Morgan Stanley HQ
The HFD Group are redeveloping the site of a famous Glasgow Hotel to create twin sites, the first of which is 122 Waterloo Street; an exciting pre-let Office building for Morgan Stanley in the heart of Glasgow’s Financial district.
Client: HFD Group
Architect: Michael Laird Architects
Morgan Stanley HQ
The HFD Group are redeveloping the site of a famous Glasgow Hotel to create twin sites, the first of which is Morgan Stanley HQ; an exciting pre-let Office building for Morgan Stanley in the heart of Glasgow’s Financial district.
We are providing Civil, Structural and Geo-environmental design services on another prestigious HFD Group development in Glasgow. Morgan Stanley HQ is a new nine-storey office development comprising of 154,000 sq/ft of Grade A office accommodation.
The level site has been excavated to form a new basement area to house plant rooms and car parking, with SuDS attenuation tanks below. The substructure has been constructed in reinforced concrete with ‘plunge’ columns from the superstructure above taken through to piles, the use of the two materials allows us to exploit the more cellular basement area to locate additional concrete columns to minimise floor depths and thus excavation, whilst still achieving long span floor plates to upper office levels.
We have designed a long span steel beam solution for the upper levels which takes cognisance of the building services layout, allowing for the services / structural floor zone to be integrated into the structural depth resulting in an efficient and flexible ceiling zone thus reducing the overall height of the building and maximising the number of floor plates.
The building stability is achieved via concrete cores and the external skin is comprised of unitised glazing panels.
We are providing Civil, Structural and Geo-environmental design services on another prestigious HFD Group development in Glasgow. Morgan Stanley HQ is a new nine-storey office development comprising of 154,000 sq/ft of Grade A office accommodation.
The level site has been excavated to form a new basement area to house plant rooms and car parking, with SuDS attenuation tanks below. The substructure has been constructed in reinforced concrete with ‘plunge’ columns from the superstructure above taken through to piles, the use of the two materials allows us to exploit the more cellular basement area to locate additional concrete columns to minimise floor depths and thus excavation, whilst still achieving long span floor plates to upper office levels.
We have designed a long span steel beam solution for the upper levels which takes cognisance of the building services layout, allowing for the services / structural floor zone to be integrated into the structural depth resulting in an efficient and flexible ceiling zone thus reducing the overall height of the building and maximising the number of floor plates.
The building stability is achieved via concrete cores and the external skin is comprised of unitised glazing panels.
Client: HFD Group
Architect: Michael Laird Architects