Awards
Hoare Lea has worked on many award-winning projects, in 2011 the firm won the Integrated Project Team Award at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards for Ceredigion County Council's new office building, Canolfan Rheidol, Aberystwyth.At the 2010 Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) Engineering Excellence Awards, Hoare Lea won both 'Infrastructure (Medium Firm)' and 'Building Services (Medium Firm)' categories. The awards were presented to Hoare Lea for its work on the converged network infrastructure at Cabot Circus and for Warwick Digital Laboratory.
At the 2009 Building Services awards, Hoare Lea’s professional development activities were recognised through the ‘Training Initiative of the Year’ award. Hoare Lea also won the ‘Best Use of IT Award’ for its work at Cabot Circus. In 2008 Hoare Lea won both ‘Large Consultancy of the Year’ and ‘Innovation of the Year’ at the Building Services Awards. This was the third year in succession and the fifth time in the eleven years since the awards were established, that Hoare Lea received the ‘Large Consultancy of the Year’ award.
Other notable award-winning projects include Horizon House, Bristol, winner of the BREEAM Offices Award 2010 and One New Change, London, Overall and Mixed Use Winner of the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2010.
Projects
Some of the notable projects in which Hoare Lea was involved are as follows:- One New ChangeOne New ChangeOne New Change is a major office and retail development in the City of London , London, United Kingdom. It comprises a total of 560,000 sq feet of floor space, including of retail space and of office space and is currently the only large, modern shopping centre in the City...
, London - Stone Towers, Cairo
- Sidra Research and Medical Centre, Doha
- Bristol Old VicBristol Old VicThe Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s studio theatre , offices and backstage facilities...
- One Glass Wharf, Bristol
- Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)
- Bishops Square, London
- University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, Earth Sciences Building - University of WarwickUniversity of WarwickThe University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
, Digital Laboratory - Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
- PrincesshayPrincesshayPrincesshay is a shopping mall in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was built in the early 1950s to replace buildings that had been destroyed in the World War II Baedeker Blitz...
, Exeter - The CubeThe Cube (building)The Cube is a 23 storey mixed-use development in the centre of Birmingham, England. Designed by Ken Shuttleworth of MAKE Architects, it contains 135 flats, of offices, shops, a hotel and a 'skyline' restaurant...
, Birmingham - Cabot CircusCabot CircusCabot Circus is a shopping centre in Bristol, England. It is adjacent to Broadmead, a shopping district in Bristol city centre. The Cabot Circus development area contains shops, offices, a cinema, hotel and 250 apartments. It covers a total of floor space, of which is retail outlets and leisure...
, Bristol - Conversion of Highbury StadiumArsenal StadiumArsenal Stadium was a football stadium in Highbury, North London, which was the home ground of Arsenal Football Club between 6 September 1913 and 7 May 2006...
(Arsenal FC) to Residential Units.