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title: Fenton Holloway Ltd | Dovercourt
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# Dovercourt

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## Multifarious Skills

The Dovercourt Development in Bristol, comprises 129 one, two, and three bed apartments, in blocks of up to 6 storeys high. With our multifarious skills, we were able to undertake the structural engineering design for the restoration of the historic 19th Century ‘White’ & ‘Yellow’ buildings, the new build elements as well as the concept and detailed design of the feature tensile membrane atrium canopy.

The new apartments are of timber frame construction built off a new reinforced concrete podium slab over a basement car park where we worked to re-use much of the existing pad foundations and retaining walls from the demolished 1960’s concrete framed garage. 

![Dovercourt-Long-Two](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Dovercourt-Long-Two.webp "Dovercourt-Long-Two")

![Dovercourt-Square-One](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Dovercourt-Square-One.webp "Dovercourt-Square-One")

![Dovercourt-Square-Two](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Dovercourt-Square-Two.webp "Dovercourt-Square-Two")

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![Dovercourt-Long-One](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Dovercourt-Long-One.webp?width=500&height=700&name=Dovercourt-Long-One.webp "Dovercourt-Long-One")

## Structural Engineering Design

External steel walkways, structurally separate from the apartment blocks, support the multi-conic canopy over the central courtyard. The tensile canopy is a multiple conic form with the perimeter supported from the external steel walkway framing which over-sails the apartment roofs to allow for drainage onto the roofs as well as providing a vent to the atrium space. The ‘flying’ masts are cable supported from the walkway framing and these are jacked to provide the fabric form. We designed and co-ordinated the entire frame and canopy structures for the client as well as undertaking the detailed design for the sub-contract specialist fabric manufacturer.

[ Portfolio ](https://www.fentonholloway.com/structural-engineering-design-projects)

## Related Projects

### Harford Manor

Harford Manor was envisaged as a 2000 m² ‘super-home’, a sumptuous residence with all kinds of luxuries built with high-quality materials and finishes. The house has six bedrooms with private bathrooms, as well as staff accommodation, two kitchens, a double height central galleria, dining hall, split level sitting room, cinema, library, indoor swimming pool and leisure complex.

[Read more ](https://www.fentonholloway.com/harford-manor)

### AIB Enterprise Pavilion

The Enterprise Pavilion at the Arts University of Bournemouth comprises modular studios for start-up enterprises sited around a digital imaging facilities house. The contrast between functions is also expressed in the structure, with the facilities house defined as a massive clear-cut timber cube, which is set against the individual timber studio units slotted into an exposed steel frame.

[Read more ](https://www.fentonholloway.com/aib-enterprise-pavilion)

### Freestyle Park, Moscow

Fenton Holloway worked in collaboration with MGPI and ABD Architects on the 280000 m², 100m-high, 420m-long Freestyle Park in Moscow incorporates a 37000 m² snow zone, designed by and using snow-making technology from Acer Snowmec Ltd. The building also houses an Aquapark, multi-screen cinemas, hotel, apartments, Conference Centre, retail, entertainment and extensive multi-storey car parking.

[Read more ](https://www.fentonholloway.com/freestyle-park)

### London Olympic Shooting Arena

Fenton Holloway were appointed to provide membrane and structural engineering services to a specialist contractor for the design of three temporary demountable buildings for the Shooting Arenas in Woolwich for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games.

[Read more ](https://www.fentonholloway.com/london-olympic-shooting-arena)

### Fitzpatrick Residence

The Fitzpatrick residence in Birmingham, Alabama, is an 800m² residential building of a high-standard architectural design. Fenton Holloway were appointed to undertake the detailed design of two valley-cable tensile fabric shade canopies to be added to the building.

[Read more ](https://www.fentonholloway.com/fitzpatrick-residence)

### Newhaven ERF

On account of our experience with lightweight structures, Fenton Holloway were appointed to design the first large-scale structural use of a PVC-coated high tensile wire mesh: a screen cladding system for the 25m-tall domed structure of  Newhaven Energy Recovery. 

[Read more ](https://www.fentonholloway.com/newhaven-erf)

## Expertise

[![_Building structures Card](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/_Building%20structures%20Card.webp)

### Building Structures

### Building Structures

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[![Civil structures Card](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Civil%20structures%20Card.webp)

### Civil Structures

### Civil Structures

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/civil-structural-design-engineer)

[![Historic structures Card](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Historic%20structures%20Card.webp)

### Historic Structures

### Historic Structures

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/historic-structures-conservation-engineering)

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### Historic Ships

### Historic Ships

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/historic-ships)

[![Tensile & lightweight Card](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Tensile%20%26%20lightweight%20Card.webp)

### Tensile & lightweight Structures

### Tensile & lightweight Structures

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/tensile-lightweight-structure-design/)

[![card-image-item-6](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/exp-6.webp)

### Sports Centres

### Sports Centres

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/sports-venue-design)

[![Art installations Card](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Art%20installations%20Card.webp)

### Art Installations

### Art Installations

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/art-installation-design)

[![card-image-item-8](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/exp-8.webp)

### Temporary demountable Structures

### Temporary demountable Structures

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/temporary-structure-design)

[![card-image-item-9](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/exp-9.webp)

### Temporary works Engineering

### Temporary works Engineering

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/temporary-works-engineers)

[![Specialist engineering Card](https://www.fentonholloway.com/hubfs/Specialist%20engineering%20Card.webp)

### Specialist Engineering

### Specialist Engineering

](https://www.fentonholloway.com/specialist-engineering-services)

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