An innovative engineering solution for Welsh National Sailing Academy This ambitious project provides a new Centre of Excellence for sail training and flexible events space for the local community. Our structural and M&E engineering consultants worked in close partnership with the client and architects to realise the award winning design against a challenging budget and a significant structural redesign. The partially buried form of the Academy building was developed in response to the constraints of the site, in particular its relationship and access to the surrounding land and waterscape, and to the principle of form following function.Our initial design comprised a concrete spanning slab supported off perimeter walls that could be formed to the required curves of the building. However,

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