Two five storey town houses and two four storey maisonettes £1.2m
Adenstar start work next week on the construction of two town houses and two maisonettes on the car park site of Lansdowne Place Hotel within the centre of Brighton.
A small site with particular problems gave us an engineering challenge.
- An adopted foul drainage sewer running centrally across the site at a depth of 4.5 metres below ground level requiring re-diversion if Southern Water were to remove there objection to the development of the site.
- The need to limit the extent of the diversion to within the site boundary to avoid costly excavation works within the footpath and highway.
- The need to maximise the available site area for residential use while allowing for the diversion of the sewer to the far north end of the site.
- The requirement to have basements on all properties necessitated the need for a bored piled cantilever retaining wall around the site perimeter.
- The need to keep the superstructure construction simple to mitigate the expensive groundworks.
