At JME Consultants we have successfully delivered the full design and detail of many reinforced concrete designs with a wide range of complexity. Our design works typically include checks on anticipated crack widths due to early thermal actions and flexural stresses, concrete mix specifications, full design and detailing on the required reinforcement sizes, arrangements, and lap lengths, specification of the build-up beneath the concrete structures, checks on the suitability of the ground beneath, designing suitable pile arrangements and anticipated loads applied to the piles. A brief summary of some of the reinforced concrete projects we have worked on:
- Large reinforced concrete swimming pools at many prestigious locations (Bristol City FC, The Berkley Hotel Mayfair, The Municipal Buildings Liverpool, Congleton Leisure Centre to name but a few!)
- Reinforced concrete retaining walls. One design we completed was subjected to extreme loading conditions. This retaining wall was required as part of a shipping container storage yard extension for Bulkhaul and subjected to loads of up to 500kN (i.e. 50 tonnes!) This retaining wall also needed to bridge over a series of buried services (including a HV cable) within the ground. To ensure that the retaining wall was suitable and stable, it was necessary to tie it back into the yard slab at head level, forming a propped cantilever retaining wall arrangement.
- Reinforced concrete bunds and support plinths.
- Reinforced concrete pads supporting lighting columns up to 25m high.
- Large ground bearing reinforced concrete rafts supporting industrial units or residential buildings. The largest reinforced concrete raft we designed measured approximately 70x30m and so careful detailing of concrete joints and the required locations was necessary.
- Large piled reinforced concrete raft beneath a steel frame supporting a series of cooling tower units. We also designed the steel frame on this project too!
- Reinforced concrete ring beams for residential structures due to the presence of poor ground conditions or trees being too close for standard foundations to be suitable.
