Canary Wharf Group plc has completed construction of Canary Wharf Crossrail station’s platform level five months ahead of schedule, making it ready to receive the two giant eastern tunnel boring machines in 2013.
Construction of the Crossrail project began at North Dock in Canary Wharf less than three years ago.
Since then the construction team has driven over 1,000 piles and pumped nearly 100 million litres of dock water – the equivalent to 40 Olympic swimming pools.
Approximately 300,000 tonnes of material has been excavated from beneath the dock bed and almost 375,000 tonnes of concrete poured.
Canary Wharf Contractors Limited, the construction arm of Canary Wharf Group, has created a station box that is more than 250m long and 30m wide, approximately the same size as One Canada Square laid on its side, Britain’s tallest operational building.
Twenty-eight metres below the surface of the dock, twin 7.6m diameter rings are now in place at both ends of the station ready to receive the eastern tunnel boring machines.
Construction of the Canary Wharf Crossrail station box generated approximately 200,000 cubic metres of excavated material.
After the TBMs pass through, Canary Wharf Group will fit out the station with work due to complete in 2015. Work will continue to construct the levels sitting directly above the station box.
Canary Wharf Crossrail station will be one of the largest stations on the Crossrail route.
Canary Wharf Group has planning permission for four levels or 100,000 square feet of retail, topped by a spectacular roof top garden, community facility and restaurant semi-covered by a spectacular timber lattice roof.
