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Latest project - Affordable housing for Wandle Housing Association
This development at Camberwell New Road, Elephant & Castle, London, for Wandle Housing Association, accommodates a total of 103 residential dwellings in a mixture of flats, duplexes and houses. In addition, there are 2/3 small retail units at ground floor level.Ranging from 4 to 6 storeys the main frame is concrete flat slab construction on piled foundations, externally clad in brickwork with metal stud inner leaf. All roofs are flat with various finishes including ‘green’ sedum roof, paved terraces and even areas of grass lawn.Many of the slabs require the flexibilty to install disabled access lifts in the future, resulting in the need to allow for sacrificial areas of slab. Balconies and enclosed ‘winter gardens’ cantilever from the building, all of which are isolated thermally from the main frame.
The Project Engineer is Richard Aston, from our Fareham Office. The picture is a perspective from the Project Architects, Cartwright Pickard Ltd and the Contractors are Osborne.
Project update: Northfield Residences, University of Sussex, Falmer Campus.
Just commencing on site, the 800 student units on the University of Sussex, Falmer Campus. The £25 M contract was won by Ocon Construction, based in Manchester. Infrastructure works are well underway on this high quality student accommodation project. The project engineer at Gyoury Self, Hove office is Lee Ryall. Architects Pascall & Watson.
The Latest 'stunning' images from the Checkland Building, University of Brighton, Falmer Campus by day and night.
Gyoury Self’s continued commitment to the structural engineering profession
Martin Sales of the Hove office, was successful in passing the Associate Membership examination 2009 and attaining Incorporated Engineer accreditation. Congratulations, Martin!
Research and design project launched for students at HTC
Year 9 Engineering students at HTC have recently embarked on a project to research, design and develop a system to collect, store and use rain water on the college site. The project run by the Go4SET (Go for Science Engineering and Technology) organization in conjunction with Warings Construction was launched last month at Portsmouth football club. The students will work in teams of five or six, with the support of their teacher and with that of an industry mentor. The first mentor session held on the 3rd of December was attended by Mr Simon Greaves a project manager for Warings and Mr Robert Pragnell a Partner at Structural, Civil and Environmental Consultant Engineers Gyoury Self. The industry mentors are intended to help the students gain a real life perspective on the engineering design problems faced as well as provide the expert guidance needed to formulate a winning competition entry. The teams, competing against groups from many other local schools, must complete their research and development ready for the Celebration and Assessment Day in March. The photo shows Simon Greaves from Warings.
Wadi El Rabi Business Park - Tripoli
Working as part of ED3 Consultants Consortia, Gyoury Self have been proud to provide the structural and civil engineering design for this prestigious 600 acre business park development, outside the city of Tripoli.
Spa retail park development - Tunbridge Wells
Work is progressing well on the prestigious new £10M Royal Spa Retail Park in Tunbridge Wells, with the steelwork erection to the first four units now complete. Gyoury Self has undertaken full structural and civil engineering design services to Mansell Construction Services Ltd, involving extensive remodelling of the ground profile, piled foundations, complex drainage, highway junction agreements and environmental reporting. Two images of the work are shown below.
University of Sussex teaching building
Two pictures below showing the reinforced concrete frame nearing completion at University of Sussex's New Teaching building
University of Brighton, Falmer Campus - completed!
Below is an image of the of the completed University of Falmer building. Well done to all those involved!
Morgan Ashurst racing day
Shown below is an image of Dean Giles from Gyoury Self who won on the day!
Lambeth Hospital update
Block D, RC podium slab over the car parking area deck, having reinforcement placed in preparation for the slab and beam concrete floor
Block A completed elevation indicating cantilevered balconies
Morgan Ashurst shooting day
Rick Potterton Richard Aston and Lee Ryall, were delighted to be invited on the Morgan Ashurst clay pigeon shooting day on 8 July. A fun time was had by all, with Lee being awarded a trophy for being in the top team!
GSP have been working successfully with Morgan Ashurst on Rye Primary School, Brighton University’s Biomolecular Science Building and The New Teaching Building for University of Sussex.
Rye school recently attained Highly Commended in the prestigious Construction News Awards, for projects up to £10 M.
Austin Divall project - Austin Divall is fully moved in to their offices
Austin Divall project - Paintshop & Offices now complete. Sections 4, 5 & 6 piling in progress. Construction within programme.
Gyoury Self Go-Ape - again!
GSP had its second Go Ape Day in June, as organised by Senior Engineer at Hove Office, Martin Sales – Photo below. The photo shows GSP staff, with family and friends.
Northfield Residences - University of Sussex
With the start of the prestigious 830 bed Northfield Residences project, for the University of Sussex, a beach volley ball and BBQ team building event was held, for all involved, at Yellowave Brighton on Monday 18 May. The project team has been brought together from members of the university’s own estates office, Currie & Brown, Pascall and Watson, Hoare Lea and Gyoury Self, to design and procure fifteen, three storey, high quality residences and support buildings for occupation in September 2011. Gyoury Self Partnership are providing Structural and Civil Engineering design services under a direct GC works appointment, to the university, as part of their recently renewed four year framework agreement.
Austin Divall Steelwork prospers
Despite the current economic downturn, Austin Divall (Steelwork Fabricators in Sussex), positively continue the construction of their larger painting, welding and sandblasting workshops, together with their new 2-storey offices as seen below.
Portsmouth Historic Bell Tower Project
Gyoury Self have recently been involved in an interesting project in Portsmouth. The Victorian bells in Portsmouth Guildhall were placed out of commission a number of years ago due to corrosion of the bell support framework and the bells being out of tune. After a sustained local campaign, the Council decided to remove the bells to a bell foundry in Loughborough for refurbishment and retuning. The contract for this work was awarded to Mansell Construction Services Limited, who appointed Gyoury Self as lead Consultant for the project. There are a total of five bells in the bell tower, with the largest bell weighing four tonnes. A temporary scaffold platform had to be constructed adjacent to the bell tower, spanning over the roof of the Guildhall Council Chamber, to provide a working platform and to support the bells during their removal from the bell tower. All of the bells had to be temporarily supported whilst the original framework was removed. Gyoury Self were responsible for reviewing the design of the scaffolding and designing the temporary bell support structure. Once the framework was removed, the bells were carefully moved horizontally out of the bell tower and on to the scaffold platform, where they were craned on to a lorry to take them to the bell foundry. After the bells were removed, a new access platform and internal steel staircase were constructed within the bell tower. The new bell support framework was constructed before the bells were re-lifted and fixed to the frame. The project received a large amount of local media interest. Gyoury Self were involved from the initial conception of the project through to the completion of the project. We worked very closely with Mansell Construction and advised on all aspects of the project including programming, design, temporary works, checking of the existing structure for construction loading and liaising with sub-contractors.
Temporary Fracture Clinic, Royal Sussex County Hospital
This £1.5 M, D & B project involved the design and construction of a new modular building to be used as a temporary fracture clinic during the refurbishment of the hospitals level 5, as part of this an extensive retaining wall and temporary works were required. The Client was Integrated Health Project and the Architects Nightingales, with Norwest Holst/Vinci as the Contractors. The Royal Sussex County Hospital site is located in Kemp Town, Brighton. Gyoury Self provided full structural and civil engineering services, including submission of the Agreement In Principle with the local council highways department.
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