Charles Street Mixed Use Development with Tower

Excellent news, i like the look of this tower too!

There is going to be one hell of a lot of night time deliveries in Cardiff over the next few years.
I hope the local residents have good sound insulated windows fitted.

I remember taking to chap in Bangkok, who lived in a very nice low rise (8 storey) condo in upmarket district. Which was then surrounded by 40 storey apartment blocks. For the last 5 years there was pile driving of some sort or other, which nearly drove him to distraction.

There is going to be one hell of a lot of night time deliveries in Cardiff over the next few years.
I hope the local residents have good sound insulated windows fitted.

I remember taking to chap in Bangkok, who lived in a very nice low rise (8 storey) condo in upmarket district. Which was then surrounded by 40 storey apartment blocks. For the last 5 years there was pile driving of some sort or other, which nearly drove him to distraction.

In the planning app it mentions imposed site working hours,
08:00-18:00 on weekdays and 08:00-13:00 on Saturdays and closed Sunday's and bank holidays,
So hopefully there will be no disruption to local residents
Mind you I've worked on enough sites to know that when the job falls behind those strict site working hours go out the window and before long we are working right up to midnight.

I remember taking to chap in Bangkok, who lived in a very nice low rise (8 storey) condo in upmarket district. Which was then surrounded by 40 storey apartment blocks. For the last 5 years there was pile driving of some sort or other, which nearly drove him to distraction.

The use of driven piles in city centres in the UK is severely restricted. Generally, continuous flight auger (CFA) or bored piles are used.

http://www.skanska.co.uk/upload/Sevices ... asheet.pdf

http://www.skanska.co.uk/Global/Sevices ... Rotary.pdf

Why did they have to cut down all the trees?




Also it will be a pain having the pavements closed on Bridge St. as well as Charles St, wont do Chaple 1877 any good.

Why did they have to cut down all the trees?

The ones on the pavement just in front of the buildings will get in the way, but I'm not sure why they've chopped the ones on the opposite side of the street.

I remember taking to chap in Bangkok, who lived in a very nice low rise (8 storey) condo in upmarket district. Which was then surrounded by 40 storey apartment blocks. For the last 5 years there was pile driving of some sort or other, which nearly drove him to distraction.

The use of driven piles in city centres in the UK is severely restricted. Generally, continuous flight auger (CFA) or bored piles are used.

http://www.skanska.co.uk/upload/Sevices ... asheet.pdf

http://www.skanska.co.uk/Global/Sevices ... Rotary.pdf

Quite right! It's pretty much only sheet piling (used in temporary works) that get driven these days, especially in Cardiff. CFA piles cause much less disturbance, which is great when you're piling near historic buildings or railways (Network Rail are difficult to please when you're building near their lines!).

Charles street is a mess! The trees were its only slight saving grace. Oh well, they won't be replaced.

I like Charles St! Next and Marks are the problem in extending so far down.

I remember taking to chap in Bangkok, who lived in a very nice low rise (8 storey) condo in upmarket district. Which was then surrounded by 40 storey apartment blocks. For the last 5 years there was pile driving of some sort or other, which nearly drove him to distraction.

The use of driven piles in city centres in the UK is severely restricted. Generally, continuous flight auger (CFA) or bored piles are used.

http://www.skanska.co.uk/upload/Sevices ... asheet.pdf

http://www.skanska.co.uk/Global/Sevices ... Rotary.pdf

Quite right! It's pretty much only sheet piling (used in temporary works) that get driven these days, especially in Cardiff. CFA piles cause much less disturbance, which is great when you're piling near historic buildings or railways (Network Rail are difficult to please when you're building near their lines!).

I worked on the construction of a power plant with driven piles in SE Asia. Our site office was bouncing for months.