Holiday Inn, Kingston

• Client: Sun Hotels
• Architect: Denner Ellis, Boddington
• Market Sector: Hotels
• Services: Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Building Control

"Kingston House" was originally a five storey 1960's office building before its conversion to a 4 Star Hotel.

The scheme involved refurbishment of the original building and the construction of a new extension to provide 120 bedrooms, reception space, a restaurant & bar, a banqueting hall and office space.

The original building comprised a reinforced concrete frame with pre-cast concrete pot and beam floors which required strengthening to allow for the extra loading from the granite finished bathroom pods. The new build extension comprised a steel transfer structure at first floor level formed using Fabsec beams to provide large, clear spans for the restaurant and the banqueting hall.

The rooms above were formed using a lightweight metal frame system to minimise the loading with insitu concrete floors on permanent metal deck formwork to provide robustness and the
necessary acoustic performance.

Large mass concrete pad foundations excavated through the upper clay to gravel below negated the need for piling and reduced the programme considerably.

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