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When Mason Navarro Pledge was appointed as engineering consultants on the new Stephenson Way student accommodation development, the team turned to Trimble’s multi-material structural design software to provide the streamlined workflows and interoperability required.
Stephenson Way is a proposed new student accommodation development in the heart of London, with a focus on elevating student living. Located near Euston Square tube station, the design is a 72-unit, 8-storey building, featuring a single-storey basement and containing 1,500 cubic metres of concrete. As to be expected, the development faces a congested site footprint, surrounded by existing multi-storey buildings of a similar height.
Mason Navarro Pledge, the engineering consultancy firm, was appointed to provide structural and civil engineering services on the project, taking it from Stage Two to Stage Six / Seven of the RIBA Plan of Works (PoW).
The busy city-centre location presented the team with two key structural challenges: the first, an existing curved vehicular ramp, which provides access to the rear of one of the existing buildings and had to be maintained as part of the new development. The second being complex party wall issues, with neighbouring buildings close to the boundary line on three sides (including one flank wall which had to be retained by the new development) and a highway adjacent to the fourth side.
