How green does your garden (or roof, home or business) grow?
In 2009 buildings accounted for about 43% of all the UK’s carbon emissions, leading to a concerted effort to bring in regulation aimed at making construction, and the built environment, more sustainable. Recent legislation has impacted on energy efficiency in both...How we work… in more detail!
We’ve added a few more pages to our site, focusing on the different ways we work with architects, developers and specialist consultants. For fuller information, have a browse, and meanwhile we have also added new case studies on Shipley Road (residential CLT...
Okebourne Road wins at the LABC Awards!
PRO Structures, together with Birmingham-based architects Daniel Hurd Associates, were highly commended at this year’s LABC Building Excellence Awards for their work at Verbena Court, Okebourne Road, Bristol – a development of four high-spec new homes...
Cross-laminate timber – the faster, greener way
Cross-laminated timber is the product most likely to keep people in the structural steel and concrete business awake at night. Known simply as CLT, small timber sections are formed into large structural panels that are light, stable and very strong. As well as lending...Happy New Year from PRO Structures
Just a note to wish all our clients and suppliers a happy, healthy, stable and profitable year in 2016, from all the team.
Breaking ground at Bushy Park
Piling has been completed and building work will shortly be breaking ground at Bushy Park, a development of five exclusive town houses with a build cost of £1.25m in Totterdown, Bristol. The houses will all be four-storey,...
Rabbit out of the hat for the construction industry
Whether it was, as various opposition commentators claim, an autumn statement which resorted to ‘smoke and mirrors’ to deal with the budget deficit yesterday, the construction industry as a whole can breathe a collective sigh of relief over the...
New offices at 1 Harbury Road!
We’re thrilled to announce our move to new, proprietary offices at 1 Harbury Road, Henleaze BS9 4PN. It’s fantastic to have our own space to grow in, as well as being able to offer easier access and parking than in our old Hotwells office. We’re...CDM 2015, or how many professionals does it take to change a lightbulb?
The changes in CDM regulations for 2015 will bring headaches to developers, contractors, architects and engineers alike. Here at PRO Structures, we have already run into queries over whether we can take on the role of ‘Principal Designer’, which is a new title taking...
New members of the team!
PRO Structures is delighted to welcome its new graduate engineer, Vitalijus Kovas, to the team. He joined us in May this year. Jenni O’Connor has also returned from maternity leave to work part time as our new Business Services Director, and Astrid, Elvis and...PRO Structures wins design for West Street Bedminster development
This is a new multi-storey residential development of around 14 apartments in Bedminster, Bristol. PRO Structures is delighted to have been invited to carry out the engineering design of the substructure and drainage for Prelon Commercial Ltd, working closely with GE2...Oakdene under construction
Our third luxury development of five bespoke villas for Charlcombe Homes is on site, with the substructure finished and the superstructure underway. It is located close to their previous schemes, Crown Hill and Lansdown Ridge, which have both been completed and their...New development at 317 Wells Road
PRO Structures has been appointed the structural engineer for this new residential development of six 1- and 2-bedroom apartments on the corner of Wells Road and Redcatch Road in Knowle, Bristol. Design is about to start.Worral Road extension and alterations completed
We were particularly happy with this beautiful kitchen extension and internal alterations, whose structural design we carried out on behalf of Homeworx. The room had previously been divided by a wall which blocked out the light and made it seem dark and gloomy. There...New contract with Persimmon Homes Wessex
We are thrilled to have won a new contract to provide structural engineering design for 51 new units on a sloping site in Royal Wootton Bassett. Construction started last September, and the foundations are now around 60% complete.PRO Structures wins at the LABC Awards
Another win for our team! We’re delighted to announce that one of our major clients, Charlcombe Homes, won ‘Best Small Housing Development’ in the 2013 LABC Regional Building Excellence Awards. This was for Ensleigh Lodge, their first development of bespoke mansions...Third consecutive scheme won with Charlcombe Homes
Our third luxury development of five bespoke villas for Charlcombe Homes, Oakdene, has started on site, close to their previous schemes, Crown Hill and Lansdown Ridge (pictured), which have both been completed and their lucky owners taken up residence! We are...PRO Structures wins at Design Bristol Awards
Two schemes for which we acted as structural engineering consultant have won at the Design Bristol Awards, announced in May – one in the ‘Best Housing – Small Developer (1-10 Units)’ category, and the other in the ‘Best Domestic Extension category’. The scheme winning...Archived Posts
May 2013 – Crown Hill on the way up This luxury development of five bespoke villas for Charlcombe Homes is well underway, with superstructure shell and core 60% complete as we enter May. This follows the successful completion of their Lansdown Ridge project, where...
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