McLaren was appointed to PCSA on Tenter House scheme in middle of last year
Work on a £200m City office scheme next door to Moorgate station is now not expected to get going in earnest until next year.
McLaren signed up for a PCSA on the Tenter House job in the middle of last year, having beaten Bovis and Mace to the job. It will be built next door to the 21 Moorfields office complex and the previous office block on the site has already been demolished by John F Hunt.
But plans for a concrete frame have been dropped for a steel one, delaying the start on the job until 2027.
The new block will run up to 21 storeys and will consist of 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 scheme has been repeatedly stalled and redesigned several times for the site’s freeholder Metropolitan Properties over almost three decades, with four proposals and seven main planning applications submitted since 1997.
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. Architect is David Walker.
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