St Andrews Student Residences
Client:
St Andrews University
Location:
St Andrews
Construction Method:
Factory manufactured engineered timber roof trusse
Type:
Supply Only
Value:
£73,000
Date:
30/04/2015
Specialist Trusses for St Andrew’s University Residences
Ochil Timber has supplied roof trusses for the latest phase of Student
Residences at St Andrew’s University’s Fife Park site. The £73k
contract saw Ochil supply 600 roof trusses for the nine
accommodation blocks over a 6 to 8 week construction period. These
were manufactured offsite in Ochil’s Denny fabricating plant, using
sustainably sourced timber.
Ochil has had a long involvement with the various phases of this
extensive project, starting in 2001, and was responsible for the
specialist truss design which this particular project’s roofline
demanded. Ochil MD Andrew McAree explains: “The asymmetric,
mono-pitch roof design had an exposed rafter detail at the eaves
overhang, which required a specialist detail. We designed this to be
suitable for offsite manufacture, which saved the contractors a lot of
time on site. We also used pre-coloured fibreboard for the exposed
soffits, which minimised maintenance.”
While Ochil provided trusses on a ‘supply only’ basis on this phase, on
earlier phases they provided supply and erect services for roof trusses
to Morrison Construction and roof trusses and structural timber frames
to Sir Robert McAlpine.
Project Architect Max Davidson of Halliday Fraser Munro, responsible
for design development throughout said: “Ochil have been involved in
the St Andrews’ residences from the beginning and as project
architects we’ve always found them very good to work with.”
The main contractor on this phase was CCG, with whom Ochil has
worked on various projects since 2007.