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18 December 2001
British Land Awards Bovis Lend Lease £134 Million City of London Project
Bovis Lend Lease has won a £134 million construction management contract for the shell and core of the first phase of British Land’s Plantation Place development in Fenchurch Street in the City of London.
Work has recently started on the 16-storey 78,000 square metre building, which will provide 45,000 square metres of office accommodation on 14 floors and over 2,000 square metres of retail space at ground floor level. 32,000 square metres of the office accommodation has been pre-let by British Land to Accenture, the global management consultancy.
The substructure will comprise three basement levels, built using the ‘top-down’ construction technique, to accommodate parking areas, plant rooms and tenant storage. The foundations will comprise a mixture of large diameter piles and groups of mini piles. The basement levels will be enclosed by reinforced concrete walls with ground support provided by retention piles and/or reused walls and foundations from previous buildings.
The main entrance to the building will be on Fenchurch Street. The double height entrance hall will be linked by a feature staircase to the podium level where the main reception desk will be situated at the base of the internal 10-storey atrium. The atrium links the ground floor and entrance hall to the landscaped roof terraces as well as the galleria to the south of the building.
The superstructure will comprise structural steel columns, beams and bracing with composite floor slabs of metal deck with in-situ cast lightweight concrete.
The external facades have been designed to minimise unwanted solar gains and heat loss and to maximise daylight, reducing the cost and environmental effects of the heating, and air-conditioning systems required. The external cladding system will feature glass, stainless steel, painted metal elements and aluminium curtain walling. Sixteen passenger lifts, nine escalators and six staircases will be installed for internal travel.
Tim Atkinson, Bovis Lend Lease Project Director said: “Plantation Place will undoubtedly be a new landmark building in the City of London. The project has all the usual complicated logistical constraints of an inner city site, which will require a proactive communications plan with a number of authorities and our neighbours. There are some challenging issues associated with temporary works and monitoring of structures throughout the key phases of the project. In line with British Land’s requirements we are applying the safest approach for operative and public protection.”
Shell and core construction is scheduled for completion in spring 2004.
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