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Motel One
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This hotel for Motel One is located on a busy Glasgow city centre junction, providing 12 storeys of 374 bedroom accommodation beside Glasgow Central, Scotland’s biggest train station. A double height entrance foyer provides a bright public lounge with views up Argyle and Hope Street, whilst at the upper levels the efficient concrete slab allows tighter floor to ceiling heights, providing more accommodation within the permitted building height.
Engineering Excellence
The design consists of a reinforced concrete framed structure onto a piled raft foundation. Post-tensioned concrete techniques were utilised for the floor slabs to provide a slim structural zone with flat soffit, allowing an optimum floor to ceiling height with flexible services integration. Concrete blade columns were designed to be concealed within the wall make-up and provided to site as precast, to speed up the overall construction.
The tight City centre site and sensitive boundaries provided the greatest challenge in the design and construction, as the site closely abuts neihgbouring buildings and train tracks. Working closely with the piling contractor, a cantilevering substructure system was developed, founded on over 450 micropiles to avoid tunnelling infrastructure and minimise disruption.
