Mill House: engineering for apartments

Mill Rise (formerly known as Mill House) was one of our first projects in which we provided engineering for apartments. A beautiful housing scheme in an idyllic setting on the banks of the River Pont, Ponteland, brought with it considerable engineering challenges despite the small site. We worked closely with our colleagues at Edwards Architecture for our D&B client Galliford Try.
R Vint Engineering Limited was commissioned to design and deliver the top-quality apartments on the former Galliford Try office. The site contained many constraints such as easements, flooding, ecology, trees, slope stability, asbestos, and many more. These issues were overcome with an efficient and effective structure that included a piled raft to enable compensation storage for floor water, and timber frame upper floors to enable speed and ease of construction built off a robust insitu concrete undercroft car park. R Vint Engineering was instrumental in evaluating the constraints of the site and determining the most viable project form that enabled the creation of a fantastic scheme while respecting and responding to the tricky site conditions.
The building responds to the surrounding area, whilst achieving an excellent quality development of 18 apartments in line with the client’s brief. The footprint of the building is dictated heavily by the site constraints, including flood zones, severe slopes, a wildlife corridor, and existing easements. The building is efficient in its footprint and minimises the impact on the site and surrounding ecology.
Our engineering was delivered using a shared 3-D model that integrated both Revit and Robot, thus enabling true BIM collaboration, and our approach ensured a efficient and effective delivery on site.