Commissioning Management on Refurbishment of Shell Centre

21 October 2008

Working with project managers MACE, main contractors ISG and services contractor Spie Matthew Hall, Commtech is involved in Commissioning Management of one of the two central offices for oil company Shell.

Shell Centre's unique air-conditioning system, sucks in river water from just outside the area around County Hall and sends it via a pipe within a bolt iron tunnel (built exactly like a tube railway tunnel), to a point convergent with the outfall, then both the intake pipe and the outflow pipes continue under the embankment and Jubilee Gardens to the basement of the tower. From here the water is sent through filters and then heat exchanges to provide cooled air in the building. These pipes had to be especially supported on adjustable jacks during excavation work for the extension of the Jubilee Line tube service in 1995 because of settlement during the driving of an access tunnel out from Jubilee Gardens to the main running lines in York Road via Chicheley Street.

The structure is one of the first concrete clad buildings in the UK and has undergone a complete internal update.

View http://www.commtechgroup.co.uk/pdfs/Shell%20Centre.pdf for further details
and http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=SE1+7NA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=image
for a map of the area.