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HErITaGE_V6_062014 ABOUT RAMBOLL
ABOUT RAMBOLL
Ramboll is a leading engineering, design and consultancy company at the forefront of innovation. From across 200 offices we apply our engineering skills and passion to a wide range of projects around the world
ramboll provides consultancy in combined with our drive for the areas of buildings, Transport, excellence, we are in a strong position Environment, Energy, oil & Gas and to deliver solutions which work for management consulting. From this everyone. service platform we can draw on skills from each area to deliver the Throughout its history ramboll has multidisciplinary approach and received many prestigious awards creative thinking that each client which recognise the innovative and seeks. technical skills of our team.
The core values of Ramboll reflect ramboll is long established and a strong commitment towards financially strong, structured for sustainable development, always longevity through the ramboll seeking to improve the working and foundation ownership. our team of living conditions of people with our 10,000 dedicated specialists share design solutions. knowledge globally, applying their expertise and enthusiasm on projects at a local level that benefit both people now and future communities.
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V1_102011 ‘‘Gone are the days when listed buildings were put in a glass case. Our heritage must be accessible. People have to smell and touch it to understand and connect.’’ ABOUTHERITAGE RAMBOLL
HERITAGE
Ramboll has engineers and archaeologists that specialise in managing the historic environment
our engineering interventions in working with historic buildings and historic contexts – such as chiswick environments requires specialist House Gardens, the Household cavalry knowledge and a sensitive Museum and the Tyntesfield estate in approach. understanding the value Somerset – combine elegance, honesty of the fabric of historic assets is an and subtlety. important requirement for engineers dedicated to this field.Offering We strive to integrate modern the integrity upon which those building services seamlessly and who care for heritage structures sensitively into building fabric, and and places depend, our specialists we have provided energy strategies have contributed significantly to the for some of the UK’s most significant successful conservation, protection and historic estates. adaptation of internationally important our engineers include people who structures and landscapes. are conservation accredited, IHbc registered and active in recognised ramboll’s engineers and archaeologists national and international heritage provide services that enable the bodies such as IcomoS and the successful protection and regeneration association for Studies in the of historic environments. These include conservation of Historic buildings. structural conservation engineering and specialist building services consultancy. an understanding of current legislation and the principles of conservation best- practice are essential for the successful repair, alteration and adaptation of historic buildings and infrastructure. Our heritage specialists tackle projects holistically, integrating expertise from various other in-house specialists in the investigation of the range of potential inherent risks.
‘True conservation is a vocation: to work on a building and leave no mark is something learnt through commitment’
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SOMERSET HOUSE
Ramboll has been involved in the reinterpretation of this 18th century London landmark for fifteen years
Project Description Through the 2000’s the LOCATION Somerset House is one of company helped create the London London’s most important Joint Education Centre and re- eighteenth century buildings. landscape the Great Courtyard CLIENT Over the last fifteen years it with its celebrated fountains. Somerset House Trust, has been transformed from an In the 2010’s it undertook the Kings College London unloved records office to a sensitive refurbishment of the major centre for arts, culture east wing to provide flexible, ARCHITECT0B and education, operated modern education space fit for NA through a number of a new generation of students. stakeholders. Ramboll has At every stage circulation has VALUE1B been an integral part of this been improved and £30m change. impedances to disability overcome: elegant ramps cross COMPLETION DATE In the late 1990’s Ramboll the light wells, stone cantilever 2012 undertook archaeological stairs were load-tested to investigations and engineered prove escape routes. The ENGINEERING SERVICES the changes to the east and company even designed the Ground investigation, south wings, creating the base for the courtyard’s structural engineering, Courtauld Galleries, housing Christmas tree and the fixings mechanical and electrical the Gilbert Collection, for the Film 4 open air film services engineering, strengthening floors to take screenings. archaeological assessment exhibition space and re- and watching brief servicing to replace the SOMERSE T HOUSE defunct building systems. V iew of courtyard
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WELLS CATHEDRAL
One of the finest Gothic cathedrals in England, Wells has undergone a major development programme to enhance its cultural and visitor facilities
Project Description archaeology, including a LOCATION The project was delivered in large medieval culvert Wells, Somerset four phases and staggered taking high flows from St over three years. The new Andrew’s Well CLIENT facilities include an intricate • The restaurant building The Dean and Chapter new restaurant and bookshop, contained within the former of Wells Cathedral choir practice rooms and Mary Mitchell Garden was education suite, a new boiler spatially condensed in ARCHITECT0B house and a substantial new order to fit within a very Purcell Miller Tritton works department to house tight site the Clerk of Works and • There is a seamless VALUE1B resident stonemasons. Two interplay between medieval £6m new openings through and modern elements of medieval walls now provide fabric throughout the COMPLETION DATE access to the Chapter House buildings, and this complex 2008 undercroft, where new architecture evolved exhibition space has been through considerable ENGINEERING SERVICES created under the existing dialogue with the client and Structural engineering, medieval vaulting. other specialists building services engineering, • Magnificent new oak drainage design, thermal The engineering challenges frames w ere developed for modelling involved were substantial: the buildings • Most of the buildings are designed to raft over or WELLS CATHEDRAL accommodate the site The cathedral and its new facilities
