Goodson Associates were appointed in 2016 as part of Design and Building partnership to take on the Civil and Structural design of the proposed hotel from RIBA stage 4 to completion.

The Hampton by Hilton Hotel project involved the construction of a 6-storey hotel on a brownfield site in Edinburgh city centre. The building incorporated open plan reception, restaurant and conference facilities on the ground floor with hotel bedrooms above and rooftop plant.

The road elevation in clad in stone masonry to visual tie the building to be neighbouring historic Edinburgh stone tenement buildings.

The building’s structure comprised of a composite steel transfer structure over an open plan ground floor. The transfer structure supports a Steel Frame System (SFS) upper floor structure and was founded on piles and ground beams.

A collaborative design approach with an SFS specialist was adopted to ensure effective integration between the two differing structural frames.

Key challenges of the design included the assessment and design of disproportionate collapse resisting structures at the transfer deck level and the support of the stone masonry façade. The stone masonry façade was constructed iusing a lime mortar to minimise the requirement for movement joists and restrained by the SFS structure with dowelled wall ties.