SPRING 2016
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WELCOME Over the last twelve months we have continued to work on a broad and attractive range of projects across the UK, for clients ranging from government agencies, local authorities to major landowners and developer-contractors. We have kept our focus on high quality design and a personal service to achieve the best results. Collaborating with delivery-minded developers and ambitious designers on challenging, predominately city centre projects heightens our need for highly enterprising Engineers. Our portfolio of projects attracts some outstanding Engineers and Technicians, and we are fortunate to have developed strong, diverse and experienced teams in both our Manchester and London Studios. The Practice is now 40 strong and growing, working on construction projects up to ÂŁ90m in value. We look forward to discussing new opportunities for collaboration with you.
Hackbridge: Image courtesy of Adams & Sutherland
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We have been working on a number of urban infrastructure projects across the UK. Amongst our current challenging portfolio of projects there are two of particular scale and complexity that hold high potential for realizing a fresh approach to how the look and feel of our city spaces should develop. One is for Transport for London, where in collaboration with Landscape Architect J&L Gibbons we are writing their SuDs guidance, this builds on the work and thinking we have invested in TDAG (Tree Design Action Group) and Manchester City of Trees. The second is at Whitechapel for London Borough Tower Hamlets, working with MUF Architects & Artists, alongside J&L Gibbons we are fundamentally redesigning this exceptionally busy high street as the centre piece to a wider masterplan.
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The best neighbourhoods are those districts that provide a highly permeable, well balanced network of streets and spaces, enclosed and framed by mixed use buildings with crafted frontages to activate ground oors reinforced by high quality architecture, scale and massing, all of which combines to offer a seamless composition of functionality and character. Urban infrastructure is the landscape on which buildings, streets and spaces are placed and ordered.
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1. These junctions NEWARK STREET will not be controlled by traffic lights or conventional markings or signs. 2. All junctions will be on raised platform level with adjacent pavement. Zebra crossings or similar will provide pedestrians with greater confidence to cross at key locations. Carriageway will be grade separated by 40mm upstand kerb.
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PICCADILLY BASIN We have a long standing relationship with the Piccadilly Basin site in Manchester having engineered the original masterplan in 2001 and delivered the restoration of the historic canal network. Our Manchester Studio is also based at Carvers Warehouse, a Grade II* listed building that we refurbished for Town Centre Securities in 2008. The next step in the regeneration of the Basin is production of a strategic masterplan for TCS and Belgravia Living Group that will provide 850 homes. The 1st phase construction commences this Summer with the Tariff Street apartment bock that we are engineering alongside Simpson Haugh Architects.
Piccadilly Basin Masterplan: Image courtesy of Simpson Haugh LLP
Tariff Street: Image courtesy of Simpson Haugh LLP
ALTRINCHAM REGENERATION Over the past twelve months we have spent a lot of time in Altrincham town centre. The first phase of the public realm improvements, which link the new transport interchange with the Market House, was completed in November 2015 and we are currently working with Trafford Council to procure Phase 2 which will see significant improvements to Stamford New Road, the town’s main vehicular through route. As well as engineering the public realm improvements we are structural, civil and transport engineers on the South Trafford Health and Wellbeing Centre; the scheme received planning approval in February 2016.
Altrincham Public Realm: Images courtesy of Planit-IE (image above and below)
Altrincham Hospital: Images courtesy of Citybranch/Virtual Planit (this image and above left)
New Bolton Woods: Image courtesy of OMI Architects
NEW BOLTON WOODS New Bolton Woods is a proposed mixed use development covering a site of approximately 60Ha and is located to the north of Bradford town centre; the scheme received outline planning approval in 2015. We have a long relationship with the project offering a full suite of engineering services including the production of a strategy for development on the steep valley side which involved split level units and a carefully laid out network of streets, and ood risk assessment including re-proďŹ ling of the river bank to release land for development whilst enhancing the riverside environment. We also produced the development SuDS strategy demonstrating how SuDS could be incorporated into the buildings, streets and landscape to manage surface water whilst improving amenity and biodiversity.
New Bolton Woods: Image courtesy of Urbed
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We have been involved with this collection of Grade II* listed buildings in Sheffield for Urban Splash since 2005, designing the concrete repairs and structural interventions as well as the landscape and public realm. The next phase of the development sees the delivery of new student accommodation and an Arts Centre as well as hundreds of new homes and office space. Civic Engineers are providing structural, civil and transport advice to inform the masterplan and detail of the new developments.
