Fire Safety
Post-Building Safety Act, fire strategy is central to residential design. We design detection, alarm and smoke control to the regime the building requires.
Engineering For Residential Buildings.
Apartment blocks, student accommodation and social housing. Designing services that meet fire safety and Building Regulations, hit the energy targets, and work at scale across repeated units.
Selected Residential Projects
Recent Projects.
Residential
Residential Apartment Block
Sample project, to be replaced. Multi-storey residential building with heat pump heating and a current fire strategy.
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Residential
Student Accommodation Scheme
Sample project, to be replaced. High-density student living with efficient services designed for cost per bed.
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Residential
Affordable Housing Development
Sample project, to be replaced. Low-running-cost homes designed to protect residents from fuel poverty.
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Building Types We Work On
Residential Isn't One Building Type.
A build-to-rent tower has different demands to social housing, and student accommodation different again. We design across the residential range, calibrating each time.
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Apartment Blocks
Multi-residential buildings designed against fire safety, ventilation and the energy standards now expected.
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Mixed-Use Residential
High-density living with predictable occupancy patterns and tight cost discipline per bed.
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Social And Affordable Housing
Cost-efficient, low-running-cost design that protects residents from fuel poverty.
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Build-To-Rent
Long-term-hold residential where running cost and maintenance shape the whole design.
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Retirement And Care Living
Comfortable, accessible homes with reliable heating and hot water for older residents.
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Student Accommodation
Homes above retail or commercial, with services coordinated across the uses.
What Residential Buildings Need
Four Things Residential Engineering
Four Things Residential Engineering
Has To Get Right.
Residential engineering is about people's homes. Get it wrong and the consequences are felt every day by the people living there.
Building Regulations
Part L energy, Part F ventilation and Part O overheating all bear on residential. We design to current standards, not the ones about to be superseded.
Energy Efficiency At Scale
Running costs are paid by residents. We design heat pumps and low-carbon systems that keep bills down across every unit.
Repeatable Design
Residential is built from repeated units. We design systems that work the same in unit one and unit two hundred, simplifying construction and maintenance.
How We Design For It
The Same Engineering Principles, Calibrated To Residential.
Discuss your projectRobust simplicity is the right starting point for homes. Residents aren't engineers, and the systems in their flats need to be intuitive, reliable and economical to run. A complicated system is one more thing to go wrong in a building someone lives in.
In practice that means designing fire strategy to the current regime, hitting Part L, F and O without overcomplicating, specifying heat pumps and low-carbon systems sized for real occupancy, and designing repeatable unit layouts that simplify both construction and the resident's experience.
From feasibility through to commissioning, the directors stay close to the project. We work alongside architects we know, with main contractors we've delivered with before, including Kier and Morgan Sindall.
Selected Residential Clients
Clients We've Delivered For.
