Water Course, Cork, Ireland, 2006

Name of projects: Residential buildings, Watercourse road 3, 11

Location: Blackpoll, Watercourse road, Cork, Ireland

Size of projects [ m² ]: over 4.500 m² of residential floor area

Full budget of construction [Euro]: 5 mil.

Design teams: B&E consult. - Superstructure,

Design status: for construction

Construction status:  constructed 10/06 –  04/07                                                                                                                                                                                                

Short annotation of structure:

Three and four storey concrete apartments with permanent formwork.

Watercourse road is a new three and four storey complex, “L” shaped block, with over 40 apartments. The residential complex is as a part of new urban district on a city site near City Centrum of Cork, Cork. The site, Watercourse road, is approximately 100m by 35m in area. Design intent of B&E is divided to 2 separated blocks of buildings 3,11.

The superstructure is designed to meet the performance requirements detailed in relevant National Structural Concrete Specification. The available structural zones are shown on the Architect’s drawings.

B&E drawings showing a reinforced pre-cast concrete superstructure from VST system with VST pre-cast flat slab solution are provided to show the design intent. B&E drawings showing system of reinforced pre – cast concrete shear walls are provided to show design intent. The current proposal allows for frame action to resist the torsion induced due to the shear.

B&E drawings showing a reinforced pre-cast concrete roof structure are provided to show the design intent.

Internal flights of stairs are to be provided as a  pre-cast concrete stairs.

Refer to Architect’s drawings for details.    

Personal duties and responsibilities:

• Develop concept of design of structure, incorporating requirements of external design team and architect
• Preparing preliminary and detailed design of building structures and load calculation.
• Production of 2D, and 3D calculation of building structures or single elements using finite element analyses
• Detailed design, RC detailing and preparation of concrete structures according to British standards.
• Produce detailed design information including calculations, design sketches.
• Supervision of  technicians, check of RC Detailing drawing

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