Impact House

What we did

ASES was appointed to carry out a pre-demolition, floor plan survey to facilitate the preliminary design. In addition, a detailed façade and a site wide topographic survey was required to enable the car park and new entrance construction. Ongoing setting out during the construction phase.

Commencing with the internal floor areas, Laser scanning was used to rapidly record accurate perimeters and above ceiling structural beams, work in progress drawings were issued by our CAD technicians on a floor by floor basis to initiate the design process.

Roof areas were critical as they were used to house mobile communication equipment, the use of laser scanning meant that every detailed was captured.

Following the internal floor areas, high resolution scans were carried out around the external perimeter. The scans were controlled to an error free traverse to ensure accurate co-ordination to the internal survey.

Following the demolition, the internal floor plan survey was repeated with focus on the now exposed structural features, ie: Soffit beams and steel columns.

A live NHS Primary Care Trust clinic occupied part of the ground floor, directly under a number of converted flats. This presented a challenge as proposed drainage routes had to flow though the clinic’s ceiling void.

Only accessible after hours, ASES accurately traversed survey control into the clinic, allowing the connected survey of the ceiling to the buildings plans. Using a laser scanner ceiling tiles were removed in phases to expose the numerous services. The highly detailed plan drawing and point cloud delivery allowed the design of new vertical penetrations to avoid clashes with the vital services.

Once the building works commenced, ASES were involved throughout the projects duration with the continuous setting out of gridlines, datums and partition walls.