Projects / Civil Engineering

We have recently completed work on improvements to a household waste recycling centre for the London Borough of Hillingdon, drawing on our previous experience with the design of a similar facility for West Berkshire Council.
The scheme provides enhanced facilities for waste segregation to improve the Borough’s recycling rate and includes a new building for storing road salt for use by the Council's winter maintenance operation. The next phase of development on the site will involve the provision of a waste transfer station.

The newly built Stephanie Marks Diabetes Resource Centre at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey provides a support unit offering outpatient treatment, education for patients and clinicians and medical research.
The project involved the creation of a number of consulting rooms, a treatment room and education centre. This was provided in an existing 2 storey building and extension which also provides an interesting 2 storey waiting area by the entrance. The hybrid structure uses a variety of materials and cladding types with a steel structure supporting rendered screens to the front of the building, which add drama to the elevational treatment.

We provided civil and structural engineering design services on this design and build contract for a 37,000 sq ft cold store at Portbury near Bristol.
The building’s internal temperature is maintained at minus 30°C.  The building contains moving racks 12m high and is constructed on 417 piles with two floor slabs separated by insulation and a glycol pipe system laid in the ground to ensure the underlying soil does not freeze and heave. The cold store is serviced by a cooled loading bay with precast dock leveller pits.  Access is provided to plant platforms between the trusses from the roof space via cantilevered access and pipe bridges.

Glanville has provided design and project management services over the past 15 years to SSE covering a range of projects in the utility sector.  Projects have included work on the infrastructure associated with the electricity network through to the design of large office refurbishment and new build schemes.  A project in Treforest, South Wales is nearing completion which has involved the conversion of a redundant industrial building to a purpose-designed training facility for SSE staff working in the gas and electricity sectors and in the provision of micro renewables technology.

Glanville worked for Berkeley Homes (Oxford & Chiltern) on the development of a large hillside site in Cirencester.  The development, which included 311 dwellings and a care home, required extensive ground modelling to minimise earthworks and produce a cost-effective solution.

We designed road alignments and levels to follow existing ground contours, avoiding steep gradients and providing level access to dwellings for disabled access.

Links House represents just one of a number of private bespoke luxury dwellings for which Glanville has provided civil and structural engineering design services, from early stage advice on flood risk, drainage, foundation strategy and basements through to full working drawing packages. Links House has recently been completed by A H Lyons a developer that has many years' experience building prestigious properties on the Wentworth and Sunningdale Estates.

This £4.7 million project in Slough consists of a single storey school with double height central hub forming the contemplation hall, from which three classroom wings and two multi-use halls span out, allowing flexibility of use and also minimising distances between classrooms and common areas.

The structure comprises load-bearing masonry to the classrooms and contemplation hall whilst the main halls are steel framed with masonry cladding. One of the key challenges was maintaining the overall stability of the halls whilst the brief precluded the use of portalised columns that would project into the useable space within the hall, and also did not allow vertical cross-bracing within the predominantly glazed elevations.

In addition to the structural services, we were responsible for the design of the on-site highways and drainage design incorporating sustainable techniques.

The project involved the creation of a Year 7 teaching block, including a dance and drama studio and IT suite.  The new building is located in a landscaped area adjacent to one of the main blocks of the recently formed academy. The accommodation was provided on two floors with an atrium bringing natural light into the lower floor through a roof light.  The sloping site required the structure to be designed to follow the contours and partly embedded into the hillside, creating a curved plan form.  The new building, which is overlooked by the school’s main building, was finished with a sedum roof to reduce its visual impact.  The structure of the building was a concrete frame with an exposed finish in a number of areas.

The ground conditions were mixed and contained coal measures, which required a gas-venting layer to be provided under the building.  Other features of the project were the use of deep-bore ground source heat pumps and the provision of an all-weather sports pitch.

Glanville was appointed by MEPC as civil and structural engineers on a new prestigious Grade A office development to complement its existing portfolio of commercial properties on Milton Park in Oxfordshire.  Two buildings, designed by Stubbs Rich Architects, will offer approximately 70,000 sq ft of flexible office space along with an associated decked car park to the rear.

We have been providing engineering and surveying services on Milton Park for over 25 years and have played a key role in developing the site into one of the UK’s largest business communities

Glanville’s close relationship with Honda (Cars) UK continues.
We provided civil and structural engineering design services for a new motor dealership in Edinburgh, unveiling Honda’s new corporate branding, and have completed another new-build scheme with the same design team in Newcastle as well as refurbishment projects at sites in Oxford and Ruislip.