TITLE TEXT HERE Paddington Square In February 2019, Erith was awarded the substructure phase for Paddington Square. This multi-million-pound project has been awarded as a result of several factors, including our outstanding performance during the demolition phase of the works and our excellent track record of undertaking substructure packages throughout the Capital in high-risk environments. The Paddington Cube Development is a prominent development set in the centre of Paddington and the Gateway to Paddington Station. The project is set within Westminster, London. The area is surrounded by a mixture of retail, residential, commercial properties and the St Mary’s Hospital. The works at Paddington Square comprise pile enabling, secant walls and bearing piles, temporary works to facilitate a bulk excavation and a hybrid top-down-bottom-up construction of the new London Road and multi-level retail basement, adjacent to and incorporating the new entrance of Paddington station ticket hall. With the works in their infancy, Erith carried out the demolition of the 2m thick basement raft slab, adjacent to both Royal Mail Group and Crossrail shafts, with particular consideration to the adjacent Bakerloo Line pedestrian tunnel that ran beneath London Street. Arisings from the demolition phase process were crushed into 6F2 material to minimise vehicular movements and were stockpiled for reuse as engineered fill for working pile platforms. Throughout the process, Erith was in constant dialogue with St Mary’s Hospital, Royal Mail Group, Network Rail, London Underground and Westminster City Council to ensure smooth delivery and constant cooperation whilst completing the works. Substructure concrete works included the construction of the lower ticket hall slabs, upper ticket hall slabs, concourse level slabs, the lift core, the stair core, the ground floor slabs and the public realm works such as tree planters. The London Underground (LU) Bakerloo line ticket hall (C B071-05) was also upgraded as part of the overall Paddington Square office and retail development scheme. The ticket hall was located adjacent to the GWR Paddington Station under Arrivals Road and London Street to the South-East corner of the station, at the entrance to Span Four on the junction with Praed Street. The upgrade works involved the development of the new ticket hall, construction of basement plant rooms, lift and stair core and tunnelling work to create step-free access to the Bakerloo line platforms. Basement Demolition and Reconstruction Location: Paddington, London W2 1AA