Bovis Lend Lease, Broadgate Tower, London

Broadgate Tower is built on a raft weighing 6,000 tonnes over the rail tracks that run above it to Liverpool Street Station. This means there is a requirement to distribute the weight of the tower, and hence no concrete core.

The scheme comprises two buildings: the 13-storey 201 Bishopsgate and the 35-storey Broadgate Tower, which at 161 metres tall is the City's third tallest building.

The 35-storey (161 metre) Broadgate Tower is shaped like a parallelogram stretching north-south along the site. There is a five storey entrance lobby on the south end with ten double deck lifts (the first to be used in a new-build project in the UK), and onward access to 201 Bishopsgate at the north end.

On the Broadgate Tower the hoisting consisted of three 2800kg, 90 mtr/min high speed passenger / material hoists arranged around a common tower and a specialist large high speed material hoist with an operating payload of 2000kg and a speed of 139mtrs / min.

The 13-storey 201 Bishopsgate building comprises of three standard speed, passenger / material hoists, 1.5mtr wide x 3.7mtr long, 2000kg payload