Demolition and dismantlingCommercial and City Centre Demolition
Cardinal Place, Victoria Street, London, SW1

This major complex 13 months contract comprised the demolition /asbestos removal of existing multi storey office blocks known as Esso House and Glen House which rose eight, ten and sixteen storeys above ground level and incorporated several commercial, retail and restaurant units along, and adjacent to Victoria Street between Bressenden Place and Palace Street.

The contract also incorporated the demolition of a large piazza and the remaining suspended ground floor of Watney House and interlinking basement structures.

However, most notably, the scope of works included the careful removal of overburden and the demolition/dismantling of massive steel and reinforced concrete transfer structures spanning the live London Underground District and Circle Line Tunnel located immediately under Esso House running through the basement. As a consequence the specification called for extensive temporary works, protection, monitoring and specialist saw cutting and hydro demolition methods.