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Carters Yard
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This project involved the construction of a new 5 storey student residential building on a very constrained site in Stirling.
The site is at the base of the castle hill in Stirling and the shallow rockhead had historically been quarried. The street side of the site is bounded by a section of the City Wall, a historic ancient monument. The remining edges of the site are constrained with existing buildings.
Engineering Excellence
The structural solution for the building placed foundations directly onto rockhead. The superstructure comprised of a hot rolled steel frame podium with concrete slab to first floor level, allowing flexibility of layout at the ground floor, with 4 storeys of lightweight metal framing above forming the bedrooms. The drainage system incorporated SuDS attenuation and a rainwater harvesting plant, to reduce the net flow from site to a level acceptable to Scottish Water.
There were carefully considered repairs required to the historic wall, and a reinforced concrete wall was cast against the loose face of the historic quarry to prevent and future collapse of material into the site.
