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ES Projects is a creative solution finder providing specialist project management and a main contractor and consultancy service

• Services – structures, design and build management, design development, consultancy, main contractor service, event implementation

• Projects – Chanel Mobile Art, Zurich and Stansted Radisson Wine Towers, London Festival of Architecture, London 2012 Handover Event, Arts Alliance Pavilion, O2 Branding

ES Projects’ services include project management, project development and implementation, consultancy and a main contractor service for projects, as well as the design, manufacture, build and dismantle of bespoke, temporary event venues.

ES Projects is a trading division of ES Group, and with over 35 years in the industry have the expertise required to deliver every project from an interactive installation to an internationally tourable pavilion. 

ES Projects is employed as a ‘delivery’ partner’ to collaborate with clients and assist them in realising their creative vision. The primary skills utilised are project planning, project execution and monitoring; management and support of the design process; budget control; supplier and sub contractor management. 

ES Projects and the ES Group have extensive experience and a proven track record of delivering challenging projects on a global basis. The ES Group is supported by an extensive network of contacts and trusted quality suppliers. Our underlying ethos is a ‘can do’ attitude that will take on difficult designs, tough deadlines and logistical challenges for highly demanding clients.  

<@>Bureau Veritas ISO 9001:2008<@>ES Projects have achieved ISO 9001:2008 for Quality Management Systems, a certification recognised worldwide as a symbol of excellence. ISO 9001:2008 demonstrates ES Project's achievement and continued commitment to conduct the business in a thoroughly professional and consistent manner.

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Statements of Capability

/images/theme_1/image_1256910480.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274971862.pdf<@>The Wine Tower

/images/theme_1/image_1256916112.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274971872.pdf<@>David Beckham Football Academy

/images/theme_1/image_1256910314.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274971881.pdf<@>Southwark One Stop Shop

/images/theme_1/image_1256910403.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274971899.pdf<@>THFC Training Academy

/images/theme_1/image_1256910143.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274971909.pdf<@>Chanel Mobile Art

/images/theme_1/image_1256910237.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274971919.pdf<@>Hands On Architecture

/images/theme_1/image_1256909477.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274971928.pdf<@>3i Waterloo Road

/images/theme_1/image_1256909575.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972218.pdf<@>Arts Alliance Pavilion

/images/theme_1/image_1256909624.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972231.pdf<@>The Belgrade B2 Theatre

/images/theme_1/image_1256916636.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972239.pdf<@>Demountable Super Yacht Containment

/images/theme_1/image_1256916709.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972252.pdf<@>Ford Goodwood Festival of Speed

/images/theme_1/image_1256916783.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972262.pdf<@>2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games

/images/theme_1/image_1256916843.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972271.pdf<@>Mercedes Goodwood Festival of Speed

/images/theme_1/image_1256917045.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972283.pdf<@>Orange Touring Pavilion

/images/theme_1/image_1256917374.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1274972292.pdf<@>Royal Military Tattoo 2000

Case Studies

/images/theme_1/image_1262865343.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1262865342.pdf<@>Chanel Mobile Art

/images/theme_1/image_1262865396.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1262865396.pdf<@>David Beckham Football Academy

/images/theme_1/image_1262865439.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1262865439.pdf<@>3i Waterloo Road

/images/theme_1/image_1262865511.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1262865511.pdf<@>Skyscape

/images/theme_1/image_1262865598.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1262865598.pdf<@>Southwark One Stop Shop

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Chanel Mobile Art

Karl Lagerfeld collaborated with architect Zaha Hadid to develop an event to mark the 50th year of the Chanel handbag. Chanel Mobile Art was conceptualized as a touring contemporary art exhibition celebrating the iconic Chanel handbag.

The main challenge ES Projects faced with this project was the practical realisation of the Lagerfeld, Hadid vision and the constant struggle between aesthetics and practicality.  Hadid is known for daringly curvaceous highly futuristic designs, most of them remaining on the drawing board for years, until the building professions can catch up with her prodigious imagination.  

