Residential
Anchorage Gateway
Salford Quays, Salford
Project overview
Anchorage Gateway is a residential development at Salford Quays, a waterside regeneration area on the Manchester Ship Canal that has been progressively redeveloped from dockland to a dense mix of apartments, offices and leisure uses. The scheme delivers apartment accommodation with amenity and ground-floor space on a prominent waterside plot.
Tall residential buildings of this kind rely on a repetitive floorplate, stability from concrete cores or shear walls, and a foundation solution suited to the made ground and former dock construction commonly found across the Quays. The structural design also has to accommodate the transition between the repeating residential grid above and the more open ground and lower-level uses beneath, together with the wind, robustness and disproportionate collapse requirements that apply to buildings of this height.
Carl contributed to the structural engineering design and delivery of the project while employed at Renaissance Associates, working within the consultant design team.
Project highlights
- Tall residential development
- Waterside regeneration site
- Core and shear wall stability
- Foundations in made ground
- Robustness and disproportionate collapse design
Project snapshot
- Sector
- Residential
- Location
- Salford Quays, Salford
- Employer at the time
- Renaissance Associates
- Structural form
- Framed residential structure with core stability and ground-level transfer.
Engineering challenge
Waterside made ground and former dockland construction influenced the foundation strategy, while the repeating apartment grid had to transfer to a more open arrangement at ground level.
Prior professional experience
Experience gained while employed at Renaissance Associates, prior to the formation of Bebbington Engineering Studio Ltd.
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