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Two of our recently completed residential schemes have been included in the Guardian’s ‘Best Architecture of 2015’ feature. The Malings, Newcastle and North Lane, Aldershot are examples of new build residential schemes where we have worked very closely with the project sponsor and architect from initial concept through to delivery on site, advising, debating and detailing all engineering aspects of the scheme, from the movement & access; topography & levels; landscape & drainage; and buildings structures & materials. In our experience it is this complete and coherent engineering service that yields the best value for projects, offering better and more attractive lifestyles for new inhabitants, seamlessly and sensitively settling into the prevailing geography and generating the best returns for the project developers and funders.
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Park Hill Images: Courtesy of Urban Splash/Studio Egret West
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The Malings: Images courtesy of Carillion Igloo
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Working with Igloo Regeneration and Nick Brown Architects, we are starting on site at the Ironworks, a residential-led, mixed-use development in Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds. The low carbon Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) superstructure frame provides 57 apartments, 15 townhouses, two retail units and sits within the Round Foundry complex which contains a total of seven listed buildings and is where Matthew Murray made his name as one of the pioneering engineers of the 19th century. Civic Engineers are providing Civil and Structural Engineering services. Ironworks: Images courtesy of Igloo Regeneration/Nick Brown Architects
In the past year we have completed a number of interesting commissions. The new £25m Cohen Quad for Exeter College in Oxford topped out and is due to open on programme for the Autumn term this year. Working with Wayward, at the Lycee Francais in Kensington we have rejuvenated their playground over the Summer holidays with new play structures, rain shelters, improved access, drainage and resurfacing. In Southampton, for the Richard Taunton 6th Form College we completed a new timber framed learning hub with ECE architecture. At Withington Girls’ School in Manchester, working with Levitt Bernstein, another learning hub and a new primary school wing exploiting our expertise in off-site precast concrete design opened this Autumn. We have also advised on structural issues during repair programmes at the various schools in Kent. Finally one of the fastest commissions of the year was the Spice Exchange, a temporary timber pavilion commissioned by Kew Gardens as part of their summer education programme. Another project with Wayward which had to be designed and built with volunteer labour within a 3 month period. In Chester we are on-site with a canal-side Student Residential development at Tower Wharf for Newmark Developments.
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Lycee Francais: Images courtesy of Wayward Architects
City Wharf: Image courtesy of Dandara/Axis Mason
Pall Mall: Images courtesy of MJP Architects/Galliford Try
LONDON COMMERCIAL Our presence in the London commercial market continues to grow. 62-63 Pall Mall, a new office and subterranean hospitality suite with MJP Architects, for the wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd was completed recently to great acclaim in the architectural press. We continue to work with the Cadogan and Crown Estates on a large number of difficult refurbishment projects improving their retail offering in Sloane Street, Kings Road and Regent Street. At 60-62 Lombard Street the designs have been taken to tender stage adding floors and carrying out some tricky internal alterations. Cannon Green is a recent project we are now developing for Ocubis. This large 1960s office in the heart of the city has a sound concrete frame but is in need of updating. A new wraparound atrium with feature staircase is being added, additional stories and various internal alterations.
Cannon Green: Images courtesy of Ocubis
PRS We are actively engaged in PRS developments across the UK in core regional cities – Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Milton Keynes for a number of high profile Developers. In Manchester the Cambridge Street development for Renaker, supported by the Manchester Place fund, has toppedout at 30 storeys for completion in 2017, with 1000 homes at Chapel Wharf to start on site in April’16 for Dandara. The PRS development model requires designs that are large in scale, durable, low maintenance, and offer high quality amenity for the residential communities. We have built up a significant body of work in achieving these attributes. Shudehill: Images courtesy of Hodder & Partners/ Watkin Jones/Maryland Securities
THANK YOU... Our objective is to enhance the quality of people’s lives in the built environment in ways which work within the sensible limitations of the natural environment; resilience not rigidity; exploring not exploiting; reusing not just using; civility as well as civil engineering. We like to get to know the places in which we work and the people with whom we work; clients, collaborators and other team members. Working with people who share all or some of our core values and who are generally interested in the bigger picture. From this experience we know that good value can only reliably be achieved by good design. We hope to get a chance to share this approach with you. London Lloyds Wharf 2 Mill Street London SE1 2BD T 020 7253 2977 Manchester Carver’s Warehouse 77 Dale Street Manchester M1 2HG T 0161 228 6757 www.civicengineers.com