Willow Court, Extra Care

Rolton provided multi-disciplinary engineering services to support the development of a state-of-the-art, 60-unit extra care facility at Bassenhally Farm, Whittlesey.

Our engineers delivered a variety of investigative and design work, including; holistic drainage strategies, support with external areas such as car parks, paths, landscape levels, intrusive geotechnical site investigation, foundation and ground floor slab design, superstructure design (detailing load bearing and non-load bearing walls – masonry structure with steelwork as required, upper floor design – precast concrete),  and full infrastructure performance design.

Mechanical and electrical performance design services provided by our engineers included indicative layouts for a variety of services to cater for each unit and the facility overall (heating, domestic water service, LV distribution, fire detection, etc.).

As an extra care facility, all aspects of design were carefully considered to deliver a space suitable for comfortable, community life. Designs for the facility ensured that each unit was individually metered to create totally independent residential areas for let to a variety of tenants.

In addition to standard extra care requirements, additional services were provided to ‘future proof’ the residential apartments and allow for easy alteration at a later date to accommodate additional care facilities such as those required for Alzheimer’s patients.