Oat Hill Mews, a luxury care home located in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, has been welcoming residents since 2023. Their comprehensive offerings encompass residential, respite, and dementia care, ensuring a tailored approach to individual needs.

Partnering once again with Clegg Constructions and Frontier, we have been thrilled to offer our civil and structural engineering services to the development. We take pride in contributing to the design team, delivering top-tier luxury care home facilities for Care UK in prime locations. The three-story residence in Market Harborough boasts 76 elegantly furnished rooms, each equipped with an en-suite bathroom.

At the heart of Market Harborough, the care home prioritises residents’ independence and well-being through thoughtful design. With a focus on quality living, the facility features a coffee shop, cinema room, and a hair and beauty salon. Additionally, residents can enjoy a bar area and beautifully landscaped gardens, providing a holistic environment for their comfort and happiness.

We are pleased to have offered a range of civil and structural services, including:

• Composite Site Constraints Plan: This involves a thorough examination of boundary conditions and constraints.

• Volumetric Assessment: We assess proposed levels and construction build-ups to understand their impact on material balance and site preparation.

• Earthworks Specification: We provide support for necessary cut and fill operations.

• Civil and Structural Design:
  1. Private Levels, Drainage, and External Works: Collaborating with the client and design team to establish appropriate finished levels, including floor levels, while ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance with planning requirements.
  2. Design and detailing of new on-site private foul drains.
  3. Design and detailing of new on-site private storm drains incorporating Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) techniques where applicable.
  4. Determining construction thicknesses for surface finishes (specified by the architect) for car parks, paving, and servicing areas.

• Detailed Structural Design: Working closely with the design team to develop building frame layouts and select the most suitable construction form.
  1. Design and detailing of foundations, ground-bearing concrete floor slabs, and retaining walls.Designing masonry walls/panels, including ties and movement joints.
  2. Planning and specifying unattached steel elements or a steel framework, considering necessary accommodations for identified Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) services.