The integration of design and construction is the key to success of any project. Stent encourages early involvement in projects to engender an interactive approach to the whole construction process. The introduction of our specialist skills and expertise into the professional team will help to identify risk and maximise the opportunities for innovation, value engineering and buildability.
Our design experience, depth of knowledge and resources are extensive. We are able to give comprehensive advice and provide a full design capability from each of our offices, taking advantage of our geotechnical expertise.
Detailed Design
Stent design all forms of bored and driven piles, and embedded walls, including contiguous and secant pile walls, diaphragm walls and sheet pile walls. Analysis of pile settlements and movements around deep excavations are specialist areas of Stent's expertise. Stent's geotechnical design capability also includes slope stability analysis and deep ground improvement. In addition, where appropriate, the structural design of ground beams, pile caps, piled rafts, cofferdam frames, props, plunged columns and structural connections can also be offered.
Technical Expertise
Stent designers are continuously invited to work on steering groups for new technical research and publications, and also work on technical committees for the Federation of Piling Specialists, British Geotechnical Association and the British Standards Institute. Stent personnel have also authored over 50 published technical papers.
Stent has designed piles in accordance with BS EN 1997-1 (EC7) and are well prepared for the move to European Standards.
Research
Renowned within the geotechnical industry for innovation, Stent has always considered research and development to be a vital part of the business process and a necessity for continuous improvement.
Stent's ongoing commitment to R&D is supported by close links with academic institutions, such as City, Lancaster, Loughborough, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton and Surrey Universities. Some of the projects undertaken to date have been fully funded by Stent and others are partially supported by government funding.
In addition to numerous in-house design programs all of Stent's local design offices have access to the following externally produced design computer software:
AutoCAD 2004 CAD System
AutoCAD 2002 Lt CAD System
PLAXIS Finite element program
WALLAP Retaining wall analysis
SLOPE Slope stability analysis
TALREN Slope stability, soil nail and anchor analysis
PIGLET Pile group analysis
REPUTE Pile group analysis
ADCOL, ADSEC and AP123+ Concrete section analysis
GRLWEAP Wave equation analysis for pile drivability
TEDDS 6.0 GB document and design system
