The groundworks programme.

The concrete for the rear capping beam is being poured tomorrow.

A view from Grove Park south, towards Forest Hill.

A view of the Cross Laminated Timber superstructure.

The CLT panels are being made and cut to size in a factory in Austria, then delivered by lorry and craned into place.

The panels vary in thickness from 80mm to 120mm - the colours indicate different thicknesses.

Marcin and Stefano.

Rebar.

A reinforcing cage for the capping beam.

The pile tops are cleaned up prior to the placing of the reinforcing cage.

Congratulations to Marcin and Anna on the birth of their son Iwo.

Rainwater from the roofs will be collected in 3750 litre underground tanks, then it will be filtered and reused to flush the WCs.

Rainwater harvesting will also minimise the load on the main sewer by reducing storm surges.

The piles are being uncovered to enable to casting of the concrete capping beams.

Once the beams are in place, excavation of the basements can begin.

A thought for the day...

A scene from the Channel 4 Programme, 24 Hours in A & E.

This is a fly-on-the-wall documentary filmed in King's College Hospital, Camberwell.

A meeting today with the SBD officer who advised on various matters, from security lighting, to locks and laminated glass specification.

The view of London from Forest Hill.

Grove park is the wooded ridge below the London Eye.

An Iroko tree in west Africa.

The windows, doors and areas of cladding are to be of sustainably sourced Iroko.

A view of the Shard from Frank's Cafe.

The view of London from Frank's Cafe.

This a a pop-up bar on the top deck of Peckham's multi-storey car park.

It is open from July to September every year and hosts the Bold Tendencies student sculpture exhibition.

Dr Lettsom was a well known benefactor, abolitionist and entomologist, who founded the Medical Society of London.

He bought the estate Grove Hill in 1779, which eventually became Grove Park.

The site accommodation arrives.

Setting out the level for the concrete capping beams.

The manhole ring being lifted into place.

The crunched piles.
The steel reinforcement bars will be bent down to link with the reinforcement of the capping beams.

The Pile Cruncher in action.

The roof plan of the new houses.

The Camberwell Beauty.

Jackson Pollock-like scratches on the jib of the new digger.

The window and external door schedule.

We are designing the bespoke window sections.

The windows are being made of sustainably sourced Iroko timber, treated with a microporous wood stain.

This hungry beast will bite off the top 450mm of each of the 161 piles.

Another week, another digger.

At 30 tonnes, this one is big enough to excavate the basements.

The hoarding prior to painting.

Charles Bronson digging our drainage connection tunnel.

A scene from The Great Escape.