Known as the Lexicon, the town centre development has been undertaken by the Bracknell Regeneration Partnership, a joint venture between Legal and General and Schroder UK Real Estate Fund along with Bracknell Forest Council to provide much needed extensive shopping, restaurant, entertainment and facilities to surpass the expectations of today’s public.
A significant part of the development of this next generation of shopping and leisure facilities is the multi storey car park, called the Avenue Car Park, that remains open 24 hours a day and provides 1,306 car parking spaces including specific spaces for disabled and electric car charging.
Hybrid offsite construction
PCE worked in co-operation with MACE, developing a Hybrid design and build solution, principally using offsite engineered precast concrete components, to provide a solution for the 5 suspended level car park structure that would also incorporate an area of multi-level retail space at its front.
The use of 3 Dimensional BIM modelling techniques was critical during the tender period and following contract award enabling PCE to develop the car park element of the structure as an efficient precast hybrid concrete solution using their in house designed and developed long span GT flooring units.
The prestressed concrete GT units are designed to meet the required car park structural loading criteria without the need for the casting of any additional onsite reinforced structural concrete over their top surface which gives a significant reduction in onsite activities and associated disruption, enabling following trades to progress more rapidly.
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