1. Brief History
Darren Paine
B.Eng. (Hons) C.Eng. MICE
Darren set up DP Squared in 2004 to offer high quality services at competitive fees. Since then Darren and DP
Squared have delivered a wide range of projects whilst maintaining a focus on design quality, buildability and
budget. Based in the South Pennine town of Hebden Bridge the practice has a local presence with a national
outlook, projects having previously been delivered from Cornwall to North Lancashire
Within that time Darren also worked as a Director at Ramboll (previously whitbybird) and as a consultant to
Edge Structures. Now DP Squared is focusing on the future and how it can help Clients deliver the schemes it
needs without having to pay over the odds on Professional fees.
Contact Darren Paine on 07870 272830 or mail@dpsquared.net
DP2 Porjects: Lupton Street Salford – Scheme design of timber frame Sample Projects with other consultants:
Millenium Needle and Stair - New staircase and feature spire in apartment building over concrete basement and ground floor Winnersh Footbridge (whitbybird)
St Helens, Lancashire (£250k) (£5m) New 66m span footbridge with live trees in Reading Berkshire
Kunsthaus, Liverpool - Temporary structure on top of an existing Gorse Covert School – Classroom extension (£750k) The Accumulator, Leeds City Swimming Pool (whitbybird)
building in central Liverpool (£30k) Queen Street Morecambe – 5 storey apartment scheme in Installation of a 15m fabric tunnel within the existing pool roof.
Ford Street Salford – Multistorey timber frame residential building central Morecambe, timber frame over RC structure (£3m) Beijing Olympic Stadium (Arup)
constructed over a basement car park (£4m) Project director and Lead Structural Engineer for the Olympic
Chandos House – Preston – Grand Designs Live Finalist, house Stadium in Beijing
extension with cantilevering swimming pool over hillside (£1.2m) The Runner(Arup)
Bridge St – Bradford – New apartments within a listed building in 5m high bronze figure placed on a globe.
Bradford city centre (£2m)
