Progress update on the £4m building extension and refurbishment project www.its.leeds.ac.uk/about/news/building

2. Progress Update (Nr. 1)
Week ending 25th September

3. Programme Update - ITS
Scheme Start on Site : 14th September
Throughout the course of the two weeks we have successfully completed the below:
- Isolated and disconnected the existing mechanical and electrical building services
- Commenced internal strip out and demolitions of the existing building fabric
- Carried out the asbestos removal within the lower ground plant room
- Demolished the existing outbuilding and garage/office areas
- Commenced scaffold to the rear of the building to enable efficient waste removal

4. Progress Photos – External
Site Compound and external hoardings set up

5. Progress Photos – External
External outbuilding and
garage/office demolished

6. Progress Photos – External
Tree protection area set up
around Horse Chestnut Tree

7. Progress Photos – Internal
Internal soft strip and
demolition works
commenced

8. Progress Photos – Internal

9. Progress Photos – Internal
Existing Plant Room now
fully stripped of asbestos

10. Next Few Weeks………..
A look ahead to works commencing within the next 2 weeks :
- Complete strip out of existing mechanical and electrical building services
- Complete internal soft strip and demolition works
- Remove scaffold & associated rubbish chute at the rear of the building
- Commence external drainage works (including forming new manholes)
- Commence excavation to proposed basement area
- Install temporary propping to basement to assist with excavations

11. Progress Update (Nr. 2)
Week ending 9th October

12. Programme Update - ITS
For Period : Mon 28th September – Friday 9th October
- Fully completed strip out of existing mechanical and electrical building services
- Fully completed internal soft strip, demolition and non-structural works
- Removed scaffold & associated rubbish chute at the rear of the building
- Fully completed cut and carve demolition of structures around rear of building
- Commenced external drainage works (including forming new manhole)
- Numerous trial pits excavated and waste samples collected for review off site; in
preparation for groundworks commencing

13. Progress Photos – Internal
Building now completely
stripped at all floor levels

14. Progress Photos – Internal
Building now completely
stripped at all floor levels

15. Progress Photos – Internal
All internal non-structural
walls now removed on each
floor level

16. Progress Photos – External
Trial pits now complete and
backfilled on site to
establish extent of existing
foundations

17. Progress Photos – External
All external demolition
works now complete

18. Next Few Weeks………..
A look ahead to works commencing within the next 2 weeks :
- Commence excavations to the new basement area of the extension and muck away
- Begin excavations of new perimeter retaining walls
- Fully set out new building footprint and excavate necessary pad foundations
- Installation of associated insulation, reinforcement and temporary formwork in
preparation for concrete pours
- Commence new internal flooring infills where redundant staircases removed
- Commence first fix mechanical and electrical works within existing building