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Welcome!
Title Date Welcome! 25 October 2018 Welcome to the new PCE website. We are pleased to present some examples of our work and company information. We will be adding more projects from our portfolio over the next few months so please come back regularly to see what we have been doing.
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The Golden Monkey makes a big impact at H Code during BODW
Title Date The Golden Monkey makes a big impact at H Code during BODW 4 December 2018 PCE were engaged by Art Partners to provide Structural Engineering support for hanging unique inflatable 14m golden monkey artwork designed by the Australia Artist Lisa Roet. This giant art work was installed for the Business of Design Week[...]
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HKUST Business School students climb to success on a lightweight PCE stair
Title Date HKUST Business School students climb to success on a lightweight PCE stair 19 January 2019 PCE worked closely with Architect One Space to create this staircase at Dr. Karen Student Mentoring Centre in the Business School in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A lightweight column free design creates a very keen[...]
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Aug
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Golden stair for Spaces Co-working office at Sun House
Title Date Golden stair for Spaces Co-working office at Sun House February 2019 PCE was the structural engineer for the design of staircase joining three floors in Sun House. The stringerless suspended golden stair is grand and eye-catching. More than 100 circular balustrades function as tension rods to support and connect three floors.
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Jul
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Structure for Art Exhibition
Previous Next Temporary Structures for Major Art Exhibition PCE provided structural engineering design input and RSE endorsement for several temporary structures associated with a curated mixed-media exhibition of thirty international artists. Unconventional lightweight structures were formed in timber and steel to provide a backdrop or enclosure for the art displays. Client Location Architect Completion[...]
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Jul
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LV Nanjing Deji Plaza
Previous Next New Store with Feature Sawtooth Staircase A feature saw-tooth soffit stair was required for this store presenting a structural challenge due to the lack of nearby supporting structure. PCE developed a solution using multiple laser-cut 12mm stringer plates to form the major stair flights and avoid the need for conventional deep stringer[...]
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D&G Nanjing Deji Plaza
Previous Next New Store with Lightweight Open Staircase A two-flight stair with 180-degree rotation at half landing was designed for this new store. The back wall not suitable to support the stair so a solution was developed using shallow box beams to transfer load directly to the base building structure at the half landing.[...]
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Round Table
Previous Next Large Multi-Use Timber Table A 2.8m diameter table with a radiant slot providing access to a central annulus was formed using 90mm thick Suar (Monkeywood) timber with six removable circular stainless-steel legs on castors was designed for the new gallery space. To provide maximum gallery flexibility, the legs could be unscrewed from[...]
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D&G Hangzhou Tower
Previous Next New Stair for 2-level Store PCE designed an open sided three-flight stair this new store. The adjacent hollow clay block partitions were not suitable to support the stair so a solution was developed to clear-span the main flights and transfer load directly to the base building structure at the floor levels and[...]
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Jul
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LV Hangzhou Tower
Previous Next New Stone and Timber Clad Feature Stair The arrangement of this Peter Marino designed store evolved quickly yielding a sophisticated stone and timber clad feature stair. In order to satisfy new seismic code requirements, the base structure needed to be strengthened in conjunction with to store fit-out using bonded carbon fibres to[...]
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