McLaren on PCSA for job expected to begin main construction later next year
John F Hunt said it expects to finish piling at the site of a planned £200m City office scheme by the start of next year, paving the way for new build work to begin.
The Tenter House job has been repeatedly stalled and redesigned several times for developer Freshwater, which has owned the site for more than 50 years, with four proposals and seven main planning applications submitted since 1997.
Hunt finished demolishing the existing 13-storey building before moving off site early last year.
It is now carrying out the next phase of work which also includes the construction of a single basement together with public realm improvements, including a new plaza and associated hard and soft landscaping.
McLaren is signed up for a PCSA on the job, having beaten Bovis and Mace to the work. It will be built next door to the 21 Moorfields office complex, the new home of Deutsche Bank.
A start on the job has been delayed into next year with plans for a concrete frame dropped for a steel one.
Earlier this year, Building revealed Fletcher Priest has been working with Freshwater on the scheme for several months with the move to replace previous firm David Walker Architects made last year.
The job was given planning in October 2024 with David Walker’s plans featuring a part 14, part 21-storey building containing 33,760sq m of office space with retail and community space on the ground floor along with significant public realm works to City Point Plaza and a reconstruction of New Union Street as a pedestrian route.
The project team includes development advisor JLL, project manager Buro Four, planning consultant Montagu Evans, QS Exigere, structural engineer AKT II, services engineer WSP, landscape architect Townshend Landscape Architects and townscape consultant Tavernor.
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