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PALACE OF WESTMINSTER SETTLEMENT REMEDIATION We acted as lead consultant for the investigation and repair of settlement damage to the steps and floor of historic Westminster Hall
Project Description The ground under the floor was LOCATION Westminster Hall in the Palace strengthened using injections London of Westminster was founded in of a stiff cementitious grout at 1097. The whole building is pressure locations. CLIENT Grade I listed and forms part Parliamentary Works of the Westminster UNESCO Our approach was designed to Directorate World Heritage Site. permanently arrest settlement and ensure measurable and ARCHITECT0B The Hall's grand southern minimal impact on the historic NA steps and some areas of floor fabric and the archaeology. We had suffered from also developed an VALUE1B considerable ongoing archaeological mitigation £1m settlement and our specialists strategy that included two were appointed to investigate excavation trenches, six geo- COMPLETION DATE the causes, consider repair archaeological cores and 2006 options and recommend recording of historic fabric remedial measures. exposed during dismantling of ENGINEERING SERVICES the floor and steps. One of the Lead consultant structural Non-destructive surveys, excavations revealed pieces of engineer, geotechnical including the use of radar, Purbeck marble trestles from engineering, heritage and preceded careful lifting of the the long-lost King’s Table. archaeology floor's flagstones for geotechnical investigations. W ESTMINSTE R HA LL Trench A : part dismantled step view
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CROSSRAIL
ARCHAEOLOGY WEST Ramboll Cultural Heritage and Archaeology are delivering archaeological services through contract C254, as part of the construction of Crossrail, London’s next underground railway
Project Description In keeping with the theme of LOCATION In 2010 Ramboll, in railway construction we have London partnership with Oxford al so revealed the remains of Archaeology, were awarded Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s CLIENT the contract to provide and Sir Daniel Gooch’s Crossrail LTD archaeological services during locomotive sheds and the construction of Crossrail’s workshops at Westbourne VALUE0B underground section between Park. These were constructed Confidential Royal Oak in West London and in 1852 to serve the fast- Tottenham Court Road in the growing GWR terminal at COMPLETION DATE West End. We are also Paddington, and were replaced 2016 responsible for Old Oak in 1906 by George Jackson Common in Acton, Ilford Churchward’s magnificient ENGINEERING SERVICES Depot on the Great Eastern maintenance depot at Old Oak Archaeology consultancy Main Line and Wallasea Island Common. We have now in Essex. One of our most entered a phase of setting significant discoveries has down our research and been the fragmentary remains discoveries on paper for of bison and reindeer whose publication in book form by carcasses were washed Crossrail in the near future. downstream 75,000 years ago when the Westbourne was a CROSSRA IL C254 treacherous fast-flowing river ARCHAEOLOGY WEST carrying icy meltwaters. On-site consultancy
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BISHOPS PARK AND FULHAM PALACE RESTORATION WORKS Ongoing archaeological recording and restoration programme supervision of the structures and grounds in Grade II listed Bishops Park
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham received a substantial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to invest in Bishops Park and Fulham Palace. This has been used as part of an £8m improvement programme to revive the park. Our archaeological consultants were commissioned to develop the cultural heritage and archaeology elements of a Stage 2 HLF application, including design and implementation of the archaeological mitigation strategy based on an assessment of heritage constraints, risks and opportunities.
LONDON ARRAY MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY London Array Limited Retained Archaeologist: works in the marine environment
The London Array, the world’s largest offshore wind farm located in the outer Thames Estuary more than 20km off the Kent and Essex coasts, is now complete and operational. It incorporates 175 turbines over approximately 100km2. Ramboll holds the post of Retained Archaeologist for the project. This role requires the provision of specialist consultancy services for the design and management of archaeological works, both onshore and offshore. This involves marine geophysics, geotechnical works, and advice on the design implications of the development in relation to marine sites and submerged archaeological landscapes as well as land-based archaeological sites.
STOKE QUAY , IPSWICH Ramboll Cultural Heritage and Archaeology design and manage the archaeological mitigation phase of a major redevelopment
Part of the work was a major excavation which revealed two cemeteries. Whilst that of St Augustine’s was expected, a group of 7th- and 8th-century graves beneath barrows was hitherto unknown. In total, over 1,000 burials were excavated.
Whilst Saxon burial grounds are not uncommon in Ipswich, their excavation has been largely confined to areas north of the river. Here, at the historically outlying Stoke, the dozen or so barrows were probably intended to be seen from the nascent town on the opposite bank of the Orwell.
YORK TRIANGLE INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY Reconciling substructure engineering with preservation of monuments to the steam age
Ramboll was appointed by BAM to provide consultancy services for the design and construction of a combined campus site for two Network Rail facilities known as the ‘York Engineers’ Triangle’, adjacent to York Station.
A key achievement in delivering this complex project was to accommodate the preservation in situ of significant archaeological remains in the design. Ramboll’s archaeologists undertook a proactive and detailed assessment of sub-surface survival of archaeological assets to enable effective management of planning risk.
