Building Structures
What We Do
We have extensive experience of working with other construction professionals to produce designs for a wide variety of building projects including:
We undertake the structural design of all parts of a building using materials appropriate to economic and aesthetic requirements and sustainability including:
New Buildings
Extensions
Conversions
Renovations
We undertake and organise investigations, surveys and assessments of buildings prior to conversion and where there is concern over structural capacity or integrity.
Our experience includes structural issues related to listed buildings and traditional and none standard forms of construction. This includes cob walls, traditional roof construction and local forms of house construction,
Scope
Foundations - piling, pile caps and ground beams, pad and strip foundations, rafts
Basements - concrete and masonry, sheet piled and diaphragm walls
Ground Floors - mass and reinforced concrete for normal and special loading patterns and performance
Suspended Floors - composite metal deck, reinforced in-situ concrete, pre-cast concrete, beam and block
Frames - steelwork, timber, reinforced concrete, pre-cast concrete, composite frames
Walls - masonry, reinforced and mass concrete, timber, curtain walling
Roofs - steelwork, timber