• Client: Welcome Hotels Lanka Private Limited
• Date of commencement: November 19, 2014
• Date of completion: July 30, 2017

The development consists of a luxury hotel comprising 29 floors and 02 basement floors with 350 guest rooms and an apartment complex comprising 49 floors and 04 basement floors with 133 apartment units. The project constructed on a five acre land overlooking Galle Face Green is executed by ITC Limited; which is one of the largest diversified conglomerates in India, through Welcome Hotels Lanka (Private) Limited.

After completion of the contract for excavation and shoring works of the development, Access Engineering PLC was entrusted with the bored piling work package by the developer. The scope of the project included installation and testing of 444 No. of cast-in-situ bored piles of 600 mm, 800 mm and 1200 mm in diameter, which drove to an average depth of 25 m from ground level to support the superstructure of the hotel and residential complexes. Advanced testing instruments and techniques were used throughout the project In order to ensure quality control requirements are met at every level.