There are four weeks until Houghton Street closes on Monday 15 June.
Meet the contractor on Tuesday 2nd June & Thursday 4th June
LSE Estates Division invites LSE Staff and Students to an information session with Capital Development and Cantillon, the Centre Buildings demolition contractor. The session will comprise a presentation about the site logistics followed by a Q&A and will include information on dust, noise, traffic, vibration control, communication and works sequencing . The meetings will be held between 1300 -14.00 on Tuesday 2nd June and at the same time on Thursday 4th June in the Centre Buildings Exhibition Space which is located the Old 3 Tuns on Houghton Street. If you are able to join us please email Phoebe in Capital Development P.J.Dunster@lse.ac.uk to confirm which date you will be attending.
Please also note that the Centre Buildings Exhibition Space will be closed once demolition commenced on 15th June 2015 so please make time to visit on a Wednesday, between 2pm and 5pm before it closes on Wednesday 10th June 2015.
Less than 4 weeks until Houghton Street closes!
In this update we provide information on the measures being taken to reduce the impact of the forthcoming demolition works – as well as news on the new home for the LSE penguin.
In less than four weeks’ time from 15 June, the pedestrian route through Houghton Street and Clare Market will be closed as our demolition contractor takes possession of the CBR site by erecting hoardings and setting up site accommodation. Noisy works will be strictly controlled and the actual demolition process will not start until after the end of term when exams have finished.
Posters, leaflets and signs will be going up around campus to help staff, students and visitors with orientation following the road closures.
Improvements to signage in and around the ground floor of Old Building will be soon in place to reduce congestion through the Student Services and Exhibition area.
An updated presentation with further detail on the demolition process and how we plan to mitigate its impact is available on the CBR web site www.lse.ac.uk/centrebuildings
Cantillon appointed as demolition contractor
In the last newsletter we reported that Cantillon had been selected as the CBR demolition contractor; their appointment has now been confirmed.
Subject to receiving all the necessary permissions from Westminster City Council which are required before they can start, Cantillon are due to begin setting up their site on 15 June (including closing Houghton Street) and then progressing with the demolition of the old Three Tuns and severing St Clements East from West immediately after term ends.
The main demolition process will commence in September 2015 once scaffolding and hoardings are completed to all the buildings.
Cantillon’s initial site set up works planned from 15 June - 6 July are illustrated below
Limiting disruption during demolition and construction
Will there be noise? YES
Will there be dust? YES
Will there be vibrations? YES
Will we work to limit disruption? YES!
Demolition and construction works are by their very nature disruptive activities, especially in tight inner city sites such as the LSE. The School requires all its contractors to minimise the impact of works as far as practicable as well as ensuring they adhere to Westminster City Council requirements and with British Standards.
See the latest newsletter for a summary of the mitigation measures which the Estates Division and Cantillon are putting in place to limit the impact of the works to acceptable limits.