ES Projects was contracted to manage the Design and Build process, and to tour and install the structure on behalf of Chanel in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York.  

The contract was agreed in June 2007 giving ES Projects 7 months before it was to be constructed on top of the Star Ferry multi-storey car park, Hong Kong.  While the creative vision had been developed, a feasible design was a long way from complete.  To overcome the complexities of the design, a new material was developed from which 300 unique, torqued, plastic components were moulded, from which the structure was built.    

As well as accurately realizing the creative vision, developing a wholly tourable entity provided an environmental and sustainable solution to the design brief. The pavilion’s transient nature renders it wholly sustainable and continually reusable within the life of its components.  

Iconic sites were selected in each city to complement the brand however, their prominent locations inevitably created logistical complications.  In Hong Kong the pavilion was built on top of the Star Ferry Car Park, which had to be shored-up to support the 700 tonne structure, and all the plant required for the build had to be craned onto the car park roof. In New York, the Pavilion was constructed in Central Park, which saw numerous restrictions including the hours the site could be accessed and the types of vehicles that could be used.  

Due to the short lead time of the project, considering the numerous design requirements, the design was scheduled on a “just in time” basis planned in reverse based on the construction, delivery and manufacture sequencing. Consequently, long lead time and early construction items were prioritized in the design process. In addition, key personnel were seconded onto the design team to ensure a feasible design and the smooth transfer of information from design to construction phase.  

The Pavilion opened in Hong Kong in February 2008 before moving onto Yoyogi Park, Tokyo in May 2008 and Central Park, New York in October 2008. The Pavilion was designed and built, to the client’s specification, as a demountable structure, and all the components were designed and built to travel in 70 ISO-sized shipping containers. The pavilion attracted 100,000 visitors in its world tour and received prolific media coverage.

Images John Linden

/images/theme_1/image_1269258973.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1269258973.pdf<@>Chanel Mobile Art Case Study

Arts Alliance Pavilion

Arts Alliance approached ES Projects for a touring pavilion to house their cinematic based art exhibit, employing five wide cinema screens. The intention was to tour world centres over a three year period. The exhibit is based on a futuristic, inflatable structure. 

ES Projects was contracted by Arts Alliance to work with the appointed design team to provide a detailed feasibility report and costing for the project. The client is currently structuring funding.

Images Various Architects AS

/images/theme_1/image_1269266319.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1269266319.pdf<@>Arts Alliance Pavilion Statement of Capability

Zurich Wine Tower

Europe’s tallest wine tower, standing at a staggering 15 metres, has been unveiled as the centre piece of the new Radisson Blu Hotel at Zurich Airport. The innovative installation was the focal point of the recent grand opening ceremony.

ES Projects designed, built and commissioned this magnificent structure with the support of specialist sub-contractor Stage One who installed and commissioned key features such as the LED lighting and Angel flying winches. ES Projects called on its experience in the events industry to provide training and choreography for the ‘Wine Angels’.  

The wine tower is a steel framed, glass clad structure designed to act as a vertical four sided temperature controlled wine cellar, operated in full view of the hotel guests and bar customers. The total capacity of the tower is 3,840 bottles. Wine bottles are stored in specially designed racks providing microclimate areas that maintain the correct temperatures for the red and white wines as well as comfort cooling for the ‘Wine Angels’ and operators. 

‘Wine Angels’ equipped with flying harnesses perform acrobatic routines to music and automated lighting sequences as they ascend the tower to retrieve the wine bottles.  The winches that raise and lower the angels are controlled at an operator station located within the tower at ground level. The lighting sequences are specific to each bottle and as such also guide the angel to the correct bottle.

The LED lighting used to provide the lighting sequences, consists of over 800 HexaPix; a unique media server to pixel software product that was developed by Stage One in house and controlled by the company’s Qmotion® control system. 

In order to provide the precise, controlled flying required to deliver the ‘Wine Angel’ to the correct bottle, Stage One supplied an automation package specially developed to enable their NextQ software to directly control the winch positioning drives.

