Brookland Road, Leicester

  • Student accommodation
  • 248 beds
  • 6 storey thin gauge steel frame modular construction on piled foundation.
  • 2 x 5 storey load bearing masonry construction with piled foundation.
  • Contaminated soils imported to fill clay extraction pit adjacent to the historic brick factory.
  • Negotiations with Severn Trent Water over multiple large diameter sewers within site.

Services Provided

Structural, Civil, Drainage, Infrastructure, Traffic, Transportation,

Farrow Walsh advised on the phased demolition of the existing Stor-a-file storage facility and Angel Hosiery sock factory with 1200mm and 600mm diameter public sewers running through the site.

A particularly tight site to develop with varying ground depths due to the historic minerals extraction pit adjacent to the site from a pre-existing brick factory meant the foundations had to be piled.

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