BWB Consulting - Integrated Engineering and Environmental Consultants

Example of Flood Risk and Drainage Projects

(Listed by Alphabetical Geographical Location.)

• Birmingham: Curzon Street

  Bespoke structural engineering solutions required to optimise the construction of the blocks each with their own distinct engineering challenges, to enable a very tight....

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• Birmingham: Heritage Court

  Due to the unusual shape of the building footprint, the entire structure, which is over 100m in length, was designed not to require movement joints......

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• Birmingham: The Heights on Corporation Street

  The Heights Complex has been built on a key site adjacent to Aston University providing students with state of the art ergonomic living accommodation and recreational.....

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• Birmingham: The Orion Building

  Due to the high concentration of vertical loadings the substructure design comprised large diameter bored piles, with an acoustic.....

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• Bristol: Temple Plaza

  Temple Plaza is a proposed 10,000m² office development on the sites of the Grosvenor and George and Railway Hotels on Temple Gate....

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• Coventry: Keresley Park

  BWB provided Engineering and Environmental services in the redevelopment of this major ‘brownfield’ site from pre-acquisition through masterplanning to advanced detailed design..

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• Derby: Football Club Academy and Training Centre

  Derby County Football Club’s new £5 million state-of-the-art football academy and training centre at Moor Farm, Derby....

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• Derby: Joseph Wright Six Form College

  A key element of the design was to integrate the need for clear open spaces within the multi-storey building whilst maintaining a route for services through the structural fabric....

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• Derbyshire: Toyota, Burnaston

  BWB proposed an innovative alternative scheme that shaped the parking area such that all rainwater run-off was collected.....

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• Derbyshire: Willow Farm Business Park, Castle Donington

  Prior to development, the majority of the site was situated in flood plain of the River Trent. Flood compensation ponds were constructed.....

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• Doncaster: Quest Park

  Scheme comprises a mixture of motor trade, retail, industrial and office space on an acre site next to the River Don, the site having previously been developed for industrial usage....

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• Doncaster: Westmoor Park

  The earthworks constrained by minimum clearance to overhead electric cables, have been designed to provide a cut to fill balance.....

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• Harlow: Town Centre Redevelopment

  Before redevelopment could commence, it was necessary to relocate the listed Water Gardens and certain public sewers....

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• Leicester: The Newarke Building, De Montfort University

  A buried roman wall was located during the cutting across one of the building, this had to be retained and so the sub structure was redesigned to bridge this roman artifact.....

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• Leicestershire: Leicester Road, Anstey

  BWB prepared detailed hydraulic model of a 3 km length of the river, its associated floodplain and bridges to identify the source and nature of flood risk.....

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• Lincolnshire: Witham St Hughs, Swinderby

  A major obstacle that was overcome in this project was the reluctance of the Water and Highway Authorities to drain their highway and adoptable drainage.....

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• London: IKEA Edmonton

  IKEA purchases 8 hectare (20 acre) contaminated brownfield site adjacent to an operational gasholder, BWB.....

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• Northamptonshire: Desborough and Rothwell SDAs

  BWB were commissioned to examine the transport implications of introducing mixed employment/residential developments onto greenfield sites.....

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• Nottingham: Corner House

  Redevelopment of part of the existing General Hospital site, caves were known to be present, an extensive probing exercise to ensure absence of voids under foundations.....

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• Nottingham: Cumberland Place

  Redevelopment of part of the existing General Hospital site, caves were known to be present, an extensive probing exercise to ensure absence of voids under foundations.....

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• Nottingham: Eastside, The Island

  Prestigious multi-million pound development scheme that will transform a 17 hectare (42 acre) site at the heart of Nottingham´s Eastside Regeneration Zone...

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• Nottingham: Glasshouse

  The Glasshouse is a mixed use residential/retail development being constructed on a site created by the demolition of two adjoining...

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• Nottingham: Litmus Building

  The Litmus Building is Phase I of The Litmus Project, which is the largest residential new-build project of its type, yet built in Nottingham.....

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• Nottingham: ng²

  Closure of Nottingham´s Royal Ordnance factory, industrial site on the south-western edge of the city centre, left behind a legacy of ground contamination resulting.....

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• Nottingham: Nottingham Business Park

  BWB have been involved as geo-environmental, civil and structural engineering design consultants for this major regional business park development since.....

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• Nottingham: Oceana Night Club

  The £7million extension and refurbishment of the original ‘Palais de Danse’, a local landmark of Nottingham....

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• Nottingham: Trinity Square

  BWB successfully negotiated the revised City Council plans which will create a high quality and largely traffic free environment on the critical frontages.....

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• Nottingham: Weekday Cross

  The new structure comprises a reinforced concrete structural framed basement incorporating a contiguous piled retaining wall, suspended reinforced concrete floor....

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• Nottinghamshire: Shireoaks, Worksop

  Specialist flood risk advice to assist in the planning of a residential development alongside the River Ryton.....

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• Nottinghamshire: Top Wighay Farm, Hucknall

  Expert Witness evidence to support and justify position was prepared and presented to the Inquiry by BWB, and substantiated under intensive cross examination.....

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• Peterborough: Hampton

  BWB have been involved as civil engineering design consultants from preliminary/strategic design stage through to construction stage...

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• Rugby: Junction 1 Retail Park

  Our geo-technical and environmental division undertook a significant investigation to establish the extent of contamination due to the previous use of the site....

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• Sheffield: The Forge

  The proposed development consisted of a 1160 bedroom student accommodation village complex, with associated retail and common room space.....

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• Stafford: GEC Alstom

  BWB have undertaken significant intrusive investigations on the site to establish the extent of contamination caused by previous industrial usage of the site...

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• West Midlands: Sandwell and West Birmingham Ambulatory Care Centre

  Very tight tolerances were imposed by the Hospital Trust in respect of vibration and deflection within the imaging suites and operating theatres.....

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• Yorkshire: Little Hemsworth, Wakefield

  Expert Witness evidence prepared by BWB, and presented to the Planning Inspector, was a key factor in securing planning approval.....

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