Even though the project time frame was reduced by three weeks to ensure completion before Christmas, ES Projects delivered on time and to budget.

Other key sub-contractors include Adam Basset, Lighting Designer; Momentum; Richard Sinclair, Sound Designer; Jeremy Thom, Designer; Peter Roberts, M&E Designer; Unusual Rigging; Optima Glass; Alpha Electricals; Wrights Plastics; Total Air Systems and Sheetfabs.

Images Benjamin Reusser

/images/theme_1/image_1269265898.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1269265898.pdf<@>Wine Tower Statement of Capability

Hands On Architecture

ES Projects worked in collaboration with Foster + Partners and Buro Happold to design and deliver an installation as part of the 2008 London Festival of Architecture. The installation was required for one day in Exhibition Road, Central London.

ES Projects was the Main Contractor and also contributed with design input and expertise in the installation and dismantling. The period of time available for the installation was three hours.

Images Buro Happold and Richard Davies

/images/theme_1/image_1269266729.jpg<@>/files/client_1/upload_1269266729.pdf<@>London Festival of Architecture Statement of Capability

ES Group wins Gala Award

ES Group wins Gala Award for “Best Achievement in Logistics” for the Chanel Mobile Art project. 

The awards were handed out at The Special Event Show in New Orleans on Friday 15th January. Richard Foulkes from Imagination, both friend and client of ES Group, kindly collected the award on our behalf. As President Elect for the UK Chapter of ISES (International Special Event Society), Richard was the perfect choice.

The Gala Awards have been given by Special Events Magazine, one of the premier industry publications, since 1986. They recognize the finest work in special events worldwide. “We are delighted to win such a prestigious award in recognition of all the hard work and dedication shown by the team who worked on this challenging project.” said Head of Sales and Marketing Liz Madden.

Members of the Special Events Magazine Advisory Board, made up of leaders in the event profession, spent three days in October at the magazine’s offices in Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles), California, to select the 101 finalists. Nominated entries went through three rounds of judging.

Chanel Mobile Art is a structure designed to be demountable and tour internationally.  The value engineering process from the onset of the project heavily considered the logistics of moving all elements, via sea freight, from venue to venue.  The pavilion was designed for a 3 city tour that visited Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York over a 12 month period. 

The Gala Award entry focused on the installation of the pavilion in Central Park, New York and the build and logistical challenges that were faced and overcome to enable the event to be successfully delivered. 

ES Group Wins a Place on The Sunday Times HSBC International Track 100

ES Group is delighted to be ranked 21st in The Sunday Times International Track 100. The league table ranks Britain's top 100 private companies with the fastest growing international sales over the last two years. ES Group saw overseas sales increase by 100% a year from £6.4m in 2006 to £25.7m in 2008.

In its inaugural year, the league table which was published on Sunday 11th July, features companies from a wide range of industries such as engineering, manufacturing, computers and electronics and media.

The league table which is sponsored by HSBC was compiled by Fast Track, a networking events and research company. To view the full listing please click the link below

http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/downloads/2010IntTrack100.pdf

ES Group and Arena Group join forces in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games

October 3rd 2010 sees the opening of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. ESG Arena JV (comprising ES Group and Arena Group), together with local partner d-artindia, have been contracted to provide Games Overlay for 3 competition venues and 18 training venues. The team are responsible for providing the temporary overlay for these facilities including more than 130 temporary structures, a temporary stadium to host the Rugby Sevens, power, grandstands, media facilities and lighting. The scope of the contract also includes maintenance during the Games and removal of the temporary overlay afterwards.

The local partnership has been set up specifically to deliver this £13million project but the intention is to develop the partnership and to deliver future projects together in India as the desire to deliver bigger and better world class events in India is very apparent. There are many opportunities in the region in the near future including the ICC Cricket World Cup, IPL and Formula 1.

"We are delighted to be working on the Commonwealth Games. It's vital to have a regional partner on a project like this to take advantage of existing relationships with local companies. We are working with some really great people and suppliers who are making this an exciting project to be involved with." said ES Group Director Jeff Burke.