The Brickyard is the redevelopment of a former council car park in East Ham, comprising of a 2 storey podium for commercial uses and 3 distinct residential buildings, connected by an external shared landscape.

The redevelopment will provide two commercial units on the ground floor, one leisure unit on the first floor, 98 new homes of accommodation within three blocks; a 12 storey tower block has been designed as the focal point of the scheme; a 2 storey block formed of a series of duplexes and a 4 storey linear block are developed as low-rise buildings that define the courtyard to the east and west allowing the southern boundary of the podium to be open.

calfordseaden was appointed as Principal Designer by the Client at RIBA Stage 3. A CDM Compliance Audit was undertaken to assess what items were outstanding. We met with the design team to review the drawings and design risk assessments before producing our own Significant Issues Register detailing risks in the design for the construction, use, maintenance and eventual demolition of the proposed building.

We attended DTMs and specific workshops relating to the identified risks and hosted Design Risk Workshops. This enabled the Client to understand any risks that remained. The project benefited from early contractor involvement where the Principal Contractor was able to bring buildability issues to the fore which led to safety construction methods on site.