Projects / Structural Engineering

Glanville provided detailed structural design services for Sunningdale Park, a Berkeley Homes development in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead based around a unique collection of restored, listed buildings in a stunning country park setting.

Sunningdale Park is a residential development of 168 new houses and apartments, including 38 affordable properties, set in a 79-acre historic county estate. The development also opens up and restores a previously private Park and Garden to provide public access and improve pedestrian connectivity within the area.

At the pre-planning stage, our Civil Engineering and Transport teams undertook the preliminary design work for the planning application producing a range of reports, including a Transport Assessment, Flood Risk Assessment (including sustainable drainage), a Travel Plan and Utilities Statement.

This role included technical negotiations with the Highway Authority to agree a package of off-site highway improvements to mitigate the development’s impact and enhance connectivity, extensive CCTV investigation to prove the existence of an adopted sewer and agree a new drainage connection with Thames Water, and negotiations with the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) to agree sustainable drainage measures.

Post-planning, our Structural Engineering team provided the detailed structural design for the various house and apartment layouts. Although most of the properties were new-build, some included the retention of existing features, which demanded additional and complex technical detailing. The walls of an old kitchen garden belonging to the original house have been incorporated as a feature into the design of ten of the houses. We also advised on the structural design for a listed terrace of gardener’s cottages, the façades of which were to be retained, with a new structure built behind. Both these projects included significant temporary works to keep the wall safe and secure during the building process.

Glanville provided Structural & Civil Engineering design for the construction of a specialist, world-leading Institute of Development & Regenerative Medicine (IDRM) medical research building and ancillary plant/support building.

The 6,000sqm, 3-storey building will include laboratory and write-up spaces for each of the three research themes, cardiology, neurology and immunology, with shared meeting/seminar rooms and specialist/ancillary labs for the purpose of life sciences research.

The surrounding buildings are sensitive, including the adjacent Innovation Building which houses laboratories for the BioEscalator and Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford which cannot be disrupted.

Glanville provided services to CALA Homes for the redevelopment of the Oxford University Press paper mill, which stood on the site from 1720 to 2004. We worked with CALA providing advice at the pre-purchase stage to support their bid and subsequently provided support in respect of a Reserved Matters application.

The new Wolvercote Mill scheme comprises 190 new homes, including 95 private dwellings in a mix of apartments, townhouses, traditional two-storey houses and large villa-style homes and provides 50 per cent affordable housing. The development is set within the site’s natural landscape of a reservoir and the Mill Stream.

Glanville assisted CALA at the pre-purchase stage undertaking technical and planning due-diligence work assessing transport and access, onsite constraints including flood risk and drainage, ground contamination and remediation strategies. This included detailed assessment of below ground services undertaken by our geomatics team using desktop utility record searches and the latest in underground pipe and cable detection equipment.

We also provided expert advice to assist with the preparation of the Reserved Matters application, discharging planning conditions and undertaking detailed structural and civil engineering design work. This included access design, land ownership constraints, services constraints, the adjacent river and weir, flood risk, contamination, engineering solutions and abnormal costs.

The Wolvercote Mill project demonstrates our ability to work within restricted time constraints, work with senior colleagues to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, identify where skills are not available in-house and work with external partners to ensure project delivery.

Client: CALA Homes

Glanville was appointed by Shanly Homes for the civil and structural engineering design of the recently completed Bridge House, a development of 35 apartments on a brownfield site in Walton-on-Thames. The development comprises of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments in blocks up to 5 storeys high that entailed engineering challenges to provide a cost-effective solution sufficient to comply with Part A3 (disproportionate collapse) of the Building Regulations.

In addition to the structural challenges our civil engineering team had to coordinate drainage and services to utilise existing outfalls and obtain S278 approval for off-site highway works.

Robins Gate comprises 14 residential units in total, split between a three-storey apartment building partially built into the ground and six traditional-build family homes with associated roads and drainage on Larges Lane in Bracknell.

Glanville Consultants provided civil and structural engineering services to Gilbert Homes for a development on a site further complicated by the steep access gradient and its proximity to Bracknell Football Club resulting in the need for a carefully thought-out solution comprising multiple retaining walls to avoid undermining the adjacent football pitch.

The use of the latest 3D modelling and drainage software enabled Glanville Consultants to produce an elegant engineering solution which also met the planning conditions relating to the SUDS scheme approved for the scheme.

The resulting development is an excellent example of modern housing, designed in keeping with the local suburban landscape and seamlessly incorporated in a challenging and constrained site.

Berkeley Homes (Oxford & Chiltern) has now handed over the keys to Green Park, Bath. The project consists of 5 new blocks of student accommodation in the heart of the city.

Providing structural engineering input, Glanville worked on the scheme designing the foundations and steel framework required to support the pre-fabricated modular pods that formed the upper floors. In keeping with the city's visual aesthetic the façade cladding is formed in natural Bath stone which needed structural input for movement joint and support locations.

Glanville continues to provide Berkeley Homes with engineering consultancy services on numerous residential sites throughout the south of England.

Glanville continues to support the expansion of Granta Park near Cambridge, working with Aukett Swanke Architects and client BioMed Realty. Project “Sapphire” at Site 6, comprises 94,000sq ft. of new office accommodation over three storeys with a dramatic top-lit central atrium.

We provided civil and structural design services during the detailed design phase of the project, and flood risk, transport and geomatics services to support the successful planning application.

Park Drive Central totals 9.47 acres and is the next phase in MEPC’s ambitious development plans on a site earmarked for redevelopment within the Science Vale UK Enterprise Zone.

The  building will provide a purpose-built laboratory and office building totaling 67,000 sq. ft. for Adaptimmune as the tenant and forms one of four state-of-the-art buildings within the development. Glanville has provided civil and structural engineering design services to both the landlord and tenant for the shell and core as well as the fit out works. Nicholas Hare is the architect.

Planning permission for the building was approved through the fast-track Local Development Order process. Construction is due to be completed in late 2016.

The Maltings comprises 44 residential units in total, split between new-build and refurbishment of the historic malt house building on Fordham Road in Newmarket, where Glanville Consultants has provided civil and structural engineering services to Cleanslate Ltd.

The malt house has required extensive refurbishment to create sixteen apartments and duplexes with an internal atrium that provides access to each level by creating galleries off the principal circulation space. The roof and every floor have been reconstructed to maximise the space and provide a robust structural solution to ensure the heritage of this building is preserved.

In addition to the refurbishment of the malt house, Studio Henley architects has intelligently remodelled the site to incorporate six town houses and two apartments blocks around a communal central courtyard.

Cantay Estates Ltd purchased this 27,000 sq ft commercial property in May 2013 and secured approval under permitted development rights for the development of 27 residential apartments with associated car parking.

Glanville Consultants provided civil and structural engineering services for the internal remodelling of the existing building fabric to facilitate the revised layout with construction being completed in less than 10 months.