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BDP Civil and Structural
Engineering Services

Structural design
Civil engineering design
Site investigation and appraisal
Drainage design
Flood risk
Site infrastructure
Land quality studies and appraisals
Building surveys / inspections
Environmental impact assessment
Seismic engineering
Finite element analysis
Geotechnical engineering and foundation design
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Design and build client-side monitoring
Transport planning
Highways design

Introduction

BDP has a rich history of engineering design. We work closely with the whole
buildings since our formation over fifty design team, focusing on what can
years ago. be achieved with lateral thinking while
respecting constraints.
We believe that we are unique, with an
approach that places our skills at the Civil and structural engineers at BDP
very heart of the collaborative design play a pivotal role in both inspiring
process, where we are able to influence innovative design and providing
the outcome from the outset. technical solutions which bring it to life.
We work closely with architects, both in-
We are thoughtful, enthusiastic, and house and outside of BDP, to challenge
skilful, and our approach to design is thinking and push the boundaries of
fundamentally sustainable. With an conventional design, advising clients
holistic approach to design and an from the earliest conceptual stages
ability to communicate on all platforms, through to the completion of award-
our engineers have a passion for winning, landmark projects.
delivering outstanding buildings and
driving value for our clients. Our aim is to produce innovative,
elegant and economic designs which
We are proud of our award winning are fully integrated with the objectives of
projects that span across sectors and the client and the other members of the
continents. Projects that demonstrate team. We are world leaders in the use
how a seamless integration of of Building Information Modelling (BIM).
engineering, architecture and design is This technology enables us to offer
essential to create outstanding places clients seamless and fully integrated
for people. designs, earlier visualisations, more
accurate material quantities, better
All our engineers recognise the coordination with the supply chain
importance of contributing positively and ultimately faster error free build
in a creative way to the total building schedules.

University of East Anglia

Engineered
Glulam
Natural straw
thatch cassettes
Carbon neutral
development

The Enterprise Centre at Norwich Research The structural design features glulam timber
Park is a ground-breaking project frame extensively, as well as ‘Bretstapel’
showcasing low-carbon sustainable building loadbearing solid timber panels, overclad
with a highly ecological specification. The both internally and externally with a
3400sqm structural timber frame design contemporary form of natural straw thatch.
contributed to achieving Passivhaus and
BREEAM Outstanding compliance.

Enterprise South
Liverpool Academy
(ESLA)

The new Enterprise South Liverpool Multiple
Academy is an 1100 pupil school that stakeholders
specialises as a national centre for
business and enterprise. The Academy Heart of the
provides 10,125sqm of state of the art community
teaching space to meet the challenges
of 21st century education and also Delivered in BIM
creates a community beacon that acts
as a symbol of regeneration for the area.

The most challenging
aspect of the structural
design was the creation of
the ‘ribbon’ aesthetic that
required specific detailing to
the structure and external
façade. This is most
prominent at the ‘prow’ of
the building where the large
conference space at the tip
of the building cantilevers
out over the main structure
below.



No1 Angel Square

No. 1 Angel Square is the new BREEAM the building should provide an environment
‘Excellent’ rated headquarters for for a new generation of work styles and
Northamptonshire County Council, to collaborative working to bring with it new
a BDP full inter-disciplinary design. The and effective work processes for improved
Council’s brief for the project was such that productivity.

Level 2 BIM Thermal mass Best practice
collaboration cooling in workplace

design

BOXPARK Croydon

Ninety-six upcycled shipping containers
are arranged around a central courtyard
events space, and stacked up to 3
high, providing rental accommodation
for 40 individual food and drink outlets.
Inspiration is drawn from Chelsea Market
NYC and Covent Garden Market, in that
the food outlets ‘spill’ into the covered
central events space, which doubles up to
provide communal dining facilities.

Upcycled
shipping
containers

‘Meanwhile’
site re-use

Delivered in BIM

BOXPARK Croydon utilises raw self-finish
materials: black containers, black painted
steel, clear corrugated polycarbonate
roofing sheets, clear glazing and untreated
softwood scaffold planks. This simple and
robust aesthetic is further enhanced by
the carefully considered coordination and
detailing which results in a ‘deceptively
simple’ composition.

AstraZeneca HQ

Major new 65,000sqm Global R&D
Centre and Corporate Headquarters
building in Cambridge, with a working
population of 2000.

A major level 2 BIM
collaboration across BDP’s
engineering and design
professions, resulted in a
seamlessly coordinated
design, faster build
schedules and fewer
technical queries from the
build team.

