Castle Yard, Richmond

Our Role

With limited information, we developed a theoretical model to examine where critical junctions and crucial surveys were required. This was used to evaluate initial design loads and establish the extent of surveying required. Planning limitations later significantly changed the final design, which also needed additional surveying and examination. It was established that foundation load capacity was to be a limiting factor, therefore by removing a concrete roof mounted plant deck, this enabled its replacement with additional floor load onto those specific foundations. This then identified previously unforeseen critical foundations where the load saving was not achieved. This then required intrusive investigation to determine structural make up and therefore ultimate load carrying capacity. This data was then fed back into the original theoretical model to build a final design which has more robust certainty of what the updated structure could safely achieve.