CitizenM hotel at Tower Hill

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, announced the award of the £30 million London hotel scheme for the citizenM hotel group. The nine storey hotel will consist of 370 luxurious modular bedrooms over eight floors, a ground floor cafe, bar, living room spaces and a SocietyM business club on the eighth and ninth levels.

CitizenM from the Tower of London

Traditional construction and modular methods will be used with the hotel rooms formed by double length pods with integral corridor sections. These will be constructed and fully finished off site and then craned directly into place by tower cranes. These modular construction methods help to reduce on site construction times and minimise safety hazards.

The new building will be constructed over the exit hall of the Tower Hill London Underground Station.  The works will also include two new step free access routes, lifts to the station platforms, and re-landscaping of the adjacent public open space.

Located in close proximity to the Tower of London, the site overlooks the world heritage attraction and has the remains of an ancient Roman wall running past it that will be protected throughout the construction phase.  A fully boarded and sheeted scaffold frame will encase the Roman wall for the duration of the works, and an exclusion zone will be created to protect the wall from the movement of site plant and equipment. Extensive external works to the hotel and environ of the station will complete the development.

The Trinity Square development will be the flagship citizenM hotel. The main works of the hotel are programmed for completion in autumn 2014.

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