Wapping High Street

Wapping High Street

Wapping High Street project was a development and conversion of an old warehouse in Wapping, East London. As the works entered exploration stages, it was discovered that the existing foundations were wholly inadequate for the proposed reconfiguration. Due to the lack of external access for construction purposes, as well as extremely complex layering of the underlying foundation strata, the whole building was a resupported on piled reinforced concrete raft slab which had to be hit-and-miss toothed into the perimeter walls.

Piling works were economised by using varying diameter piles and various sleeving techniques which were required to accommodate the changing underlying soils. The superstructure was redeveloped in structural steel work. MSJ provided services of structural engineering design. The project value was £2 million and the Architect was Gebler Tooth Associates who also acted as a developer for the project.