Areas of Expertise
Historic Building Restoration
| Working closely with conservation officers and architects, sympathetic and appropriate structural solutions are provided to satisfy the requirements of repair, restoration and conservation of historic buildings. Considerable experience is available in the treatment and repair of cob buildings. |
An example of historic building restoration:-
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The Bus Station.
The 1922 bus station building, owned by North Devon District Council, is constructed of cut sandstone with a flat in-situ concrete roof. The site is entirely made ground, being immediately adjacent to the Taw estuary. The building had suffered foundation subsidence and was in rather poor condition prior to the current conversion into a riverside restaurant. The conversion is just part of the Millennium Project to upgrade the riverfront along the Strand. After a detailed survey and assessment, visually unobtrusive stainless steel wire stitching was utilised, together with limited underpinning and general stonework restoration. |
Areas of Expertise
Feasibility Studies and Preliminary Designs
| Feasibility studies are undertaken in order to evaluate, for example, the relative viability of repair versus reconstruction of buildings and a variety of other structures. Working closely with quantity surveyors, fast track alternative preliminary designs are formulated to enable the most realistic, build able and therefore economic solution to be achieved. |