CASE STUDY 2- NTS building, Thirsk, UK

Design informa on
The original design drawings and the structural model were obtained from Severfield. No structural calcula ons for
the original design were available.
More than 200 drawings were provided by Severfield and it was difficult and me-consuming to iden fy all
members and components from the drawings. Many members were hard-stamped which aided this process.
Most of the steel was grade S355 although there was also some grade S275 used for base plates and fi ngs, etc.
No tes ng was required to establish the steel proper es since full traceability to the original drawings was available.
Redesign
A number of elements of the new building required new or redesign. These included:
Strengthening the columns along the eastern column line
In the original building, the eastern column line of the new building was an internal column
line and therefore required s ffening to limit deflec on tolerances in the new building configura on. This was
achieved by welding a T-sec on (T 305x152x49 split from a UC) to all 26 columns (UB 610x229x101) on this grid line
In addi on, the base plates for the outer column lines AS and BA required redesign. The original base plate design
(750x400x25) was retained for the central valley line (AW) however larger base plates were used for the two
external column lines. The pad founda ons for the external wall columns were 3.5x2.5x0.6m deep. The pads for
the central (valley) line of columns was 2.8x2.0x0.6m deep.

- SHUBHAM KAKADE 18AR20