FARADAY TOWER

Built in the early 1960s to house Southampton University’s Faraday Tower is being demolished.

The tower holds all the challenges that Tilley and Barret thrive on; a complex demolition, located in the heart of a bustling university setting, with an opportunity for high levels of recycling and innovative techniques to minimise noise and vibration.

Our environmental team, along with the demolition engineers, are using the existing structure as a barrier and frame to build an innovative acoustic barrier that sits between the site and adjacent laboratories and lecture halls. These laboratories and lecture halls hold significant constraints on noise and vibration, with one of the main laboratories focusing on vibration transmission.

Client: Southampton University

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