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Ashton
Consulting Engineers |
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Structural Engineering - Residential
George Voyias of Ashton Consulting Engineers has designed a wide range of
residential projects including hotels, student accommodation buildings, as well
as flats and domestic properties. Below are some recent examples.
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West Court,
Clare Hall, Cambridge
New accommodation buildings were provided
for visiting fellows and study bedrooms for students of Clare Hall, a
graduate college of Cambridge University. The layout created a new quad
against a large house designed by Erskine in the 1960s. The structure consists of steel and
timber roof trusses, timber rafters, as well as pre-cast hollow-core
floor slabs, supported on load-bearing masonry built on trench-fill,
in-situ concrete foundations. The project was awarded a Civic Trust
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Portland Avenue Flats,
Stamford Hill, London
This is a three storey block of 9
prestigious flats procured as a design and build scheme. The challenge
was achieving a cost-effective structural solution with the constraints
of projecting balconies, low roofs, contaminated ground and areas of
4.5m deep made ground.
The building has timber roof trusses,
load-bearing masonry, with precast concrete floors and isolated
steelwork. The foundations are a combination of trench-fill footings
generally with an area of reinforced concrete ground beams on mass
concrete pad bases. The construction cost was just over £1 million. |
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