McAleer & Rushe are pleased to announce they are shortlisted in the prestigious Ground Engineering Awards in partnership with CGL for their landmark project, 65 Crutched Friars, London
The design & build contractor are shortlisted in the following category:
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- UK Project with a Geotechnical Value of between £1M and £3M
The Ground Engineering Awards celebrate the UK’s most exceptional achievements in the industry, recognising technical excellence, collaboration, and sustainable innovation. The winners will be announced on June 18th 2025 at the awards ceremony in the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
Located in the heart of the City of London, the project involves the transformation a former 5-storey office block into a 21-storey mixed-use scheme for Dominus. Once complete, the scheme will provide 782 PBSA homes within a 21-storey building with basement, and serve as a permanent home for London’s Migration Museum with a purpose-built, three-floor 30,000 sq ft space.
Working within a highly constrained urban site, the McAleer & Rushe and CGL teams demonstrated exceptional collaboration and innovation throughout the demolition of the office block. By adopting a lean, pragmatic and sustainability-led geotechnical strategy, the basement design was optimised to eliminate 180 piles and 95 metres of perimeter piling, while reusing significant elements of the existing 1980s substructure, including basement walls and a 4m-deep raft foundation, resulting in 1,100 tCO₂e savings.
CGL’s innovative buttress-pile system and reuse of the existing ground floor slab as a crash deck enabled concurrent demolition and basement works, streamlining the programme while minimising environmental impact. The approach also facilitated early tower crane installation and seamless core slip-forming, all delivered within a safe and clutter-free site environment.
Targeting a BREEAM Outstanding rating, the scheme exemplifies McAleer & Rushe’s commitment to sustainable development, technical excellence, and heritage preservation.
For more information on the scheme, visit our project page: 65 Crutched Friars, London
