BAM Plant’s Africa House plant removal project complete 24 July 2013

BAM Plant has completed the challenging removal of site cabins from a gantry above Gate Street, in Holborn, central London, on its Africa House project.

BAM Construction is preparing to hand over the £25 million Africa House office redevelopment scheme next month (August 2013), and worked with crane supplier Ainscough over successive nights to complete the removal.

BAM Plant lifting manager Martin Ross explains that, as part of the final stage of the project, engineers had to work quickly, quietly and carefully to remove the site cabins in the tight space available.

"We needed 100m of road to rig the luffing fly jib that would lift the cabins from the gantry," he says. "We did this on Lincoln's Inn Fields, which had to be closed for a weekend along with two side roads."

The BAM Plant team worked throughout Saturday night to rig the crane then handed over to the operator for its removal work. BAM Plant came back with Ainscough to work on Sunday evening to take down the crane before the road was opened at 3am Monday.

"We were under time pressure to get the road open, and also environmental controls to keep the noise down," states Ross. "We also had an eye on the weather, as high winds would have meant stopping any lifting works for safety reasons.

"But we had good weather; we used oak drifts to keep the noise down; and the lifting went smoothly. It was a challenging job and it is a credit to all involved that it went to plan."

Brian Tinham

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