Category: S278/S38 Engineering

Halesowen Road, Cradley Heath

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Halesowen Road, Cradley Heath

The Halesowen Road project involved the redevelopment of the existing building to incorporate commercial use as well as residential apartments. 

Civia was instructed for initial swept path analysis for general parking, but more challengingly, articulated vehicle deliveries.

The most efficient and feasible turning movements were assessed, and then highway works proposed to mitigate any conflicts with on-street residential parking at the access.

 

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Heathway Pub, Heathway

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Heathway Pub, Heathway

The Heathway Pub project on the outskirts of Birmingham involved the redevelopment of a community pub site where access, parking and highway safety were central considerations. The existing highway arrangement was affected by congestion, informal parking and recorded conflict points nearby, requiring a layout that could improve access while protecting pedestrians and customers. The proposed one-way car park arrangement also needed to maximise parking provision without increasing conflict with surrounding traffic movements.

Civia was appointed as highways consultant to remodel the car park and access arrangements, adjust the footway and verge, and support measures to manage problem parking. We developed the layout around the client’s operational objectives and the highway authority’s requirements, incorporating bollards, road markings and access amendments through the Section 278 process. The final design improved parking efficiency, supported pedestrian safety and provided a more controlled highway arrangement around the redeveloped site.

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Birmingham Children’s Hospital

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Birmingham Children’s Hospital

The work at Birmingham Children’s Hospital centred on managing vehicle movement within a highly constrained and sensitive setting, where space was limited, pedestrian activity was constant and emergency access had to remain uninterrupted. The project required the redesign of temporary arrangements on Steelhouse Lane, the organisation of overflow ambulance parking and a series of swept path assessments to ensure that ambulances, buses and service vehicles could move safely through a tight urban environment without affecting day-to-day hospital operations.

Civia’s approach combined early on-site assessment with iterative design; sketching and discussing proposals with the client and design team to co-ordinate the buildability and practicability of the proposals in conjunction with site constraints and other designers’ works. Detailed vehicle-tracking simulations were used to refine layouts, resolve conflict points and preserve emergency response capability. 

The final arrangements eased emergency access to the Hospital and achieved project goals, whilst sustaining uninterrupted access for emergency vehicles during the works and minimising impact on the surrounding traffic network.

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