Canary Wharf, London - HOK

TITLE OF PROJECT

5 Churchill Place

COUNTRY + LOCATION

London, Canary Wharf

Short description

The building is located at 5 Churchill Place, comprises approximately 30,000 m² with convenient access to the major facilities of Canary Wharf, the Jubilee Line and the Docklands Light Railway Station. It is arranged over four basement levels, ground and six trading floors. The façade is characterised by its mixture of granite and stainless steel. Depending on where it is viewed from it will appear stainless steel or a predominately stone building.  Sustainability goals are foremost in the design. Built on a brownfield site, a BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’ will be achieved.

USE OF IFC BIM

HOK and WSP have built BIM models of the new and existing buildings using Revit Architecture and Revit Structural respectively. Data exchange has been via Autodesk .RVT files. One significant highlight of project has been the incorporation of the supply chain steel fabrication model, the was created by the Dutch steel fabricator Staalbouw using StruCAD and converted to Revit families using a 3D DWG export - this model was then used by HOK to coordinate their construction design and achieve a higher degree of coordination than would be achieved using traditional non-BIM methods. 

Design reviews have benefited from using 3D Revit and Navisworks review in regularly project meetings with client and design team.  The main contractor has modelled the services in 3D using CADDuct and is coordinating all BIM models using Navisworks to coordinate the Services supply chain design.

CLIENT

Canary Wharf Contractors Ltd

ARCHITECT

HOK

ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION (main actors)

Architecture: HOK

Structural Engineer: WSP

Services Engineer: Hilson Moran

Main Contractor: Canary Wharf Contrators Ltd

SIZE

30,000 m2

YEAR

Shell and Core completed 2008

PRIZES / COMPETITONS

Autodesk UK - Revit User of the Year Winner 2007

CONTACT

www.hok.com,  www.cwcontractors.com, www.wspgroup.com, www.zns.nl

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