Kings Place, London

A career built to last Alwyn Preston is bidding farewell to specialist precast concrete contractor, Trent Concrete, after 48 years with the firm, having started his career pricing concrete products with them at the age of 17. 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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