FARCOURT LTD
Contents
Company profile
Services provided
Recentprojects
Project by Client Business Sector
Project construction content
Projectindex
FARCOURT LTD
Company Profile
Founded in 1988.
Provides integrated design consultancy service.
Expertise in structural engineering & light civils.
Projects for industrial, process, commercial & domestic developments.
Specialists in structural steelwork
Both new & refurbishment work undertaken.
Contracts completed for both home & overseas (UK based) markets.
Based in Northwest of England.
FARCOURT LTD
Planning
Management Services:
In-House design squad leadership.
Multi-disciplinary technical & design co-ordination.
Site design problem eradication.
On the job student training
Design
Design Services:
Design development & structural planning.
Concept proposals & scheme sketches.
Production of design analysis & calculations.
2-D & 3-D computer modelling.
Structural design in steelwork, reinforced concrete, masonry & timber.
Refurbishment design work.
Design appraisal of existing structures.
Structural strengthening work.
Quality assurance of client & contractor designs.
FARCOURT LTD
On Site
Site Services:
Structural surveys.
Trial hole inspections.
Line & level surveys
Operational Area:
Core zone area - 30-mile radius of Manchester.
Extended zone area – North of England, Midlands & North Wales.
FARCOURT LTD
Projects
Recent Projects
Fishergate Shopping Centre, Preston –
Four-storey major city centre retail development of 40 tenant units
Client: Shepherd Gilmour, Manchester
Steel frame, precast concrete diaphragm floors with braced stair cores.
Piled foundations.
Farcourt Service:
Design and Development of steelwork frame.
Structural analysis and calculations.
Sketch scheme proposals.
Project Value: £35 million
Liverpool Park Southway –
Travel Interchange Cluster
Client: Halcrow
Public Concourse Building.
Steelwork frame multibay hybrid portals with curved rafters and intermediate tree columns.
Free waveform standing seam roof with glass curtain walling.
Pad and piled foundations
Farcourt Service:
Structural planning management of computer modelling
Façade engineering development
Collation of Structural calculation sets.
Project Value: £18 million
Chapel Quarter, Nottingham –
Six-storey Hotel, Office and mixed Commercial tenanted development with ground floor parking.
Client: W.S.P., Manchester
Reinforced concrete frame with flat slab floor construction, designed with sway.
Suspended ground slabs.
Piled foundations.
Farcourt Service:
Development of computer modelling
Forming structural design of main frame
Site Problem resolution.
Project Value: £15 million
A380 Airbus Creep & Skin Mills, Chester-
Veryards Limited
High Bay clad steel frame. 54m clear span “N” type deep roof trusses & column construction. Twin 6-tonnes capacity cranes underslung from roof trusses. Pad foundations.
Farcourt Service:
Design of Steelwork & foundations.
Site Problem resolution.
FARCOURT LTD
Client & Project History
FARCOURT LTD
Project Construction & Content
KEY
TYPE / COM / COMMERCIAL (NEW)IND / INDUSTRIAL (NEW)
PRO / PROCESS (NEW)
REF (IND) / REFURBISHMENT, INDUSTRIAL
REF (COM) / REFURBISHMENT, COMMERCIAL
DOM / DOMESTIC (NEW)
STRUCTURE / STWK / STRUCTURAL STEELWORK
PC / PRECAST CONCRETE & STEELDECK COMPOSITE
RC / REINFORCED CONCRETE
BRWK / MASONRY
TIM / TIMBER & TRUSSED RAFTER ROOFSCAPES
CF / COLDFORMED
FOUNDATIONS / CON / MASS CONCRETE STRIPS & PADS
RCON / REINFORCED CONCRETE STRIPS & PADS
PIL / PILES
BAS / BASEMENTS
RA / RAFTS
RET / RETAINING WALLS
FARCOURT LTD Projects by Construction Content p1 of 2
STRUCTURES / FOUNDATIONS
PROJECT / TYPE / STWK / PC / RC / BRWK / TIM / CF / CON / PIL / B AS / RA / RET / RCON
Chapel Quarter, Nottingham / COM / / / / /
A380 Airbus, Chester / IND / / / / / /
Healthcare Centre, Sandbach / COM / / / / /
BFD Site, York / COM / / / /
Co-op Stores, Builth & various / COM / / / /
Eurofighter, Warton / REF (IND) / / /
Nimrod, Kinloss / IND / /
Hawk Trainer, Brough / REF(IND) / / / / / /
M & S, Manchester / COM / / / / /
Soccer Dome, Trafford Centre / COM / / / / /
Schools Programme, Wigan / DOM / / / / /
JJB Sports, Oldham / COM / / /
Jackson’s Wharf, Castlefield / COM / / / / /
The Beacons, Warrington / COM / / / /
Acoustic Fatigue, Warton / IND / / /
Gun Run, East Manchester / COM / / / / /
Incinerator, Wrexham / / /
ESLI, Beckton & Crossness / / / / / /
Grosvenor Court, Chester / COM / / / /
Superhub, Manchester Airport / COM / / / / /
FARCOURT LTD Projects by Construction Content p2 of 2
STRUCTURES / FOUNDATIONS
PROJECT / TYPE / STWK / PC / RC / BRWK / TIM / CF / COM / PIL / BAS / RA / RET / RCON
Sizemix Plant, Wrexham / REF (IND) / / / / /
Loading Docks, Belper / COM / / / /
Silver Plant, Mobberley / / / /
Cereals Mill, Trafford Park /
Morton Park, Darlington / COM / / / / / / /
Chatsworth Park, Barrow / COM / / / / /
Deepdale Pavilions, Preston / DOM / / /
FARCOURT LTD
Project Index
“A” Shed hangar, Brough
Acoustic Fatigue Facility, Warton
Bishop’s Fields, York
Building Society offices, Lancaster, Birmingham and Stretford
Carbon Black project, Tabriz, Iran
Checks to existing steelwork gantries and R.C bunkers, Daw Mill Colliery
Church, R.A.F. Leeming
Co-op stores, Builth Wells
Crown Buildings, Goole
East London Sludge Incineration projects
European Fighter Aircraft Hanger 302 refurbishment, Warton Aerodrome
Feasibility proposals for process buildings, Derbyshire
Fishergate Shopping Centre, Preston
Gun-Run sports hall project, Miles Platting
High Bay warehouse, B.A.T.
Hospital, Bradford
Housing Development, Preston
Jackson’s Wharf, Public House & Restaurant, Castlefield
Jetty works, Boston Dock Authority
JJB Sports, Warehouse building, Manchester
Kiln project, Shap Fell
Liverpool Park Southway Travel Interchange
Loading dock facilities for warehouse complex, Belper (Thorntons)
Manchester Airport Superhub
Marks & Spencer store, Manchester
Office block and portal frame warehousing, Cornbrook, Manchester
Office Development, Grosvenor Court, Chester
Paper mill, Florida, U.S.A. (Simon Holder)
Preston Crown Courts
Primary School buildings, Wigan
Public houses, various
Repair works to RC framed process building, Trafford Park
School buildings, Cansfield
Shopping development, Barrow in Furness (Shoprite)
Shopping Centre, Blackpool
Shopping mall complex, Darlington (Morrisons)
Silver reclamation process plant extension, Mobberley
Simulator Building, Kinloss
Size mix and Chiller Process plant, Wrexham
The Beacons Business Park, Warrington
Trafford Centre soccer dome, Manchester
Waste incinerator plant, Wrexham (Trinco)
Y.M.C.A., Castlefield, Manchester