HISTORICAL AND CONSERVATION ENGINEERING

GCA support and promote the core principals and best practice procedures in conservation, and historic building restoration and repair work by using minimal intervention techniques and sympathetic structural enhancements as and when found necessary.

If a detail structural appraisal identifies a significant structural defect or weakness, appropriate strengthening repairs can often be concealed within the skeleton frame to lessen the impact of necessary repair work.

Now more than ever it is often a requirement to balance modern comfort standards with the needs of frail historic fabric found in historic buildings. We can provide optimal solutions to cater for the conflicting demands as often arise while adapting a building for change of use or when providing extensions to listed buildings.GCA has received several notable awards and accolades for its heritage work.

The conservation engineering team is lead by Chris Pike in the Stafford office who gained an MA post graduate qualification in Historic Environment Conservation in 2007, and whose particular field of interest is in the historic industrial, public and commercial building sectors.Several case studies have been prepared that provide examples on some of the types of work undertaken and solutions engineered.

Case Studies