67 Category 1: Buildings 1 Contact Daniel James Address 6 Neptune Court, Vanguard Way Ocean Park CF24 5PJ Cardiff, United Kingdom Website www.rvwconsulting.co.uk 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 SE Powell Dobson Architects
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