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Farrell with have a better idea following a couple of days training regarding the readiness of each individual for what promises to be a titanic tussle against the in-form Scots. You’ve got to procure in a different way, your requirements have to be different – all this quite boring stuff has to change and we’re on that journey so that we can eventually do more in the factory,” he said. We’ve said that we are going to pump-prime it by having logistics hubs around the country. The main reason is that we think these hubs will be based around supply chains in factories that will make components for Heathrow’s construction.” They eventually ran out 54-5 victors but Munster won’t be near as wasteful if they get the hosts on the ropes.

Getting plumbing into the apartments was difficult enough, but air-conditioning requirements meant space had to be found for bulky ductwork and plant. “Integrating the services and running these around the building has probably been the hardest part of the project,” says Frawley. Minimising ductwork and pipe runs was a key strategy, so plant is dotted around the building to be as near as possible to where it is needed: in the basement, on the roof of the new 207-bed extension, and in the roofspace of Barlow House, which connects the original hotel to the extension. Air-handling units have been hidden behind ceilings, services distributed vertically using the original lift shafts and false ceilings hide the horizontal runs. In many rooms a modern-looking pod houses the bathroom. English Heritage’s philosophy was clear - either restore exactly as was, make any changes reversible, or simply cover over what is there.

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With the review done, a major change was made to the phasing of the programme to enable the apartments to be handed over a year earlier than planned. Laing O’Rourke was going to refurbish the building floor by floor, then hand over the whole building. The new strategy was to refurbish in vertical sections working from east to west. This meant staircases and lifts would be completed, allowing residents access to the apartments on the upper floors. The fire escape strategy needed modifying so two staircases would be available when the first phase was handed over. On behalf of all the team at SJE, my heartfelt thanks goes out to Danny and the Lucas team. I cannot express my gratitude enough. SJE received a Lucas Stop the Spread handwash station on the morning of 20th May, which takes pride of place in SJE’s foyer area at our head office. Which I must say looks the business! Which staff members can use as they enter and leave the premises. A fantastic initiative, thank you” The new plan also meant the design team had to design the lower parts of the building much earlier than planned.

Also, new cast-iron details were made for the balustrades and windows, coloured glass was installed in the fanlights over the doors where they were broken. Stonework was repaired or replaced and new lifts were inserted for both apartments and hotels. All the lift shafts are now in place. “Our approach has been to try and get all the heavy work done so when we start on the hotel properly, it’s more of a fit-out job,” says Frawley. At the moment, the windows are being repaired in the hotel areas. This requires internal scaffolding, which needs to be out of the way before the rest of the work starts in this area. Bill Addington on New ICE President Anusha Shah wants to drive a nature based solutions agenda during her year in office: ‘I applaud our new President's desire, in line with her recen... ‘ It’s better to take the pain now,” says Frawley. “Decorative repair work is a very slow process so it added a lot of time to how long the scaffolding was in the staircase.”Much of the work was concentrated on the ceilings. These sag over time so stainless steel hangers are used as supports. The ceiling of the coffee room (now the dining room, right) was punctured with hundreds of square holes for suspended ceiling joist hangers. Each one had to be repaired using new laths and three coats of lime plaster. “Many new lime plaster ceilings aren’t very strong as not enough time has been allowed between each coat,” says Hirst. She insisted on five weeks between coats. “That is a long time when you are doing a project of this size,” she says. “It needed very careful programming.” Farrell faces several interesting selection decisions ahead of the trip to Murrayfield. Tadhg Furlong, Robbie Henshaw, captain Johnny Sexton – the only one of the quartet to have played in the Six Nations to date – and Jamison Gibson-Park have all trained fully since recovering from injuries. So who was brave enough to take on these challenges? The Manhattan Loft Corporation (MLC) stepped up, unable to resist the chance of turning those gloriously gothic, steep roof spaces into modern flats. “We introduced the concept of loft living to the UK, and there’s probably no better attic in the UK,” says Harry Handelsman, the firm’s founder. “I saw it as a chance to create a distinctive identity for a building everyone was in awe of.” St Pancras station consists of a railway shed designed by engineer William Barlow, completed in 1868, and the Midland Grand hotel designed by George Gilbert Scott and completed in 1876. When the hotel opened it could accommodate up to 300 guests in 228 bedrooms.

It’s early days in the championship and we are nowhere near must-win territory, but Rowntree will want to see more of the same grit and fight that resulted in a 10-3 win over the Stormers (above) last week. This all about to change. With St Pancras station and its refurbished Barlow train shed now providing the stunning terminus for High Speed 1, this once neglected part of north London is vibrant, and the hotel building a prime piece of real estate. The golden age of the railway hotel will be evoked next month with the reopening of George Gilbert Scott’s Victorian gothic masterpiece, the Midland Grand hotel. After a long and painstaking refurbishment, the building will make its debut as the five-star Renaissance St Pancras and complete the regeneration of St Pancras station.On paper it looks like Leinster, who have gone with a 6:2 split on the bench – perhaps incoming coach Jacques Nienaber has had a say – will have too much power for the holders but they still can’t afford to go be as "flat" and "loose" as they were for a spell last week. The arrival of high speed rail services did not quite complete the rebirth of London’s St Pancras station. Mark Hansford reports on the final challenge of restoring and reopening the Gothic glory that is Gilbert Scott’s Midland Grand Hotel. We’ve got these cultures that have grown up in construction over many years. It’s just light years away from manufacturing companies. The complexity stems from its initial construction in the 1870s. The building was, frankly, a basket case from the off. Built as an entirely independent structure from the Barlow train shed, it is bizarre to say the least, explains Galliford Try Construction South managing director James Armitage. While Caelan Doris and friends may look at their erstwhile obliging rivals differently, it’s more important that Munster view themselves in a different light.

St Pancras station is one of London’s most iconic buildings - with its gothic revival exterior, a signature setting in the Harry Potter films and its stunning interior used in Batman Begins and by the Spice Girls in the video for their debut hit Wannabe.Once it had decided on what it wanted to build, MLC chose Laing O’Rourke in February 2006 to do the enabling works. The initial phases of the job included stripping out rubbish and sweeping away the changes British Rail had made, as well as doing early phases of the services, which had to dovetail with work being done on the train terminal. Inspired by the station, Handelsman decided to upgrade the hotel by adding a presidential suite, club lounges and a better spa. Unfortunately, Laing O’Rourke and MLC couldn’t agree on terms for the main contract, so they parted ways in September 2007. It’s a really good news story. It’s not a one-hit thing – they have kept going and it could make a massive difference.” In total there will be 244 rooms in the new hotel, although only around 100 of them will be in the original building. The remainder will be in a brand new west wing that has been erected alongside the St Pancras train shed. This was quite a challenge in itself, says Armitage. The steel-framed building is just single-skin clad. More than 30 colours had to be matched and redone. Finally the paper was cut into sheets to match the size of the original and put up on the walls of the bedroom. According to Frawley, the services strategy was based on what could feasibly be shoehorned into the building. This was fine until the client decided to bump up the hotel specification, which meant more baths and showers. “This was challenging as we had to work with the services as they were,” says Frawley. Some had to be rerouted. Bigger pipes were used along with bigger pumps to push through a higher volume of water.