McLaren Construction has confirmed its top-down build programme for O&H Properties on the £60m first phase of a Foster & Partners designed development on the corner of New Bond Street and Grafton Street in London’s West End.
The seven-storey, 5,400 square metre prime retail and office development includes lower ground, ground and first floor retail space with five storeys of office and event space above.
A complex three-storey basement provides retailers with a lower ground floor and two levels of basement beneath.
The construction program from top to McLaren will allow the place team to continue programming in a Mayfair busy.
McLaren will throw the average segment of the soil slab to allow the structure of the nuclei at the same time as to dig and throw the slabs and the walls of the coating.
A giant transition paint diagram includes many 33 m of 1. 2 m in diameter and 15 m metal diving columns to the nuclei and floor floor, which allows the sub-box floor and nucleus that occurs simultaneously.
McLaren has worked closely with the City of Westminster to develop a logistics strategy and traffic management plan to minimise impact on the local road network.
A large -scale transient ramp allows deliveries to the point of site and grafton street supplies to the platform and the heavy duty crane. Time delivery retain the garage space of limited curtains.
The Grade II-listed shopfront of Wartski jewellers at 14 Grafton Street has been dismantled and will be reassembled in Barlow Place during a later phase of the redevelopment. The final mixed-use redevelopment of the site between New Bond Street, Grafton Street and Bruton Street will feature new homes, a hotel, office and retail space, bars and restaurants.
McLaren Construction Managing Director, London and South, Darren Gill, said: “There is a deep basement and there is a need to build before this magnificent construction towers over Grafton Street.
“We know from considerable experience of working in the Oxford Street area that this technical feat will be pulled off in a tight site surrounded by a lot of activity. Occupiers and passers by will see a smart new addition to the West End without ever realising how precisely planned and engineered it needs to be.”
Construction is due to complete in Spring 2026. Key subcontractors on the project will be: