WSP offers specific advice and expertise across the full spectrum of the retail sector and is the market leader both in terms of shopping centre and individual store design.
We provide a range of property, environmental and traffic & transportation services activities including:
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Building Services Engineering
- Fire Strategy
- Specialist Lighting
- Development Planning
- Transportation
- Infrastructure
- Acoustics
- Environmental
- Energy advice
- Sustainability
Our range of skills and services also include:
- Due Diligence & transactional services
- Formation and leading of Supply Chains
- Thermal modelling of building interiors
- Environmental management systems
- Environmental planning
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Strategic Environmental Assessment
- Asbestos and Hazardous Materials Assessment
- Waste Management
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Access strategies
- Car park layout and operation
- Service strategies
- Integrated transport strategies
- Pedestrian movements
- Highway junctions capacity improvements
- Expert witness services
Our track record spans development projects from preliminary concept master planning, feasibility appraisals, expert witness representations, through to design and implementation.
Our clients include the major shopping centre developers and constructors and the major retailers. WSP has extensive experience being involved with 70% of the major shopping centre developments in the UK, including:
- White City, London
- Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow
- Silverburn Centre, Glasgow
- Paradise Street, Liverpool
- The Bullring, Birmingham
- Park Place, Croyden
- Drake Circus, Plymouth
- Whitefriars, Canterbury
- West Quay, Southampton
Experience in global award-winning retail schemes in the US, Asia, the Middle East and South Africa brings a world class retail specialism to the UK market.
We endeavour to deliver best value and sustainable economic retail schemes for our clients, and can demonstrate that we are at the forefront of innovative design through our involvement with the British Council of Shopping Centres in developing best practice policy guidance for Retail Development in the UK.