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THE IRON BRIDGE, SHROPSHIRE The pioneering study of a pioneering structure
Project Description The study and engineering LOCATION The Iron Bridge was built in solid modelling were Shropshire 1779 to a concept proposed by undertaken in parallel, and the Thomas Pritchard, but was results of the study used to CLIENT completed through the inform the analysis that English Heritage commitment of pioneer iron followed. Point cloud data from founder Abraham Darby III. It the scans was pivoted into a VALUE0B is the world’s first iron bridge surface model, which £50k and lies in a UNESCO World represented the bridge Heritage site. components as unique ENGINEERING SERVICES members, each with different Conservation engineering, Ramboll was appointed in cross-sections and sizes, to advanced engineering analysis 2013 to undertake the match the variable castings. modelling, analysis and Detailed non-linear finite assessment of the structure. element analysis was The project was informed by a conducted. The assessment comprehensive laser scan was carried out after careful undertaken a year earlier to consideration of the material specifications for which properties using, amongst Ramboll had previously other data, results from provided advice. The work mechanical tests performed in included a comprehensive the 1960’s. The result is a desk study of the history of pioneering study of one of the structural defects and world’s most iconic structures. performance.
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TEMPERATE HOUSE KEW GARDENS Our client Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, was faced with repair of the magnificent, but aging, assembly of glasshouses that form the Temperate House.
Project Description consultant and structural LOCATION Last restored in the late engineer. At Ramboll’s London 1970’s, the paint systems had instigation, a major survey of failed widely, window ironwork was immediately CLIENT mechanisms broken and the undertaken to identify the Turner and Townsend glass itself was etched with extent of corrosion and decay, dirt and deposits. The using one of the largest access COMPLETION Temperate House was built platforms available in the UK, 2018 between 1860 & 1897. It is which itemized the defects and listed Grade I and is located achieved a detailed diagnosis VALUE0B within the UNESCO World for repair. The survey reports £20m Heritage site at Kew. Built of were turned into an extensive cast and wrought iron and series of drawings that defined ENGINEERING SERVICES early steel, it is a case study the contract works. The project Lead Consultancy, in the development of includes provision of an Conservation Engineering, Victorian engineering education Centre with flexible Façade Engineering, Drainage structures. class areas. This is designed to help school numbers to Ramboll was appointed late in increase by a remarkable the project, in June 2013, 90,000 per year over the next taking on the work from at 4 years, consolidating Kew’s RIBA Stage C after the main role as a world class team had been engaged for educational establishment. The some time. The company has Centre is provided outside the taken the role of both lead main Temperate House.
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LOWTHER CASTLE
The castle ruins and stables range have been conserved and repaired to allow public access to this impressive historic site
Project Description No safe access was available LOCATION The present castle and the until the project was on site, Penrith, Cumbria associated buildings were when detailed surveys of the designed by Sir Robert Smirke buildings confirmed the extent CLIENT and built in 1806 for the Fifth of deterioration. Lowther Castle and Gardens Earl of Lonsdale. It was Trust abandoned in 1936 and In the stables, a range of although listed Grade II*, had timber repairs was developed. ARCHITECT deteriorated to the point Some areas required Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios where it was on the English strengthening for new uses, Heritage at Risk list. and new staircases and lifts VALUE were inserted within the £6m building works The two-storey stable historic fabric. courtyard has now been COMPLETION DATE converted into a visitor centre, In the castle itself the Phase 1: 2012; Phase 2: 2013 café, offices and holiday requirement was for structural apartments. The first phase of support to be concealed, ENGINEERING SERVICES the castle ruins has been leaving the stark silhouette of the ruins. Ramboll worked Structural and conservation conserved and stabilised. engineering, below ground Repair and fitting out of the closely with the masons to develop bespoke solutions drainage, environmental sculpture gallery continues engineering together with the second utilising non-ferrous anchors, phase of castle ruins, while stitching and supports. the gardens are an ongoing LOWTHER CASTLE project. Aerial photo during phase 1, courtesy of Lowther Castle and Gardens Trust
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ASTON HALL The objectives of the project were to preserve the buildings and their surroundings and to improve their display, interpretation and accessibility to the visiting public
Aston Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean building constructed between 1618 and 1635. It is set in 43 acres of Grade II listed parkland and located approximately two miles north of Birmingham city centre. Appointed by Birmingham City Council as structural, mechanical and electrical consultant, Ramboll formed part of the design team which developed a phased programme of improvements to the hall, stables range and surrounding parkland.
CHESTER CITY WALLS COLLAPSE Ramboll has contributed to the preservation of Chester City Walls for over 20 years
In 1990 we were appointed to carry out an investigation of certain parts of the walls which had been moving. A repair contract for the unstable areas, undertaken in conjunction with the city archaeologists, led to the publication of a definitive archaeological report on the walls.
Commissioned to lead investigations into a recent collapse of part of the east wall, Ramboll’s role involved the design of repairs and supervision of dismantling. Our brief also includes a risk assessment of the whole walls circuit, which has identified a number of other areas requiring immediate attention.
DEAN’S EYE ROSE WINDOW, LINCOLN CATHEDRAL Our structural and conservation engineers assisted the cathedral's own works department in reconstructing this window to a very high standard
The Dean’s Eye Rose Window was built in 1220 with a daring structural concept and unfortunately, but not surprisingly, started to fail not long thereafter. The tracery was beyond repair by the late 20th century and a replacement was required. Crucially the fabulous 13th century glass was still intact.
