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News Release from: CADlogic | Subject: ArchCAD+ CAD system
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 June 2003
Cadlogic System Used For £8m Design
Project
A complex £8m architectural design project for Castle Walk, Newcastle-under-Lyme, is achieved with use of Cadlogic Ltd's archCAD+ CAD system.
The 20-strong architectural practice of Brownhill Hayward Brown, based in the pretty cathedral city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, have a wide-ranging client portfolio from English Heritage projects on listed buildings through ecclesiastical and educational sites to healthcare, industrial, retail and office developments all over the UK The partners have achieved prestigious awards for their work at both local and national level
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 14 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Brownhill Hayward Brown completed the first phase of their 120,000 sq ft Castle Walk retail development in the centre of Newcastle-under-Lyme in December 2001 in time for Christmas shopping.
This town of around 75,000 population is in fact one of the chief shopping areas serving the Potteries conurbation.
The first phase commenced on site in September 2000.
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The second is now under construction and due for completion in Summer/Autumn 2002.
The total build cost is in the region of £8m.
The scheme comprises a new pedestrianised street of 34 tailormade retail units between 20,000 sq ft and 500 sq ft, together with a paved "events space", public conveniences and new bus station.
All are easily accessible for the disabled.
The site was previously occupied by open ground used for car parking and an underutilised bus station.
Ballast Construction of Nottingham are the main contractors for this "design-and-build" project.
Being Heritage architects, Brownhill Hayward Brown were the ideal choice for designing the development to fit in with Newcastle-under-Lyme's traditional Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian townscape.
Accordingly, local bricks and tiles have been used and elevations partly rendered.
The site falls 3m from one end to the other and 2m from side to side.
Shopfronts, windows and rooflines are all varied and complex.
The computer-aided design and draughting system operated by Brownhill Hayward Brown is CADlogic's archCAD+, with its automated parametric routines for walls, doors and windows; calculation facilities for floor areas; and standard libraries of architectural symbols - for everything from electricity supply to sanitary fittings for the public toilets - and structural steel sections to standard sizes and weights.
Back in December 1994, to replace existing manual facilities for production drawings, the practice decided to purchase a copy of the proprietary archCAD+ 2D parametric system from the architectural solutions provider CADlogic Ltd, also based in Lichfield.
Since that time, they have gone on to utilise the CAD system very successfully on a range of PC workstations, for architectural projects valued from hundreds of thousands up to tens of millions of pounds.
For the Newcastle-under-Lyme retail development, they had to design a number of variations to the scheme for consideration and comment before the final choice was made.
Thereafter hundreds of CAD drawings were prepared in the course of the project.
The archCAD+ files were easily exported to the relevant subcontractors and Consulting, Structural and Services engineers, most of whom ran AutoCAD, whilst their files - as well as bought-in Ordnance Survey mapping - were seamlessly imported.
The 30 to 40 different drawing layers created using archCAD+ reflected different phases of construction and the services involved.
A particular example of the use of CAD for problem-solving was in creating the elaborate and geometrically complicated, octagonal, lead-covered, Edwardian-style cupola which surmounts the resited, flagship 20,000 sq ft Wilkinsons store (www.wilko.co.uk) on the ground floor with JJB Sports (www.jjb.co.uk) on the first floor.
Brownhill Hayward Brown's CAD plot to fullsize dimensions was used as a template to profile the rafters of this cupola, which measures fully 8m across and 12m high to its top, excluding the finial/lightning conductor.
Meanwhile the British CAD developer CADlogic Ltd has provided dedicated technical support for its archCAD+ system when and where required throughout the project.
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