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Project name:<\/strong> Salisbury Square Development
\nClient:<\/strong> City of London Corporation
\nArchitect:<\/strong> Eric Parry Architects
\nMain contractor:<\/strong> Mace
\nContract type:<\/strong> Two-stage design and build
\nContract value:<\/strong> \u00a3482m
\nSteel frame:<\/strong> Severfield
\nGroundworks\/piling\/basement:<\/strong> Keltbray
\nMEP:<\/strong> Dornan Engineering
\nFacade:<\/strong> Permasteelisa
\nFormwork:<\/strong> GB Slipform
\nConcrete:<\/strong> MCL Construction Services
\nStart on site:<\/strong> January 2023
\nCompletion date:<\/strong> Q1 2027<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

London\u2019s Fleet Street was once the hub of the UK\u2019s newspaper industry. With printing presses set up to sate demand from lawyers and merchants based in the nearby financial and legal districts, it soon became a centre for the \u2018Fourth Estate\u2019 and business burgeoned throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Its pubs and offices became fertile breeding grounds for news-hungry hacks, with most of the country\u2019s newspapers having some form of representation along its length.<\/p>\n

It is very different now. The last national newspaper journalists left in 2016. Only a few buildings, such as the Art Deco-inspired former headquarters of the Daily Express,<\/em> provide any clue to its not-so-distant past. But the area remains a bastion for the legal profession, and main contractor Mace is partway through the development of a scheme that will become a hub for London\u2019s police and judiciary.<\/p>\n

The Salisbury Square Development, hemmed in by Fleet Street, Salisbury Court and Whitefriars Street, covers the construction of three new buildings, improved public realm works and the transformation of the Grade II-listed 2-7 Salisbury Court. Perhaps in a nod to the well-worn reputation of journalists and the judiciary of being fond of a drink or two, it is set to become a pub.<\/p>\n

The main buildings will be a new 10-storey headquarters for the City of London Police (COLP); a seven-storey building fronting onto Fleet Street to house Crown, Civil and Magistrates courts; and a commercial\/office block with nine storeys above ground and two levels of basement at the southern end of the site.<\/p>\n

Mace project director Jeremy Eavis is leading the ambitious scheme, which the contractor aims to complete in early 2027. \u201cIt\u2019s a challenging project,\u201d he says. \u201cThe client, the City of London [Corporation], sees it almost as its \u2018gift to the nation\u2019. There are certain requirements \u2013 such as its 125-year design life, more than double the norm \u2013 that make it so. These will be very robust buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seven-storey frame<\/h3>\n

The court building features a seven-storey concrete frame with post-tensioned concrete slabs and slipformed cores that spring from the basement box below. To keep barristers, judges, defendants, jury members and the general public separate, there are 13 different lifts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe slipformed all the cores \u2013 eight in the court building, nine in the COLP building and another eight in the commercial building \u2013 from basement level. It was borderline whether we used slipforms or jumpforms for the cores, but slipforms just edged it\u201d as the more efficient solution, says Eavis.<\/p>\n

The slabs vary between 300mm and 400mm in thickness and span up to 9 metres in some areas. Post-tensioned concrete was used to make the design more efficient and reduce slab thickness. \u201cThere are specific requirements for the court building \u2013 high storey height, increased acoustics, blast-resistance characteristics \u2013 which we have had to incorporate. We felt that post-tensioning would enable thinner slabs while still providing the robustness the design needs,\u201d explains Eavis.<\/p>\n

The court building will step back at level five to preserve views towards St Paul\u2019s Cathedral, with roof terraces at level seven. It will feature a granite and limestone clad facade that complements the existing buildings along that section of Fleet Street. The inner Salisbury Court-facing elevation features cantilevered units of precast concrete with granite faces that help provide additional consultation rooms. Some of these weigh as much as 16 tonnes.<\/p>\n

