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Structural &

Civil Engineering

Alan Baxter


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About UsAt Alan Baxter we believe that an holistic approach leadso better buildings and places for people to live and work.

Since 1974 the rm has grown from a structural engineeringpractice into a highly regarded consultancy involved in allaspects of the built environment.


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Site visit

Engineering Antics

Eating togetherCricket team

Project review

Rooftop garden

Summer party

Graduate self build project

Study trips

Established in 1974

Financially secure

Independent

Design led

Driven by Quality

Unrivalled knowledge of existingbuildings

Award winning new building designs

Proactive team members

Economically aware

Understand the construction process

Committed to eective sustainability

in construction

Long standing client relationships


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ndon School of Economics

It is impressive that a rm their size can producesuch consistent high quality engineering."

ACE Engineering Excellence Judge, 2009

Award Winning Projects


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A selection of our recent awards:

St Martin-in-the-Fields, with Eric Parry

Architects

Structures Awards, 2009 Winner

AIA UK Chapter Design in Excellence, 2009

RIBA Award, 2009

BCIA Awards, 2009

Georgian Group Award for restoration

of a Georgian church, 2007

New Academic Building, London

School of Economics, with Grimshaw

ACE Engineering Excellence Award, 2009

Structures Awards, 2009 Shortlisted

Structural Steel Design Awards, 2009

Commendation

The National Gallery, with Dixon Jones,

Wright & Wright and Caruso St John

RIBA Award, 2006

Castleford Bridge, with McDowell

& Benedetti

ACE Engineering Excellence Award, 2009

Structures Awards, 2009 Commendation

Structural Steel Design Awards, 2009

Winner

RIBA Award, 2009

RIBA CABE Public Space Award

BURA Waterways Renaissance Awards,

2009

Civic Trust Partnership Award, 2009

Constructing Excellence (Highly

Commended), 2008

Herbert Gallery & Museum, with

Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects

Civic Trust Commendation, 2009

Oxford Castle, with Dixon Jones

and Panter Hudspith Architects

Academy of Urbanism Great Place, 2009

RIBA South Award, 2007

MIPIM Best Hotels and Tourism Resort,

2007

Civic Trust CentreVision award for best

practice in town centre regeneration, 2007

British Homes Awards Mixed-use

Development of the Year, 2007

RICS South East Awards Best Regeneration

Scheme, 2007 and Overall Winner, 2007

Castleford footbridgeOxford Castle

Herbert GallerySt Martin-in-the-Fields

National Gallery

Details of our many other awards can be provided on request.

CharlotteWood

TimSoar


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Basements

Space is at a premium in the centre of ourmajor cities. This has led to a demand forever deeper basements.

e London Clinic


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We understand basement

construction. We have designed

several complex basements in

conned city centre sites which

have been built successfully and

completed on time and cost.

We understand the risks. Our

approach identies, eliminates

and manages them. Thisachieves economies in time and

money.

London Underground has

described our approach to

basement construction adjacent

to their assets as exemplary.

Eaton Place: Elevation showing deepunderpinning to mews

St Martin-in-the-Fields:Section showing NorthernLine below new basement

The London Clinic:Section showing basementdepth and proximity of CircleLine tunnel

Snow Hill, Birmingham: Deep basement next to station


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stleford Footbridge

BridgesBridges create communities. They can change

peoples lives many miles away from the dividesthey span. They create new links and new waysof moving. They can lift our spirits.

Tim Soar


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Hull Footbridge

Lochnagar Street Bridge

Liffey Bridge, Dublin

Roach Road Bridge

Liffey Bridge section

McDowell&Benedetti


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Places of Worship

Paul's Cathedral

Cathedrals are the focal points of our cities.Together with other places of worship, they act

as centres for debate and care of our communities.


