The Canalside, Birmingham h s p consulting t - 0870 600 60 90 f - 0870 600 60 91 www.hspconsulting.com Lawrence House, Meadowbank Way, Nottingham NG16 3SB Project Value: £18m - Student Accommodation Client: Derwent Housing Association Contractor: Morgan Ashurst Architect: Church Lukas Hopper The Project: The scheme was originally designed by another engineer utilising a steel frame for th 6 to 8 storeys structures across the site area, but this resulted in the budget for the scheme being 2m higher than required and we were asked to investigate the situation in order to reduce the costs. Our solution was to adopted a load masonry schemes utilising the progressive collapse mechanism design and this saved in the region of £1.5m pounds. We did point out that this types of

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