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Contact
Daniel James
Address 6 Neptune Court, Vanguard Way
Ocean Park
CF24 5PJ Cardiff, United Kingdom
Website
Established in 1989 RVW Consulting offers consulting services in civil,
structural, geo-technical and geo-environmental engineering.
Our reputation is built on delivering economic designs, efficiently providing
our clients with an end-to-end service from planning, through detail
design, to construction and fit out.
Our culture is built on integrity, we place a high value on the partnerships
and long-term relationships with clients and fellow professionals.
Owner
Cardiff and Vale University Board
Architect
Powell Dobson Architects
General Contractor
Laing O’Rourke
Engineering Office
RVW Consulting
Construction Period 11/2012 - 01/2014
Llandough AMHU was a £65 m, 138 bed mental health unit. It was the first
BIM level 2 scheme in Wales and formed the basis of a BIM presentation
to the Welsh government by our team of “leading industry experts” and
we offered “an insight into the process via a ‘live’ case study of BIM in
practice”. BREEAM very good was achieved by the design team.
The structure adopts the use of precast columns, precast walls (sandwich
panels) and precast lattice floor slabs. SCIA Engineer was used to model
each individual lattice plank to accurately determine the location and
quantity of splice reinforcement between the precast planks as well as
determining the bottom steel in every individual plank. A mixture of free
and flexible hinges was used to model closely the real world effects of
spliced and non-spliced joints. This enabled additional splice bars to be
used where deflection was perceived to be high.
Each of the 1,500 lattice planks had to be individually modelled several
times to produce the most efficient layout. Consideration also had to be
made to the manufacturing constraints and optimising efficiency in the
manufacturing process was key to achieving the delivery program whilst
also bearing in mind delivery constraints of the lattice planks to site.
RVW Consulting Ltd
Llandough AMHU - Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Powell Dobson Architects
