K2 St Katherine’s Docks
| Location: | St Katherine’s Dock, London |
| Brief description: | Prestigious £50 million, eight story office building, with a capacity of around 16 000m2 |
| Awarding authority: | Mercer Human Resource Development |
| Completion: | 2004 |
| Architect: | Richard Rogers Partnership |
| Design Engineer: | Waterman Partnership |
| Contractor: | Taylor Woodrow |
| Steel Constructor: | Rowecord Engineering |
| Cidect member: | Corus Tubes |
Details:
The concrete filled column solution gives the
necessary strength and stiffness whilst retaining slim line elegance and the
required fire resistance.Corus Tube’s
Technical advisory service helped the designers optimize the structure for fire
safety purposes with the minimum of intumescent coating and the maximum
continuity of the column diameter.