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Projects from the practice record, described by what was actually designed and drawn. Piled foundations, facade remediation, timber frame racking, framed openings, commercial fit-out and roof appraisal across England and Scotland.

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Sport and recreation

Charlton Athletic FC, The Valley

Two steel monopitch stand roofs rising to 27 metres were assessed for a proposed solar PV installation. Both were cleared to carry the arrays as ...

Charlton, London SE7 · 2025 →
Manufacturing and industrial

Global Ardour, Preston

A single industrial roof measuring 122 metres by 122 metres was appraised for solar PV. The covering was found in poor condition for continued in...

Preston, Lancashire · 2024 →
Manufacturing and industrial

Donaldson Timber Engineering

Four warehouse roofs were appraised for a proposed solar PV installation. Two different constructions were found on the same site, one carrying 0...

Ilkeston, Derbyshire · 2024 →
Hospitality

Voco Hotel, Reading

A hotel beside the stadium at Reading was surveyed for a proposed solar PV installation. Three roofs plus a curved feature roof were assessed by ...

Reading, Berkshire · 2023 →
Manufacturing and industrial

The Proving Factory, Coventry

Five separate roof areas across an industrial site in Coventry were surveyed for a proposed solar PV installation, with two further roofs exclude...

Gielgud Way, Coventry · 2024 →
Sport and recreation

Bradford City FC, Valley Parade

The east and south stand roofs at Valley Parade were surveyed for a proposed solar PV installation, flown by drone with the ground in use and the...

Bradford, West Yorkshire · 2023 →
Hospitality

Mother Hubbards, Springfield Quay

A restaurant unit on the Clyde was surveyed before fit-out. The frame is braced steel with composite floors and no as-built drawings existed, so ...

Springfield Quay, Glasgow · 2021 →
Faith & community

Zakriya Mosque, Wishaw

Multiple ground floor walls were removed to create a single open prayer hall in a traditional masonry building, with one internal staircase taken...

Wishaw, North Lanarkshire · 2022 →
Film and media

Dragon Studios, Pencoed

Eight roofs across a film studio complex were appraised for a proposed solar PV installation, from ancillary buildings at 14 metres span to sound...

Pencoed, Bridgend · 2024 →
Public leisure

Downham Leisure and Health Centre

Two roof areas at a public leisure and health centre, one of them 85.5 metres long, were appraised for a proposed solar PV installation. Both wer...

Bromley, London BR1 · 2025 →
Commercial fit-out

Chilli Flames, Harrow

A mezzanine floor was designed into an existing restaurant in Harrow, framed in steel parallel flange channels with a timber joist deck, picking ...

Harrow, London · 2022 →
Manufacturing and industrial

Wienerberger, Tamworth

Eight roofs across a working brick factory were assessed for oversheeting and solar PV. Three were passed for the proposed loading. Five were not...

Dosthill, Tamworth · 2025 →
Education

Carlisle College

A campus wide roof loading appraisal covering nine separate roof areas, carried out to establish whether the existing structure could take a prop...

Carlisle, Cumbria · 2024 →
Education

West Lancashire College

Four roof areas at a further education campus assessed for a proposed solar PV installation, each recorded by drone survey and appraised against ...

Skelmersdale, Lancashire · 2024 →
Faith & community

Masjid Noor

A community building on a constrained urban site where an existing pile layout had to be surveyed, assessed and extended before any new structure...

Glasgow · 2023 to 2025 →
Mixed use

215 High Street

A long-running remediation project where every elevation was surveyed and recorded independently, producing one of the most heavily documented jo...

United Kingdom · 2014 to 2022 →
Commercial portfolio

Roof appraisal programme

A rolling programme of roof condition surveys and structural roof appraisals, each site receiving both a condition report and a separate structur...

England and Scotland · 2025 →
Residential

102 Haggs Road

A domestic alteration where the load path was rebuilt from foundation to roof, with steel goal post and picture frame arrangements designed along...

Glasgow · 2020 to 2021 →
Residential

Cairngorm Road

A timber frame project where lateral stability was designed properly: wind loading, roof loads and racking resistance all assessed in both orthog...

Scotland · 2021 to 2023 →
Commercial fit-out

CUPP, Blackburn

A commercial fit-out in Blackburn taken from existing-condition survey through to a modelled proposed scheme with full internal elevation sets....

Blackburn, England · 2022 →
Residential

Boturich Drive

A whole-house project combining ground floor structural alteration with attic conversion and roof profile changes, issued as a coordinated set....

Scotland · 2022 to 2023 →
Residential

Cessnock Drive, Kilmarnock

A residential project developed through a modelled approach, producing multiple coordinated views rather than a set of independently drawn sheets...

Kilmarnock · 2020 to 2021 →
Residential

30 Aytoun Road

A calculation package built on an unusually thorough photographic survey, which is what allows design decisions to be made about a building rathe...

Glasgow · 2020 to 2021 →
Commercial

Douglas Street

A boundary structure taken from existing-condition survey through to a revised, coordinated layout and elevation set....

Scotland · 2022 to 2023 →
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