State of the art Vibration Level 2 BIM
lab environment aensitive collaboration
atructure



Al Majlis Tower

Al Majlis Tower is a 5 Star luxury apartment core sympathetically modelled around the
hotel located adjacent the Abhur Estuary vertical circulation and service risers. The
to the Red Sea in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. hotel features 218 serviced apartments, four
Designed to international seismic standards, villas which have double-height living space
this 33 storey concrete framed tower is and private roof terraces.
stabilised by an in-situ concrete shear

Hazardous Designed to Advanced finite
ground resist seismic element analysis

conditions events

Engineering Innovation Centre
University of Central Lancashire

A highly visible steel frame ‘slim-floor’ design
combined with precast concrete floors
provides flexibility in internal room planning –
a key component of the client brief.

Precast
‘Slimflor’
construction
Precast
segmental
cores
Flexibility
of layout

60 Victoria
Embankment

60 Victoria Embankment is the Historic building Structural Delivered ahead
London base of JP Morgan, Grade II Listed glazing of programme
the international banking
and finance giant. The works
included structural alteration
and adaptations of a 1980s
office block together with the
Grade II Listed Old School
Building, the former home of
the City of London School,
to create Grade A office
accommodation.



Merrion House, Leeds

A ‘tired’ 1970s office block office accomodation, with
on a highly prominent site the addition of a fully glazed
in Leeds city centre has link block, unlocking the
been transformed into development potential of
contemporary Grade A the site.

Sustainable
building re-use

Recladding
existing
structure

Mains sewer
diversion works

National Army Museum

Extensive structural Level 2 BIM
remodelling was required collaboration
in this existing building
conversion, to create atrium Structural remodelling
and circulation space, – column removal
and to allow for a greater
permeation of daylight into Strengthening of
the building. existing concrete
framed structure



Bridge Academy

The Bridge Academy in Hackney
transforms the playground into social
and learning gardens and canal side
piazzas. The vertical school design idea
creates a social gathering space at the
heart of the school. The teaching and
learning rooms rise above, stepping
down on the canal side to give teaching
terraces at every level.

Not only does the ‘wishbone’ steel
skeleton generate a striking backdrop to
the internal spaces, it functions efficiently
and allows the internal floors to be ‘hung’
from above, creating a column free
ground floor.

Innovative Heart of the Inspiring
structural form community learning
environments



BDP Studio
Manchester

Waterside
development

Carbon neutral
development

Thermal mass
cooling

BDP’s clear objectives were to provide the With the architecture, structure, services
practice with a distinct and visible profile and lighting all being designed by BDP, the
within Manchester, to create a sustainable building design encapsulates BDP’s cohesive
building and to provide an uplifting, high inter-disciplinary approach and showcases
quality workspace for the staff. the practices commitment to sustainable
workplace design.

Old Admiralty Overlooking Horse Guards Parade, the
Old Admiralty Building is one of London’s
most iconic former military buildings,
which BDP have been engaged in
adapting for contemporary office working
methods and practices.

Historic building Well considered Delivered in BIM
Grade I Listed and sensitive

structural design
approach

Owens Park Campus
Redevelopment

BDP was commissioned by the University
of Manchester to initially masterplan the
redevelopment of the Owens Park student
campus in Fallowfield, Manchester, and
later to undertake the design of all the
buildings forming part of the masterplan,
which comprises over 3200 en-suite study
bedrooms, as well as amenity buildings,
all site infrastructure and an energy centre.



Prefabricated Of all the proposed buildings within the
lightweight masterplan, the Student Services Building
panelised steel is one of the most exciting. The striking
framing exposed laminated diagrid timber roof
forms a dramatic backdrop over the internal
Brownfield site spaces – the expression of which helps in
remediation creating a landmark beacon – a dramatic
structure to help define a focal point for the
Level 2 BIM entire campus.
collaboration



Nanjing Medical University

The 85,000sqm Nanjing Medical
University project provides two new
buildings on a prime site on the
university’s Jiangning Campus, which
is the first on the campus designed
by a foreign design team. One is a
teaching and research building, the
other is an administrative building
which also contains a museum and
conference auditoria.

Structurally the earthquake resistant
design features a number of impressive
cantilevers over the adjacent lake, long
span glazed roof structures which exploit
the ‘folded’ forms, and large expanses of
glazed curtain walling.

International Designed to Advanced finite
reach resist seismic element analysis
events

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digna faci et praessim
aliquat, veraessim.

The Garrick Club

The BIM model proved an
extremely valuable tool,
aiding coordination and
visualisation of the complex
historic building fabric and
the proposed structural
interventions.

Historic building Delivered in BIM Well considered
Grade II* Listed and sensitive

structural design
approach

Student Services Centre
University of Central Lancashire

Extensive Cross laminated Abundant buried An innovative structural system
public realm timber and steel services and combining a traditional steel
frame ‘hybrid’ frame with prefabricated cross
works disused rail tunnel laminated timber floor panels,
structure adjacency which will be largely exposed
within the completed facility.

Qatar Academies

International
reach
Extreme climatic
conditions
Level 2 BIM
collaboration


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