McGee breaks new ground in Leadenhall

摘要

This 1960s City office block was built with its floors suspended from tensioned cables anchored to the top of the building's concrete core - an innovative piece of engineering, but how do you demolish such a thing without delaying the construction of its high-rise replacement? Alasdair Reisner finds outrn"There was no precedent. We had to start from scratch thinking how we were going to do it," says Andy Batehup as he surveys demolition work on a former office building at 122 Leadenhall Street in central London.rnThe sight before him reveals this is no ordinary demolition job. Seemingly turning the world on its head, the project team appear to have started at the bottom of the building and are demolishing their way up.