https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/news/crane-lift-and-road-closures-weekend-of-21-and-22-sept-2024/

Crane lift and road closures weekend of 21 and 22 Sept 2024

20 Sep 2024, 1 p.m.

An illustration showing builders, a crane and a hospital

This weekend site cabins are being installed on Great Ormond Street. This requires a crane and some nearby road closures.

A section of Great Ormond Street and Lambs Conduit Street will be closed all weekend (21 and 22 September) to enable the installation of site cabins by the Octav Botnar Wing on Great Ormond Street.

The cabins will provide the welfare facilities for Sisk and their contractors as they deconstruction the Frontage Building and construction the Children's Cancer Centre. The activity to install the cabins will take place between 6am and 8pm on Saturday and 9am and 8pm on Sunday. There will be a crane onsite to lift the cabins into place.

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