Steel recovery and reuse – a case study of City Place, London

With a growing interest in steel recovery and reuse, and appreciation of its potential to deliver substantial embodied carbon savings, there is a need for the industry to develop and share good practice in this area. City Place House, London, is a current project in which an existing building is being deconstructed to allow reclamation of structural steelwork for use on several new projects in the city. This article describes the approach to deconstruction, steel recovery and inspection being employed on the project, and presents some of the key lessons learned to date.