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St Martin-in-the-Fields

New Visitor Centre, Southwark Cathedral

Salisbury CathedralCanterbury Cathedral Education Centre

York Minster

Mayapur, West Bengal: New 120m highunreinforced masonry temple in earthquake zone

St Martin-in-the-Fields: View from new entrance pavilion


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lton Park interior

Places of WorkThe way we work continues to evolve. Where we work hasto accommodate change and respond to the sustainabilityand carbon agendas. We are collaborating with clientsto achieve future-proof and sustainable modern ofcebuildings.


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AnthonyColeman

MorleyvonSternberg

BennettsAssociates

PeterCrook

Greyworld

RAC Bristol

Milton Park

Marble Arch House

Snow Hill, Birmingham: phase two under construction, with phase one behind

Siebel Headquarters, Egham

London Stock Exchange


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Art, History & Culture

Our museums and galleries inform our culture and values.Our national institutions are, almost without exception,nternationally recognised. We have lasting, long termelationships going back over 20 years with many of thesenstitutions, looking after their existing buildings, assisting

with exhibitions and implementing new projects.

omerset House: Since 1999


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Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Coventry

Tower of London

The Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch

Victoria & Albert Museum

Tate Britain

The National Gallery The British Museum

Museum of Childhood


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HaworthTomkins

London Hippodrome: Conversion to a casino

Royal Opera House

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre

Hull Truck Theatre

Winterood Theatre, City of London

Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: Initial plans

CadmiumDesign


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Places of Learning

ss Business School

Our schools and universities have struggled to upgrade

and renew their facilities to keep pace with the advances ineducation. In the past decade this has changed. Our interestgoes beyond efcient and effective structural engineering,o how the buildings and places we create inuence theearning environment and wider development of students.


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London School of Economics: Suspended structure achieves column free breakout space over lecture theatre

Primary school classrooms: Prefabricated timber pods

Gibraltar School: New comprehensive schoolHull History Centre & University Archive:Timber wintergarden structure

Corpus Christi, Cambridge: New library


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Hotels

xford Castle

Many of the most successful and notable hotels are housedin buildings of historic or architectural interest. The buildingsprovide an identity and dene their character. The formerOxford Castle Prison or the home of the Astors at Cliveden inBerkshire are examples.


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IanSpringfordArchitects

CharlotteWood

Cliveden, Berkshire

Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street Station

Serjeant's Inn: Conversion of ofce building to hotel

Oxford Castle

Hotel Pods: Stressed skinprefabricated bedroom units


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Infrastructure

ndon Bridge Station

Our towns and cities cannot function without effective andefcient infrastructure. The challenge in the 21st century is howto renew and upgrade urban infrastructure efciently without

disrupting or destroying how cities work. An understandingof the engineering constraints and marrying these with therequirements of the brief points the way forward.


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Biggin Hill Aircraft Hangar: Main truss

London Bridge Station: Removal of Victorian arches allows a coherent station to be created with air rights building over

Meadowhall, Shefeld: Flood defence to shopping centre

Crossrail: Assessment of tunnelling effects on listed buildings

Snow Hill, Birmingham: Road alterations and railway viaductdesigned by Alan Baxter created a larger and more human site

Bishopsgate Goods Yard: Reuseof Victorian railway infrastructure


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Palaces & Country Houses

lace of Westminster

Many palaces and country estates are now visited by the publicor are home to important institutions or national bodies. Theneed to update these buildings for modern uses provides

many challenges. Observation and understanding their historyand past performance guides us in our approach. Costlynterventions can usually be avoided.


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Cams Hall

Marlborough HouseWaddesdon Manor

Palace of Westminster: Line of Route Pavilion

Clore Learning Centre, Hampton Court

Hampton Court

Thame Park

Burghley House

PringleRichardsSharratt


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xpress Wharf, Isle of Dogs

The UK remains short of good quality housing. In our largetowns and cities we are building higher with increased densityclose to public transport links. There is also demand for one-off high quality, high value houses and upmarket apartments,particularly in central London.

