{"id":25156,"date":"2017-11-09T00:13:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=25156"},"modified":"2017-11-07T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:51:10","slug":"work-progresses-on-post-building-redevelopment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/work-progresses-on-post-building-redevelopment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Work progresses on Post Building redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nPost-Building1711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nPost-Building1711.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nPost-Building1711-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Construction#Steel_erection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steelwork erection<\/a> is under way on the redevelopment of the former Royal Mail Sorting Office on London\u2019s New Oxford Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Post Building is a 29,700m\u00b2 mixed-use redevelopment, being developed by Oxford Properties and Brockton Capital in joint venture to a design by architect AHMM. Main contractor for the scheme is Laing O\u2019Rourke and the steelwork package is being fulfilled by BHC.<\/p>\n<p>The building is located on an island block bordered by New Oxford Street, High Holborn and Museum Street in the west end of London. It will be the new London headquarters of management consultant McKinsey.<\/p>\n<p>Planned works include the retention of some areas of the original building, significant remodelling of the building interiors including the provision of a new central <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Concept_design#Concrete_or_steel_cores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">core<\/a>, a new stainless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Facades_and_interfaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fa\u00e7ade<\/a> and creation of innovative office accommodation which will make use of the significant floor-to-ceiling heights within the building\u2019s original structure.<\/p>\n<p>The planned partial demolition of the original 1960s Royal Mail sorting office has now been completed by John F Hunt and Laing O\u2019Rourke has now begun the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">construction<\/a> phase. There will be 25,000m\u00b2 of offices with one-acre floorplates. Every floor will have its own roof terrace.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will also have shops, a doctor\u2019s surgery, a public roof space and cafe, as well as 21 affordable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Residential_and_mixed-use_buildings#Residential_buildings_in_urban_areas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apartments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project is scheduled to complete in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steelwork erection is under way on the redevelopment of the former Royal Mail Sorting Office on London\u2019s New Oxford Street. The Post Building is a 29,700m\u00b2 mixed-use redevelopment, being developed by Oxford Properties and Brockton Capital in joint venture to a design by architect AHMM. Main contractor for the scheme is Laing O\u2019Rourke and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[729,1058,29,150,1180,1540,60,3237],"class_list":["post-25156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bhc","tag-laing-orourke","tag-london","tag-mixed-use","tag-offices","tag-redevelopment","tag-residential","tag-roof-terrace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/nPost-Building1711.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-6xK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25221,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions\/25221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}