Project Description :
The Smith, within sight of the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben, a stone-clad building, built in two phases between 1915 and 1929, is being redeveloped to create an environmentally sustainable structure with modern, adaptable workspaces.
The nine-storey steel frame includes a ground floor with a 5.3m-high floor-to-ceiling soffit height (the upper office floors are 3.8m high) and terraces and a roof garden on the uppermost three levels, providing tenants with outdoor breakout spaces. Allowing plenty of natural daylight into the floorplates, the new building also features a centrally positioned full-height atrium that accommodates a feature steel staircase.
The heaviest steel element is a 13t box girder, positioned on level eight on the south elevation of the atrium. Acting as a transfer beam, it was designed so that it could be installed without splicing, while remaining within the limits of the tower crane capacity.
