Project Information

Type : Office
Architectural : Post-modern / High-Tech
Location : London, United Kingdom
Completed : June 2013
Opened : July 2014
Cost : 286 million
Height : 225 metres
Floor count : 48
Floor area : 84,424 sqm

Team

Owner : C C Land
Architects : Rogers stirk Harbour + Partners
Contractor : Laing O’rourke
Property Manager : Broadgate Estates

In the heart of historic London, a brand-new type of building is taking shape.

A Prefabricated skyscraper in an impossibly tight space.
The world most cutting edge and ambitious construction project
Saint Paul Cathedral 365 ft

Triagular shape structure “Cheesegrater”

Steel Long heavy column : 24metres, 40 ton.

Steel Frame : 18,000 ton
Revolutionary construction : Pre-Fabricated Site
Cramp historic area : just 10ft offset to the surrounding ( Concrete core, demand spaces)
non of that is impossible.
  Getting ride of concrete and replace with steel, only floor slab with the
concrete.
 All the work on the steel frame is 200 mile in northern Ireland and the steel
work past on the anther factory for paint and fireproof and, to the M&E
factory for install.
They agree to finished in October 2011, before end of 2013 (26 months). Demages is
100,000 a week.

The crane is monitor by computer the heaviest duty crane.

Pre-cast plank slab, 3times long and, double workers, ( 1 operator, 6 crews, 4 tennis courts a
day)
4d in every aspect. (Digital engineering) every thing is giving a time slot, simulated
everything 38 times.

Social Perspective
- Respect the view of the historic monument view.
- The shape of the building is shaped to avoid the view of the saint paul cathedral.
- So, to achieve the floor area, the facility move the north core in the pre-fabricated
module fully loaded with pipe work, electric, plumbing and floor plate. ( pre-
fabricated modular).
- Glazing. Serburous, mono-rail platform system, and an hoist (20 panels a day)
because, it lean shape.
- Lean during construction designed. (world first) active alignment. Because the load
is on the north side so, the designer design the building to lean to the north duing
errection then, remove the high of the south side for an inch to make the structure
stand straight.
- Every services at the top to save the space area. Genuis idea but tuff to executed.
Without the 3d model it is impposble to fit everything at the top.