Devonshire Square
Historic Devonshire Square, former home of the East India Company, has seen its fair share of trading activity over the years.
The superb, original East India warehouses remain and, while silk and textiles no longer reign supreme, there is still a hive of activity at this London address.
Professional Team:
Cutlers Gardens LP / Cogent BC and Arcadis
Programme duration:
12 weeks
Value:
Up to £750k
In summary
Photographic condition building services and asbestos surveys
Design and installation of scaffold gantry
Asbestos removal
Extensive engagement with City of London
Isolations and temporary supply installations
Protection of 3 x Lifts
Strip out to all floors plus basement and roof
Removal of all MEP in line with specification
Removal of plant at basement and roof levels
Structural investigations
Removal of arisings
Strengthening the green agenda
The project
Devonshire square or DSQ as it is affectionately named - is a five-acre office campus situated in the City of London. General Demolition completed extensive strip out works at Building 7 to clear the way for a new 94,000 sqft office with strong sustainability credentials.
General demolition undertook a complete strip out of warehouse style Building 7 back to its shell. This comprised work across all nine floors, including the decommissioning and removal of plant at basement and roof levels.
You’re fired
Popular Petticoat Lane Market, which sat in the crosshairs of the site, posed a logistical challenge: how to get waste out of the building without disturbing the market that operated across some of the surrounding roads.
Channeling some entrepreneurial spirit that former stall holder Sir Alan Sugar would surely have been proud of, the team devised a clever strategy. A scaffold gantry with access ramps was built which sat above street level and ran the breath of the pavement. The street pitches below were left unencumbered.
Our operatives conducted their business above while haggling continued unabated below.
A well-managed logistics plan saw waste removed from site outside of market hours. Happily, no-one was fired.