Dunne’s packages on the new landmark Dundee city council office block which includes the sub and superstructure works commenced on 1st of July and have a programme of forty four weeks.

The logistics of the works have the extra challenge of being co-ordinated around a retained structure to 60% of the perimeter of the building on an already constrained site. The building is to consist of a lower ground floor plus nine levels of a floor plate of 1,350m2 and six no. cores, four of which are to be climbed using the bespoke Peri RCS lite system which has only recently been developed for mid height buildings in the UK. This is only the second time the system has been used in Scotland.

The other two cores are to be constructed floor by floor and the floor slabs are to be constructed using the RMD tables system to give the design team the required board pattern layout as 90% of the floor soffits of the building are to be exposed.
The works commenced with the removal of 4,500m3 of material to the southern area of the site where the lower ground floor is constructed. Running concurrently to the bulk excavation was the removal of the existing ground floor slab and the underpinning of the existing walls to allow the core foundations to be constructed adjacent to the existing structure.

These works along with the adjacent drainage, the lower ground floor and the foundations to the static pump & the south and central cores have been completed. The two tower cranes for the project were erected prior to week three to service the site as Stent began piling works to the Northern third of the site on week three.

Works ongoing presently are the internal excavations for the drainage and foundations in the existing building, excavations for the pad foundations and ground beams for the main structure and the preparation works for the first lift to the South cores walls which again have a board pattern & skirting feature in the finished concrete.