Dear all: We have not one, but two, Lunchtime Lectures this month and to kickstart our busy year ahead! Our first Lunchtime Lecture will be held next week Wednesday March 5th from 13:00-14:00 and is titled: Scottish National Gallery - Extension and Refurbishment (South Portico Temporary Works). Eventbrite details are linked below for those who wish to attend. This technical talk will outline the complex temporary works design required to form a link tunnel underneath William Henry Playfair’s iconic Palladian façade as part of the £38M refurbishment and basement extension works that opened in late 2023. Speaker, Ben McIlroy, led the temporary works design throughout the project and will discuss how Arup worked with Tilbury Douglas to design and deliver a scheme to temporarily support part of the South façade of the 1860’s building, to allow a 6m deep excavation to be made into the mound beneath so that a permanent link tunnel could be constructed. In this regard, a combination of unpredictable ground conditions and a listed façade structure resulted in a uniquely challenging project. The temporary works design won a prize at the regional Scottish IStructE awards and Ben was jointly awarded the IStructE’s Sir Arnold Waters medal for a presentation he gave on the topic at the Gallery itself. Speaker Details: Ben McIlroy (MEng CEng MICE MIStructE) is a Senior Structural Engineer in Arup’s Belfast office having previously spent eight years working in Arup’s Edinburgh Office. https://lnkd.in/eTqx2JuH Engineers Ireland The Institution of Structural Engineers IStructE NII IStructE Northern Ireland Regional Group
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