Project Profile: Royal College of Art

Client
Wates
Date of completion
February 2011
Value
£1.7m
Groundworks and Fair-Faced RC Frame
Groundworks and Fair-Faced RC Frame

Scope of works

 

  • Groundworks

  • RC frame

 

 

Groundworks and Fair-Faced RC Frame

Project key points

 

  • Restricted site, within close proximity to the River Thames and Battersea Bridge

  • Groundworks including pile caps, ground beams, gas membrane, fusion welded drainage and an attenuation tank

  • The RC frame was almost entirely fair-faced concrete to a high specification including designed ply layouts

  • Four in-situ reinforced concrete staircases with fair-faced finishes on the top and bottom of the flights, including one feature staircase with exposed concrete balustrades, flights and soffits

  • All columns and shear walls were fair-faced concrete with designed bolt hole layouts including a feature wall along the length of the courtyard

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