40-44 Bermondsey Yards and the Leather Warehouse

Key Design Ambitions

This project will see the creation of a mixed-use development that will accommodate independent retailers alongside a range of creative industry businesses. The design intent is for a space that pays homage to the dynamism of the London Borough of Southwark. The client wishes to create a highly sustainable environment for occupiers to thrive in, with high-quality low carbon materials, extensive landscaping and ample natural light to enhance their wellbeing experience.

This development will carefully mediate between the intimate scale of the Bermondsey Street townscape and the emerging city-scale of London Bridge’s St Thomas Street Framework. The objective is to enhance the local area for residents, visitors and workers whilst also creating new public realm routes for pedestrians to explore and enjoy.

The project will span two sites (40-44 Bermondsey Yards and the Leather Warehouse on Snowsfields) and together it will deliver office and retail space totalling approximately 175,000ft2. Office spaces will be contemporary and flexible, have access to external terraces and be designed to exemplary standards of environmental performance in accordance with the client’s principles of workplace well-being.

DESIGN RISK MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES TO MITIGATE / COMMUNICATE & MANAGE:

Access for maintenance, plant replacement, fire strategy, external façade access for window cleaning and façade replacement, external planter management from a root growth, maintenance and water run off perspective and the management of protecting those using the buildings external terraces are all design risk challenges.

Adjacent train networks and associated infrastructure, public highways, residential accommodation, local businesses and wider human traffic and public interfaces.

Logistics Management and site set up: city centre development, crane and lifting strategies and coordination with Network Rail, traffic management (the site resides adjacent to a 5-way one way traffic intersection), security, access and egress, temporary works management, boundary lines and the need to protect the public, noisy and percussive works management and strategies to control deliveries and waste removal are all constraints the design and construction teams must plan, mitigate, manage and monitor.

40-44 Bermondsey Yards and the Leather Warehouse

Project Team