Case Study - Gillespie Close
Overview
The property is a modern home built early 2000. The current owners sought to have their loft converted to provide additional habitable space.
The roof construction was typical of the majority of recently built houses comprising pre-fabricated timber trusses at regular centres spanning between the external walls.
We were employed by the Architects MaKing Plans, to provide a solution to this problem and to design and detail the structure to allow the conversion to obtain Building Regulation consent.
Brief
- Determine a method of supporting the roof and ceiling to allow the removal of the internal truss lacings
- Provide structural support for the new loft floor and trimming for the stairs
Solution
- Site survey of the existing roof structure
- Preliminary sketch proposals to Architect
- Structural steels to support the truss and new floors
- Loadbearing stud partitions off the steel beams to support rafters
- Steelwork Splice design and detail to allow the beams to be inserted in shorter, more convenient lengths
- Structural calculations and arrangement drawings
