Childrens Museum

Museum of Childhood

Bethnal Green, London

The construction of a new 5m high entrance on the ground floor, with lift access to all floors, a basement to house toilets and two sunken external areas finished in black basalt ground reinforced concrete. Basement ceiling, columns and stairs were all exposed concrete.

Structural engineering works included:

Site clearance
Bulk dig
Strip foundations
Reinforced exposed concrete box for basement construction
Clay drainage
Black basalt retaining walls to sunken gardens
External works
New services
Forming base and ramp for paving
Insitu exposed concrete stairs
Underpinning to lift pit
Forming lift pit

Main Contractor:	Wallis
Architect:	Caruso St John
Structural Engineers:	Alan Baxtor and Associates