Cambria Newsletter

September 2017

In the run up to Christmas we would like to 3 graduate engineers were Trish Michael Office Goss! Trish caught feeling up Lee Byrne!
suggest Secret Santa to those of you that discussing who might have been Practice Secretary
want to get involved. responsible for the design of the
I am delighted to introduce this first edition of the Cambria newsletter.
Maximum spend will be £5 and your human body. We intend to make it a quarterly publication to keep you in touch with
present can be naughty news and developments which relate to all things Cambria and our
or nice! The first one said "Think of all the staff.
joints etc. it must have been a
Get involved as its sure mechanical engineer". This first edition is light-hearted in content however, going forward, the
to be a giggle! ☺ Directors will each take turns to contribute articles about projects we are
The second one said "No no, working on, new clients and projects secured, general news, business
CPDS what about all the electrical direction and strategy. We would welcome any ideas and contributions
impulses and nerves etc? It must from all of you going forward for future editions. It can be about
Upcoming CPDs for both Bristol & Cardiff have been an electrical engineer". anything – fun stuff as well as engineering innovations, solutions to
unusual problems, details of external workshops or training attended,
TATA – Composite Floor Deck The third graduate was shaking new networking connections made or committee roles
3rd October 2017 his head, "You are both wrong, undertaken. Maybe Michael will even provide us with a blog about his
the human body was designed by University course – giving an insight into topics being covered in the
MAPEI - Concrete Structural a civil engineer - who else would quarter.
Strengthening & Waterproofing
run a waste pipe through a Finally, I would also like to add my thanks to my colleagues Carys and
18th October 2017 recreational area"? Jayne for pulling the Newsletter together – it has been quite a
collaborative effort which we hope you all enjoy.
MiTek - Posi-Joist Key Dates
24th October 2017 Trish
Cambria Christmas Party
Mapei - Effective Waterproofing 14th December 2017
7th November 2017
Final Working Day Before
Helifix - Masonary Repair Christmas
8th November 2017
22nd December 2017
Gatic - Surface Water Linear Drainage
Systems Back to Work
Tuesday 2nd January 2018
15th November 2017

Mark Gould Gary Mitchell Wynn James
Director Director Director

Jayne Hemmings Trish Michael Carys Stephens
Practice Administrator Practice Secretary Practice Administrator

Francisco de Rus Tim Fairlie Ed Hoskins Ben Whyman Campbell Grossey
Alguacil Senior Infrastructure Senior Infrastructure Senior Infrastructure Senior Structural
Associate
Senior Infrastructure Engineer Associate Associate
Engineer

Geoff Carter Callum Parker Matthew Diggins Neil Roberts Martin Stekkinger
Structural Associate Infrastructure BIM Associate BIM Associate Structural Associate

Associate

Paul Young Stuart Burrows Leighton Thomas Kiron House
Senior Infrastructure Senior Structural Senior Structural Senior Structural

Engineer Technician Engineer Engineer

Lloyd Griffiths Matthew Batton
Senior Structural Senior REVIT
Technician
Technician

Andrew Niven Steven John Gene Turpitt
Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure

Michael Eaves Catherine Chin Will Rosindell
BIM Technician Graduate Structural Graduate Engineer

Engineer

Angela Rodrigues Elena Myari
Junior CAD Junior Technician
Technician

Unibet Champions League of Darts! Cambria Family BBQ

The Cambria darts posse were out on the town for the Unibet Champions The Cambria Family BBQ took place on the 11th August. Despite the rain a
League of Darts on the 17th September. The theme was heroes and villains and good time was had by all. This was a perfect opportunity for the Bristol and
we were all blown away by the effort everyone made! (We all even got on TV!) Cardiff Office to get together, and for some, meet for the first time. Trish was, of
course, out in full force with the selfie stick!
The plan was to attend the afternoon session, but with everyone having such a
good time we decided to stay for the evening session too (with a break for pizza A big thanks to Wynn & Sharron for having us all! ☺
at half time!). Gary even got a photo with the tournament winner, Mensur
Suljovic, who beat two-time world champion Gary Anderson.

