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A number of our clients are looking to increase prefabrication on their projects where possible in order to improve on quality and reduce construction programmes. These actions include timber frame construction, cold-formed metal wall systems and precast concrete elements. We have experience in precast concrete elements associated with load-bearing masonry construction but we are also dealing … [Read more...] about Precast Concrete Frames
Our client needed a strategy for the facade retention of three large Victorian properties in Camden. A scheme was put together by a reputable engineering consultancy in London. This scheme involved the installation of an exo-skeletal frame constructed using hot rolled steel sections and supported on screw piles. Gravity Consulting Engineers re-engineered the scheme, offering two techniques that … [Read more...] about Facade Retentions
In January 2013 one of our clients gave us the challenge of designing a 5 storey building in Chelmsford to meet disproportionate collapse design requirements. We took this challenge and developed a design that came as close to traditional construction as possible. We proposed using hollow core floor units with no vertical and horizontal tying, thereby avoiding the requirement for other expensive … [Read more...] about Designing Load Bearing Masonry for Disproportionate Collapse Using Near Traditional Construction
In this instance our client was developing a large site in Chelmsford and wanted to make a statement by supporting a scaffold system off long spanning ladder beams and posts. The scaffolding system would be concealed using branded netting on which our client and the development would be advertised. The structure on which this branding would take place was to be on the corner of the development, … [Read more...] about Scaffold Support System
Gravity consulting engineers was appointed in 2013 to provide planning designs and advice relating to the construction of 515 units on a site in the 9 Elms area of London, below which the new Northern Line extension is due to be constructed. The Northern line extension will cut diagonally through the site, imposing exclusion zones in which foundations cannot be constructed. The early Gravity … [Read more...] about Spanning Multi-Storey Building Foundations Over Tube Lines
We were asked by our client to review the requirements for facade retention on an old Victorian school building in Southall. The roof and floors of the existing building had to be removed. In doing so, a substantial gable wall would have been left unrestrained. In order to avoid using traditional facade retention systems, we used a steel cruciform beam internally, designed in part to form part … [Read more...] about Facade Retentions
