Victoria Gate

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Client: Sir Robert McAlpine

Value: £4.7million

Location: Leeds

Contract Period: 18 months

Contract Type: Bespoke subcontract

Background

In 2014, Sir Robert McApline was awarded the prestigious Victoria Gate Development in Leeds City Centre by Hammerson, the retail property developer. Now complete, the Victoria Gate development in Leeds houses a flagship 21,000m² John Lewis store along with an elegantly designed two-street arcade with 30 stores, restaurants, cafes and a casino. A multi-storey car park also provides spaces for up to 800 cars.

Howard Civil Engineering were subsequently awarded the drainage and sub structure and super structure civils works. Key constraints in the development of this city-centre were its proximity to local businesses, working alongside other contractors, and utilising every square metre of developable footprint of this valuable retail site. The programming and sequencing of the various phases has been paramount.

Scope of Works

Excavation to expose piles and contiguous piled walls (7,000m³)
Reinforced concrete foundations including pile caps and ground beams (2,000m³)
Reinforced concrete structures including 5 cores up to 6 storeys high with climbing formwork (800m³)
Reinforced concrete basement structure with reinforced concrete walls (single and two-sided)
Extensive temporary works scheme to support a contiguous piled wall and capping beam
Suspended reinforced concrete soffit works
Insitu concrete ground and upper floor slabs (4,800m³)
750 tonnes rebar, 18,000m² mesh
Drainage including Section 104 outfall works within the highway, cast iron products, pumping station, attenuation tanks
Services to cover the provision of utilities to the individual retail units