Cambria New Arrivals

We have a few new additions to the Cambria family.

Jayne Hemmings Elena Myari Matthew Batton

Bristol Cardiff Bristol
Practice Administrator Junior Technician Snr REVIT Technician

Bristol Office Gets A Makeover! Gene’s New Arrival Company Profile Goodies

Along with new staff at the Bristol office, it has also gained some new Congratulations to Gene and Viv on In August we sent out our 2017
additions to the décor. their arrival of baby Grace! Grace was Company Profile with a number of
born on the 7th September weighing Cambria promotional goodies.
A dart board has now been put up in the boardroom for those times when 7lb 12 ounces.
being competitive just takes over. (Looks like we will need to arrange a
Cambria Bristol/Cardiff office darts night!) We wish them all the
best with their new
A whiteboard has been installed in the office to hold weekly team meetings. bundle of joy!

And lastly, the Cambria signage has been replicated in the Bristol Office on
the back wall

WiP Student Awards 2017 The aim of doing this is to get our
name out there and maintain
For the second year running Cambria relationships with existing clients as
Consulting were delighted to be one well as gaining work from new
of the regional sponsors for the clients.
Women in Property South Wales
Branch Student Award, which Cambria Over 40’s Football Team
includes a representative of Cambria
sitting on the judging panel earlier in Cambria Consulting FC have started
the year as well as presenting an the Wales Veterans Over 40
award at the ceremonial dinner. Football league season with a 2-1
victory over Hannon Old Boys, and a
On 1 June, the winner of the 2017 narrow 2-1 defeat to Bettws who were
WiP South Wales Branch Student runners up last season.
Award was announced – Gabrielle
Wheeler. Gabrielle won £300 and a Next fixture is 2pm KO at Colcot
trophy and will represent South Wales Sports Centre where
at the National Best of the Best final Cambria entertain
black tie awards dinner in London on Whitchurch,
the 20th September. who also have
3 points from
the first 2
games.

WiP Clay Pigeon Shoot CEW Awards Dinner
Cambria were once again delighted to attend the CEW Awards on 7 July
On Friday 8 September the 2017, held at the Celtic Manor and hosted by Jason Mohammad.
Concrete Society held their In 2016, we were there as one of the nominees for SME of the year – which
annual clay shoot at Training we were ecstatic about winning. This year we were there as part of the
2000 shooting ground in Bouygues (BYUK) design team up for Project of the Year – Buildings - for
Blackwood. As part of the Ysgol Bae Baglan.
organising committee Trish
helped facilitate on the day as The atmosphere on the night was electric with almost 600 members of the
well as being chief photographer! Welsh construction community in attendance applauding the 18 winners and
highly commended organisations and projects across the 15 categories.
19 teams of 3 were booked on. The design team for the project were thrilled when it was announced that
Bacon rolls were served upon Ysgol Bae Baglan had won the category. This was a great project to be part
registration then everyone went of is reflected by the many accolades it has won including the Local Authority
out on a practise shoot for a Building Control (LABC) Cymru Building Excellence Awards 2017 ceremony,
couple of hours before the held at The Vale Resort, Vale of Glamorgan on Friday 21st April for both
tournament started after lunch. “Best Educational Building” and “Best Accessible Building” categories to
Cambria entered a team which included our very own Wynn and Mark, and name but a few.
Catherine formed part of the WiP team. Needless to say neither team won any
medals! Hope we have better luck next year.

Charity Tree House Project

Cambria were involved in the design of a
new childrens playground area/treehouse
on the site of the newly built Ronald
McDonald House at University Hospital
of Wales, Cardiff. The treehouse was
designed with Austin-Smith:Lord Architects
as part of Contractor Willmott Dixon’s
charity programme.

The brief was to design an outdoor area for the children being treated at the
Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital and the
neo-natal intensive care unit at the
hospital.

The timber frame treehouse play
area was constructed over a period
of two weeks by groups of volunteers
using as many recycled materials
from the Ronald McDonald House
building as possible.