Strattum Consulting, worked for the Barking River Side project as a Construction Advisor. Strattum were commissioned to assist in the preparation of the Construction Logistic Phase Plan for the District Central Area, the coordination of the design process to eliminate future mistakes in the District Central, Phase II, Phase III of the Barking Riverside project. The District Central area comprises off twelve plots, with different architecture and infrastructure function. The area will also facilitate a leisure and sports centre, a new TFL Over-ground train Station aptly called Barking Riverside. The new plots will include a 9 storey’s residential building, Town Houses, the centrepiece 34 floor high rise tower and 4 number 27 storey’s towers. New local amenities such as on site hotels, new retail and commercial units. In total there will be 44 number of the town houses and 2792 new homes.
The project also allows for the full renovation of the existing Jeti and a state-of-the-art new Marina. This will also include a new Cornish (promenade) and a lots of new parks and relaxed spaces for the future residents and commercial users. The BRL project is also planning to connect the project with the London river boat service and other boat taxis that operate on the river Thames. During the coordination of the architecture and infrastructure process, engineers from Strattum Consulting Ltd, presented their recommendations to BRL of how the ground works can can be safely and efficiently carried out in an area adjacent to water and at sever risk of flooding.
Part of our commission, Strattum Consulting Ltd had to verify the geologist reports and investigations of the land remediation strategy and propose a suitable way off how to manage the contaminated soil and land effectively whilst completing the remediation work. Strattum also complied and put together a comprehensive construction logistics phase plan for each individual plot in the district central area that included many complex underground carparks in a very tight and logistically challenged area.
Strattum recommended to this scheme the most productive way on how the build can progress without disrupting existing the utilities services that service adjacent tenants in the nearby vicinity and also kept the functioning existing roads in the area uncongested and minimalizing disruption to exiting users. Strattum also consulted and gave several solutions on the best engineering options on how the underground car parks should be built under the existing plots. Strattum also assisted in the preparation of the main programme of works to district central area along with a master programme for Barking Riverside project.
Strattum also added significant innovation to the scheme as when the global coronavirus pandemic was shutting down sites across the country our engineers recommended a full strategy that included global research of an innovative façade materials and systems that can be produced and installed sufficiently whilst gaining significant cost and time savings to the project. This new façade system works well on the tight logistically constrained site and its rapid installation process will also bring extra savings to sundry items such as scaffold etc.
By going down this option the overall master plan for The BRL project saw massive cost savings in not only construction but also increased margins of the land value without compromising on quality or aesthetics and future maintenance. We recommended the alternative products and presented to the scheme on how buildings should be designed and what will effectively satisfy the architecture / aesthetic view for the entire neighbourhood.