Project Profile: Skinners Academy - Manor House

Client
Willmott Dixon
Date of completion
November 2010
Skinners main
Skinners 1

Scope of works

 

  • Groundworks

  • Basement construction

  • RC frame

  • External works

Skinners 2

Project key points

 

  • Construction of a 5m battered green wall fronting onto the new river

  • CFA piling, pile caps, retaining walls and ground floor slab and large cut and fill

  • Construction of a 3m deep basement using watertight concrete.

  • Installation of rainwater harvesting tanks, attenuation tanks and foul pumping chambers to depths of up to 4m including all substructure drainage

  • Three-storey in-situ RC frame

  • Construction of 1.5m deep down-standing transfer beams across a 17m span at a two-storey height

  • Construction of 11m tall circular columns