Project: Northwood Primary School, Darlington. | Client: Kier Construction Ltd. Designed by Atkins, and built by Kier, for Darlington Borough Council, this £6.5m building won an RICS Award for design and innovation on a “pioneering sustainable building”, with a “living wall” and a “green roof” in October 2012 at the RICS Award Green Final at […]
Project: Carillion Homes Services Ltd. -v- Knight Developments Limited – Client: Ellisons Solicitors and Connell Associates Ltd 1205 street view The installation of cavity wall insulation by the injection of either foam or fibrous insulants is a design approach fraught with risk. There is little statistical research available upon the consequences of post-construction filling of […]
Expert Opinion: Age Concern, Hull – Client: HCC International Insurance plc. Age Concern, Hull Acting upon instructions from Insurers for Contractor The Sewell Group, we investigated a complaint by building owner Age Concern of leaks from a Wet Room. This contained two hydrotherapy pools, constructed as part of their new premises in Hull, completed in […]
Project: Carillion Homes Services Ltd. -v- Knight Developments Limited – Client: Ellisons Solicitors and Connell Associates Ltd The installation of cavity wall insulation by the injection of either foam or fibrous insulants is a design approach fraught with risk. There is little statistical research available upon the consequences of post-construction filling of cavities with insulation, […]
Project: Review of Rectification works at a residential development in Northeast England – Client: Cunningham Lindsey International. A development of some 18 terraced dwellings built next to the walled kitchen grounds of a Grade II* Listed building, built in the Palladian style, and completed in the third quarter of the eighteenth Century. The three storey […]
Project: The Paise, Hexham, Northumberland – Client: Mr & Mrs M Burnell. Recently nominated for Awards from both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Instituition of Chartered Surveyors, The Paise is a typical example of a 19th Century Northumberland farmhouse: featuring solid stone rubble walls, slate roofs, and small windows. It sits […]
Our Clients were engaged, following a competitive tender, on a JCT IC 2005 Contract with Contractor’s Design Portion (CDP) Supplement, for Works to convert and enlarge an existing, and tired, Victorian sea-front building. The building faced directly across the North Sea with no protection from the easterly and south easterly winds.
Project: The Fauconberg Wing. The Cheltenham Ladies’ College. A new project commissioned by College to replace a previous building on their busy campus. The new Wing accommodates a range of arts and technology facilities including classrooms, technology labs and study facilities over five floors. These have been accommodated behind a retained facade to two sides. […]
Expert witness: Investigation and Report. | Client: Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP, Solicitors for Apex Roofing Services LLP. We were instructed by Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP, Solicitors for Apex Roofing Services LLP, the First Defendant, to inspect numerous slated roofs of properties at Aberfeldy, Greenhithe and elsewhere in the outer London, Essex and Kent areas. We […]
Expert Witness: Investigation and Report. Edinburgh Woolen Mill, Kingmoor Park | Client: Brabners Chaffe Street, Solicitors, acting for Edinburgh Woolen Mill Limited. In late 2007 we were instructed by Brabners Chaffe Street, Solicitors acting for Edinburgh Woollen Mill Limited, to investigate leaks through the roof of an extension to their Distributions Warehouse, near Carlisle which […]
