The Willis Faber building is world-famous because of its place in Norman Foster’s oeuvre. With its huge 14m grid and its enormously stiff structure supporting the striking glass wall, a structure of this type and character could only have been built in concrete. The extremely high quality of the concrete structure and the entire building fabric is testament to the high standards set by the design team and achieved by the contractor, and to the intelligent and committed approach by the client to the original commission and the maintenance of the building over a quarter of a century.

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