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Bristol's Cabot Tower was also faced with Bath Stone. Much of Bristol Cathedral was built of Bath Stone, and the Wills Tower, which is the dominant feature of the Wills Memorial Building, is constructed in reinforced concrete faced with Bath and Clipsham stone. The stone was also used for the Dundas Aqueduct, which is 150 yards (137.2 m) long, and has three arches built of Bath Stone, with Doric pilasters, and balustrades at each end. Claverton Pumping Station at Claverton, which was built of Bath Stone in about 1810, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal, using power from the flow of the River Avon. The material has also been used widely outside Bath itself. Bath stone was taken from the Bath Oolite Member and the Combe Down Member of the Chalfield Oolite Formation, part of the Great Oolite Group. They frequently contain minute fragments of shell or rock, and sometimes even decayed skeletons of marine life. Rocks composed of ooids larger than 2 mm are called pisolites. Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 mm. That name derives from the Hellenic word òoion for egg. Under the microscope, these grains or ooliths ( egg stones) are sedimentary rock formed from ooids: spherical grains composed of concentric layers.

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Layers of marine sediment were deposited, and individual spherical grains were coated with lime as they rolled around the sea bed, forming the Bathonian Series of rocks. To view the role and typical duties of an Approved Inspector and our associated Building Control services, please view our recently published article ‘A Day in the life of a Building Control Surveyor’ on our website here or visit our Group website 3.2 Combe Down and Bathampton Down Minesīath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate laid down during the Jurassic Period (195 to 135 million years ago) when the region that is now Bath was under a shallow sea. Now part of Hickton Group Ltd, the parent company is a multi-disciplinary organisation that leads the way in Quality, Compliance and Sustainability within the construction industry, our strategic aim is to be the chosen provider for clients requiring these disciplines and deliver services that seamlessly link together. With a growing portfolio of construction projects that spans most industry sectors, we have championed Compliance for clients across England and Wales for the last six years. “We were delighted to provide Building Regulation Advice and Guidance for this project in Bath, which presented some Part B compliance challenges, but we worked with the contractors, CTS Construction, to overcome these and presented the Final Certificate once we were satisfied that the scheme was fully compliant with The Building Regulations 2010.” The site is located next to Radway House – an existing student accommodation block which replaced 482 Wellsway and 2 Oolite Road to accommodate the growing student housing demand in the local area. Originally two semi-detached houses, the new block of nine luxury student flats has a total of thirty bedrooms, consisting of six studios and three cluster units, which are inclusive of bathroom, kitchen facilities and living space for students at both the University of Bath and Bath Spa University. Appointed as the Approved Inspector by our client, Rengen Developments Ltd, we provided Building Control services for the three-storey Student Accommodation block, St Martin’s House in Bath.