Project Details
Project Overview:
Purpose-built 13 storey building that introduces a sophisticated and high-end design set to challenge the concept of affordable housing for London’s over 55s. Located next to the prestigious Lord’s Cricket Ground, the building provides world class standard of retirement living. The building is home to 170 new apartments to help residents stay social and active. Each home is specifically designed for both the lifestyle needs and aspirations of its residents with private balconies to each apartment.
PCE’s HybriDfMA Bespoke System approach was an obvious choice due to its proven track record for inner city construction utilising the benefits gained with a ‘kit of parts’ approach with multiple offsite engineered components assembled together on site. The HybriDfMA Bespoke System comprises a mix of structural precast concrete and façade cladding components, all assembled from within the frame resulting in a scaffold-less construction.
All of the HybriDfMA Bespoke System component parts are structurally connected on site to the highest of quality standards using tried, tested and fully approved/compliant details, products and procedures. Each element is tracked through it’s lifecycle with all data being collated centrally and displayed in both dashboard and building model formats. Coloured models display where every part is in the process and dashboards monitor against the project plan.
Information is real time and allows project teams to make key decisions early and keep tightly to the plan. Each part is manufactured by the specialist for that product type, ensuring that the industry leaders for each type of component are chosen and all suppliers are providing just the products they excel in to achieve a high level of accuracy and quality to the finished building.
The solution draws from PCE’s in-house system library and creates a certainty in details that produces a known confidence within manufacture and construction teams, this brings dual benefits of improved quality and increased productivity when completing the structure. That `right first time` approach to the offsite delivery and in particular the coordination and management of interfaces has allowed the project to be delivered to programme and to the right quality, that in turn has eliminated delay and rework/unplanned work and has provided the client with a façade system delivered exactly to the cost plan.
