This last week, the team behind the castle renovation, particularly Robin Kent Architecture and Conservation has issued the tender for the clearance and consolidation of the castle. This is an essential pre-requisite for the final design on the castle itself, as well as laying the groundwork for the renovation as well. We’re delighted to have reached this stage.
We’ve included the full tender document below (for those who are interested), as well as some of the indicative drawings, showing the type of interventions our Structural Engineer, Steve Ward of David Narro Associated has in mind.
Of course we took lots of photos, see below, and the initial conclusions were very interesting.
Barty in a supervisory role
The first hole
Safety procedures
Support for the second trench
Beginning the second trench
The t-shaped trench
Another view of t-shaped trench
Overhead of the t
From the right, showing the rib
Overhead from the left hand side showing a “Telford” rib
In the second trench (this sounds SO like Time Team) we discovered an extraordinary structural indicator that would, if confirmed by historical experts, mean that Thomas Telford did indeed design and build the bridge (there’s no extant paperwork). Needless to say Architect, Structural Engineer, Heritage Consolidation and ScottishLaird are all very, very excited.
We’ll post more via our Lairds and Ladies newsletter later next week!
