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Category 1: Buildings
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Mount Road - Dorset, United Kingdom
SE
Contact
Jacob Christopher
Address Jonsen House, 43 Commercial Road
BH14 0HU Poole, United Kingdom
Website
Calcinotto are a company of engineers, designers and consultants producing
a varied and diverse range of services to our clients. The company prides
itself on providing clients with a professional service, with the imaginative and
innovative solutions that are often a feature of today’s modern approach to
design. Equally as important are historical, environmental and conservation
designs that incorporate sensitivity towards regeneration, restoration, and
preservation. Using sophisticated analytical software the company can tackle
the most complicated engineering problems. Our commitment to our clients is
to provide a service that realises their requirements.
Owner
Quantum Homes Ltd
Architect
qdp Ltd
General Contractor
Quantum Homes Ltd
Engineering Office
Calcinotto & Associates Ltd
Construction Period 04/2015 - 12/2015
This building is 50 assisted living apartments. Accommodation is arranged
over seven floors, four of which are RC flat slab and column below the
entrance level and cut into the sloping site topography. The top four floors
are proposed as a timber frame structure, the construction of which is to
be undertaken in phase 2.
Modelling the RC flat slabs as 2D plate elements enabled us to position
the column and shear walls in accordance with the architectural drawing,
to achieve a barrier free building layout that respected the senior nature
of residents. The 2D member component “Subregion” is used to locally
thicken the slab where long span and heavy loads are required. RC walls
as 2D plate elements are designed to in-plane (wind and vertical load)
and out of plane moments (earth pressure). Common FEM problems such
as peaks around slab column connection are tackled using the averaging
strip options. Free loads enabled us to define different load magnitudes for
residential and parking for parts of a slab. The DWG import option helped
the structural engineer to quickly edit changes from architects. Graphical
representation of the connections between members is clearer and helped
us to correct the modelling issues quickly.
Calcinotto & Associates
