JMS Engineers provided full structural design for 1–11 New Rents, Ashford - a new-build mixed-use hotel, retail and residential development. The structure comprises a three- and four-storey reinforced concrete frame on piled foundations, with ground-floor parking and a partial basement housing M&E services.
A partial-footprint basement was designed to accommodate M&E plant, requiring excavation, temporary works, and retaining wall detailing within a restricted site boundary. Above the third floor, JMS designed a lightweight two-storey steel-framed mansard roof structure, carefully coordinated with the concrete frame below to manage differential stiffness and load transfer. The hybrid RC and steel solution was developed to optimise material use while maintaining flexibility for varied occupancy and architectural layouts.
