Kings House
Structural Demolition | Strip Out
Scope of Works
Lancebox group carried out the demolition works to Kings House, Reading between June 2015 - Feb 2016.
The project consisted of the removal of internal stair cores, lift shafts and main cores across 7 floors of the building. New precast T beam flooring was installed to allow greater floor space, with new stairs and lifts being installed externally.
On completion of the soft strip works, a mobile crane was brought in to lift various 1.5 ton machines onto the roof to carry out plant room demolition.
Whilst waiting for the installation of the tower crane and goods hoists, the lift shafts were utilised to deliver hardwire material from the roof to the basement. Larger machinery on the basement and ground floors loaded material into roll on / off skips.
Lancebox installed pre-fabricated temporary steel work from basement up to the rooftop, to 2 staircases and front elevation to support the floors during structural demolition.
Diamond trade and wire sawing works were carried out to separate floor joints and beams, to create a new ledge within the remaining structure to support the new precast floors.
Demolition commenced with 4 teams of operatives working on each core section of works alongside a team managing the waste clearance. Them was also a specialised team carrying out window removal works using a specially designed system and technique which prevented the need for full building scaffolding.
During the demolition works, the saw cutting and breaking out of the external ground floor slab was carried out in preparation of the new stair and lift cores.
