Wood Wharf – Northern Road Box

Scope of works

Canary Wharf Contractors appointed Kilnbridge to install the permanent services installations from Prestons Road to Cartier Circle, Canary Wharf. This allowed the removal of the temporary service diversions and enabled the service providers to install critical services to the evolving Wood Wharf project taking the services to the proposed buildings. The Northern Road Box was the first phase of the multi-phased approach to installing the permanent services to the project.

The Northern Road Box comprised of two main elements of work; the construction of a reinforced concrete structure and the installation of multiple services within the structure and made ground to the east of the structure.

Challenges / Achievements

• Designed and constructed to allow construction of lower-level basements at a future date via top-down construction
• The structure required placement of 1,000 tonnes of reinforcement and 3,900m³ of structural concrete. The service installations are encased within 6,000m³ of foamed concrete fill to reduce the loading on the structure