Case Study
Client: Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn
Architect: Hawkins Brown
Structural Engineer: Aecom
Principal Contractor: Wates Construction
Specialist Contractor: Stonewest
Services Provided: Facade Cleaning & Restoration
Project Overview
Façade cleaning and repairs as part of a larger project to transform the building from a sprawling warren of corridors largely built in the aftermath of WWII to a state of the art training center for future surgeon and dentists. Frontage by Charles Barry before he designed Palace of Westminster designed the tall columns to the listed portic to the library. Listed Grade II*.
A decorative heraldic coat of arms was scanned using 3D software and recorded for posterity following which it was demolished. The captured imagery will allow the coat of arms to be recreated one day should it be needed.
Key Successes
- Initial condition Survey from ariel mounted platform
- Further detailed survey from scaffold access
- Variety of trial works/further investigations arising from surveys
- Analysis of render to inform repair specification
- Carrying out repairs to previously poor/failed repairs
- Thermotech steam cleaning
- Stitch repairs to fractures
- Conservation pinning to fractures embellishments including lions heads
- Masonry indents to architectural features including feature columns and pilasters
- Balustrade replacement
- York stone paving repair and replacement
- Boundary wall repairs
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