City Basements

City Basements is part of the Toureen Group and delivers large-scale, complicated, multi-storey basement and specialist projects.

Since 2007, City Basements has built a reputation as London's leading basement contractor, having completed some of the most complex and logistically challenging schemes. The site-based specialist team has extensive experience of all forms of basement construction.

Our Projects

• Cambridge Terrace, NW1
  RC basement, demolition and façade retention to Grade II listed terrace, as part of the Crown Estate.
• 35 Marylebone High Street
  All works were executed by internal Toureen Group divisions, including façade retention, demolition, temporary works and piling to 35 Marylebone High Street
• Furnival House
  The conversion of a Grade I listed building into fifteen residential units
• Newport Street Art Gallery
  Sub-structure and super-structure works to Newport Street Art Gallery

Services

• Basements
  Basement design and construction
  Silent and vibrationless sheet piling
  Restricted and low headroom piling
  Contigious and secant piling
• Demolition
  Facade Retention
  Deep underpinning
  Temporary works
  Drainage
  Reinforced concrete construction
  Basement waterproofing
  Architectural concrete
• Groundworks
  Bored piling and associated attendances
  Bulk Excavations using in-house fleet
  Contaminated ground disposal and remediation
  Cut and fill
  De-watering in deep excavations
  Drainage and services
  Enabling works and hard landscaping
  External works
  General earthwork support; temporary and permanent
  Japanese Knotweed removal
  Materials recycling
  Raft foundations, pile caps, ground beams, trench and pad foundations
  Silent and tradition sheet piling
  Water stopping and waterproofing
  Construction of water retaining structures
• RC Frames
  Architectural concrete feature finishes
  Climbing protective screens
  Multi-storey high rise RC frames
  In-situ stairs
  Post tensioning
  Pre-cast concrete beams, columns, floors and walls
  Ribbed slabs
  Slip form
  Top down construction
  Troughed slabs
  Waffle slabs
• Quality finishing

Why clients work with the Toureen Group

Toureen Group are construction & contracting specialists and one of the biggest benefits of contracting with any of the divisions, is that clients automatically access the Group's wider, in-house expertise. This is particularly beneficial when unexpected project complications arise. Clients have noted that