Projects

Glanville’s close relationship with Honda (Cars) UK continues.
We provided civil and structural engineering design services for a new motor dealership in Edinburgh, unveiling Honda’s new corporate branding, and have completed another new-build scheme with the same design team in Newcastle as well as refurbishment projects at sites in Oxford and Ruislip.

The building, which was built in the 1920s and extended in the early 1990s, is occupied by two restaurants at ground floor and basement levels and has several storeys of offices above.  It is to be extensively refurbished and extended to provide modern office accommodation.

Glanville has provided structural engineering advice in relation to the design of the new 8^th floor, the recladding of the main external elevations and the remodelling of the building entrance and main office floors.

Glanville has worked closely with architect Richard Hywell Evans on this residential and commercial development near Old Street in London.  This prestigious project, which was carried out for developer Urban Rustic, presented a number of challenges due to its location near the centre of London.

The building is a 7-storey structure with a basement.  The top 5 storeys are residential, while the lower storeys are commercial, with part of the basement being used for car parking.  The most significant challenge faced on this project was constructing a basement with roads on three sides of the building and a 5-storey building on the other side.  Permanent sheet piling was used to construct the basement and the foundation for the building was a reinforced concrete raft slab.  Careful detailing was essential in order to prevent differential settlement between the building and the surrounding sheet piling.

The refurbishment of this office building in the heart of London included adding an additional storey to the existing building, new foundations and the removal of internal structural walls.
During construction, the existing stair and lift core was demolished and rebuilt.  In addition, floor levels were changed to incorporate a new entrance and comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA).

The Melksham refurbishment project enabled SSE to rejuvenate its existing offices. The crisp new elevations provide a prestigious appearance, achieve high-energy savings and, together with improvements to the internal office environment, bring this building into the 21st Century. Glanville provided a complete planning, design and supervision service for this project, together with construction management by Glanville Projects.

Glanville was appointed to act as transport consultant for Waitrose, part of the John Lewis Partnership, in connection with a large food store development in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.  The development was located on the site of a London Underground car park and comprised a new multi-storey car park, with separate accesses serving levels for Waitrose customers and station users, and a Waitrose store located on the top level.

Initially appointed to prepare a Transport Assessment and Travel Plan to accompany the planning application, Glanville’s brief was subsequently extended to include the design of the off-site highway works following the granting of planning consent, and included securing a stopping up order via Section 247 of the Town & Country Planning Act in order to extinguish highway rights and maximise the size of the development site.

This project saw the complete re-development of an existing Co-op site located within the town centre. The scheme provided retail space at ground floor level with residential accommodation above at first, second and third floor levels.

The scheme required the use of load bearing masonry, precast concrete upper floors with an insitu reinforced concrete transfer slab at first floor. The building is founded on CFA piles which also support the suspended ground floor slab.  Glanville was responsible for the structural engineering as well as the design of below ground drainage and external hard landscaped areas.

The ceiling in the Queen’s Staircase at Hampton Court Palace was painted in 1734 by William Kent.  The Palace is looked after by the independent charity Historic Royal Palaces and a full inspection and recording of the painting was required as part of the ongoing conservation and restoration work.

Glanville provided all the record photography of this highly detailed artwork. Over 90 individual rectified photographs were created across the ceiling, together with an overall mosaic to enable the conservators to carry out their detailed inspection and mark ups.

As a consequence of relocating acute, emergency and other services to Watford General Hospital, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust appointed Glanville to conduct a comprehensive study into travel and transport provision at the hospital.
This included the production of a Travel Plan as the first step in the development of a total accessibility strategy for staff, patients and visitors, to encourage more sustainable modes of travel to the site and ease parking pressures.