Client: J Reddington Ltd | MACE
Contract: London City University, The City, London | Year 2017
Package Value – £80k
Job Details:
Contacted by J Reddington Ltd to install 3741m2 of floor screeds throughout the basement and ground floors. Initially we were provided by J Reddington’s site team a point of access and method for screed delivery into the building that Interior Screed strongly advised against.
Reluctantly and following repeated objections we sent materials into the site. Perhaps a point needed to be proven that the proposed method (by others) would not work. It immediately became quickly evident that it didn’t and an aborted visit subsequently ensued.
We were then contacted by a senior project leader who opened the conversation to us stating ‘how do I screed this building’ to which we immediately replied, ‘we need a tower crane’. After being advised we could have all four tower cranes if we so wished, we were then given licence to set about completely re-designing the installation and access method.
Following approval of the method statement we then lifted the screed from an extremely busy delivery location via flatbed wagon delivery (supplied by us) using pre-mixed 1 tonne bulk bags, tower craned over the building and into the atrium. We then pumped the screed from the atrium area into working areas, allowing us to send extra screed teams into site completing the installation 7 x days early.