Description
The Media City UK project at Salford Quays in Greater Manchester is well on the way, this is a city designed specifically around the media industry.
SES completed the Surveying & Setting Out package for the cladding on the B4 building which was supplied and installed by GIG Facades. The cladding system is a combination of stick work and unitised elements. The building has a 2 part splayed grid system from levels 00 to 05 which then steps in to form a rectangular structure between floors 05 to 13. Cladding/Curtain Walling systems today require a high degree of accuracy, by adopting stringent surveying procedures and thorough checks SES ensures the desired setting out accuracy is achieved. SES plumbed primary survey control on to each floor using plumbing holes, from this framework we then set out the gridlines and offsets for the cladding brackets. In addition to setting out, SES transferred a master datum to each floor, provided full as-built drawings of the structure and installed panels as part of a hand over and carried out fortnightly monitoring on the post tensioned slabs.
It's has been a pleasure to work for our client GIG Facades on this Bovis Lend Lease project and to contribute to Manchester's growth.
BSkyB Sports
- Location:
- London
- Status:
- Ongoing
- Client:
- Bovis Lend Lease
- Type of Work:
- Survey Control and Setting Out
Description
Currently Sky Sports Broadcasting is spread over several parts of the Osterley site, Bovis Lend Lease and an Arup consortium will be bringing the operations under one roof by 2010 with a new 25,000m² "green" building. The new facility will make use of natural ventilation as the plan is to go carbon neutral and be Europe's most sustainable broadcasting facility. Our role on the project is to establish the Primary Survey Control and maintain overall dimensional control on each floor of construction. As well as working for the main contractor, SES also provides surveying services to various trade contractors on site, providing accurate grid lines and level datums for lift installation and preinstallation surveys for the architectural metalwork contractor.
Telehouse Docklands
- Location:
- London
- Status:
- Ongoing
- Client:
- Mace Group Ltd
- Type of Work:
- Site Survey, Control and Setting Out
Description
Telehouse Europe is the longest established provider of reliable and secure data centre facilities. With their strong and improving financial position, this enables them to remain committed to the on-going major infrastructure investments in our existing facilities. Mace is currently involved in providing Telehouse Europe with a nine-storey, 19,000 m² facility which will mitigate its carbon footprint by exporting waste heat for use in nearby homes and businesses. As project surveyors SES has established all the Primary Survey Control Stations and transfered the gridlines and datums to each floor. This will enable all trade contractors to use the same setting out criteria which will reduce the risk of interface problems.