These are the latest site photos of our innovative infrastructure work on and around the Olympic Park; three separate facilities, each recovering water which would otherwise be wasted!
Old Ford Pumping Station: the photo above shows one of the four cubes of Corten steel which cluster around the central well head – itself also clad in Corten Steel but with a laser-cut pattern, inspired by the trees of the surrounding nature reserve.
This new pumping station sits above an existing Victorian well, and recovers raw groundwater, pumping it to North London for treatment as drinking water. This facility sits next to another of our new buildings – the Old Ford Water Treatment plant:
This groundbreaking water treatment plant uses the latest technology to treat foul water from the Northern Outfall Sewer, processing it and pumping it into the Olympic Park for use as grey water – watering landscape and pitches.
Our third and final pumping station on site – Stratford Box – is situated on the other side of the Olympic stadium:
The Stratford Box project is a dewatering facility – pumping millions of litres of water from the ground below the nearby Stratford Box railway cutting, route of high speed trains heading from Kings Cross and on towards France.
Clad in variously sized and subtly coloured bricks, the building’s interlocking volumes sit low within another area of natural beauty, in the very centre of the Olympic park.
Keep an eye out for all three buildings (and our completed Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station) on the telly next summer! (maybe!)
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