Orchard Brae, Edinburgh Hopetoun Village, Edinburgh Granton Road, Edinburgh Cloverbank Street, Glasgow (£2.5m) Cleveden Drive, Glasgow (£1m) The Terraces Development, Clydebank (£12m) Blackhill Regeneration Project, Glasgow (£9m) George Street, Paisley (£1.9m)

Linkwood Drive, Drumchapel (£5m) Abbeylands Road, Phase 6, Faifley (£3m) Fettes, Edinburgh Victoria Place, Stirling Bank Street Lochgelly St.Catherines Road, Perth Glenlockhart Estate, Edinburgh

 

Orchard Brae, Edinburgh Residential Development for Miller Homes [ top ]
This project, developed over 4 phases, provides 200 units in a mix of townhouses and apartments. The buildings range from 3 to 7 storey in height and utilised load bearing masonry with composite flooring. As part of the development, 2 independent car parking structures up to 3 storey in height were provided, constructed in pre-cast concrete frame. Foundations were a mix over the site ranging from reinforced strip and pad to piled foundations.
Hopetoun Village, Edinburgh Mixed Use Development for Bryant Homes [ top ]
This project, developed over 3 phases, provides 190 units in a mix of mews houses, apartments and offices. The buildings range from 2 to 7 storey in height and incorporate underground carparking structures. Construction is complex, and utilises a steel and concrete transfer structure with perimeter diaphragm retaining wall structure. The office elements are steel framed. Floors utilise either pre-cast or composite elements. Foundations are piled for all blocks above 4 storey and vibro enhanced ground allowing use of reinforced strip foundations.
Granton Road, Edinburgh Residential Development for Miller Homes [ top ]
This project provides 62 apartments over 4 to 6 storeys in a contemporary design. Carparking is provided in semi-basement structures. The site is steeply sloping, and ground engineering incorporated two retaining walls on the site to maximise car parking provision. Construction is complex, utilising a steel and concrete transfer structure, load bearing masonry with partial steel frame and concrete floor and steel framed penthouse structures.
Cloverbank Street, Glasgow Residential Development for Blochairn Co-op (£2.5m) [ top ]
This development comprises 40 two storey houses and 2 blocks of four storey flats adjacent to the M8 in the north east side of Glasgow. The site had particular poor ground conditions and required the use of both traditional piling methods and vibrocompaction to support the buildings. Contamination remediation was also undertaken to deal with heavy metal contaminants at the site.
Cleveden Drive, Glasgow Residential Development for Adam (Scotland) Ltd (£1.0m) [ top ]
The development comprises a six storey flatted block with basement parking constructed in traditional load bearing masonry with a steel transfer frame at first floor level. The building is finished in Architectural stonework throughout and is situated on a steeply sloping gap site. Access to the property is at first floor level via a small bridge, and reinforced earthwork technique were used to construct the embankments to the new road access down to the basement parking level.
The Terraces Development, Clydebank Residential Development for Trafalgar Housing Association (£12m) [ top ]
Saltire Society Commendation Award 2001 This project involved the construction of 104 rented units and 30 houses for sale in three phases using a partnership contract with Lovell Construction Ltd. The development required a high level of engineering input which included major reorganisation of the site infrastructure (e.g. replacement of 3 electrical substations), remodeling of the steep site contours to form barrier-free access, and a variety of foundation solutions to meet with particular characteristics of each area of the site. This included the use of deep trench, vibrocompaction and traditional piling. All were constructed in timber frame. The five storey timber frame construction was however designed to minimise shrinkage and incorporate disproportionate collapse protection.
Blackhill Regeneration Project, Glasgow Residential Development for Thenew Housing Association (£9.0m) [ top ]
This project comprised the demolition of over 300 1930's tenemental properties and the provision of 163 two storey houses and infrastructure works in 4 phases of development over a period of 5 years. J B Bennett (Contractors) were awarded the first phase of works after winning a competitive tender submission and then went on to secure the remaining phases by a negotiated partnership route. In addition to committing to a high degree of benchmarking to achieve high standards of workmanship, tight time controls and low defects, the house design continued to improve on ventilation, insulation and general specification quality as the scheme progressed - all within the cost controls imposed by Scottish Homes. The engineering works included the consolidation of a mine shaft within the site boundaries and contamination remediation in the form of the capping layer.
George Street, Paisley Residential Development for Loretto Housing Association (£1.9m) [ top ]
Civic Trust Commendation This development comprises a main four storey block with 24 flatted units together with a two storey supported accommodation unit. The main building has a curved elevation which is clad in cedar boarding over its entire length. The building is of a traditional masonry loadbearing construction and incorporates a high level of glazing within the rear balconies.
Linkwood Drive – Pinewood Phase 5, Drumchapel Residential Development for Drumchapel Housing Co-op (£5.0m) [ top ]
This project involved the construction of 102 houses and flats in a wide variety of structural forms, including traditional two storey cottage flats, split level house types, timber framed houses and four storey flats. A feature of the development is the extensive reshaping of the site to accommodate 3 new cul-de-sac roads together with the associated infrastructure work including a new sub-station and main sewer network. This also involved a major earthworks operation involving the placing of approximately 9000m3 of crushed demolition material and the construction of a 100 metre long timber crib retaining wall.
Abbeylands Road – Phase 6, Faifley Residential Development for Faifley Housing Association (£3.0m) [ top ]
This development comprises 60 two and four storey residential flats and houses. The buildings were constructed on a steep hillside site overlooking Clydebank, which required to be extensively remodeled using the crushed demolition rubble from the old tenement properties that occupied the site. The buildings have sheet metal roofs which cantilever over feature bay windows which were formed in steel framework.
Fettes, Edinburgh Residential Development for Miller Homes [ top ]
This project provides 32 apartments over 4storeys in a contemporary design. Construction is complex, utilising load bearing masonry with partial steel frame and concrete floor. Foundations are piled
Victoria Place, Stirling Residential Development for King Homes [ top ]
This development provides 14 high quality apartments. The site was brownfield, and required to be remediated prior to development. The design required the site to be lowered to accommodate parking which introduced significant retaining wall structures and underpinning of boundary wall. The design of the building utilised a steel transfer structure above basement load-bearing masonry structure with concrete floors and upper floor accommodation in timber.
Bank Street Lochgelly Residential Development for Kingdom Housing Association [ top ]
This development provides 16 apartments within an existing listed building. Significant stone repair and façade retention was a particular feature of the project, with new internal structure creating mezzanine floor within the apartments.
St. Catherines Road, Perth Residential Development for King Homes and Stewart Milne Homes [ top ]
This project provides some 186 units in a mix of apartments ranging from 3 to 6 storey. Ground conditions on site have necessitated the use of piling and vibro-compaction to provide suitable transfer to load bearing strata. New buildings are being constructed in close proximity to existing tenements with the need for extensive temporary works. A further feature of the design was the requirement for onsite attenuation of surface water which has led to the introduction of below-ground structures to form attenuation tanks. Considerable offsite works are also being provided to improve the surrounding road network.
Glenlockhart Estate, Edinburgh Residential Development for Miller Homes [ top ]
This project provides some 250 units in a mix of detached villas, townhouses and apartments ranging from 2 to 5 storey. Both new build and refurbishment of existing listed buildings was a key feature of this development. Due to the large expanse of the site, ground conditions varied considerably with the use of wide strip, trench fill and vibro enhancement being employed.