Pre-Conference Seminar Designing and constructing domestic basements
12:45
Registration and refreshments
13:20
Opening address from the Facilitator
- Forecasting the future of domestic basement projects
Jim Cook
Director Ground Engineering
Buro Happold
13:40
Can you dig it? Planning for domestic basement construction – a local authority view
- Understanding the Unitary Development Plan - basements as permitted development
- Overcoming the cumulative effect of multiple basement plans from one particular street
- Looking at the issues that need to be addressed to ensure a safe and sensible development
- Exploring the role of a chartered engineer in signing off domestic basement plans and supervising construction
Jonathan Bore
Executive Director of Planning and Borough Development
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
14:20
Designing and constructing domestic basements
- Understanding the complexities of smaller basements under infinitely expensive properties – the need for a high tech solution
- Getting equipment into a small basement area
- Using deep underpinning
- Minimising the effect on adjacent buildings
- Using Kensington and Chelsea’s Subterranean Development Supplementary Planning Document as a best practice guide
Dr Vicki Hope
Associate
Arup
15:00
Afternoon refreshments
15:30
CASE STUDY: Working within a restricted residential site in London
- Outlining the project details and basement design
- Overcoming the restrictions of developing a site in Central London – logistics of a tight site, involvement of stakeholders, protecting adjacent properties
- Getting access to a very restricted site for construction
- Using conveyors through the property
- Manoeuvring large items of plant within a small site
16:00
CASE STUDY: Basement construction under a listed building
- Outlining the project details and basement design
- Controlling movements to avoid deformations that would cause damage to existing building
- Choosing the right waterproofing system for the site
16:30
