Dust Control During Extensive Redevelopment at Churchill’s War Office

Project Overview

Located in the heart of Whitehall, the Old War Office - a Grade II listed former government building – is currently being transformed into a 125 room five-star hotel, and 88 one-to-five bedroom apartments.

The historic Edwardian building has previously housed such famous figures as Winston Churchill during World War II, as well as Secretaries of State, Lord Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, and John Profumo.

The plans are to give this building a new purpose whilst also respecting its period features and place in history. Planning is also conditional on offering public access to historically significant parts of the building at least 10 days each year. The Toureen Group are currently working on the structural alterations, converting part of the building into a hotel. These include cutting additional door openings into the corridor walls.

Challenge

To ensure dust control whilst the cutting works for the structural alterations were being undertaken over most of the floor levels, in order to prevent dust breaking out into the corridors and other parts of the building. Further prevention of the spread of dust and fumes within the basement works areas were considered.

Solution

RVT Group provided localised dust control during the cutting works. We recommended that each team used a Ventex Centrifugal Fan 300M and a Dustex WandaFilta Plus unit, to capture and control the dust at source while they were working. These control measures effectively stop the dust from breaking out into the corridor and other parts of the building.

A total of 10 Ventex Centrifugal Fan 300M kits and Dustex WandaFilta Plus dust control kits were used on site.

"RVT gave a great service in assisting the project team in meeting their statutory requirements and beyond. The planning, advice and support was first class and a specialist engineer visited the site to ensure the team were using the equipment to its maximum potential. RVT are an innovative company with good support systems in place and are a pleasure to work with!" - Paul Williams, SHEP Manager, Toureen Special Projects