Dominic Holder Personal Details Nationality British/Barbadian

Profession Consulting Specialisation Structural Engineering Years of Experience 5+ Key Qualifications A structural engineer with experience in structural steel/concrete/timber design

and precast concrete design and detailing for fabrication. Education / Professional Status

P.Eng - Licensed professional engineer of PEO (Canada) P.Eng - Licensed professional engineer of APEGBC (Canada) Graduate member of IStructE (UK) / B.A.P.E. (Barbados) Post-graduate advanced concrete courses BSc. (Hons.-1st) Civil Engineering

Key Relevant Experience Strand East, United Kingdom (Bryden Wood) - Bryden Wood were appointed as Executive Architects and Structural Engineers for Strand East, a major new development in Stratford. The overall scheme comprises 1,200 apartments, 58,000 square metres of offices and facilities for creative industries, plus a 300-bed hotel. The developer, Vastint, is seeking to take ‘this historic and near-derelict site and bring it revving back to life as an energy efficient, creatively designed, mixed use neighbourhood’. Bryden Wood has been working alongside the design architects who are developing the concepts for the 4 separate plots, helping to maximise the opportunities for the adoption of Design for Manufacture and Assembly. With proven experience in the delivery of structural systems and drawing on our multidisciplinary background, Bryden Wood has provided the strategy for structural design across all plots and are providing added value by advising on site-wide strategy during the construction phasing.

Walthamstow Phase 2, Block D, United Kingdom (Bryden Wood) - Following the demolition of the existing structures on the site, this retail development will be a part two-storey, part single storey building containing three retail units. The new development requires special consideration because it is located between a station, railway line and busy main road that must all stay operational throughout the duration of the construction and during maintenance of the building. The building will be assembled from a mixture of on-site and prefabricated building components to enable an efficient and safe build process in a very constricted site.

Ulverston, United Kingdom (Bryden Wood) - This building constitutes the first new factory built by GSK in the UK for nearly 40 years. It will stand as the central focus of an important & growing GSK business area. GSK is redefining their presence in the area by involving the community based local workforce and stakeholders. The Biopharmaceutical facility is one of several facilities proposed in the wider site master-plan. It is proposed to be a flagship building that not only fulfils a facility function, but is also architecturally engaging and seamlessly integrated within its context. The expansion strategy will allow the building to grow in the next 5 to 10 years in the most fluid way, with minimal disruptions to functionality and with the capability of adapting to any new requirements in such a constantly changing environment as Biopharmaceutical.

Nile Street, United Kingdom (Pell Frischmann) - This is a £60m mixed-use development based in Hackney, London. The scheme involved a 23-storey high rise building with 200+ units plus an alternative educational facility accommodating 150+ pupils. Pell Frischmann were appointed as the Civil and Structural Engineers for the scheme. I conducted preliminary calculations and sizing of structural elements for the RIBA Stage 3 report submission. This included stability and modal analyses of the 23-storey tower as well as multiple options for the Sports Hall including deep Glulam beams.

18 Blackfriars Road, United Kingdom (Pell Frischmann) - This is a £360m project based in Southwark, London. I was responsible for the preliminary ETABS FE model for one of the two (2) towers which dominate the site. This was a 45-storey residential tower with 3 basement levels. I performed the initial wind analysis and sensibility check on the core walls for stability. I also performed a modal analysis on the structure in order to assess human comfort due to horizontal wind accelerations.

Stoney Street, United Kingdom (Pell Frischmann) - Stoney street is a £50m new 6-storey mixed-use development in Southwark with 2-levels of basement. I proposed an RC option for the layout of the basement levels in addition to creating the superstructure FEA models in CSC Fastrak and subsequently in Tekla Structural Designer. I was responsible for preliminary sizing of the steel superstructure which involved research into the Westok Cellular Beam proprietary product for specification. Sketches of proposed structural grid layouts were prepared for the architect with all information eventually being compiled in a draft Stage 3 report.

Centre Point, United Kingdom (Pell Frischmann) - Centre Point is a substantial concrete and glass office building in central London, almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station. Centre Point achieved Grade II listed status for being a model example of 60’s architecture. It surpassed and furthered the engineering of its day and still, even now, is a landmark in the city as well as a benchmark for modular construction methods. Pell Frischmann provided structural engineering design and construction supervision services for this refurbishment project with a value of £150m. I was responsible for design review and amendment if necessary of new steelworks throughout the Tower and Maisonette Block.

The Grotto, Barbados (Preconco) – Precast engineer and fabrication detailer for a cluster of five, five-storey fully precast concrete buildings as affordable housing for the National Housing Corporation.

