Year: 2014

The new 81 bed care home in Wyboston is progressing well with our Ward Structure team on site.

The foundations were piled due to the granular nature of the ground and the high water table, which made excavation of traditional strip footings impossible.

The piling works and ground beams have now been complete with drainage installation underway before the ground floor planks are installed this week.

The main structure is load bearing masonry with some cantilever steelwork supports used to produce projecting bays at first and second floor. 

Ward Structure have been working on a two storey residential development, called Omega House, York.

The scheme retains the existing site boundary perimeter wall, which has been underpinned to allow excavation to form the ground floor slab.

The house is part masonry part timber frame. The busing has been designed with high sustainability credentials with walls design to achieve U values half the current building regulation requirements.

Ward Structure have been working on a project on Penley Grove Street, York, for the development of three residential properties.

All three properties are traditional load bearing masonry construction with timber floors and timber trusses roof.

The site has now been cleared and foundations are due to commence next week.

The site has been cleared

Works to the brand new 65 bed care home, located in a semi-rural location in Croydon, is progressing nicely.

The development will be set over 4 storeys, including a basement floor.

The high level foundation have been complete and the blinding to the basement area is currently been installed.

The aerial photos are taken from a tower crane of which Ward’s Structural team completed the crane base design, incorporating it into the basement slab.

Ward Structural and Civil Engineering team are currently working on a scheme at a residential site in Wheldrake, York. Due to planning restrictions, the scheme has been designed to incorporate a basement, within the two-storey building, in order to maximise space.

Our team have provided structural engineering services including detailed design of the basement structure and superstructure. Ward also designed and detailed the drainage to the site including an attenuated surface water system.

The basement box has now been complete, with blockwork due to commence on Monday 20 October, with ground floor planks due the following week.