Structural
and Civil Engineers
Land
and Building Surveyors
TYPICAL RECENT PROJECTS
LYDIARD FIELDS, SWINDON
CLIENT The Equitable Life Assurance Society
Employed as civil and structural engineering consultants on a 50 acre development
of greenfield site for mixed use, i.e. leisure, warehousing and offices adjacent
to M4 Junction 16 at Swindon. £4.5 million enabling works contract for initial
infrastructure involved the moving of 650,000 cubic metres of Kimmeridge Clay
to form landscaped mounds, the construction of a highway network including roundabouts,
foul and surface water drainage installations including a major balancing pond
to attenuate surface water flows and an underground pumping station. Subsequently
SDP was retained as engineering consultants on two speculative warehouse schemes
totalling 100,000 sq.ft and a £10 million 300,000 sq.ft
distribution warehouse for Sainsburys Homebase. SDP have a continuing involvement
in the site which has planning for a further 300,000 ft2 of offices.
SALTASH DEVELOPMENT,
LAMBETH
CLIENT Laing Partnership Housing
Employed as civil and structural engineering consultants on a £5 million inner
city regeneration project to replace an existing concrete framed high rise development
including underground car parking with two to three storey housing. The scheme
required new piled foundations carefully designed and located to avoid existing
piles and SDP was also employed to accurately locate the existing piles and
provide dimensional management during construction.
MARITIME QUAY, ISLE OF
DOGS
CLIENT Redrow Homes (South East) Ltd
Employed as civil and structural engineering consultants on a £12 million mixed
housing development ranging from two/three storey housing to six storey flats
along the river frontage. The initial site appraisal indicated poor ground conditions,
a high water table and major underground obstructions, some of which dated back
to the mid 19th century and included the foundations of Brunel’s Great Eastern
slipway. The site was also contaminated. The ground conditions necessitated
piled foundations and SDP proposed that each pile position should be probed
prior to installation and moved if necessary and appropriate to avoid obstructions.
Those piles which could not be moved were augured through with a purpose-made
cutting head. The six storey flats on the river frontage were originally proposed
to be constructed in load bearing masonry with transfer structures at first
and fourth floor level but due to anticipated problems with bricklaying sub
contractors, the final scheme was designed as a reinforced concrete frame with
a transfer structure at first floor above the basement car park. The location
of the piles to the flats along the river frontage were further compounded by
the existing river wall ties.
