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Douglas Street: boundary structure design and layout

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

Sector CommercialLocation ScotlandPeriod 2022 to 2023
The brief

What the project needed.

A boundary structure requiring proper design rather than assumption, on a site where the existing arrangement had to be recorded before a new layout could be set out.

Work carried out

  • Existing plans and elevations survey
  • Pictorial plan and elevations
  • Location and layout drawing
  • Two issued revisions coordinating the set
The engineering

What douglas street actually involves.

Boundary structures are routinely built without design and routinely fail, because wind load on a solid barrier is significant and the foundation requirement is usually underestimated. Designing one properly means assessing the load and detailing the support rather than following a standard arrangement.

A pictorial plan and elevation drawing was issued alongside the technical set, which helps where a client or a neighbour needs to understand what is proposed without reading a structural drawing.

The set was revised twice, with the layout and elevation drawings reissued as the scheme developed.

Project record

Douglas Street

8 site photographs, 8 CAD files and 23 drawings across two revisions.

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