A recent piece of construction news; McMullen Facades has successfully earned a £15m contract for the prefabricated facade of the recent 41-storey London development, Two Fifty One. Originally designed by Allies & Morrison, Architect, and developed by Oakmayne Properties, the 41-story development serves as part of the greater regeneration of
A recent piece of construction news; Lagan Construction International has been announced as successful in winning a multi-million-pound contract for large infrastructure works at London’s only airport runway, at London City Airport. Works, however, are not expected to disrupt the day-to-day operations of the airport much, if at all, with
A recent piece of construction news; McMullen Facades has successfully earned a £15m contract for the prefabricated facade of the recent 41-storey London development, Two Fifty One. Originally designed by Allies & Morrison, Architect, and developed by Oakmayne Properties, the 41-story development serves as part of the greater regeneration of the Elephant & Castle area of London, with much attention afforded to progress as a result. The development, for residential use, will see the company partnering with leading industry contractor, Laing O’Rourke will incorporate the development of an off-site modular solution which will be able to bring improvements in costing, quality levels and speed for the project. Works on the site by Laing O’Rourke have already been in progress ever since the final quarter of 2014, with cladding expected to start this year, April, which will then also open up the possibility for interior works to commence. It is hoped that works on the project will be entirely completed by the close of 2017. The production of glazed modules for the project has reportedly already commenced at the company’s Moira factory, which, upon completion, will be moved to the Laing O’Rourke facility in Nottingham for the final stages – incorporation into the pre-cast concrete cladding panels for final use. From here, the panels are to be dispatched to the development for installation at the point of requirement. More promising degrees of safety and efficiency are to be expected from the project, with the panels provided able to be integrated with the building bereft the requirement for external access equipment. In addition to the modules already in production at present, McMullen is also to assist in sliding screens and door systems for the projects, in addition to a sloped unitised façade system for the highest ten floors; the system is also to include photovoltaic panels.
A recent piece of construction news; Lagan Construction International has been announced as successful in winning a multi-million-pound contract for large infrastructure works at London’s only airport runway, at London City Airport. Works, however, are not expected to disrupt the day-to-day operations of the airport much, if at all, with Lagan Construction working outside of normal hours of operation so that disruptions to flight schedules can be avoided. With an anticipated start date of May this year, the project will see Lagan Construction working to overlay the present runway with a grooved solution of Marshall Asphalt, as well as works to widen and reinforce some of the runway’s taxiways. In addition, works are also set to include the refurbishing of the present drainage network, as well as the addition of a brand new pit and duct network. Upgrades are also to be made to lighting fixtures, with the addition of LED lighting alongside the addition of a brand solution for new centre line lighting. Completion of the works is planned for November this year, with the works done on the runway regarded as a major project which will play a vital role in the future-proofing of the runway at London City Airport, and essentially the only runway presently in London itself, as explained by Darren Grover, Chief Operating Officer of London City Airport. Also nodding to the challenges of the project, he added: “The runway overlay is a major project, made more complex by the unique location of our runway surrounded by water on three sides.” Of course, with Lagan Construction having a tried-and-tested reputation for performing on airport infrastructure projects, Steve Turner, Director of International Operations at Lagan displayed confidence in the team to be able to deliver both air-side and ground-side support facilities, as result of the experience and skills of the team, backed up by the technology to support effective delivery of works.
