Later living: spaces designed for wellbeing

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At Hydrock, we’re passionate about three things: creating high-performing buildings and infrastructure; unlocking complex sites; and being a great place to work.

We’re a multi-disciplinary engineering design consultancy with a reputation for outstanding technical excellence and an industry leading commitment to the wellbeing and motivation of our most valuable asset – our people.

The number of people aged over 65 in the UK will double in the next 15 years.

The demands of this fast growing market sector focus on active, sociable and high quality living standards in the right location.

Hydrock provides a full range of multi-disciplinary engineering services for later living developers.

A space that delivers

Whether it’s retirement living, assisted living or a care home, it’s about providing an environment that offers a sense of home and belonging.

The design and performance of the building itself is paramount to delivering this experience. And that’s where we come in.

Designed for wellbeing

We provide the engineering that fosters humancentric design. We maximise connections to the outside and design buildings that are simple to use and that consume next to no energy.

As design engineers, it’s our job to take care of the site, structure and efficiency of your facility. We believe there are four key areas that can be influenced to create excellence:

1. Energy efficiency: taking control of your energy usage 2. Simple automated systems: reducing cost and removing complexity3. Wellbeing and comfort: putting health at the forefront of design4. Fully integrated design: efficiency during design and construction

Creating value for you

£920* annual heat and lighting cost per bed. Imagine the effect on yields if you could cut this cost by 20%. *NatWest benchmarking report 2016/17 on care homes

Energy is one of the most significant operational costs in running a later living facility. Reducing expenditure on lighting, heating, hot water and catering energy will close the gap between net and gross value.

How can your building benefit from passive design? Detailed energy modelling can optimise a building’s form and layout to maximise access to daylight and natural ventilation, reducing running costs.

How can technology be used to manage energy usage whilst keeping it simple for staff to control and implement? Solar-generated hot water, solar PV, heat recovery ventilation and microgeneration CHP can all be integrated into conventional building systems to reduce energy consumption while maintaining functionality and simplicity.

Our job is to address these challenges to reduce annual operational expenditure, make later living facilities more cost efficient and increase the overall capital value of a facility.

Energy efficiency: taking control of your energy usage

no. 1

We design for a people environment Building performance and useabilty for both residents and staff are centre stage

Ensuring the safety, comfort and well-being of residents is a key priority for the later living sector. We integrate technology into a building to reduce the number of staff required while ensuring high standards of care are provided.

Our approach is high-tech, driven by understanding what features are important to residents so that we can simplify the controls and improve the effectiveness.

Low intervention outcomes are ultimately preferable for staff and residents – everyone wants buildings that are efficient to staff, simple to use and deliver optimum comfort.

Just some of the systems that we can provide are:• Whole apartment control systems to integrate

fire alarm, security systems, intercom and AV• Sleep and health monitoring systems to reduce the

need for overnight staffing• Intelligent lighting control to influence circadian

rhythms• Intelligent lift controls to deliver efficient usage

at peak times

Simple automated systems: reducing cost and removing complexity

no. 2Creating value for you

Buildings designed for wellbeing are proven to reduce ill health, improve recovery rates and boost cognitive abilities in residents.

Our wellbeing experts will optimise your building to positively impact mood, sleep patterns and anxiety levels in order to promote and enable overall occupant and staff health and wellbeing. Just some of the things we will consider, include:

• Lighting design: developing systems to support natural circadian rhythm patterns reduces the likelihood of waking in the night, which in turn minimises confusion and the risk of falling

• Thermal comfort: getting the ambient temperature just right in both summer and winter is critical to residents’ health

• Restorative spaces: creating a strong sense of community and an atmosphere that supports a healthy mental state

• Biophilia: access to nature has been shown to decrease stress levels and reduce the amount of healing and recovery time in healthcare settings

Designing to the WELL standards

With our own in-house WELL Assessor we design buildings focused on human health and wellness:AirWaterNourishmentLight

MovementThermal comfortSoundMaterials

Mind Community

Creating value for you

Wellbeing and comfort: creating humancentric environments

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• Site feasibility• Ground investigations• Infrastructure planning• Transport planning• Roads and highway design• Flood risk assessments• Utility connection and

management• Structural design

• Mechanical and electrical engineering

• Acoustic design• Air quality assessments• Fire engineering design• ICT design• Energy and sustainability

assessments• Low and zero carbon technologies

Standardised engineering solutions reduce time and cost during design and construction, increasing the value of a facility without compromising quality.

Our pre-engineered solution for civil, structural, mechanical and electrical design for the later living sector is fully detailed, co-ordinated and ready to go. It offers an optimised design which complies with later living design guidance and best practice.

We have used parametric BIM modelling to optimise our design for efficiency, looking at opportunities to maximise off-site construction and use modular components to simplify construction and reduce time on site.

Our complete expertise for you

Creating value for you

Fully integrated design: efficiency during design and construction

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Building Performance EngineeringInfluencing the performance of a building from the earliest conceptualstage to fully detailed design, we design services that are simple, easy to use, create value and deliver comfort and wellbeing.