As investigations progressed other difficulties such as instability of the north transept only added to the complexity of the task. The final solution treated the window as three separate elements working together.
14 CORNHILL Two new floors suspended from transfer structure roof level
Engineering the redevelopment of the old Lloyds TSB headquarters required both sensitivity and courage. The building is Grade II listed and to create a viable modern office, our client required a significant increase in usable space.
Two new floors were added to the top of the six-storey building. To achieve this without damage to the panelled meeting rooms, we carefully inserted six huge columns that support a steel truss at roof level and the new floors are suspended from it. Floor area was further increased by filling in the lightwell above the banking hall. Elaborate temporary works supported the upper floors throughout the duration of the site works.
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CHISWICK HOUSE GARDENS
The restoration of a garden of international significance and the design of a stunning new café
Project Description A new café was also built. The LOCATION The gardens of Chiswick House stunning façade of the cafe is West London were designed by William Kent both white concrete and and are hailed as the Portland stone, which forms a CLIENT birthplace of the English colonnade for external covered English Heritage Landscape Movement. In a seating. The café is built over two-year project supported by the footings of a Tudor ARCHITECT0B the Heritage Lottery Fund, the mansion and to minimise its Dannatt, Johnson Architects, Grade I listed landscape was impact, a concrete raft Caruso St John restored and key focal points supports the returned to their mid-18th new structure. VALUE1B century appearance including £12m the Classic Bridge attributed Awards to James Wyatt and the COMPLETION DATE • Landscape Institute Award conservatory. 2009 2010 The bridge was in poor • ICE Historic Bridges and ENGINEERING SERVICES condition after long exposure Infrastructure Award 2010 Structural and conservation to weather pollution and a lack • RIBA London Bridge of the engineering, archaeology, of maintenance. A minimal Year 2011 below ground drainage approach was adopted in the CHISWICK HOUSE GARDENS work to prevent further fabric P hotography by James Brittain decay, consolidate the integrity of the structure and revitalise its appearance.
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TYNTESFIELD RESTORATION WORKS Award-winning building services and sustainability solutions for the restoration of a Grade I listed house and estate near Bristol
Project Description The original installations have LOCATION Grade I listed Tyntesfield is a been retained for the historic Wraxall, North Somerset Gothic Revival house with an record - those that are still estate which was acquired by relevant have been restored to CLIENT the National Trust in 2002. working order and more recent National Trust The house was designed by unsympathetic ones tidied up. John Norton, a close friend of Separate biomass energy ARCHITECT0B Augustus Pugin, and dates centres serve the house and Rodney Melville + Partners from 1863. The original Home Farm. At Home Farm, interiors have survived solar thermal water heating, VALUE1B virtually intact and the photovoltaic panels and £23m installation of new services daylight-linked lighting has been carried out controls have also been COMPLETION DATE sympathetically within the installed, and a building 2011 original building fabric, with constructed using straw bales. discrete routing planned in ENGINEERING SERVICES advance of all works and Awards Building services, sustainability minimal impact on existing • Green Apple Environment finishes. The electrical Award 2011 services for the whole house • ACE Engineering Excellence have been replaced, and Award 2011 environmental heating and monitoring for control of the TYNTESFI EL D RESTORATIO N relative humidity in the W ORKS Finished building principal rooms introduced.
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KENSINGTON PALACE
Fulfilling our client's desire to make Kensington Palace "a place to be; somewhere people come to relax, to learn and discover the stories of the fascinating people who lived here"
Project Description a new visitor hub, free LOCATION Ramboll has been appointed of charge to enter London as part of the team which a new café and shop facility is delivering a £12m capital opening up of visitor routes CLIENT project “Welcome to addition of a roof over Historic Royal Palaces Kensington: a palace for White Court everyone” on behalf of landscaping ARCHITECT conservation charity Historic John Simpson & Partners Royal Palaces. In conjunction with the careful integration of services into the VALUE The aims of this scheme are to historic fabric, our commission £12m reconnect Kensington Palace’s also involves the provision of gardens to the surrounding appropriate sustainable COMPLETION DATE parkland, allow greater technologies. 2013 physical and intellectual access to the palace and its ENGINEERING SERVICES collections, and reveal and Mechanical and electrical present some of the stories engineering, building of how monarchs and people sustainability have shaped society in Britain over four centuries. The KENSINGTON PALACE project includes: View of the palace
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HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY MUSEUM
A project involving the creation of a modern museum telling the history of the Household Cavalry and allowing public access for the first time
Project Description the first floor that provided a LOCATION Designed by architect William stiff diaphragm. Whitehall, London, UK Kent, and built after his death in 1748, The Horse Guards The timber joints were of CLIENT building is the headquarters of particular interest so, in close Household Cavalry Museum The Household Cavalry. consultation with English Heritage, each one of these ARCHITECT0B Hampshire County Council The vaults, internal walls and was recorded. Architects chimneys above are supported off a grid of six cruciform Once the strengthening work VALUE1B stone columns and external was installed, the concrete £3.5m walls. floor was carefully sawn out in sections. COMPLETION DATE In the 1920s, a concrete filler 2007 joist slab was inserted, Our conservation work was creating a mezzanine floor acknowledged with a ENGINEERING SERVICES slab that successfully retained commendation in the Heritage Structural engineering, the vaults from spreading. Award for Buildings category at measured surveys, site This was removed during the the Institution of Structural investigations, structural works. Engineers Annual Awards. monitoring design
Sloping steel flats restraining points of the vaults were tied HOUSEHO L D CA VA LRY MUSEUM back to trusses in the plane of P hotography by James Brittain
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LIGHTHOUSE BUILDING
This building is undergoing substantial renovation and conversion to offices and retail units as part of the wider regeneration work being undertaken in and around the King's Cross area
Project Description concrete and profiled metal LOCATION Situated within a conservation floors providing modern King's Cross, London area, the Lighthouse Building commercial accommodation. was constructed around 1875. An additional floor will be CLIENT Part of it, including the added under a contemporary UK Real Estate lighthouse structure itself, is mansard roof.
