Guisborough Hall is being renovated to provide high-class apartments; Balast Construction is carrying out the renovation with some care, as it is a listed building.
Glyn Robinson Associates were retained to provide structural design elements and their main problem was the wind loading on the 2.6 & 3.1 Mt. high chimneys. Only seven of these 18th century octagonal
chimneys out of the total of 44 would be used. Cintec proposed a specially designed anchor to create a reinforced concrete column inside the chimney, bonded to the pot liner (where there was one). This anchor consisted of 4 - 12 mm stainless steel
rebar anchors in a 250 mm dia. sock for the 300 mm flues.
