ELEPHANT ROAD

Key facts & challenges

Summary

Elephant Road is part of the regeneration of Elephant & Castle - one of the largest regeneration projects in the UK

Sector

Multi Residential

Project Value

£200m

Client

Delancey/ Oakmayne

Contractor

Laing O'Rourke

Subcontractor

Deepdale Solutions (external cladding) Astins (internal drylining)

Location

London SE1

Country

UK

Installation Description

"Our role in this project was to manufacture the exterior panels in our factory for fast and easy installation on site. We chose GTEC Weather Defence over CP board because it's much easier to handle in the factory - we don't need power tools, just a Stanley knife. And it's much lighter for the installation phase which is good from a manual handling point of view."

Installation

This site had changed ownership and had been contentious for many years. The main challenges at the installation phase included: - site constraints: three towers on a 1 acre site under construction simultaneously - meet a very tight timescale of 20 months - incorporate part unitised construction into the curtain walling - meet all of the performance criteria for thermal performance, fire protection, acoustics, sustainability ambitions and visual appearance.

Quote from

Jon Hathaway, Production Manager Deepdale Solutions

Impact

“We are incredibly proud to be part of the regeneration of Elephant and Castle. Working with Delancey and Oakmayne from the early design stages we have used industry-leading offsite construction techniques that have allowed us to reach this milestone in record time. We look forward to taking the project to its final stages and progressing to handover in summer 2016 – providing Southwark residents and students with quality places to live".

Quote from

Ray O’Rourke, Chairman