Multi-Storey Car Park, Loughborough University

Multi-Storey Car Park, Loughborough University

Multi-Storey Car Park, Loughborough University

Client
Loughborough University
Market Sector
Public Sector, Car Parks
Type
Multi-Storey Building
Steel
500 te
Engineer
Nolan Associates
Architect
RPS Group

Project Details

Client
Loughborough University
Market Sector
Public Sector, Car Parks
Type
Multi-Storey Building
Steel
500 te
Engineer
Nolan Associates
Architect
RPS Group

Caunton supplied the structural steelwork for a new three storey multi storey car park at Loughborough University. This is part of the University’s East Park Campus development plan.

An assessment by the University had found that a number of buildings on this part of the campus are nearing the end of their useful life and are not fit to meet current academic requirements let alone to allow for limited growth. One feature of this redevelopment is a new multi storey car park designed to free up land and reduce areas devoted to surface lined car parks.

Caunton supplied main contractor Interserve with over 500te of steelwork for this new building. The steelwork was galvanised to maintain hard wearing, long service, and maintenance-lite qualities. The frame comprised universal column sections for both columns and beam with moment connections between the two, and splices at the beams’ point of contra-flexure. This reduces floor depth to a minimum thereby limiting the height of the building.

Both the floors and staircases were in precast concrete and were fitted by Caunton’s erectors. The floors are in fact composite, steel and concrete, with the shear studs welded off site at Caunton's workshops.

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