When we first come to assess your property and talk about your vision for your new Retreat Room, we often find that to gain the extra head height that is required we have to extend your buildings foundations - a process known as 'Underpinning'.
Underpinning is the process of strengthening, stabilising and extending the foundations of a building to support a completely new basement space or to extend the existing foundations to give the extra head height which is required.
Our structural engineers are experts in designing individual structural support plans that will maintain a building's structural integrity.
Retreat Rooms' structural engineers are key creative members of our team - they are committed to sustainably developing safe buildings that will withstand the pressures they have to endure.
Working alongside the architechts at the design stage to ensure your new underground space is structurally safe and secure, they carry out regular on-site inspections throughout construction, and issue the necessary building control certificate only when they are satisfied that the structural work is sound and complete.