Introduction:
Cameron Holdsworth Associates is the trading arm of Stuart C. Holdsworth, Consulting Engineers. The latter company was established in 1986. Stuart C. Holdsworth, Consulting Engineers also has a trading link with Roger Stagg Associates Ltd (started business in 1972), Jan Bobrowski and Partners (started business in 1962), and Special Structures Laboratory (SSL) in Sheffield. Personnel from these offices and from our own office work in teams as required.The company often acts as consultants to other engineering companies, and for contractors when required.
The practice proudly associates itself with 150 years of continuous engineering history. This is the fourth generation in which the name Cameron has been directly connected with our engineering heritage, commencing with the second stage of the railway revolution in the last forty years of the nineteenth century.
John Cameron was directly involved with work such as the Settle Carlisle line of the Midland Railway, the Manx Northern Railway and the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramway.
Stuart C. Holdsworth, Cameron Holdsworth Associates.
The companies have been responsible as the appointed engineers for a number of prestigious contracts. These include the Warner Bros. Offices in Mayfair, London: the Lloyds List Building in Artillery Lane London, and major office developments in Covent Garden, London.The company has also worked on telecommunications infrastructure, both in the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa, on industrial units at Felixstowe Docks and water infrastructure projects in Kent, Essex and Wales. These later works include pumping and treatment works, reservoirs, and flood prevention works.
Other projects include major out-of-town retail units, for Sainsbury and Tesco Ltd., Leisure Centres; and hotel work for the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London and at the Sheraton in Belgravia, London.
Many of these schemes involved constructing on sites with complex and difficult geology, and utilised many differing geotechnical systems and processes to overcome the problems of retention, flood control, drainage, soil-stabilisation, settlement control and foundations.
The company specialises in unusual commissions, and is used by many companies to give engineering advice. These commissions have included work on the decommissioning of North Sea oil rigs, fabric structures (permanent and mobile with RED), retaining facades, and complex demolition works, or temporary works for building, railway and civil engineering structures, both on land and in a marine environment. The practice has also worked on demountable staging for outside and inside events with RED.
The above commissions vary between £0.5million and £10.0m in their construction costs.
Personnel:
Equipment:
The practice has invested heavily in both computer aided design, and drawing software. The practice maintains a major library; and staff attends external courses to ensure that the practice retains its currency and is up-to date in technical matters.Computer equipment allows the full 3D modelling of structures (First Order, Second Order and real-time dynamic), and the 3D generation of drawings and visual graphics, fly throughs and animations when required. Fabric and membrane structures can be analysed and patterned.
Steel and RC drawings can be generated with schedules using the companies computing systems.
The library currently includes all the British and European Standards relating to the construction industry and processes as marketed by the British Standards Institute. (BSI). Through the offices of the BSI other international codes are available, and where appropriate have been used. The library is upgraded to the latest standards and advice on a quarterly basis.
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