Springside Residential Development (East Phase)

Project Description

Flatted residential development incorporating the construction of an underground car park with 227 spaces, a podium slab with a bridge section and six residential blocks of up to six storeys containing 240 flats.

Location: Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
Client: Fountain North Ltd
Value: £ 50 Million
Project Dates: 2010

Construction Overview

The underground car park is formed with reinforced concrete retaining walls with a reinforced concrete podium capping slab. The basement floor level incorporates a SUDS system through the use of a permeable paved surface with a deepened filter medium sub-base. The frames are reinforced concrete construction with post tensioned floor slabs with stability from concrete lift shafts and shear walls. The roof structures are formed in steelwork. Foundations are pad with trench fill within the basement area and piled outwith these areas.