What can we do with Waste? Article in New London Architecture Quarterly

John Lyall Architects feature in a recent article in New London Architecture Quarterly asking “What can we do with Waste?”

The article documents the discussions made at the NLAs conference Recovering Energy from Waste: New technologies and infrastructure for the capital  and includes commentary on the opportunities and constraints in the fast moving sector of energy from waste. The article includes input from all of the speakers at the event:

“London is a huge producer ‘of everything’ and contributes some 20 per cent of theUK’s ‘waste arisings’. ‘That means that the potential fuel sources from energy to waste are bountiful’ ”  - James Cleverly, Chairman, London Waste and Recycling Board

‘We’ve got waste; we’ve got to get rid of it. We’re not putting it in landfill; we need somewhere to get rid of it. Where’s the easiest place to put it? Let’s put it here. It’s not very efficient, and we’ve got to move away from that. We’ve got to plan better, make sure that all the opportunities are taken…”  Andrew Richmond, Waste Policy and Programmes Manager, GLA

To read the full article click here.

The full list of speakers from the seminar were:

Andrew Richmond, Waste Policy and Programmes Manager, GLA

James Cleverly, Chairman, London Waste and Recycling Board

Tim Judson, Director of Procurement, North London Waste Authority

Stuart Hayward-Higham, Development Director (Technology and Markets), SITA UK

Ian Brebner, Partner, Austin-Smith:Lord

Mark Challis, Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell

Mark Bradbury, Deputy Director of Development,London Thames Gateway Development Corporation

John Lyall, Managing Director, John Lyall Architects

Matthew Webb, Climate Change Strategy Manager - London Uunderground Limited

Read Full Post »

Where there’s muck, there’s class – Pudding Mill Lane in Concrete Quarterly

Pudding Mill Lane features in the latest edition of Concrete Quarterly:

“There is no doubt that this is a more modest building than many in the Olympic park, but it demonstrates that function is no enemy of form, and that in the right hands, even the most uninspiring of facilities can be accomplished with a little architectural pizazz.”

Click here to read the article as a PDF. Alternatively you can read the entire issue online - http://www.concretecentre.com/PDF/CQAutumn2011.pdf

Read Full Post »

Pudding Mill Lane pumping station wins NLA award

John Lyall Architects have won a prestigious New London Architecture award for our Pudding Mill Lane pumping station for the Olympics!

 

Neil Young and John Lyall accepted the NLA award earlier this week, at the impressive Guild Hall in The City of London. This award adds to Pudding Mill Lane’s CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Award for excellence in sustainability.

In his opening remarks, NLA Chairman Peter Murray said:

‘As the awards jury we have sought to reward not only excellence in design but also to recognise architecture that complements the surrounding city. The New London Awards are about buildings that sit comfortably with their neighbours and adjacent spaces and the strength of the winners is remarkable. It goes to show that London is attracting the very best in the world in terms of design and built form despite the economic downturn, and is a positive sign of what is to come.’  

 

An exhibition of the entries highlighting all of the finalists will open in the NLA galleries in September and run for 12 months.

Pudding Mill is just one of a number of award winning Infrastructure projects designed by John Lyall Architects – click here to find out more!

Image copyright: top: ODA; left and right: Agnese Sanvito. Click image to open the image in its original location.

Read Full Post »

Mapped! Our Pumping Stations seen from the air.

Google has updated its aerial imagery of the Olympic Park – so you can now see our pumping stations under construction on and around the Olympic Park! Use the plus and minus buttons to zoom in and take a closer look!

View Larger Map

The whole park is a hive of activity, and even though it is a dusty, cluttered construction site in these images, the park is clearly taking shape – and the public spaces and bridges are beginning to look really exciting! Roll on 2012!

Read Full Post »

Old Ford and Stratford Box – latest site photos!

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!)

To see how these buildings will look when complete, and for more of our award winning Infrastructure projects - Click here !

