Skanska scoops £64m Crown Place office contract

Skanska has scooped a £64m deal to build an office complex at Crown Place in London for developer Greycoat Crown Place Partnership.

Work starts on site immediately with completion due in November 2008.

The scheme involves 26,000m² of office space and 600m² of retail space over 18 storeys, with two basement levels for parking, M&E plant and storage.

The building will incorporate environmentally-friendly measures such as geothermal piles to provide a direct energy source via a heat pump and photovoltaic louvres on the roof providing solar energy to supplement the building’s power sources.

The structural engineer for the scheme is Whitby Bird, with Renton Howard Wood Levin as architect.