We're currently standing up in the gods of the
tent in the middle of St. James' Gardens
under our amazing encapsulation structure.
I am actually an archaeologist by trade,
I did a degree in Middle Eastern archaeology
and languages at university.
My job here is essentially to act as a bridge
between the two worlds,
between the world of archaeology
and the world of engineering.
We didn't bring a crane to site to build this.
We basically built a bird-cage scaffold.
Everything was erected on a working platform
and rolled out on the spine beams
using a bespoke series of rollers
on a turfer which pulled the entire tent structure
across the spine beams.
This is one of the spine beams behind me here.
From one end of the job to the other.
Doing this, we actually managed to remove
around nine thousand person hours
of working at the height of the process
of erecting this huge roof structure.
The encapsualtion structure itself
is built of system scaffold
so it's a bespoke system,
we just adapted it for our purposes.
It's a massive free-standing structure
but the key thing about this
is it's quite environmentally sustainable
so, once we finish the works here,
and the archaeological excavation is complete,
we'll be able to return this to market
quickly, cleanly, and efficiently
without having to make any alterations
and there will be no waste.
