Steel groundscraper nears completion in the City

More than 13,000t of structural steelwork has been erected for 5 Broadgate, one of the UK’s first ‘groundscrapers’.

The new 13-storey City of London headquarters for UBS is a steel-framed building measuring 120m × 60m that was designed to accommodate extensive trading floors.

The length of the building that incorporates 65,000m² of space, and crucially four trading floors of 6,000m² each, gave rise to the term ‘groundscraper’.

Working on behalf of main contractor Mace, Severfield has fabricated, supplied and erected the steel package.

A BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating is expected for 5 Broadgate and UBS is scheduled to take occupation of the building by the end of the year.