Dyer & Butler has been appointed by The City of London Corporation to deliver strengthening works to the Snowhill tunnel lids that run directly under Smithfield Market
Dyer & Butler focuses on essential infrastructure including airports, railways and highways, will deliver the programme of works.
The work is being undertaken alongside the £337m development of the new Museum of London site at West Smithfield.
Work includes:
- Extensive temporary works to support the market building whilst the foundations are transferred to the new tunnel lids
- Reduction of the depth of structure to form the new museum structural deck
- Removal of overburden upon the existing tunnel lid jack arches
- PCC structures
- Dismantling of historic façade
- Installation of tunnel strengthening steelwork and steelwork design in the tunnel vaults as enabling works for Network Rail’s installation of new Road Rail Access Points (RRAP)
- Highways improvements
- Waterproofing.
The new site
Currently, at London Wall in east London, the museum is moving to West Smithfield, a conservation area in central London, where it will take over the currently derelict market buildings at the western end of Smithfield.
The new site will have the capacity to welcome over two million visitors a year and has been designed by London-based architectural practices Stanton Williams and Asif Khan working with Julian Harrap, a firm which specialises in the redevelopment of historic buildings.
Dyer & Butler’s rail division delivers essential rail infrastructure services under the framework and stand-alone contracts, from maintenance through to major capital projects.
