Kings Place, London

Trent Concrete's bright white delight Nottingham’s major new mixed use development, Southreef, will use a total of 700 pre-cast concrete units from industry leading company, Trent Concrete, giving it an unrivalled visual aesthetic that’s built to last. more >>

"This was a very interesting job to work on with Sir Robert McAlpine, the main contractor. Architecturally it is a stunning build, but from a production perspective it was incredibly demanding working with curved Jura Limestone."

Dave Walker
Managing Director, Trent Concrete

Client:	Parabola Land
Architect:	Dixon Jones
Contractor:	Sir Robert McAlpine
Products:	4,000 square metres of Jura limestone faced precast units to all external elevations, plus 300 square metres of handset Jura limestone at the lower levels
Completion Date:	Summer 2008

For the first time ever, Trent Concrete has fixed its precast panels by working on water from a river barge. These challenging logistics formed part of a £1.9m contract to clad a stunning rotunda arts and office development - with Trent pulling out all the stops to deliver on time.

Bound on two sides by the Regent's Canal, Kings Place, on York Way in London's Kings Cross/St Pancras area posed one rather wet logistical problem.

In order to move the precast panels to the waterside edges of the build, they needed a boat.

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