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Quay House, Liverpool - structural engineering design completed by R G Parkins & Partners Ltd.
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R G PARKINS & PARTNERS LTD
Meadowside Shap Road Kendal Cumbria LA9 6NY
Tel: (01539) 729393 Fax: (01539) 740609 Email: [email protected]
Also at: 97 King Street Lancaster LA1 1RH Tel: (01524) 32548 Fax: (01524) 843998
www. rgpa rk ins .com
Client J Armor Ltd
Principal Contractor J Armor Ltd
Consulting Engineers R G Parkins & Partners Ltd
Architect Roger Jenkins Architects
M&E Consulting Engineers Davies Partnership
Contract Value £2.5 million predicted
Contract Period 18 months
The building is immediately surrounded by highways on all elevations, and this, together with 5 metres of fill material in the ground, provided considerable design challenges for the basement car park. Our solution utilised sheet piling to retain the highway and to take the vertical load from the superstructure into the bedrock.
The economic requirement to provide sufficient car parking in the basement for all apartments necessitated the majority of the residential floors to be supported on the basement roof, to allow free-flowing traffic movement. Disproportionate collapse, therefore, presented significant issues.
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Lateral stability was provided principally by the reinforced concrete core forming the lift shaft and stairwell, with careful consideration being given to the asymmetry of this unusually shaped building.
QUAY HOUSE, WAPPING, LIVERPOOL
