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TIMBER PROJECTS While working for Parkman I designed a number of structures for Cowley Structural Timberwork. They retained my services when I moved to Hannah Reed. Cowleys specialise in innovative timber structures, from individual folded plate staircases to roof structures for national parliaments and football stadia. |
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| PROJECT | JOINTS | STRUCTURE | CLIENT'S TEAM | NOTES | |
| Haberdashers hall |  |
a | Engineer: Ove Arup Architect: Michael Hopkins |
A 10m span LVL diagrid with stainless
steel tie rods and nodes. Michael Hopkins had very
exacting requirements for all visual aspects. Featured in the AJ |
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| Sri Guru Singh Sabah Gurdwara, Southall. |  |
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a | Engineer: Buro Happold | We had full design
responsibility for the timber dome, with a brief to make
savings over the tender scheme. This was achieved by
using square members rather than tapered circular
sections, rationalising the joints to simple steel ring
nodes with shearlock joints, and using LVL sheet boarding
in place of T&G boards. Featured in Stuctural Engineering and Builder magazine. |
| Hounslow East Underground Station |  |
a |
Engineer: Buro Happold | An LVL lamella grid roof, curved about one axis, on circular timber columns. Our brief was to design the connections and provide "value engineering". | |
| Thrapston Sports Centre |  |
a | a | Engineer: BCAL Architect: Studio Bednarski |
A majestic, sweeping catenary roof supported on hollow timber columns and RC Shear walls. Structurally part catenary, part I beam, part stressed skin panels. We had full design responsibility for the roof structure. |
| Maggies Cancer Rehabilitation Center, Dundee |  |
a | a | Engineer: Ove Arup Architect: Frank O'Geary |
A very geometrically
complex, organic timber roof and tapered, skewed,
eliptical tower. As well as designing the huge number of
joint variations we advised on cost savings such as
ommission of the tower's steel frame. Featured in AJ |
| Southbank University | a | a | Engineer and Architect : BDP | Six storey curtain wall support frame and teaching pods in the atrium for a new RC framed teaching block. | |
| National Football Academy. Stadium roof | a | Engineer and Architect : BDP | Timber diagrid roof for a covered football stadium. We advised on the connection design and potential for structural savings. | ||
| Kingshold and Shoreditch Sports Clubs, Cambridge Botanical Gardens | a | a | Design of long span timber floors and roofs using Cowleys' LVL monocque panels. | ||
| Product development: Shearlock connectors, monocoque stressed skin panels and hinge plate connectors |  |
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We provided the structural expertise for Cowleys' product development. We developed the design rules for their Shearlock connectors and long span monocoque floor and roof panels. We wrote design spreadsheets, produced load / span tables and charts, interpreted test data, and advised on the direction of future research. | ||
| Folded plate stairs | a | a | profile cut from sheets of Birch ply and glued together to form a sawtooth profile folded plate. We have designed stairs for Southbank University, Ergo systems and private clients. | ||