Grade II listed. The majority ARCHITECT0B of its footprint sits directly To assist the client’s successful Latitude Architects above two live underground planning application our tunnels and the site is located buildings archaeologist carried VALUE1B at a busy traffic intersection. out a historic building survey £14m Ramboll is providing an and produced a Heritage integrated service to solve the Impact Assessment. Studies on COMPLETION DATE numerous challenges of this air quality and bat surveys 2015 site so that this iconic have also been undertaken. building, currently under the Complex discrete finite ENGINEERING SERVICES Heritage at Risk Register, can element analysis was under- Structural engineering, be saved. taken at an early stage to building services, cultural understand the loads on the heritage, transportation, The scheme involves façade tunnels and to give the client ecology, air quality retention to all elevations. confidence in the viability of Heavy masonry cross walls the scheme. and existing timber floors are being removed to install a new LIGHTHO USE BUILDING RENDER steel frame, with composite Laser A ided Modelling image
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COALPORT BRIDGE Ramboll was appointed to develop a scheme to safeguard the future of the bridge and to strengthen it
Coalport Bridge carries an unclassified road over the River Severn between the villages of Broseley and Coalport in Shropshire, about five miles south of Telford. The bridge was constructed circa 1799-1800 and subsequently widened in 1818. Believed to be the oldest cast iron road bridge in the country still open to vehicular traffic, it is situated in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site and is itself a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Prior to strengthening the bridge was weight restricted to 2T and could only carry a single lane of traffic. In 2005, following strengthening, the project won an award at the Historic Bridge and Infrastructure Awards.
HASTINGS PIER Regeneration of the pier including repair to the substructure and design of new buildings
Opened in 1872, Hastings Pier is a Grade II listed structure designed by Eugenius Birch. In 2006, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) served an improvement notice on the owners over concerns for public safety. Our engineers were then appointed to undertake a full structural inspection and condition assessment of the cast/wrought iron pier, in parallel with a heritage evaluation. Following a fire in 2010, which destroyed 95% of the superstructure, we updated our assessment. Ramboll has also advised Hastings Pier Trust in the preparation of a Heritage Lottery Fund application for regeneration of the pier and prepared a Conservation Management Plan.
CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE LIBRARY Comprehensive restoration programme for this magnificent Grade I listed college building
Oxford's Christ Church College Library was constructed over a 50 year period from 1717 in the new classical style. The fabric and systems had become tired and outdated and the client asked the design team to implement a comprehensive restoration programme. The building has been re-roofed, stone repairs undertaken across the pedimented façades, building services systems renewed throughout and the libraries fully redecorated. Within the library the environment is held at a constant humidity level using a conservation heating strategy. Original elements to the heating system were refurbished and re-used to maintain the overall original character.
RUDOLF STEINER HOUSE CAFÉ Creation of a new café in a Grade II listed Germanic expressionist building
Ramboll acted as structural engineer for the major refurbishment and extension of the building – a project involving formation of a new café, re-routing of external fire escapes and remodelling of internal spaces.
The architect produced sketch designs which were translated by Ramboll into working drawings. Our 3D computer models also aided visualisation during the design process and fabrication. The café’s structure consists of suspended in situ RC slab on its split level and a timber mezzanine level or ‘snug’. The café’s timber roof is a geometrically complex glulam ‘lily leaf’.
