Listed Buildings
Structural engineering for listed buildings: strengthening and change of use for protected structures, agreed with the heritage authority.
In a listed building the fabric is not just structure, it is the thing being protected. Every strengthening measure has to answer to that.
What changes
- Interventions reversible and legible wherever possible
- Historic construction analysed rather than replaced
- Timber floors, vaults and masonry judged by their own rules
- The heritage authority involved from the start, not at the end
Historic structures
Vaults, timber beam floors and brick masonry cannot be judged with the models of reinforced concrete design. Analysed properly, they often carry more than a blanket assessment suggests.