Location:
The Wood Group HQ
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CityPark1 campus is located on Hareness Road, in Aberdeen and is the new home for 1900 employees of the Wood Group. The bespoke 215,000sq ft office plate with a single storey basement. The employees are spread over 4 floors, and enjoy a Grade A office space fully designed by Michael Laird Architects.
Engineering Excellence
The superstructure column layout was designed to work with both an office space planning grid and the car park below, generating a flexible layout and maximising the number of car park spaces. The long span steel frame spanned 16.2m. Clear span was constructed with a cellform beam solution integrating the services within the beam depth. The back to back spans resulted in 1 row of internal columns for the 32m span floor plate. With a long span steel solution analysing the defections, floor zones, tolerances and response factor was key to the building performance.
The CityPark1 Campus included for several car parking bays to suit the high number of employees. As well as a single storey car park basement, Woolgar Hunter designed a single storey concrete carpark deck. The deck was enabled following a detailed cut and fill exercise where the team soil modification in the form of lime stabilisation to help modified the highly silty material, whilst incorporating the SuDS and landscape features into the campus design. Woolgar Hunter assisted with the management of the quality control by carrying out a Resident Engineer role out at the early stages of the project.