New Residential Buildings


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Susannah Street, East London: Built three monthsahead of programme due to design allowing fastconcrete construction techniques to be implemented

Hampstead: House rebuilt behind retained faade withlink tunnel to double basement beneath rear garden

Bolsover Street, London

Lowndes SquareGerald Road: New cantilever stone staircase


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ew Concordia Wharf

Residential RefurbishmentWe have been involved in creating some of the nest privateresidences in Britain, often using our conservation experiencen conjunction with imaginative engineering innovation.

Richard Bryant


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Eaton Place & Lowndes Close: Majorrefurbishment/reconstruction to uniteinto a single residence

Royal William Yard

15a Kensington Palace Gardens

St Pancras Chambers

Earls Terrace underground pool


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Retail & Restaurants

preys, Bond Street

Shopping and eating out are frequent activities for many

people and Londons retail often attracts internationalclientele. Our work is focused mainly on retail buildingsin our town and city centres close to transport linkswhich reects our view on sustainability, community andsuccessful urbanism.


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Selfridges, Oxford Street

5591 Knightsbridge: New mixed use development behind retained faade

Holy Trinity church, Marylebone

Lower Precinct & Covered Market, Coventry

Borough Market: Replacement of a 1950s concrete structurewith a new building incorporating elements from the Floral Hallat the Royal Opera House


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Science & Healthcare

ew Cancer Centre, The London Clinic

Hospital buildings are known to inuence the patient'sresponse to the care and treatment they receive inside them.This is not yet fully recognised or reected in new hospitalbuildings. Science and technology are demanding new buildingypes and spaces. These need to respond to future change asechnology moves on, in order to be truly sustainable.


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PeterCook/VIEW

The London Clinic Main Hospital:Revit modelling of building forrefurbishment & expansion

European Institute of Health & Medical Science, Universityof Surrey

Maggies Centre, Oxford

Health School, Rivermead Campus, Anglia RuskinUniversity

JS Pathology Laboratories, Camden

WilkinsonEyre


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e Castle, Stoke Newington

Leisure, recreation and tness are part and parcel of amodern and healthy lifestyle. Community leisure facilities

remain under-provided and some employers are nowproviding gymnasia and tness centres in the workplace,or arranging access to nearby local health clubs.

Sport & Leisure


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The Castle, Stoke Newington: A state of the art rock climbingcentre constructed within the redundant pump house

London Business School: Student Sports complex

Sir Peter Scott Centre, London: Bird Sanctuary & Visitor Centre

Kentish Town Sports CentreDance academy, Finsbury Town Hall


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Sustainability

ndon School of Economics New Academic Building:REEAM excellent, major contribution from structuralrategy retaining outer bay to support facades

We are committed to working in a way which embraces

conservation of the earths resources in the widest sense.Making the best use of our existing built stock and taking stepsto reduce its energy demands are the starting point. Newstructures need to use material efciently. We have to continueto recycle materials and reduce embodied carbon. Most effort isfocused on carbon revenue in construction. The carbon capitalembodied carbon) is equally, if not more, important.

Osborne


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Alan Baxter, London Ofce: We are housed

in a naturally ventilated former warehouse.The building management strategy uses nightpurging in conjunction with the thermal massof the structure to keep the building cool

BRE Campus: Our work is focused on the real issues associated withthe sustainable refurbishment of Victorian buildings

Bolsover Street, London: Built to BREEAM Eco-homes excellentstandard

RAC Rescue Control Centre, Bristol: Incorporates a thermal wheelheat-recovery system

Alan Baxter Lincolnshire Archives: A converted agricultural buildingmaximises natural lighting through its use of rooights and includesphotovoltaic panels for power

Hampstead: Installation of closed loopborehole system at private house

St Martin in the Fields: Incorporates open loopboreholes for cooling and low level air plenum

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Other Services

Alan Baxter is a unique multi-disciplinary rm. The serviceswe provide have grown out of our wider interest in the builtenvironment and include historic building conservation advice,urban design & masterplanning and transport & movementconsultancy.


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The Works, Ebbw Vale: Masterplanning London Bridge Station: Pedestrian movement

Unilever House: Conservation advice as part of a major redevelopment project

Belgrave Square, London:

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