Keyprojects | Refurbishment Go to contents 45 Victoria HUB HUB Victoria is a unique central London project, a landmark building that will sit proudly at the entrance to Victoria Station. It involves both major improvements to has had to carefully coordinate upcoming existing ground floor commercial units, deliveries to the building site, as all vehicle office entrances and public spaces, and movement is strictly scheduled around local the construction of a substantial rooftop traffic requirements and there is no storage extension. The stunning development will location available for this project. have over 30 000 m2 of grade A office space. Furthermore, the aim is for the Regarding the design of the Victoria HUB rooftop extension to achieve BREEAM façade, the fact that this is a renovation Excellent certification. project raised a number of issues. Staticus’ scope in this exciting project As-built information was frequently missing, covers a total façade area of 11 472 m2. This or had a lower accuracy level than we are includes a new unitised curtain wall and used to with on new builds. Furthermore, stick curtain wall, plus refurbishment the existing buildings that are to be retained of the existing ventilated double skin were not 3D scanned and then modelled façade. The fact that this project involves into the BIM. This meant that clash both renovation and construction detection could not be undertaken. presented various challenges for the Staticus team. An additional challenge was that differential movement between the new building and For example, the installation process is the old building required large expansion complex. Frameless façade elements joints. and other types of façade have to be assembled on site. This means that Demolition is an important consideration alongside the typical installation work with renovation projects, and in the case Staticus’ team carries out, it also has to of Victoria HUB there was a significant risk assemble prefabricated façades in the factor in the tolerances of the old structure middle of central London. For this reason, and the new. the size of the installation team working Image © Morrow+Lorraine Architects on the site is significantly larger than for Staticus estimates implementation of the other projects. Furthermore, the team project will be completed in 2023.