Queensborough Terrace, London
Extension to rear of existing hotel in London's Hyde park. After careful planning, Scaffold design, Structural Engineering and an intense site survey we came up with a plan to move 65 tons of Structural steel framing up and over the roof of an existing Hotel and down the rear of the building without endangering us or the occupants of the fully functioning hotel.
'Oh and we had to do it with minimum noise' !
Part of the First Phase to take the new 7 floors was to move 2 ton spreader beams through a sectioned off part of the Hotel and down into the sub basement where the spreader beams were linked, connected, welded & Concreted in place before starting to erect the columns down through pockets in the roof.
We got a Fabrication workshop to make a 1 ton capacity derrick crane made from Genie hoist parts and some cleverly designed lattice work which could be completely dismantled and hoisted up and over the building and then re-assembled to start the erection. Once each floor was completed (Steel framed) the Construction Co would come along behind us and build the floor which we then hoisted the crane up to the next level and continued the erection of the next floor. All this was done under a strict Method statement & risk assessment calculating risk at every stage for every process ensuring the safety of everyone involved.
