We’re currently on the hunt for a new QS to join our Yorkshire team, a great opportunity as the person in question will be working on Park Hill in Sheffield – the largest grade II* Listed building in Europe, and one of the most significant developments in post war Britain.
The building is key to the development and history of architecture - so much so that if you’re an architect it’s a compulsory study topic! It was inspired by the legendry Swiss-French Architect Le Corbusier but the current redevelopment has been designed by Studio Egret West, Hawkins Brown and Grant Associates.
Its status means that it attracts attention from all over the world, and in recent years our work in redeveloping Park Hill has been very much in the spotlight, with the BBC and local paper the Sheffield Star just two of the recent commentators on the scheme’s transformation (it’s also going to be on BBC2 on Monday 31st August!). So if you want exposure on a national level and huge career satisfaction this is the place to be.
We’re also really proud to be able to tell our story and continue the building’s development, something that’s been greatly helped by our relationships with public partners such as the Homes and Communities Agency. This means that we can move on and fulfil our plans of delivering almost 1000 new apartments for Sheffield over the next ten years – something that our new QS can play a major part in!
I spend a lot of my days working in Sheffield at the scheme and can honestly say that the building consumes you from the moment you arrive. Working here means that you’ll bore your nearest and dearest with every detail; no two days are ever the same.
So if you are a suitably qualified QS and want to join our team and make Park Hill happen then visit our Urban Splash jobs page. Have a look around the site too and you’ll see that our passion for listed buildings and this kind of architecture goes beyond Park Hill – we’re also working on the Grade I listed Royal William Yard in Plymouth (as link), the Grade II listed Lister Mills in Bradford and the Grade II Matchworks in Garston near Liverpool.
Filed under: Park Hill, Sheffield, Urban Splash - tags: jobs, Park Hill, Sheffield
2 Comments
Hello,
First time I’ve had time to look through the site and I am amazed at the variety of projects Urban Splash take on which other developers wouldn’t touch with a bargepole !! (Didn’t the council want to knock down Park Hill and start again?)
I am just sad you aren’t in charge of a major development in York called the Chocolate Works - it’s an old disused Victorian chocolate factory in the middle of the city next to the racecourse - Oh why didn’t you take it on ?
The city council have already thrown out one set of plans for the site and I doubt if the new ones will be anywhere near the standard set by Urban Splash !!
However Nestle Rowntree are selling part of their Victorian site so if you’re interested…….
Good luck for the future and don’t lower your standards - as you say there is a flight to quality and that will tell in the end.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your comment on our Park Hill post.
With regard to station closure, we are very strongly opposed to the ticket barriers at the station along with the Council and bipartisan support from all the political parties.
We have written a letter to the Department for Transport and are fully supportive of the Residents Against Station Closure (RASC) who are the action group.
This was shown on the BBC2 documentary ‘Romancing the Stone’ where together with Richard Caborn we brought it to the attention of Simon Thurley (CEO of English Heritage) and the film covered it for nearly two minutes.
Oh and thanks for the tip-off about the Nestle Rowntree site. We’re pretty busy at the moment with a mix of live sites and projects in development, but we’ll keep it in mind!