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We are an experienced engineering consultancy specialising in structural and civil

design. We offer a broad range of services within the construction industry, over all

sectors including commercial, education, industrial, leisure, medical, residential and retail.

With over 50 years’ experience and a dedicated team, we aim to exceed our clients’

expectations through dynamic, efficient and economical engineering solutions. We are

a sustainable practice, working toward green initiatives on all our projects where viable.

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www.peterdann.com

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PETER DANN AND PARTNERS LTD

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‘It has been said that in the City of Cambridge you are never more

than 300m from a building that Peter Dann have been involved with.’

Peter Dann set up practice in February 1963. He was joined by Paul Riddington in 1965 when the

company became Peter Dann & Partners. In 1986 the partnership became a limited company.

In the 90s an increasing amount of work was emanating from the capital and the London office was

opened in 1996 following the acquisition of Burt & Millea.

Peter Chapman was appointed as an associate to run the London office, becoming a director in

1997. The company name was changed to Peter Dann Limited in 1999.

Guy Dolby joined Peter Dann in 2000, promoted to director in 2001 and becoming Managing Director

in 2005.

The investment we have made in people, as well as technology, such as the introduction of Revit, 3D

structural analysis and Union Square, place us in an excellent position to develop our market share

of projects as we emerge from recession to a period of sustained growth.

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Our team of over 50 members and growing, operate from offices in Cambridge & London,

with a collaborative & energetic cohesive approach. As ‘Investors in People’ since 2003,

we embrace knowledge sharing as a core principle amongst all our staff and we are

committed to the development of our next generation of engineers and technicians.

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We understand the importance of incorporating the latest technologies into our projects

and have embraced a collaborative work practice through our commitment to BIM.

Our aim is to improve the design process through collective decisions

during the design, build and operational stages of a project.

We are UKAS ISO:9001 accredited and have recently invested in an integrated information

management system enabling us to manage our projects even more efficiently.

Over 80% of our projects are repeat client business. We believe

this is because we always aim to exceed our client’s expectation.

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We have experience in a variety of educational projects from teaching blocks, sports halls

& theatres to laboratories and residential buildings. Our experience of former construction

techniques is also beneficial in foreseeing problems in refurbishments of older establishments.

Many of the projects that we have worked on in this sector have

been generated through long term relationships with universities, local

authority, public & private schools, to nurseries and early learning centres.

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We have undertaken many commercial office schemes, ranging from large, mixed use

city centre developments, to technologically advanced offices and head office buildings.

Many commercial office schemes we have worked on are refurbishment projects,

with consideration of the life span of the building needed to be taken into account.

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We often work on retail sites in need of refurbishment with tight programmes, required

to maintain trading whilst construction works progress. The structural requirements

of these facilities, range from the need for flush, durable surfaces, to abundant

natural lighting and engineering solutions that can be rapidly installed.

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Peter Dann has over 20 years’ experience in modular construction, with

a detailed knowledge of the principles of both design and procurement.

We have in depth experience in volumetric solutions and panellised systems and

have applied modular solutions to hotels, student accommodation, social housing,

and key worker accommodation as well as private housing and hospital projects.

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Close consultation with our clients’ from the early stages of development of design has

always been considered of major importance in achieving a successful outcome on

hotel & leisure projects. We have worked on many landmark hotels such as The Morton

Hotel & Citizen:M hotels across Europe, as well as leisure facilities, most notably The Rose

Bowl Cricket Ground in Southampton - voted in the top 10 cricket grounds in the world.

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Walsgrave Hospital

Our experience of operational medical practices allows an informed design

philosophy toward the most suitable choice of material and construction technique.

We have undertaken many projects for the NHS, as well as private sector providers

and are conversant with the complications of working a 24 hour, year round service.

The heavy services requirements for buildings of this type are accommodated by our collaborative

approach, ensuring we are a fundamental part of the design team from the outset of every project.

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Over the past 50 years we have developed our extensive experience in historic building

restoration. We have a sympathetic approach toward sustainable and ecological design

through the re-use of materials and retention of structures of historical significance. We

aim to provide structural solutions with minimal interference to the character of historic

properties, whilst breathing new life into dilapidated or weakened buildings and structures.

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Industrial Processing Plant

Peter Dann have completed many industrial projects, including warehousing,

chemical works, food processing facilities and feed mills. We have provided solutions

to vibration problems in machinery and regularly provide designs to resist seismic

loads as well as other less common load cases both in the UK and around the world.

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We have extensive experience in innovative drainage design,

which often requires alternative solutions or the use of SUDS

techniques to meet current and future planning/government objectives.

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Building Information Modelling (BIM) is sometimes mistaken for being solely used to produce

drawings from 3D Models, but the capacity of BIM is expansive. BIM looks beyond the planning

and design phase of the project, extending throughout the building life cycle processes including

building design, cost management, construction management, and facilities management.

