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Contact
Eddie Jump
Address 5 Manchester Square
W1U 3PD London, United Kingdom
Website
Pell Frischmann is a diverse engineering, development and management
consultancy delivering innovative solutions for public and private clients
world-wide. Annually, we are responsible for more than £1 Billion of
construction projects.
Our structural engineer capabilities cross the sectors and we work both in
the UK and internationally.
In recently years our approach to resolving highly technical projects has
been widely recognised and celebrated in the industry through such awards
as the ACE’s Building Structures Firm of the Year 2014 and by being
awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise and International Trade in 2015.
Owner
Oxford University
Architect
Herzog & de Meuron
General Contractor
Laing O’Rourke
Engineering Office
Pell Frischmann
Construction Period 2013 - 2015
Commissioned by Oxford University, the new building will host a facility
that aims to train future world leaders. Such an ambitious idea demands
an ambitious project. A cohesive design team formed by Herzog & de
Meuron architects and Pell Frischmann worked together to shape this
iconic building.
The structure has an intricate geometry that consists of a series of stacked
toroids which are offset, on plan from floor to floor resulting in set-backs
and cantilevers to the external elevation and to the inside face of the
forum. Due to the complex interaction of structural members the building
had to be analyzed as a whole. SCIA Engineer was used to create a full
FE model and generate the analysis output used in the design. Code
dependent deflections assessment was carried out to establish long-term
displacements. Although post tensioned slabs were designed using a
specialized software, SCIA Engineer proved to be very flexible with data
input. Data was imported through table input to effectively simulate tendon
forces within the slabs. The Construction Stages module was used to
assess temporary supports as well allowing for more accurate deflection
prediction for the permanent case.
Blavatnik School of Government - Oxford, United Kingdom
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Pell Frischmann
