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Borders Innovation Park
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Woolgar Hunter provided a full engineering service on the masterplan and first building constructed in this new flexible business park development. The project involved significant site investigation to facilitate the masterplanning and costing. A range of constraints on the site were ascertained, including part of an old quarry and contamination concerns from use as a contractor’s compound, which had to be worked around.
Engineering Excellence
The new building structure is a bespoke steel frame with concrete floors and feature steel trusses. The structure is fully exposed which required detailed co-ordination with the whole design team, to ensure the aesthetics are successful. The envelope is completely offset from the main steel frame with the use of cold formed SFS and purlins, which again exposed the steel frame. Therefore, a detailed review of each individual connection and penetration throughout the structure was required.
Our civils team devised a sustainable urban drainage system, ensuring best practice surface water management for the whole site, and designed a carpark and hard and soft landscaping across the site. The first building is now open, with the site primed for a range of development options in the future.
