Cabot Circus
We’re proud to have worked on innovative and inspiring solutions to preserve this historical site within a modern retail project in Bristol.
Project Details
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Client
The Bristol Alliance (Land Securities / Hammerson / Morley Fund Management)
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Architect
Chapman Taylor
Waterman provided structural and civil engineering services for the £500m development by the Bristol Alliance (a partnership between Land Securities, Hammerson plc and Bristol City Council).
Cabot Circus is a two-part scheme offering retail space totaling 97,000m² and is one of the largest regeneration projects to hit the South West of England that includes:
• 2 department stores
• 15 large stores
• 131 shop units
• 242 residential units
• 2,616 car parking spaces
The Quakers Friar scheme includes refurbishment of the 13th century Friary Building, and the development of new retail units and an 18-storey residential tower, generally constructed with reinforced concrete on piled foundations. These foundations were designed and constructed to bridge archaeological remains of previous Friary buildings. With four floors of retail, Harvey Nichols provides the main store focus to this area.
The main scheme uses 11,000 tonnes of steelwork and comprises six individually designed retail buildings (with House of Fraser occupying the anchor store) over a site wide service yard, including plant space. Several of the retail buildings incorporate large clear span cantilevers of up to 6m in length, which proved to be structurally challenging.
The main scheme at Cabot Circus is also home to the largest glass roof constructed in the UK.
Another unique element of the development is the distinctive curved pedestrian bridge connecting the multi-storey car park to the main building. Designed in conjunction with architect Wilkinson Eyre, the footway is enclosed within a glass canopy with varying inclined and parallel roofing, soffit profiles and side cladding, which enhance the sweeping curve form as it passes over the main road.
The main structure comprises a fully welded variable steel box deck, the shaped steel box beam consisting of constant sloping web plates and two inclined soffit plates. The support columns are tapered, eccentrically inclined and alternately reversed in direction to blend seamlessly with the deck structure and footway canopy.
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