Avonbourne Residential Care Home is a new build care home with 120 rooms, for which PRP provided full civil engineering services.
A specialist foundation solution was required to mitigate ground borne vibration from the nearby steel cutting factory.
The proposal was to replace the traditional foundations and ground-floor construction of the building with a substantial concrete raft and accordingly the proposed design was tested and developed through an iterative process of computer model simulations until a demonstrably viable and robust solution was refined.
At completion, the required acoustic tests exactly matched the predicted results of attenuated reverberated sound and the building was passed for occupation.