Location:
Murieston Crescent
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This student residential project was constructed on a constrained brown field site in Edinburgh. The challenges of the existing site included the adjacent railway embankment, derelict buildings, a main sewer that required diversion, a 5 meter level difference front to back across the site and ground contamination.
A such an enabling works programme was undertaken to adjust the railway embankment, requiring liaison with Network Rail, carefully demolish the existing buildings , and divert the sewer (requiring Scottish Water agreement).
Engineering Excellence
The structure required bored concrete piles to bedrock, and a contiguous piled retaining wall across the site . The complex building section then straddles the level difference creating a split level ground floor. The upper floors were formed using a lightweight SFS metal framed structure, with a steel framed structure bridging a ‘pend’ that provides access from the road to the back of the site through the building.
Despite the site challenges the building was successfully complete on programme.