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

 

Read Full Post »

Raising the bar to deliver sustainable civil engineering

 

John Lyall will be speaking at this Thursdays CIRIA seminar in London entitled  ’Raising the bar to deliver sustainable civil engineering’.

The event will discuss the future of sustainability in the infrastructure sector,  looking in depth at a number of best practice projects – including JLAs Pudding Mill Lane Pumping station, which recently won a CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Award for excellence in sustainability.

For more information and to register to attend click here 

 

Pudding Mill is just one of our award winning Infrastructure projects - Click here to read more!

Read Full Post »

Pudding Mill Lane pumping station up for an NLA award

Our Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station – connecting the new Olympic sewer with London’s  existing infrastructure – has been shortlisted for this years New London Architecture Awards!

Click here to read the full shortlist.

Pudding Mill is just one of our award winning Infrastructure projects - Click here to read more.

Read Full Post »

Old Ford Water Treatment Facility – Site photos

Also under construction is our Old Ford Water Treatment facility:

The large volumes of the building are taking shape, and the partly recessed tanks can easily be seen in the latest site photos:

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

The  Old Ford Water Treatment facility will take mixed storm and foul water from the Northern Outfall sewer and by a state-of-the-art process of filtration produce ‘grey water’. This groundbreaking facility will supply non-potable water to a number of buildings and venues throughout the Olympics – providing a sustainable water source for Thames Water and The Games.

The simple form and modest materials of this building reflect its function and the fact that it lies within a protected woodland. Another important design factor is that it is one of a family of new engineering structures for the Olympic Park – Old Ford Pumping Station – also designed by John Lyall Architects – sits nearby.

The choice of timber cladding, stone gabions and extensive green roof will enhance the biodiversity of the site by extending habitats. The materials are also inherently sustainable themselves.

Old Ford is a small protected woodland situated just 150m from the Olympic Stadium. As with all of the buildings designed by John Lyall Architects around the Olympic site, the scheme has a simple modesty appropriate to its location, which does not try to compete with its more famous architectural neighbours.

Click here to download a project datasheet (6.5Mb PDF)

Read Full Post »

Pudding Mill Lane shortlisted in RIBA 2011 London Awards!

Pudding Mill Lane, copyright ODA 2010

Our Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station – connecting the new Olympic sewer with London’s  existing infrastructure – has been shortlisted for a prestigious RIBA regional award. We’re really pleased to be recognised alongside some incredible architecture – such as the Olympic Velodrome!

Click here to read the full shortlist.

 

Read Full Post »

Pudding Mill Lane wins prestigious CEEQUAL sustainability award!

Pudding Mill Lane Pumping station won a major sustainability award at this weeks CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Awards, at the Institution of Civil Engineers in Westminster.

CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement awards 2011 © http://www.steveshipmanphotography.com

The Olympic Park Primary Foul Sewer and Pumping Station was earlier this year rated  ’excellent’ under the CEEQUAL sustainability assessment method.

“CEEQUAL is the assessment scheme for civil engineering and the public realm. It assesses how well project and contract teams have dealt with environmental and social issues in their work.”

This prestigious accolade was one of only eight Outstanding Achievement Awards given out this year. Professor Paul Jowitt, chairman of the judging panel and former President of the ICE, said:

“It was clear from the nominations we considered that some genuinely good work is being done but we also felt strongly that the Awards should be about Outstanding Achievement, not what might be called ‘best in show’. We were therefore looking for not just very good practice but for performance that was genuinely exceptional – what CEEQUAL often describes as ‘pinnacle best practice’.

To read more about the assessment of Pudding Mill Lane and the Olympic Park Primary Foul Sewer please click here

Project Team:

Client: Olympic Delivery Authority
Designer: Arup and Barhale Construction / Hyder Consulting / Donaldson Associates / John Lyall Architects
Construction: Barhale Construction

Click here to see more photos from the awards evening!

Read Full Post »