The police building<\/h3>\n

In contrast, the COLP building that sits behind the court complex and fronts onto Whitefriars Street features a unitised glazed cladding system and an exposed weathering steel exoskeleton. This steel will mature into an oxidised orange\/brown surface finish that helps protect the structural integrity of the steel members. It will also reduce ongoing maintenance costs as it requires no further surface finishing.<\/p>\n

This exoskeleton features concrete-filled box section columns with site-welded connections \u2013 preferred to bolted connections largely because the method offers a cleaner finish.<\/p>\n

The COLP building will house as many as 1,000 officers and civilian staff, while basement levels will contain specialist policing spaces, briefing areas and a gym, as well as access for police vehicles.<\/p>\n

Again, the building\u2019s central core has been slipformed with the main steel frame \u2013 installed by steelwork contractor Severfield \u2013 helping provide open spans of up to 13 metres within the building. Floor slabs are of composite steel\/reinforced concrete design as is standard in office developments of this type.<\/p>\n

The commercial building<\/h3>\n

The commercial building features a two-level basement below ground which is entirely unconnected to those of the courts and police buildings. It too is a steel-framed building and boasts nine storeys above ground with similar layout and spans to those in the COLP building. The facade is a pressed terracotta finish to precast concrete panels which will blend with the red brick of the listed building as well as the final patination of the police building\u2019s exoskeleton.<\/p>\n

Across the entire site the Mace team has used five tower cranes to service the project and Eavis admits that \u2018hook time\u2019 \u2013 the availability of these cranes to lift materials into position \u2013 has been key to the delivery of the scheme, as has the efficiency of the lay-down spaces at Whitefriars Street and the pit-lane alongside Fleet Street through which all the project\u2019s materials have been delivered and removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe towers have been essential. Like all projects in central London, we have limited delivery options, but with the road closure on Whitefriars Street and the Fleet Street pit-lane we have been able to manage,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

With a little over 12 months before the deadline for delivery of the overall project, there is still plenty of work for Eavis and his team to complete. But he is confident that they will do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spent the first two years of the scheme building the basement box and were set up as a single team. But now we have a building lead manager in charge of the delivery of each of the buildings. We have regular meetings to keep on top of the project,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Eavis is confidence and calm personified. Fingers crossed he \u2013 and Mace \u2013 will not be put in front of the beak and found guilty of letting that deadline slip.<\/p>\n

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Basement battle<\/h3>\n

Before Mace was able to begin the ambitious above-ground work at Salisbury Square, it had to contend with a complex basement demolition, excavation and reconstruction that tested its expertise.<\/p>\n

Specialist contractor Keltbray had already demolished the existing mish-mash of buildings to ground level, and was successful in taking on the contract to deliver the basement works. This included the demolition of remaining underground structures, construction of the basement box and installation of 66 boreholes to 250 metres for the ground source heat pumps that will heat the entire complex.<\/p>\n

More than 430 piles with a 900mm diameter and 50 piles with a 1,000mm diameter were installed. Nearly 70,000 cubic metres of material was excavated from within \u2013 all of which was removed via the access along Whitefriars Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been 24,000 cubic metres of concrete poured to provide the basement alone, with 67,000 cubic metres of material excavated. Given that there were already basements there, that\u2019s an awful lot of material,\u201d says Mace project director Jeremy Eavis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Preserving the press<\/h3>\n

Fleet Street\u2019s history as the centre of the UK\u2019s newspaper industry is being retained in part by the transformation of the existing Grade II-listed building at 2-7 Salisbury Court. It was on this site that the first edition of the Sunday Times was editedin 1822. But it is the building\u2019s rubbed red-brick and terracotta dressings for which the three-storey building with a basement, designed by architect Alexander Peebles, is listed.<\/p>\n

The building is set to become a pub. The project team is focused on retaining its facade and doing what it can to provide a functional space for the client. \u201cIt\u2019s a test. Initially just the facade was going to be retained but we have had a look at it and will be keeping the building\u2019s existing frame and working around that to remodel it so that it is suitable for its intended use,\u201d says Mace project director Jeremy Eavis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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