Otago Dental School



Civil engineering design for a multi-storey development of the new Otago Dental School in Dunedin.
Civil engineering design for a multi-storey development of the new Otago Dental School in Dunedin.
Screw pile design and build was awarded to Texco as the
subcontractor to the main construction contract. ENGCO were engaged by Texco to provide specialist pile design
services.
The contract proposal to use screw piles was demonstrated to not be technically feasible following on-site testing.
Micropiling was used as an alternative strategy based on geotechnical investigations.
Large tension, compression and lateral loads on a site with highly variable ground conditions.
Careful co-ordination with structural designer to resolve foundation design to accommodate in ground obstructions and changes to the designers’ assumptions of lateral capacity of the ground. All design work was peer reviewed by independent third party and by the client’s own design team.
Project Lead_
Andy Lind
Client_
Texco