This project is part of a major relocation of businesses from the Stratford area in East London required to make way for the stadium complex for the 2012 Olympics.

We have undertaken four previous schemes for this client in Stratford and this project relocates several storage facilities into one distribution centre. The Project involves the construction of a 14000m2 high bay warehouse building into which full height racking is installed. The site is located on a former gasworks and subsoil contamination had been remediated under an enabling contact. Two key difficulties remained in the form of peat which is both highly compressible and produces methane gas and the risk of unexploded bombs from the second world war. The foundations were designed using CFA piles through the peat to the underlying gravels and clay and the building was protected from rising gas using gas proof membranes and a venting layer. Each pile location was probed to check for unexploded bombs using specialist drilling and detection equipments. Piles were used to support the building and the ground floor suspended flat slab with 50kN/m2 floor loading. The slab was constructed using fibre reinforcement without any conventional bar reinforcement.