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Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:21

London City Airport tenders £50m piling and decking works contract

London City Airport Ltd has gone out to tender with a contract for piling & decking works are over water at King George V (KGV) Dock worth an estimated £50 million in total.

The contract at King George V (KGV) Dock, which extends to the east of London City Airport, London, bounded by the existing taxiway in the north and the airport parking area to the south, includes all works necessary to design (from R.I.B.A stage 3 for piling and stage 4 for decking), supply, manufacture and construct a concrete deck.

The construction will consist of pre-cast reinforced concrete planks with an in situ topping spanning onto pre-cast concrete beams supported on large diameter bored concrete piles with steel casings (typically spaced at 10m centres) founded beneath the dock bed.

Average water depth is approximately 10m with the piles potentially extending a further 10m below the dock bed, averaging about 20m length per pile. The current estimated pile quantity is a total of 1,029, being, by diameter size, 13 no. at 1,500 mm diameter, 999 no. at 1,200 mm and 17 no. piles at 1,000 mm diameter.

London City Airport is looking to invite up to 6 candidates to bid for the work, which has an estimated start date of 31st March next year.

Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 4th November 2016 – click here to access the tender documentation.

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