Glasgow Harbour is one of the UK's largest and most prestigious regeneration projects. The £1.2 billion scheme will see the creation of a new City district on the West End waterfront, providing major benefits for the local economy and for the people of Glasgow. Mirroring the Docklands scheme in London, the old docks, and sites of old granaries, wharves and shipyards in Glasgow are being redeveloped into up-market residential apartments, office complexes and leisure facilities.

As part the refurbishment of the harbour area Woodhouse has designed and manufactured an innovative integrated lighting solution for the new bridge over the motorway, providing a stunning pedestrian gateway to the new development.

Working with designers Creactive, Woodhouse produced a completely unique double-balustrade system for the bridge - a total of 2 x 48-metre lengths. The sinuously shaped balustrades have bespoke swan's neck posts in architectural galvanised mild steel, linked together by 11 horizontal bars.

Possibly the most technologically driven aspect of the bridge design is the LED lighting system neatly integrated into the lower face of the inner hand rail, which offers supplementary illumination to the bridge deck, with a high degree of uniformity. The long strips of high-power Insta LEDLUX® Linear LED have a high density of diodes and wide 70 degree optics, then have their light softened by a tough polycarbonate diffuser. The LED units are powered by a series of drivers concealed inside specially adapted uprights every 12 metres along the bridge. The whole installation has a life of 50,000 hours and consumes a total of only 700 watts.

Along the Harbour around the bridge, Woodhouse also supplied a number of landscape furniture features, including stainless steel bollards and stone seating by Escofet - most notably the minimalist Barana and the cube-like Nigra seating elements, which add a highly modernist touch to the riverside vista.