With
highly qualified staff,
using the latest specialist software for designing and detailing Nolan
Associates can provide detailed information and drawings for all
structural requirements.
Nolan Associates are a company that strives to attain cost effective yet innovative structural solutions. Our target is to maintain the vision throughout to create high quality, sustainable, functional, adaptable and aesthetically pleasing structures.
Nolan Associates are a company that strives to attain cost effective yet innovative structural solutions. Our target is to maintain the vision throughout to create high quality, sustainable, functional, adaptable and aesthetically pleasing structures.
Services
Include:
- Procurement of the Site and Environmental investigations.
- ‘Landmark Envirocheck’ based desktop studies.
- Utilities Searches and formulation of existing services plans.
- Procurement of Dimensional and Level Site Survey.
- Wind loading analysis of the buildings and structures.
- Design and detailing of reinforced concrete retaining walls, foundations including piling, vibro compaction, dynamic compaction. Ground improvement and stabilisation techniques as well as traditional ground bearing foundations.
- Superstructure structural design and detailing in steel, concrete masonry or timber.
- Secondary steelwork design and detailing such as wind posts, brickwork support angles and window and door frame supports.
- Design and detailing of industrial ground floors slabs.
- Design and detailing of suspended floors slabs. These include composite decking, reinforced concrete.
- Design and detailing of industrial machine foundations, press bases and pits.
- Detailed specifications for the main structural elements of the works.
- All design can be done to latest British, European standards.
- Structural Condition and Survey Reports
- Expert Witness
- Risk Assessments
We
are experienced in advising
our clients about most Civil Engineering issues involved with land and
property development from pre-acquisition, through design,
construction, routine maintenance, improvements and change of use.
Our core technical skills and expertise in soil mechanics, traffic and highway engineering, hydraulics and structural engineering are used to provide an assortment of design services such as those below.
Services Include:
Sustainable Design
The promotion of sustainable solutions within the integrated design will be led primarily by the M&E consultant. The civil and structural contribution to this stage will involve the consideration of grey water harvesting, SUDS, structural mass, exposed structure, heating and ventilation systems, ground source heating/cooling. The sustainable issue has been high on project agenda for some years now, and as such we are conversant with appropriate solutions to meet the aspirations of the informed client, the contractor and the team.
Design Drivers
There are many publications in trade and product literature that promote the sustainable, rapid, economic and other benefits of construction solutions in concrete, steel, masonry, timber and each clearly has some merit.
A common recurring factor is thermal mass. This can be achieved with insitu concrete frame and insitu concrete flat slabs, precast concrete frame and precast slabs, steel frame and precast slabs combined with exposed structure hence quality finishes are expected and can be readily achieved. With the external façade a durable, robust and attractive solution can be achieved, which integrates with each frame solution and the glazing philosophy, in masonry, precast concrete, cladding panels or hybrid offsite fabricated elements.
Nolan Associates have been involved with a number of projects which have achieved BREEAM Excellent.
Our core technical skills and expertise in soil mechanics, traffic and highway engineering, hydraulics and structural engineering are used to provide an assortment of design services such as those below.
Services Include:
- Transportation Assessments
- Capacity calculations for highway links and junctions
- The design of new private and public highways (S38 agreements)
- The design of Highway alterations and improvements (S278 agreements)
- Swept path analysis
- Flood Risk Assessments and drainage strategies
- Watercourse flow and capacity calculations – the design of river diversions, ponds and other water features, culverts, headwalls, grilles and screens.
- The hydraulic assessment of existing Sewer and drainage networks.
- The development of drainage strategies.
- The design of new private drains and adoptable public sewers and pumping stations (S104 agreements).
- Sewage and process water treatment works and other water retaining structures.
- Sustainable Urban Drainage Techniques (SUDS)
- Digital ground modelling is used to determine optimum development levels.
- The selection of soil improvement techniques such as:
- Lime or Cement modification
- Vertical drains and soil surcharging to accelerate settlement
- Dynamic Compaction
- Vibro Compaction
- Reinforced Concrete and sheet pile retaining walls
- Gabion, modular concrete and reinforced earth retaining walls.
- Earthworks and slope stability
- Economic design of flexible and rigid pavements including for very light and very heavy imposed loads as well as those from normal Highway vehicles and aircraft.
- Pavement design over very poor subgrades.
- To comply with our statutory obligations under the CDM regulations we routinely carry out construction Risk Assessments, however we are also regularly consulted for advice on buildability and Value Engineering by both Employers and several International Contractors
Sustainable Design
The promotion of sustainable solutions within the integrated design will be led primarily by the M&E consultant. The civil and structural contribution to this stage will involve the consideration of grey water harvesting, SUDS, structural mass, exposed structure, heating and ventilation systems, ground source heating/cooling. The sustainable issue has been high on project agenda for some years now, and as such we are conversant with appropriate solutions to meet the aspirations of the informed client, the contractor and the team.
Design Drivers
There are many publications in trade and product literature that promote the sustainable, rapid, economic and other benefits of construction solutions in concrete, steel, masonry, timber and each clearly has some merit.
A common recurring factor is thermal mass. This can be achieved with insitu concrete frame and insitu concrete flat slabs, precast concrete frame and precast slabs, steel frame and precast slabs combined with exposed structure hence quality finishes are expected and can be readily achieved. With the external façade a durable, robust and attractive solution can be achieved, which integrates with each frame solution and the glazing philosophy, in masonry, precast concrete, cladding panels or hybrid offsite fabricated elements.
Nolan Associates have been involved with a number of projects which have achieved BREEAM Excellent.
