London Dock

Wapping, E1W

JBDS were contracted by our regular client St George City Ltd, to assist them with the Multi Utility works from within their site to Times House on Pennington Street, some 100m away within the same development. The site was heavily congested with other contractors, we set up a target programme with key drivers namely the 3rd party contractors we were to attend (gas, district heating). The JBDS team took approximately 18 weeks to undertake phase 1, originally planned to take 10 weeks with 2 gangs but due to design problems with the clients‘ district heading mechanical contractor the works were undertake with one gang for one operation. 100m of 8- way ducting, district heating pipe work & a gas connection were completed, as well as 40m of trenching for BT ducting brought up through the footpath from the Junction of the A1203 Highway/Virginia Street. Additionally, we rectified and fixed a private on-site sewer connection which was engorged in cooking fat.

On behalf of the client we liaised with their gas contractor, their mechanical district heating contractor, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, TFL’s cycle station located on Pennington Street, other contractors & local business’ needing access into their premises during the Pennington Street excavation works. We also used our expertise to liaise with Thames Water & BT to help garner connections to the main site of London Dock.

Phase 2 started in October 2017, this was to pick up the multi utility trench and continue it into the Times House site. These works were extremely slow as the last part of the project were within the main site entrance within SGCL’s Times House and was extremely logistically challenging. Part of these works also consisted of civils rectification works to get HV cables from Pennington street into the substation located within the site through the capping beam of the outdoor slab using shaft excavations and core drilling methods. Furthermore, we replaced the Yorkstone paving to the front of the SGCL marketing suite & placed all cobbled setts back to the road in Pennington Street, which was broken out within our multi utility trench, which was a condition set by the local authority.