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FORT NELSON
In just under a year this Victorian fort underwent major redevelopment to create a museum fit for the 21st century
Project Description The building works comprised: LOCATION Fort Nelson was built in the Portsmouth, Hampshire 1860s as part of a chain of • A new admissions complex: fortifications protecting the a circular concrete, earth CLIENT great naval harbour and Royal buried building Royal Armouries Dockyard of Portsmouth in • The new glass-sided Voice of the Guns gallery, Hampshire from a feared ARCHITECT0B French invasion. It is home to showcasing some of the Pringle Richards Sharratt one of the finest collections of Royal Armouries’ most Architects historic artillery in the w orld, famous exhibits including two sections of the which is owned by the Royal VALUE1B Armouries, and is a Grade I infamous Iraqi Super Gun, £4m listed building and a two anti-aircraft guns used Scheduled Monument. to defend the South Coast, COMPLETION DATE and the 1464 Great 2011 This exciting project, Turkish Bombard supported by the Heritage • Remodelling of some ENGINEERING SERVICES Lottery Fund, has enabled Fort gallery spaces and creation Structural and conservation Nelson to accommodate its of the “Classroom of the engineering, conservation constantly increasing number Future” within the management plan and of visitors and improve their Redan building archaeology, mechanical experience by providing a new • New external car parking and electrical services, admissions building and ecology, transportation FORT NELSON extending the gallery spaces. V oice of the Guns gallery and highways, geotechnical engineering, drainage
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ROYAL CLARENCE YARD AND ST GEORGE BARRACKS NORTH Regeneration of a key waterfront site within Portsmouth Harbour
Project Description Detailed historical research by LOCATION Royal Clarence Yard and St our archaeologists informed Gosport, Hampshire George Barracks North lie at a the design process. key location fronting onto the CLIENT western side of Portsmouth The scale of the project, Berkeley Homes Harbour. The site is one of the together with the proximity to last two surviving Victualling the adjacent SSSI necessitated ARCHITECT0B Yards in Britain. It contains a an Environmental Impact John Thompson & Partners number of listed buildings and Assessment. scheduled monuments. VALUE1B £100m Marine works included The project to regenerate the stabilisation of the historic COMPLETION DATE site involved the restoration of masonry quay wall, tidal flood 2005 buildings in combination with risk assessment and the erection of retail, construction of a new tidal ENGINEERING SERVICES commercial and residential flood defence wall. Archaeology, historic property and the creation of a structures, geotechnics, new public realm, marina and highways and infrastructure, flood defences. Ramboll was Environmental Impact commissioned to undertake Assessment, marine engineering investigation, engineering strategic planning and detailed design together with the environmental assessment and ROYA L CLA RENCE YARD statement. V iew of the development
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CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE
The sensitive adaption of a Grade I listed building to accommodate the modern needs of residents
Project Description marble bathrooms and comfort LOCATION The Grade I listed Carlton heating. Roof timbers have London House Terrace is a six-storey been replaced but the period stucco rendered building in structure maintained. CLIENT central London. The freehold Villina Trading, AMAS belongs to the Crown Estate. Spatial modelling enabled Investment & Project Services Classical in style, it dates from services to be integrated into 1827-32 and was designed by the existing fabric with minimal ARCHITECT celebrated architect John disruption. The ventilation is Weldon Walshe Nash. hidden in the roof structure and is invisible to neighbouring VALUE In line with the guidelines set tall buildings. The ductwork Confidential out by the Crown Estate and has been set behind existing English Heritage, we worked architecture. VESTA smoke COMPLETION DATE with four international alarms, which have no visible 2010 designers to create a series of smoke detectors, have been modern residential apartments installed. The basement houses ENGINEERING SERVICES within this historic setting. the new swimming pool, with a Structural engineering, floor that rises up to create a building services, We formulated a conservation ballroom. Mechanical plant has infrastructure, fire and safety, package that included the been fitted into the void under geotechnical replacement of shattered cast the pool at the shallow end to iron beams. Masonry floors minimise excavation. were strengthened to take the weight of sound equipment, CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE External view
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KING’S GATE BRIDGE, CAERNARFON CASTLE A Ramboll designed, smooth-flowing S-shaped footbridge CASTLEacross the moat at a historic castle in Wales
Project Description We succeeded in producing a LOCATION World-famous as the setting geometrically complex bridge Gwynedd, North Wales for the 1969 investiture of that required no additional HRH Prince Charles as Prince vertical loading support from CLIENT of Wales, Caernarfon Castle is the castle and whose primary Cadw Wales’ most culturally structure was lifted into place significant national monument. in a single day. ARCHITECT NA Caernarfon’s new footbridge Economically designed, the opens a new, accessible route new footbridge wastes nothing VALUE to a major World Heritage in construction. With no £500,000 Site. Suitable for wheelchair applied finishes – corten steel use, the bridge unlocks a was chosen for its rich, COMPLETION DATE profoundly emotive cultural brickred lustre to contrast with 2008 experience to visitors who the castle’s smoke-grey were previously excluded due masonry – it requires almost ENGINEERING SERVICES to disability. no maintenance. Structural engineering
Crucial to the brief was The result is a thoroughly delivering a non-invasive indigenous structure that structural schematic that did enhances and extends the life not apply extra vertical of Wales’ most significant loading to the existing heritage site. masonry, the capacity of CAERNARFON CASTLE FOOTBRIDGE which was unknown. View of bridge from castle tower
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BRITISH MUSEUM Redevelopment of the north east buildings to provide a new gallery, conservation and science centre, collections management hub and storage
Working directly with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, we helped coordinate the brief and design for the 18,000 sq m purpose-built facility. To minimise impact, a significant proportion (about 60%) of the new building is located underground and its structural line steps back from adjacent properties. Surcharge loads were verified and stringent criteria employed in the sequencing of works to minimise vibration and avoid damage to the fabric, foundations or contents of neighbouring structures.
SELFRIDGES FAÇADE SURVEY Façades survey work categorised remedial work according to priority and timescale 2 We performed a detailed façades survey on this historic 1930s department store and on the 1960s hotel at the rear. Sensitivity was required as the store remained operational throughout.
Selfridges had recently undergone a façade refurbishment and was in good repair, though its cathodic protection system was not operational. On the roof, several two storey timber frame structures were in need of repair. We advised our client on the preparation of a maintenance regime and were able to deliver survey results to a tight deadline, with our final report categorising remedial work according to priority and timescale.
LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL REDEVELOPMENT London Business School is redeveloping its Sussex Place campus to provide world-class facilities
The masterplan delivers a new auditorium, a teaching block and a forum centre integrated with existing structures, which are to be refurbished, improving circulation and access. We provided geotechnical, infrastructure and structural services to develop the complex design to Stage D.
Our work involved the retention and underpinning of a Grade II listed Walter Nash façade while constructing a new building behind. A four storey building with double height lecture theatres and skylinks is to be constructed between the two buildings which currently house the main teaching spaces for the school.
SPIRE OF HOPE, ST ANNE'S CATHEDRAL Tapering vertical brushed steel spire 50m tip to tip with maximum diameter of just over 1m
Originally marked by a square tower built in the 1890s, the crossing at St Anne's Cathedral has been crowned with a new spire. The architects envisaged a tapering silvery rod that rises high above the church, guiding the eye heavenwards.
The spire measures 50m from tip to pointed tip, rising 40m above the cathedral roof and suspended to 10m below. It is supported at its widest point, which is a little over 1m in diameter. Ensuring sufficient rigidity was thus an important factor in our design.
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AL-HAYLA WATCHTOWER
Our restoration work at the watchtower was undertaken with great sensitivity
Project Description Surveys concentrated on the LOCATION Ramboll was appointed stone fabric of the Abu Dhabi through architect Donald Insall Al-Hayla Watchtower, walls at to the Abu Dhabi Association Umm Hesen and buildings on CLIENT for Cultural Heritage for Delma Island 25 miles offshore Abu Dhabi Association for Cultural Heritage conservation work on historic in the Gulf. The Old Airport buildings and standing Building in Abu Dhabi awaits ARCHITECT remains. The commission further conservation work. relies on Ramboll’s local Donald Insall Architects presence as well as its Restoration work at Al-Hayla international reputation. Both involved temporary bracing, VALUE UK-based conservation consolidation of the fragile Confidential engineers and company staff stonework and the sensitive operating through our Abu insertion of stainless steel COMPLETION DATE Dhabi office were involved in containment. 2010 inspections and specification of works. ENGINEERING SERVICES Historic specialist advice, structural engineering
AL-HAYLA WATCHTOWER Watchtower during works
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PRESIDENT’S HOUSE,
PORT OF SPAIN We were commissioned to survey this colonial style building following a seismic event
Project Description further earthquakes. LOCATION The President’s House was Port of Spain, Republic of constructed in 1874. It is a The survey involved Trinidad and Tobago fine colonial style building, inspections at all levels, well constructed on two and including basements and CLIENT three floors in thick, dense roofscape, the latter using a Ministry of Transport and blue limestone with large access platform. Works substantial timber floors, the Recommendations were made ground floor lifted slightly on possible means of ARCHITECT above the surrounding plain. stabilising the standing walls, Bernard Mackay Architects and discussions held with the The building had suffered from contractor from the UK during VALUE moisture ingress and in May site clearance to clarify and Confidential 2010 a relatively minor assist works. seismic event resulted in COMPLETION DATE collapse of part of the 2011 ballroom wing. Ramboll was asked to inspect the building ENGINEERING SERVICES and provide a comprehensive Historic specialist advice, survey on the state of the structural engineering, fabric, assessing the likely advanced seismic engineering mechanism of failure and analysis commenting on the possibility of retrofitting the fabric to PRESIDENT’S HOUSE One of the less damaged elevations achieve resistance against
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WISCONSIN AVENUE BRIDGE
Ramboll has been engaged in commissions to assess and specify strengthening of historic masonry bridges in North America for the last 10 years
Project Description carrying capacity of the LOCATION Wisconsin Avenue Bridge is a structure to a HS25 loading. Georgetown, District of single span stone masonry Columbia, USA arch bridge that carries The Archtec strengthening Wisconsin Avenue over the system method involves the CLIENT0B Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) accurate placement of stainless District of Columbia Canal in Georgetown, District steel anchors in the masonry Department of of Columbia. The bridge was arch barrel. The analysis and Transportation/National Park built in 1831 and was formerly design consists of a numerical Service known as High Street Bridge. simulation using the It is the oldest bridge in the finite/discrete element (DE) ARCHITECT1B District of Columbia. The technique which is used NA bridge is located within the exclusively by Ramboll for the Georgetown Historic District, Archtec joint venture with VALUE2B and is listed on the National Cintec America Inc. Confidential Register. COMPLETION DATE Over 400 bridges worldwide 2004 Ramboll carried out a detailed have been strengthened by geometrical survey and using Ramboll’s innovative and ENGINEERING SERVICES inspection of the structure, pioneering approach to Geometrical survey, structural structural analysis and masonry analysis. assessment of the load analysis carrying capacity and design of an Archtec strengthening W ISCONSI N A VENUE BRIDGE system to upgrade the load V iew of bridge from canal
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FREDERIK VIII'S PALACE
Interior restoration of Frederik VIII's Palace
