Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses design and construction aspects of the shard in london.

Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses design and construction aspects of the shard in london. The construction of the Shard was started in March 2009 and completed in July 2012. The building was designed by Renzo Piano an Italian architecture, working together with John Parker who was the project director for the structural engineers. The Shard is located in the busy parts of England and has office spaces, hotels, restaurants, and residential apartments (Littlefield, 2012).

The paper will give an overview of the health, safety, and welfare risks associated with the project at the construction stages stating how the risks were controlled. Finally, the paper will give an assessment of the potential impacts of the construction project on the environment and the steps that could have been taken at the construction stage to help mitigate the effects on the environment.

The International Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference and Cui (2013) noted that the Shard in London is the tallest building in the European Union with its crystalline fascia transforming the skyline of London with a multi-use 310 m vertical city owned by the State of Qatar and Sellar property. The famous Italian architect Renzo Piano together with Broadway Malyan designed the Shard in 2000. The scope of the project was to ensure that building contained the most improved equipment and technologies that would make the Shard a modernized place (Powell, 2010). The building was to comprise excellent restaurants, offices of high quality, the best restaurants, a 5-star hotel, and public viewing galleries. The scope of the project also included the coverage of all the areas in the building to comply with Vodafone guidelines and Joint Operator Test Specifications (JOTS). Cellular Asset Management (CAM) completed all the work on the distribution of the Antenna system and hence enabling the offices and other facilities in the Shard to have access to the internet and mobile network (Al-Kodmany and Ali, 2013).