The aim is to combine technology with new working practices to improve the quality of the delivered

project information, through efficiency of communication within the design & construction process.

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New North Community School New North Community School has been designed to maximise the multi-purpose use of space. It provides an inclusive environment which includes community facilities providing a Sure Start Children's Centre for 50 children, a dance hall, catering, changing rooms and multi-use games facilities.

It also complies with the latest standards of disability including for the visually impaired. The school is also designed to be physically accessible and welcoming to parents and the community during and out of school hours.

The building was constructed using traditional masonry on piled foundations to provide thermal mass and enable natural ventilation. The rotunda portion of the building is steel-framed with one-colour Storender walls. There is concrete flooring throughout with timber framed windows and external aluminium cladding.

77 Queen Victoria Street 77 Queen Victoria Street involved the modernisation of an existing

concrete framed office building to increase the rentable floor area and

improve floor layouts.

Peter Dann implemented a relocation of the service risers to not only

suit the revised floor plate layout but to also enhance the services

provisions. We also designed the infill of the existing atria to further

increase the floor area. This project required the remodelling of the

glazed entrance façade, entrance steps and reception area. In addition,

construction of new roof top balconies was required to also maximise

the use of space. This project was shortlisted for the BCO ‘Best

Refurbished/Recycled Workplace’ 2014.

Cath Kidston Flagship Store The new Cath Kidston store located at 180 Piccadilly, adjacent to The Ritz and Fortnum and Masons is the flagship outlet for the global lifestyle brand.

We were involved in the structural design for the fit out of the 7,070 sqft shop. The addition of the new London store brings the total number of UK stores to 68.

North End Road, Wembley A £23m, 435 bedroom development for student accommodation provider Victoria Hall Ltd adjacent to Wembley Stadium. The building consists of three modular wings around a central spiral-shaped, 19 storey reinforced concrete tower. The building includes a piled basement and single storey reinforced concrete podium housing offices, plant rooms, stores and electricity substation. The wings were designed by Peter Dann using the Ayrframe volumetric modular system. Each module was bespoke designed to suit the client and architects requirements.

The 19 storey reinforced concrete central tower consists of a series of radial fin walls surrounding a central jump form core, designed by Peter Dann. The modules provide eco-friendly, sustainable and low maintenance buildings with over 90% reduced waste during construction. Modules were installed at a rate of 7 modules (or ten bedrooms & two kitchens) per day, which equated to approximately 200sqm/day from just one mobile crane. The overall programme for this hybrid modular/traditional development was 16 months. Incorporating modular off site construction into this development offered the client a 6 month saving on their programme.

Citizen M: Lavington Street ‘A collection of innovative concept, CitizenM is a hotel driven by one desire: to create affordable luxury for the people.’ Citizen M, Bankside is a 6 Storey Modular hotel built over a single storey traditional steelwork podium. The design included trendy offices, a boutique bar and restaurant.

Peter Dann designed volumetric light gauge steel frames to create the hotels modular bedrooms. The fully fitted out frames were fabricated off site and lifted into position with large mobile cranes. The modular bedrooms were then tied into pre-cast concrete lift cores.

Royal Hospital, Chelsea This project involved the extensive and high level refurbishment of this Grade I listed Sir Christopher Wren

building in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. The works required structural openings to be formed in

one of the original courtyard buildings and modifications of the original panelling to meet the revised layout of

the Pensioners’ Club.

The refurbishment focused on the bar, restaurant and recreational facilities of the Chelsea Pensioners’ pub in

the North West wing, the social heart of the hospital. The aim was to improve functionality and appeal of the

building for present and future pensioners whilst preserving the architectural heritage.

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a Grade II listed building in Kensington. The project involved the transformation of the Concert Hall and surrounding areas to bring the facility up to modern standards. The acoustics, lighting and air-conditioning were upgraded to a level that would ensure that the hall would be a cutting edge performance space for many years to come. The existing roof trusses originally constructed in 1908 were surveyed and analysed to ensure they could take a new acoustic coffered ceiling, lighting bars and services within the roof space. A new plant room with an acoustic enclosure was added to adjacent roof space, with the loads transferred to the existing structure below.

B&Q Superstore, Folkestone This new development for B&Q Superstore in Folkestone, Kent required a large cut and fill exercise using sheet piled retaining walls to facilitate a level site on a steep hillside area to the south of the channel tunnel rail link.

A large surface water attenuation system was incorporated below the new front car park so that the discharge of both the ground water and surface run off from the car park into the local authority sewer was kept within acceptable limits.

The existing concrete hard standings and ground slabs from the existing industrial building on the site were broken up on site and crushed in order to allow use of the material for a ground improvement capping layer.

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