A Preston-based firm will be playing a key role in working with Lancashire County Council on refurbishing its existing buildings and designing any new ones.
Based at Preston Docks PSA – Pettit Singleton Associates – have won the contract worth up to £2.4million.
The building services consultancy have spent two decades working with County Hall and PSA have been contracted for the mechanical and electrical design consultancy for LCC after winning a competitive tendering process.
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Works are due to focus on low-carbon heating systems, LED lighting upgrades and making existing buildings more energy efficient to help the county council hit their decarbonisation targets.
PSA are also due to formulate net zero carbon designs for any new buildings planned by the Reform-led administration.
Associate director at PSA, Andrew Bates, said: “This appointment means a great deal to us. We’re a Lancashire head-quartered business, we live and work here, and being able to contribute directly to the quality of public buildings in the county is something we genuinely value.
“Twenty years is a long time to work alongside any client, and that kind of relationship only comes from
doing the job properly and having a relationship built on trust. We’re looking forward to continuing that work and playing our part in helping the Council hit its
decarbonisation targets.”
The firm was founded in 1989 by Stephen Pettit and his wife Barbara, who originally rented a basement office from Bus Station designer Sir George Grenfell Baines. The business has since expanded, is owned by James Dobson as sole director and now employs 40 people at its headquarters just off Navigation Way.
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