Riverside raft surfaces at last

Despite development activity across the capital remaining restrained over the past year, activity has certainly been ploughing on at the proposed new HQ of JP Morgan down at Riverside South in Docklands.

Following the laborious task of anchoring the site (which lies below the water line) to allow for  full excavation work on the foundations to take place, construction appears to be finally moving in the right direction. 

Paul Wellman from the research team took these pictures while out and about yesterday, identifying that there has been clear progress with the huge wire frame slab which will be filled with concrete once completed. The huge raft will cover the footprint of the site over the tops of the recently sunk piles.

The scale of concrete involved to cover the site will be approximately 50,000 cubic metres amounting to the delivery of 8,000 truckloads of concrete.

I think that it is safe to say that this next stage could take some time and an estimated completion date of December 2011 still appears to be rather optimistic.