Residential

Apartment buildings, multi-storey housing, urban infill. Our biggest field.

What we take on

• Structural design from concept through to detailed design
• Formwork and reinforcement drawings for the frame
• Acoustic and thermal performance verification
• Added storeys, alteration and change of use in existing buildings

Where the money sits in housing

In the floor slabs. Slab thickness, column grid and wall layout determine concrete volume, reinforcement ratio and construction time – and they are still free at concept stage. We work options through at that point, because later you can only optimise what the concept already allows.

Acoustics is a structural matter

Impact and airborne sound between dwellings depend on floor mass, support conditions and flanking paths. If a building physicist only picks that up after the concept, the expensive solution is often all that is left. We bring the two together – see building physics.

Existing buildings

Added storeys and infill are their own task: capacity reserves, foundations, fire safety and verification to today’s codes. The approach is under existing structures.