Campus vibrations update September 2016
We have received several enquiriies about the vibrations which can be felt on some parts of the campus.
These vibrations are being caused by the removal of the basements of Clare Market and St Clement's buildings on the Centre Buildings site and are passing through the ground into adjacent buildings. Please be assured that this is nothing to be concerned about. We are working well within tolerance set by the project engineering team and Westminster City Council, who receive regular reports from the monitoring stations. Monitors are positioned throughout the site to record vibration levels and are being reviewed throughout the works by the contractor working on the site. We expect that the vibrations will continue for 6-8 weeks.
Further details about how the vibrations are monitored can be found in the newsletter from May 2015.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these works. If you experience or witness any issues in relation to the above please contact Jas Sidhu on j.sidhu@lse.ac.uk or 020 7955 7778 and she will forward your concern to the relevant person within the Capital Development Team.
Noisy works update August 2016
In order to progress works faster over the coming month, Cantillon will revert back to their standard noisy working hours with immediate effect, until 1 October 2016.
08am to 10am
12:00 to 2pm
4pm to 6pm
If you experience or witness any issues in relation to the above please contact Jas Sidhu on j.sidhu@lse.ac.uk or 020 7955 7778 and she will forward your concern to the relevant person within the Capital Development Team.
Demolition of St Clements Core update - 25 July 2016
Works to demolish the St Clements core have now recommenced on site and will take about four weeks to complete. In order to minimise disruption to staff and students working within the St Clements building and some of the surrounding buildings, work will take place between the following hours:
5pm to 10pm Monday to Friday
8am to 5pm Saturdays
Demolition activities will continue on other areas of the site throughout the day as normal, with noisy work permitted between the following times:
7:30am to 10am
12:00 to 2pm
4:30pm to 6pm
If you experience or witness any issues in relation to the above please contact Jas Sidhu on j.sidhu@lse.ac.uk or 020 7955 7778 and she will forward your concern to the relevant person within the Capital Development Team.
Demolition update April 2016
The demolition of the 4 buildings that make up the Centre Building site is progressing well, with works to demolish the buildings down to the top of the basement slab on programme to be completed by the end of April 2016. The Contractor (Cantillon) is now working on 3 fronts, with separate teams working on St Clements extension and Clare Market Tower and the East Building. Works to demolish the Anchorage will begin in early April with Cantillon’s site office moving to the basement of Kings Chamber (Room KGS B.03) and onsite welfare facilities relocating into temporary cabins on gantry adjacent the northern elevation of the Old Building, by the SSC. This means that the venue for the monthly drop in sessions will change to Kings Chambers from the 25 April 2016 onwards. Please come along and discuss any queries you have about the project on the last Wednesday of each month between 1pm and 3pm.
Following completion of the new fire escape stair in the western side of St Clements the old and now redundant stair and lift core has been handed over to Cantillon to prepare for full structural demolition. Demolition of the stair core will commence in late March 2016 and be undertaken out of core LSE hours in order to minimise disruption to occupants within St Clements west.
From early April 2016 the basement slab and retaining walls will be removed in order to prepare the site for the main contractor to take over. In parallel large areas of the site will be handed over to a team of Archaeologists for about 2 months, as both Medieval and Saxon artefacts were discovered during preliminary investigations beneath the basement slab. Visit the Archaeology page to keep up to date with developments.
The images below show the progress that has been made in the past four months.
Image from webcam on Lionel Robbins Building 16 September 2015
Image from webcam on Lionel Robbins Building 22 August 2016