The Faculty of Social Sciences

The Faculty of Social Sciences

About

The 16,500m2 new Social Sciences building is designed to meet the future growth demands of the Faculty up to the year 2035, creating a world class, low energy sustainable building that encourages collaboration and enhances the Faculty’s reputation for excellence in teaching and research.

The scheme sits at the heart of a new social sciences mini campus providing bespoke accommodation for the departments of sociological studies, economics and politics alongside shared facilities for the whole faculty including a collaborative research hub.

Client : BAM Construction
Value : £7m
Location : Sheffield
Duration : 46 Weeks

Overview

Average Floor: 5000m2 Using Topmax and GASS system to provide Type B finish

Structural Concrete: 9000m3

  • Construction of Pile Caps,

  • Ground Beams,

  • Ground bearing slab with waterproof and gas membrane installed in house,

  • Complex post tensioned cast in-situ slabs and beams over 4 floors with double height soffits in places

  • Large stair and lift cores with hi-spec visual concrete finishes

  • Fibre reinforcement concrete to steel frame composite decks

  • Drainage (inc Section 50 applications and connections to Yorkshire Water), inc 4m deep land drains to dewater the site

  • External structures – plant room, substation, bin & bike stores, retaining walls

Sacred Heart School

About

The Sacred Heart Catholic School is a comprehensive school in Camberwell, London which has numerous buildings that make up the grounds. The layout is arranged with one main area for the majority of the school’s teaching space, a hall and sports block, and additional outdoor space to fulfil its requirements.

You can view some completed images by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture

Client : Balfour Beatty
Value : £2.8m
Location : Camberwell
Duration :

Overview

  • Tight site with restricted access
  • 3 storey in‐situ concrete frame
  • Use of panel formwork to produce regular ‘Fine Smooth Finish’ exposed soffits
  • Drainage system, including attenuation and off site connection
  • Service diversions, new service installation including HV
  • Reinforced concrete cores constructed using jump form
  • Exposed concrete columns

NQCC, University of Oxford

  • About

    The National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) is a new research institution funded through UKRI, which is dedicated to accelerating the development of quantum computing by addressing the challenges of scalability. Working with partners across industry, government and the research community, the NQCC will create the necessary R&D capabilities through coordination and delivery of a technical programme, alongside the commissioning and operation of new facilities.

    The programme will deliver assured quantum computing capability, enabling the UK to remain internationally competitive. The centre will be headquartered in a purpose-built facility at the STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory campus in Oxfordshire, which is due for completion in 2023. Read more here.

    Client : Wates Group
    Value : £2.3m
    Location : Didcot
    Oxford Duration :
    25 Weeks

    Overview

    • Enabling works 
    • Earthworks 
    • Underpinning 
    • Stair core bases 
    • Pad foundations & Ground beams 
    • Waterproofing 
    • Storm water drainage system 
    • Foul water drainage system 
    • Attenuation tanks  
    • Underground ducting network 
    • Ground floor slab including stainless steel reinforcement 
    • Concrete infill to Upper floors 

The Diamond, University of Sheffield

About

Client : Balfour Beatty Construction Limited
Value : £5.8m
Location : Sheffield

Overview

  • City centre project at high altitude with minimal lay down
  • 1200mm thick raft foundation
  • Drainage system, including attenuation and 3 off site connection by tunnel
  • Service diversions, new service installation including HV
  • Groundwater Control
  • Capping Beam and contiguous liner wall to 3 elevations
  • Reinforced concrete cores constructed using jump form
  • Raking exposed circular concrete columns
  • Double storey lecture theatre with geometrically challenging in‐situ beam
  • Post‐tensioned suspended slabs and associated beams
  • Structural steel link bridges and radius pods

AMRC Factory 2050, University of Sheffield

About

The AMRC Factory 2050 (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) is a component manufacturing facility for collaborative research. It has an area of around 6,730 sq m, and is constructed largely from glass. It is capable of rapidly switching production between different high-value components and one-off parts. It is a joint initiative of the University of Sheffield and US aerospace giant Boeing.

Client : Tilbury Douglas
Value : £3.2m
Location : Sheffield
Time : 2 Years

My groundworks contractor of choice

Having worked with the Moortown Group on a number of projects, they are now my groundworks contractor of choice. They possess the skills to drive a project whilst maintaining very high standards for quality and health and safety. The best I have witnessed within the construction industry.

Jack Broomhead

Jack Broomhead

Senior Site Manager, Northern Region, Tilbury Douglas

Sir William Bragg Building, University of Leeds

About

Client : University of Leeds
Value : £5m
Location : Leeds
Time : 3 Years

Overview

Scope of work

  • Enabling and site set up
  • HV diversion
  • Basement construction including liner walls and full waterproofing
  • Under slab and site wide drainage
  • Upper floor structural toppings
  • Site wide services and incoming to new building
  • Hard landscaping works including street furniture
  • Decommission and make good following completion
  • Laboratory standard clean room with anti-vibration plinths for equipment to sit on
  • Deep basement with substantial support beams
  • Paving and landscaping the front entrance and concrete benches
  • Full Sika Waterproof design installed
  • 2 Geo-cellular attenuation tanks installed 112m3 and 15m3
  • 2 foul water pumping stations
  • Constructing a capping beam averaging 330kg/m3 of reinforcement to the building
  • Full diversion of existing HV, Data and Steam mains around the proposed building for the university prior to the main works going ahead
  • Structural improvement works to the basement and roof of the existing Old Mining Building to allow additional levels to be installed above
  • 450t of reinforcement and 3,400m3 concrete poured.

Your commitment to health and safety, quality and willingness to work with the BAM team has been excellent

Your commitment to health and safety, quality and willingness to work with the BAM team has been excellent on what has been a large and complicated project with many different interfaces. The client is delighted with the end product on what is their flagship project, and this is a credit to all involved. We look forward to working with you all again on future projects.

Jonathan Conway

Jonathan Conway

Project Manager, BAM Construction