Silvertown Quays
Location: Royal Victoria Docks, London
Client: Lendlease
Location: Royal Victoria Docks, London
Client: Lendlease
CapabilitiesCapabilities
- Infrastructure
- Buildings
- Geotechnics
- Structural Engineering
- Infrastructure
- Buildings
- Geotechnics
- Structural Engineering
SummarySummary
Silvertown Quays is a residential redevelopment of a 50-acre site of former London docklands warehousing in East London.
Wentworth has been supporting the project from the beginning.
Wentworth has been supporting the project from the beginning.
Silvertown Quays is a residential redevelopment of a 50-acre site of former London docklands warehousing in East London.
Wentworth has been supporting the project from the beginning.
Wentworth has been supporting the project from the beginning.
Delivering valueDelivering value
Our services, ranging from the design of dock walls and infill systems to ground movement assessments and 3D modelling, have laid a strong foundation while ensuring safety and promoting sustainability.
Our services, ranging from the design of dock walls and infill systems to ground movement assessments and 3D modelling, have laid a strong foundation while ensuring safety and promoting sustainability.
Key scopeKey scope
- Concept Stage 2: designing new dock walls, including temporary cut-off walls to enable the dewatering of the docks, and a permanent retaining wall to contain the new infill in the reclaimed area.
- Enabling Works Design: this includes site excavations, hoardings, platforms, stockpiles, and assessment of assets.
- Infill Design: aiming to achieve consistent performance with primarily site-won materials, Wentworth has specified required testing, assessed the results, and designed an 8m high infill to achieve tight settlement requirements.
- Existing Dock Walls Assessment: Wentworth carried out stability assessments and designed mitigation measures to ensure that the historical dock walls would not be compromised.
- Ground Movement Assessment / Potential Damage Assessment: Wentworth performed assessments of ground movement and potential damage using 3D analysis to ensure that utilities and other installed services would not be damaged during the works.
- Concept Stage 2: designing new dock walls, including temporary cut-off walls to enable the dewatering of the docks, and a permanent retaining wall to contain the new infill in the reclaimed area.
- Enabling Works Design: this includes site excavations, hoardings, platforms, stockpiles, and assessment of assets.
- Infill Design: aiming to achieve consistent performance with primarily site-won materials, Wentworth has specified required testing, assessed the results, and designed an 8m high infill to achieve tight settlement requirements.
- Existing Dock Walls Assessment: Wentworth carried out stability assessments and designed mitigation measures to ensure that the historical dock walls would not be compromised.
- Ground Movement Assessment / Potential Damage Assessment: Wentworth performed assessments of ground movement and potential damage using 3D analysis to ensure that utilities and other installed services would not be damaged during the works.
Key Challenges and SolutionsKey Challenges and Solutions
- Optioneering: By considering technical, environmental, and financial requirements Wentworth helped the client identify the optimum solutions.
- Insufficient information during the initial design phase meant we had to provide parametric designs with sensitivity analyses and validate our work once more information became available.
- Long-term and accidental load cases were demanding. Combined with site constraints, such as the inability to prop the walls, this led to the need for non-standard design solutions.
- Tight settlement criteria, along with the requirement to re-use site-won materials, made the design of the 8m high infill a particularly challenging task.
- The need to prevent damage to the existing dock walls, the listed Silo D structure, and the newly installed services was achieved using monitoring and pre-agreed mitigation measures.
- Optioneering: By considering technical, environmental, and financial requirements Wentworth helped the client identify the optimum solutions.
- Insufficient information during the initial design phase meant we had to provide parametric designs with sensitivity analyses and validate our work once more information became available.
- Long-term and accidental load cases were demanding. Combined with site constraints, such as the inability to prop the walls, this led to the need for non-standard design solutions.
- Tight settlement criteria, along with the requirement to re-use site-won materials, made the design of the 8m high infill a particularly challenging task.
- The need to prevent damage to the existing dock walls, the listed Silo D structure, and the newly installed services was achieved using monitoring and pre-agreed mitigation measures.