Bovis to build 36-storey block in emerging City tower cluster
Sellar is hoping to start work on the £500m 60 Gracechurch Street office scheme in the City of London at the beginning of next year as more of the key trade packages are awarded.
Last month, Bovis won its first major deal since being bought by US private equity firm Atlas Holdings earlier this year with the 36-storey building due to be finished by early 2029. It will include 37,000sq m of office space.
The £60m M&E package will be split between Phoenix ME for the electrical and ESG for the mechanical work.
Fujitec will carry out the lifts work while William Hare, which has been bought by the entrepreneur brother of Take That singer Jason Orange, will carry out the £40m steelwork contract.
Permasteelisa-owned Scheldebouw will carry out the cladding, worth around £35m, and Keltbray has a £35m demolition and concrete package with this beginning in earnest next January.
Designed by Danish practice 3XN, the new tower will replace the site’s existing nine-storey Allianz House, a mid-1990s building containing 13,300sq m of office space.
The job was given approval by City planners just before Christmas despite concerns from heritage groups over the scheme’s impact on a neighbouring grade I-listed church.
The project team includes executive architect Adamson Associates, cost consultant T&T Alinea, project manager Gardiner & Theobald, structural engineer Arup, planning consultant DP9 and transport consultant Velocity. Landscape architect is Townshend.
Gracechurch Street is set to become a new tower cluster in the Square Mile with proposals by Stanhope for a 33-storey tower designed by KPF at 70 Gracechurch Street getting the green light in February.
And last week, a scheme at 85 Gracechurch Street by Woods Bagot was given the planning nod by the City after being resubmitted by developer Hertshten Properties following the discovery of Roman ruins dating to the 1st century AD.
The tower was set to be 32 storeys high – this plan was given the all-clear more than 18 months ago – but it was revised down to 30 storeys to allow the remains to be on permanent public display in the basement.
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