QUAY HOUSE, WAPPING, LIVERPOOL 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 ÂŁ2.5 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.
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.
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 freeflowing traffic movement. Disproportionate collapse, therefore, presented significant issues.
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