Project Description Ramboll worked as a LOCATION Amalienborg is the centerpiece subconsultant to the architects Copenhagen of the Frederiksstaden district Arkitema and Erik Einar Holms built in 1744 – 1748, and is Tegnestue. CLIENT now the winter home of the Arkitema KS Danish royal family. The The interior restoration residence consists of 4 VALUE0B comprised: identical palaces built around Confidential an octogonal square. These • New heating, ventilation, mid-18th century buildings are piping and electrical COMPLETION DATE considered to represent some building services 2010 of the finest in Northern • Changes to the building's European rococo architecture. structures in order to ENGINEERING SERVICES One of the palaces - Frederik accommodate a new Renovation and reconstruction VIII's Palace - was renovated internal lift and floor break- to house the Crown Prince, the throughs and the new Crown Princess and their staff. installations, stairs, etc. • Provision of new safety The 4,500m2 palace was installations and fire alarm subject to an extensive system interior renovation. The roof, windows and facades were repaired and conserved. FREDERIK VIII’S PALACE C ourtesy of Roberto Fortuna
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THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
SWEDEN Enhancement of the library’s internal environment whilst protecting and preserving the nation’s heritage
Project Description possible way, and work is LOCATION Dating from 1878, the national being undertaken with great Stockholm, Sweden library building is Sweden's sensitivity to conserve the main copyright archive, with library’s appearance whilst CLIENT one copy of every book, enhancing its internal Swedish National Property booklet and paper printed in environment. Board the country stored there. The imposing masonry façade The national document archive ARCHITECT encloses the magnificent is now housed separately NA library and study spaces, with underground and at carefully high ceilings and slender cast controlled temperatures and VALUE iron columns. humidity. All work has been Confidential undertaken in consultation with Previous restoration work the National Heritage Board. COMPLETION DATE involving the internal services 2013 between 1990 and 1995 had become outdated. The ENGINEERING SERVICES
Swedish National Property Building services engineering Board appointed Ramboll to design and implement changes to enhance the climatic conditions and interior area. The Property Board seeks to protect and preserve the THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SWEDEN nation’s heritage in the best Library’s masonry façade
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LUTHERAN CATHEDRAL OF
HELSINKI Restoration and modernisation of this distinctive neoclassical building which attracts over 350,000 visitors each year
Project Description acoustic environment and LOCATION The cathedral was built building services was also Helsinki, Finland between 1830 and 1854 as a taken whilst this was tribute to Nicholas I, Tsar of happening. After careful CLIENT Russia, in the distinctive consultation with the The Federation of Parishes, Helsinki neoclassical design, with a regulatory bodies, the lighting Greek cross plan of equally was substantially improved ARCHITECT sized nave, chancel and and acoustic performance was transepts. It attracts over enhanced. Vilhelm Helander 350,000 visitors annually. The cathedral’s modernised VALUE Work was undertaken by technical systems and Confidential Ramboll in association with the enhanced facilities mean that Cathedral Architect Professor it is now able to serve the COMPLETION DATE Vilhelm Helander, with the public more efficiently and 2011 primary aim of repairing and broadcast concerts and restoring the building for religious services ENGINEERING SERVICES everyday use. However, the internationally. Building services design and opportunity to enhance the acoustic consultancy
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NATIONAL MUSEUM, HELSINKI, FINLAND Enhanced visitor circulation and a new café for local and international visitors
The national museum is a famous landmark on Helsinki’s skyline. Ramboll was engaged in restoration and conversion work that ended in 2000, which involved demanding rock excavation below ground, careful roof repairs at high level, stone cleaning and repointing and substantial changes to the building systems. An old staircase was brought back into use and new entrance opened from the Mannerheimintie open space beside the building.
NATIONAL THEATRE, OSLO, NORWAY Renewal and restoration programme of the theatre services
The Norwegian National Theatre was opened in 1899 and is an 2 auditorium in the finest tradition of the age. As part of a major renewal and restoration programme between 2005 and 2008, Ramboll provided consultancy services for acoustics, building physics, electrical engineering, fire and safety, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and drainage sanitation. The initial commission was to undertake comprehensive surveys of the existing systems, from which the brief was developed fully. As part of the fire strategy, and to maintain the openness of the original concept, a sprinkler system was designed for the stage area.
NIDAROS CATHEDRAL, TRONDHEIM, NORWAY Ramboll oversees the conclusion of a century of cathedral restoration
Nidaros Cathedral is a magnificent example of Scandinavian transitional Gothic architecture. Work on the cathedral started in 1070 and was finished circa 1300, spanning great changes in style. The cathedral has been badly damaged by fires and neglect throughout its life. Conservation and restoration began in 1869 and has continued to this day. The most major recent phase was concentrated between 2002 and 2006, when Ramboll undertook a wide range of consultancy services to achieve quality restoration: overall project management, sound systems, geotechnical engineering, heating installation, building management systems and environmental controls.
BORGHOLM CASTLE, SWEDEN Preservation of structural elements
The owner, Statens FastighetsVerk, has been working on the management, maintenance and development of this fine historic building to dramatically improve the experience of the 100,000 visitors who come to see it each year. The client implemented a number of projects in which Ramboll participated as a partner, providing services as overall project manager, project engineer and construction manager. We also carefully coordinated the various installations to ensure a high-quality result, with sensitive detailing and specialist structural repairs. A new entrance, parking, catering and accessibility facilities have been provided, along with new services throughout the building.
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