Trinity Square, London
AWD were appointed temporary works designer and design checker for the construction of a new building above and below a LUL Tube station at Trinity Square in London. The temporary works suite included party wall propping, scaffold design, formwork design, backpropping, masonry arch assessment, tower crane bases and sheet pile designs.
Latitude Festival Stage Canopy
We completed structural calculations on a stage canopy for use at Latitude Festival for our client Special Structures Ltd. We modelled the canopy membrane of the 20m x 20m structure in NDN Membrane, a non-linear finite element analysis software, to establish the capabilities of the structure. Our calculations measured the capacity of the structure under […]
ICD Brookfield Place, Dubai
The self-climbing jumpform rig was used to assemble the vertical steel and concrete elements during the construction of the 53-storey office and retail complex at Marina Gate, Dubai. The jumpform system’s modular frame comprised the formwork and working platforms for fixing of the steel and concrete, and was designed to give ascend the building through […]
Festival Stage Truss
We completed design check calculations for a 15m arch truss used to cover and protect stages at various festival locations across Ireland, for our client Metalworx. The truss was constructed from aluminium square and ladder trusses, braced with steel cables. We checked the structure under two different cladding arrangements to account for both the storm […]
Bamboo Dome
AWD designed a geodesic dome using bamboo poles as structural members for the frame of the 12m diameter structure. Our domes are designed for quick and easy assembly on site, with the nodes of the structure allowing for varying angles of the structural members, making them simple to customise from site to site depending on […]
V&A Dundee
AWD designed an innovative temporary propping system for the V&A Museum of Design Dundee, which transformed the existing falsework system, used to cast the double curved concrete walls, into a bespoke temporary propping system which supported 2,240m3 of concrete and steel for over a year. We assessed 21 reinforced concrete walls, completing over 70 individual design […]
1 Bank St, Canary Wharf London
AWD was appointed temporary works designer and checker by our client Canary Wharf Contractors Ltd for their 1 Bank St site; a 28-storey 700,000 sq ft, state of the art office and retail space in Canary Wharf, London. The building was constructed within a cofferdam due to its location within the reclaimed dock on the […]
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Our client Litestructures required structural calculations for a temporary demountable structure constructed from 4 boom aluminium trusses, used at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to provide hospitality to guests at the event. The rectangular truss frame, with dimensions 14m x 6m, would be augmented with curved sails protruding from each corner. Two large openings were […]
