38 Category 1: Buildings 1 Mount Road - Dorset, United Kingdom SE Contact Jacob Christopher Address Jonsen House, 43 Commercial Road BH14 0HU Poole, United Kingdom Website www.calcinotto.co.uk 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
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