About the Project

Farrimond House

By delaying the start of the lowest section of the four-section build, Dominic Coxshall was able to complete the drainage and services in the inner courtyard early, eliminating the difficult task of installing them via the building’s undercroft. And by temporarily holding back progress on some apartments, he was able to use them as ‘hoist homes’ for distributing materials to other areas, advancing work considerably on the build.

Dominic removed work zone congestion by replacing with steel balustrades the complicated upstands for the external cantilevered walkways. He further minimised clashes between supply chain partners by alternating their working levels so they could progress undisturbed.

His substitution of sheet panels for the tiled privacy panels on the balustrades of the prefabricated balconies gained time and cost savings. By switching the tie points of the external scaffold to the soffits rather than the edges of the external walkways, he dodged balustrade installation problems.

And with funding for external works not arriving before the scaffold went up, Dominic still poured the foundations for the external staircases to the ground-floor apartments. As the building could not be handed over without those staircases, his cost-effective intervention reduced future programme risk and avoided difficult interactions with installed drainage and service