• Mechanical and electrical engineering• Acoustics, noise and vibration

assessments• Air quality• Fire safety engineering• Sunlight and daylight modelling• Energy and sustainability assessments• Environmental assessments, e.g.

BREEAM, WELL, LEED• Utility management services• MV/HV network design• Vertical transportation• Public health engineering• Occupational analysis• Low and zero carbon technologies

As a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy, working in a BIM-environment, we are able to offer the following disciplines and expertise for all aspects of projects in the retirement and assisted living sector.

Land Quality

Our site investigations help to understand legacy issues and inform geotechnical designs and remedialstrategies that enable complex sites to become viable sites that realise their true value.

• Phase 1 desk study• Ground investigation• Remedial method statement• Materials management plan• Asbestos in soils management • Piling risk assessment• Temporary works design• Geotechnical design• Earthworks specification• Slope stability assessment and design• Groundwater risk assessments• Gas risk assessment• Riverbank stability assessment and design• Regulatory approvals

Structural EngineeringWe design high-functioning, resilient and productive buildings that inspire and benefit users, owners and communities.

• Concept and scheme design• Foundation and retaining structures• Steel buildings and structures• Timber buildings and structures• Masonry and concrete buildings• Basement structures• Bridge design• High-rise buildings• Modular buildings• Off-site manufacture and modern

methods of construction• Vibration sensitive buildings• Seismic analysis• Structural investigations and surveys• Refurbishment and extension projects• Conservation engineering

Transportation

Analysing the strategic impacts of proposed infrastructure and development, we help create sites and communities that are accessible, connected and future-proofed.

• Transport assessments• Travel plans• Strategic land promotion• Access and junction design• Traffic modelling• Micro simulation modelling • Pedestrian modelling• Section 106 and 278 agreements• Car parking strategies• Public consultations• Expert witness• Road safety audits• Public transport, pedestrian and

cycling strategies

Infrastructure

Delivering site feasibility, contributingto planning and understanding and mitigating the risk of flood, ourinfrastructure and civils works helps to complete programmes of building work.

• Drainage strategies• Flood risk assessments• Flood mitigation strategies• Sustainable urban drainage• Attenuation and pollution control• Sewer requisitions and diversions• On and off-site highways design• Junction alterations and highway

improvement works• Pavement construction• Cut and fill analysis• Section 104, 278 and 38 agreements• Levels analysis• Residential plot engineering

Our multi-disciplinary capability

Our engineering solutions on a complex site in Leamington Spa enabled the development of a flagship social/affordable scheme for Warwick District Council of 76 apartments for the over 55s in an assisted living setting. It offers energy efficient ‘lifetime’ homes with an additional five purpose built bungalows specifically designed to meet the needs of people of any age living with a disability.

Hydrock has taken a derelict site and engineered a geometrically complex 4-storey development of 18 luxury retirement-living apartments for PegasusLife, with an underground basement car park and spacious communal areas. We engineered a vehicle lift to minimise circulation space and maximise parking provision.

Brooklands House in Staffordshire is a development of 55 luxury retirement apartments for Adlington consisting of one, two, and three bedroom high specification, independent living apartments. The development offers 24-hour support and has been designed with spacious communal areas, an internal mobility scooter store and landscaped gardens as well as a restaurant, activities studio and spa and therapy suite.

An exclusive development of 57 one, two and three bedroom retirement apartments designed in the style of the local Victorian mansions for PegasusLife. In a woodland setting, facilities include a hydrotherapy and wellness suite, restaurant and lounge area. The building consists of two wings in an L-shape, with a single storey entrance area linking the two.

Sayer Court LEAMINGTON SPA Woodlands DORSET Brooklands House STAFFORD Chapelwood CHESHIRE

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A 6,139m² state-of-art extra care facility for Wiltshire Council at Kingsgate in Amesbury. The development offers assisted care facilities with 60 one and two bed apartments. The scheme supports independent living with extensive facilities and services provided on site such as 24/7 care provision, restaurant, guest suite and gardens.

A new £7m BREEAM Very Good extra care home for Abbeyfield. The scheme is a combination of new build and the conversion of a Grade II listed building, and will contain 42 extra care one and two bed apartments. Other facilities will include a dining room, various lounges and a wellbeing suite. The design will enable the residents to live independent lives, with the added benefit of access to 24hr care and support.

Hydrock completed the engineering design for Choice Care Group’s latest development, Ravenna Lodge, a new residential home for people with mental health conditions. It supports 11 adults with a mix of accommodation types, all en-suite, including seven bedrooms, two studios and two self-contained flats that suit individuals who benefit from a more bespoke setting.

Needham House in Devizes offers extra care living in one of 47 self-contained apartments. The development allows older people to live independently in their own homes with on-site care and support. It has been designed with additional facilities such as a mobility scooter store, a restaurant, a communal lounge, a communal dining room and three activity rooms.

Amesbury Extra Care WILTSHIRE Tiverton Extra Care DEVON Andover Care Home HAMPSHIRE Needham House WILTSHIRE

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