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Sharkey’s mill transformation project awarded Scotland’s best hotel accolade

A number of existing features including ornate cast iron structural frames and vaulted brick ceilings were painstakingly restored to their original condition while other components such as windows and roof coverings were sympathetically renewed in line with the building’s listed status.

Incorporating and exposing these features in combination with modern elements such as exposed M&E services has created a stunning aesthetic that is both appropriate to a chic, modern hotel and accurately reflective of the building’s industrial heritage. As a measure of the project’s success, within weeks of its opening, Hotel Indigo received the accolade of Scotland’s best hotel in the Sunday Times definitive guide.

Sharkey in rude health after Boots appointment

Primarily, Sharkey will be involved with three of Boots’ main business streams – its pharmacy dispensaries, Hearingcare and new beauty hall concept which is currently under development.

Multiple retail store projects have already been allocated to Sharkey with further projects due to be announced for 2019.  The Boots appointment follows the continuous success Sharkey has enjoyed with other large national retail frameworks, including supermarket giant Tesco.

Sharkey grows retail activity with Dobbies Garden Centre

Dobbies’ significant investment comprises  a multi-phase project involving  extensive alterations and refurbishment of their 70,000 sqft flagship centre outside Edinburgh, where the Sharkey team will be working 24/7 to ensure the garden centre remains fully operational at all times.

Dobbies has more than 30 stores across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Sharkey has been working in the retail sector since the company was founded and clients in recent years include Tesco, Boots, Arcadia and a number of the UK’s leading high street banks.

Sharkey takes hotel expertise to Scottish Borders

The Schloss Roxburghe, which also boasts a championship-standard golf course, is a Category B listed mansion in Kelso once owned by the Duke of Roxburghe.  This multimillion-pound project for Dusseldorf-based client 12.18. Investment Management GmbH will see Sharkey refurbish and enhance all of the hotel’s 22 bedrooms, restaurant, bar and public areas together with a comprehensive upgrade of the existing building services installations. The construction programme is due for completion in April 2019.

Tesco call on Sharkey for Dundee Contact Centre

The programme of work for the FTSE 100 Company included the significant upgrade of two existing buildings to provide high-quality space to house a total workforce of 1500 employees.  The contact centre deals with phone calls, emails and social media messages from around 9 million customers a year enquiring about issues such as home deliveries and Tesco’s Clubcard points scheme.

The project involved a comprehensive upgrade of redundant office space in one building to bring it back to life and a major refit of three floors in the adjoining building to create a stimulating new workplace environment.  The scope of works included structural alterations, replacement of mechanical services, external fabric upgrade works and the creation of 200 new workstations for the enlarged workforce.

The Dundee project follows a successful office upgrade Sharkey recently delivered in Edinburgh for Tesco Bank and builds upon the experience and expertise the team have developed in their work across the UK commercial office sector over the last decade.

https://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/retail/jobs-in-store-at-tesco-s-dundee-contact-centre-1-4834223