Residential and Mixed Use

Location: Redhill-Surrey
Sector: Residential
Client: Crest Nicholson
Value: £28 m 
Partners – HGP Architects

BDC provided the structural engineering services in relation to this 133 unit residential building. The stepped building, formed in reinforced concrete, rises to 11 stories above ground level and is supported in part by strategically placed transfer beams at first floor level to facilitate the formation of an under-croft ground floor parking area.

This particular brownfield site formally contained a 1930’s cinema complex and more recently ground works had been commenced in relation to a subsequently abandoned residential scheme, the ability to construct new foundations then being significantly hampered by historic piled foundations albeit some were reused in the new scheme.

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Location: Broadridge-East Sussex
Sector: Residential / Public Buildings
Client: Countryside
Partners – Giarti Architects
Value: £8 m 

BDC provided the Structural Engineering services for the mixed-use development in East Sussex comprising retail,24 residential apartments and a nursery.
The building is constructed from a reinforced concrete 1st floor transfer slab with a load bearing masonry construction above.

Location: Chatham - Kent
Sector: Residential
Client: Countryside
Value: £50 m 
Partners – Various

BDC provided the Structural Engineering services for the Sector 11 phase of the ST Mary’s Island redevelopment. The site in Chatham Kent, was a former nuclear submarine servicing base which had been decommissioned and remediated however contained a number of below ground obstructions.

The Sector 11 phase included 120 new dwellings comprising 44 houses and 76 apartments in 6 blocks, with 1 RC frame 7 storey block, 2 blocks encompassing podiums, 4 traditional constructed blocks which contained significant steel frames to form the vaulted penthouse units. All houses and apartments were supported on piled foundations.

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St Marys Island is a phased brown field regeneration of an historic Submarine servicing base. The site historically included significant structures and associated infrastructure and which was demolished and the ground remediated in the 1970’S.

The site is now undergoing a site wide regeneration and we have designed several phases of residential housing, apartment blocks, extra care accommodation block and several medium rise apartment blocks.

BDC have had extensive involvement in the site over the last 5 years including scoping site investigation works based upon co-ordinated reviews of historic layouts to plot culverts, plant rooms, dock walls, cranes and building footprints and the proposed layout to help scope additional SI testing and pile probing for potential obstructions.

Ealing Broadway is a mixed use re-development of a constrained inner-city site which was previously occupied a 5 storey5-storey retail building.

The new development includes of 120 new apartments built over a new open plan commercial retail unit at ground floor level.

The new building is built tight to neighboring party walls and between two public roads which makes the construction and site logistics extremely challenging.

The construction of the building utilises piled CFA foundations and a concrete frame with transfer structure at 1st floor level ocer 1000sq ft. retail unit, supporting 10 to 14 stories or residential apartments over.

Owing to the site constraints the existing surface and foul outfalls have been re-used and owing to level constraints the podium area has been designed as a blue roof to provide the London Plan 50% reduction to surface water discharge.