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1st November 2022
Celebrating 75 Years – 2000’s Case Study: Camberley Town Centre
The £130m development of Camberley Town Centre comprised a multi-use centre incorporating 10,700m2 retail units, 2,400m2 of restaurants, a 20-lane bowling facility, multiplex cinema with nine auditoria, a health and fitness centre of 2,000m2, 218 residential apartments and a multi-storey car park.
Perega acted as consultant civil and structural engineers to the scheme, working under a design and build contract for Crest Nicholson Regeneration and main contractor Laing O’Rourke.
The five-storey split level car park with 680 spaces was constructed in post-tensioned concrete and was built above the bowling alley. Complex post-tensioned transfer structures were designed to facilitate this.
A multi-screen Vue cinema was constructed over a ground floor retail unit, adjacent to residential units and therefore careful structural design and detailing was required to provide acoustic and dynamic separation. The buildings were designed generally with a post-tensioned concrete frame with the exception of the retail units and multiplex cinema which were designed utilising steel framing.
A complex key feature of the development was a full height atrium incorporating curved steel main support beams which provided a clear span between the two sides of the development and supported an ETFE pillow roof. At each end of the atrium space, full height glazed elevations were supported by curved feature steel trusses. Difficult ground conditions required the design of thousands of deep concrete piles to deal with the significant loads from the development.