Engineering consultant lands four care home contracts

A Leeds-based engineering consultant has secured four new contracts with Torsion Projects to provide structural and civil engineering services for care homes in Chesterfield, Durham, Bradford, and Worksop.

Dudleys Consulting Engineers has previously worked on projects for Torsion Projects in Shipley, Bingley, Brighouse, Sleaford, Lincoln, and York.

In Chesterfield, Torsion Care is set to build a 72-bedroom care home after securing conditional planning consent.

Dudleys is assisting with the redevelopment of the historic Walton Works, including Grade II listed mill buildings, which will house the care home alongside new residential developments.

In Worksop, construction is scheduled to begin next month on a 70-bed care home at Gatefold Toll Bar. Dudleys is offering full civil and structural engineering support, working alongside Watson Batty Architects, who are leading the design.

Torsion Care has recently purchased land at Mount Oswald in Durham, in partnership with Banks Group.

After supporting the project through the planning stages, Dudleys is now on site, working to deliver a custom-designed, three-and-a-half-storey care home with 74 en-suite bedrooms and state-of-the-art facilities.

In Bradford, Torsion is transforming a brownfield site at Eccleshill into a 72-bedroom care home with ancillary services. Dudleys is providing engineering expertise to elevate the site by approximately three metres, creating a level foundation for the development.

John Currie, managing director at Torsion Projects, said: “It is a pleasure to appoint Dudleys on our next rollout of schemes. Their support and expertise from inception through to completion on multiple projects at the same time allow Torsion Projects to maintain its growth plan and deliver exceptional schemes on the programme.”

Paul Brownlow, director at Dudley’s, said: “We are delighted to secure these further contracts with Torsion Care, cementing our role as a valued advisor for its fast-growing development plans. Our team is highly skilled in working with challenging brownfield sites that need varying levels of remediation from historic use or local environmental impact and we admire Torsion’s commitment to rejuvenating often difficult sites to provide much-needed new community-focused facilities.”