Prince Arthur’s Landing, Canada (Blackwell) – Structural designer for the following two (2) public buildings that are part of a $130m public-private development, transforming Thunder Bay’s waterfront and promoting year-round mixed-use and recreational activities in this critical region adjacent to the historic downtown. The Water Garden Pavilion is a completely new, 8,000-square-foot building that provides support services for some of the Landing’s outdoor activities, notably skating in the winter and a splash pad during the summer. I was responsible for the design of various structural elements comprising this 2-storey building. Steel was chosen as the structural material for the frame with concrete composite deck for the floor plates. Synthetic polymer fibres were specified as reinforcement for the composite slab as an alternative to mesh reinforcement. This building had an unusual complexity about it since the soil beneath it was peat, which was assumed to have no bearing capacity. The columns were each supported by a tripod of proprietary pull-down helical grouted micropiles that went down to bedrock. There was a double-height hallway with exposed glulam beams that formed the top chord of a series of inverted king trusses complete with steel rods and square Hollow Structural Sections at their centres. Skaters can enjoy an outdoor fireplace and a full-service restaurant that will spill out onto the patio during the warmer season. Inside, the building’s Mariner’s Hall is designed to echo the shape of a ship’s hull, one of the many metaphorical references to water and shipping found across the site.

The Baggage Building was originally constructed in the early 1900s, and has now been expanded with a new 2-storey addition that includes exhibition and teaching spaces, artisan studios and retail. The studios house activities that include painting, printmaking, pottery, jewellery design, video art production and other media. A second-floor mezzanine, suspended from the roof above, overlooks other double-height interior spaces, offering an enriched spatial dynamic. This structure utilised three different structural materials; reinforced concrete, steel and timber. One complexity of the site was the existence of a 900mm diameter water main that ran through the site. This was critical city infrastructure and piling/boring was not allowed within 6m of the centreline of the water main path due to the potential damage to the pipe due to excessive vibrations. Using a complementary material palette of timber and glass for the new arts centre, the historic Baggage Building is connected to the CN Railway Station, thereby establishing a strong image for a facility that will successfully anchor a gateway leading from downtown to the waterfront.

Breithaupt Block, Canada (Blackwell) – Structural designer for a $36m renovation into high quality office space designed for Waterloo’s technology sector. The former rubber, then car-parts factory stretches over a block of Kitchener’s old warehouse district. The building housed mammoth machinery and desperately needed an environmental clean-up. No original structural plans of the building existed. Several alterations had been made over the years and only some of those more recent structural plans existed and could be sourced. This was done manually, over the course of several site visits and inspections. All visible structure was physically measured and recorded, except in inaccessible areas or where it was unsafe to do so. One difficulty with this project was the removal of around 1,200 tonnes of assembly line machinery. Another was that two sections of the building were demolished to create modern courtyards. The developer was convinced that the nearby rail line and the technology sector’s appetite for interesting spaces would define the potential value of the vacant plant. This is due to a growing appreciation for repurposing dormant factories in downtown locations, a concept that appeals to tech-sector workers who want to be close to amenities. The rail line that once shipped its goods now carries commuters to white-collar jobs in the city. The Region of Waterloo purchased three acres of land across the tracks from the site to build a transit hub for Via Rail, GO Transit and inter-city buses which has added to the lustre of the location. This trend of revitalising and restoring defunct industrial buildings has added cachet to a once-overlooked downtown city centres. The Breithaupt’s interior now features large windows, high ceilings, brick walls, Oak floors, foot-square beams of Oak, Douglas Fir and Hemlock and the window replacements are consistent with the original 1900s style. Some historic features have been restored and two old large factory iron gears feature in one of the newly created courtyards.

CFB Borden, Canada (Blackwell) - The overall goal of the Department of National Defence (DND) was to consolidate facilities in order to create a training environment that would allow students to walk no more than 500m to all facilities. The design strategy for this new prototype kitchen and dining facility focused on providing a pleasant, efficient and enduring building with plenty of natural light and optimized interior traffic flows. The exterior forms were kept deliberately orthogonal, streamline and understated in order to produce an elegant, timeless building which fits in with the existing built environment at the base. As you enter the facility the aesthetic changes remind one of the history of the pine forests that were once dominant in the landscape of the site in the form of the dramatic glue laminated curved structure of the columns and beams. The interior design focuses on achieving a pleasant, easily maintained space optimized for clear and instinctive wayfinding – achieved through use of forms, materials and colours inspired by the military ribbon graphic. The most complex feature of this facility was its curved glulam arch beams and associated columns in the dining hall. Their end conditions and geometry required particular attention to ensure that they only carried axial load.