Structural Engineers Gloucestershire - O'Brien & Price Cheltenham Ltd

O’Brien & Price Cheltenham Ltd, often referred to as OBP, are Structural and Civil Engineers based in the centre of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.

With over 48 years in the business and over 6,000 projects under its belt, O’Brien & Price Cheltenham Ltd has undertaken civil engineering and structural engineering projects throughout Gloucestershire and across the UK.

We’ve undertaken over 6,000 projects as structural engineers since we started the business in 1976. Below are some examples of our work.

School & Colleges

O’Brien & Price Cheltenham Ltd has undertaken many projects for schools and colleges throughout the country, but especially in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

This includes work for Pates Grammar School, Cheltenham College, Cheltenham Ladies College, Wycliffe College and numerous County Council supported schools.

Our work has encompassed diagnosing defects, specifying remedial measures and the design and detailing for extensions and new buildings.

Houses

There is as much variety in the forms of construction and challenges to be faced in the alteration, adaption or construction of new dwellings as in any other field. The practice has considerable experience of most building types:

Stone cottages
Traditional oak framing
Regency and other period buildings
Modern cavity wall and trussed rafter houses
Post-war pre-fabricated buildings
Modern timber framing
Low-energy and Eco housing

As well as countless individual clients our work has included designs for a number of local and regional developers.

Leisure Facilities

These projects have encompassed inspecting and reporting on the condition of the structure of entire leisure complexes including public pools, alteration of facilities and the design and detailing of new halls, gyms, pavilions and pitches.

Industrial & Commercial

The practice has a long record of working on flour and paper mills, factories of many sorts and on the alteration of high street retail properties. This has included work for nationally and internationally known clients Shipton Mill, Wilkinsons Stores, Spirax Sarco and Kohler Mira.

We have worked with these companies for many years in part due to our ability to develop bespoke and practical solutions often working from first principles.

Hospitals & Health

In these projects our role, though important, is usually secondary to the functional needs of the building in terms od space planning and the mechanical and electrical services requirements. Through our experience with these projects we are able to work effectively to collaborate with the other team members to integrate the structure with minimum impact on these other functions.

We have undertaken major projects at both Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucester Royal Hospital over a period in excess of 25 years, as well as work on numerous smaller projects at the Hospitals and other facilities around the county.

Historic,Listed Buildings & Churches

Our approach to projects of this type not only recognises the key principles of conservation but is based upon understanding how the buildings were originally constructed. This enables us to visualise how they will respond to the proposed intervention, whether that be repairs or alterations. The practice has worked on scores of listed buildings including a number of Grade 1 and some Scheduled Ancient Monuments, that bring their own challenges. Churches often have unique problems. From spreading arches to the dynamics of bell frames and the wind effects on spires the practice has long experience of sympathetically designing repairs to the structures. For new work both as additions or complete buildings the aesthetics and quality of the detailing are top priorities.

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