Wentworth 1 Victoria Street project featured in Ground Engineering Magazine

Wentworth has been featured in the April 2026 issue of Ground Engineering, highlighting our construction engineering role on the 1 Victoria Street redevelopment in Westminster, one of London's most technically demanding live projects.

Working alongside Keltbray, our team brought construction knowledge from day one on a scheme that involved transforming the former Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy headquarters into a high-sustainability mixed-use building.

Key highlights from the project include:

• Managing demolition on a constrained central London site, coordinating around public footpaths, road closures and a geotechnically sensitive heritage location
  
• Principal engineer Sean Starkey led the temporary works design, developing a 3D ground model and dewatering strategy that eliminated the need for extensive temporary propping, reducing programme time and carbon footprint
  
• Navigating complex ground conditions including a persistently high water table and variable subsurface geology
  
• Pioneering a "notching" technique to enable early piling around existing structural cores while demolition continued above
  

Read the full article in Ground Engineering here