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

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Recovering Energy from Waste: New technologies and infrastructure for the capital

John Lyall will be speaking at the forthcoming NLA conference Recovering Energy from Waste: New technologies and infrastructure for the capital – a half day event which will discuss “the massive economic and environmental opportunities for energy from waste (EfW) technologies in the capital, as the Mayor, along with the waste and building industries, work to meet ambitious targets to send zero municipal waste to landfill by 2025.”

John will talk in detail about two of our recent infrastructure buildings:

• Old Ford Water Treatment Plant, and
• Crossness Advanced Digestion plant

Both are innovative schemes in their own right: Old Ford (above and top) recovers usable grey water from sewage for the nearby Olympic Park, while Crossness (below) processes sewage sludge to produce fertiliser ‘cake’, to be distributed to fields as fertiliser. Like all of our infrastructure projects, Old Ford and Crossness have been designed not only as functional buildings, but are also designed to enhance their environment.  Any large scale infrastructure should aspire to do this, especially within urban areas, or regions of special interest.

The conference Recovering Energy from Waste: New technologies and infrastructure for the capital takes place on Tuesday 8 February 2010, 8.30am-1.00pm, at the The Building Centre, London WC1E 7BT.  Click here for more details of the event and to register.

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Read more about Old ford water treatment (PDF brochure)

Read more about Crossness Advanced digestion plant (PDF brochure)

Open the full JLA infrastructure brochure (PDF brochure)

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“Lyall turns muck into brass” – BD article

JLAs new Enhanced Digestion Plant for Thames Water was published on the front page of this weeks Building Design magazine:

For more information and additional images please click here

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Enabling London 2012: The Olympic Infrastructure (Webinar)

John Lyall gave a presentation today of our work on the infrastructure of the Olympics, as part of the Infrastructure Now conference.

In a webinar entitled Enabling London 2012: The Olympic Infrastructure there were presentations by Simon Wright, director of infrastructure and utilities at the ODA, Mike McNicholas, project director for London 2012 at Atkins, and finally John Lyall.

You can watch (and listen to) Johns presentation below:

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John presenting for the Infrastructure Now virtual conference

Click here to listen to the follow-up discussion:

Following Johns presentation there was a really interesting discussion on the  cost of good quality architecture in Infrastructure projects, how our work relates to that of the Victorians, and finally whether John has enjoyed the process of working on the Olympics  - click here to listen

The full webinar  is available on demand here –  and includes the other presenters and an introduction from Tom Lane of Building magazine (requires registration).

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John Lyall Architects Infrastructure work

With the Olympic Pumping station now complete and with news of some of our new infrastructure work released to the public realm, we’ve updated our Infrastructure Brochure:

We’ve still got plenty of similar projects on the drawing board which at this time remain top secret… we’ll post details as soon as we can!

To open a PDF version of this brochure please click here (3Mb file)

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Designing Infrastructure – a presentation by John Lyall 21/04/10

John Lyall gave a talk today at the New London Architecture seminar “Designing Londons Waste and Energy Facilities”

The talk was followed by an audience of about 200 people, and it was really interesting to hear their comments and questions at the end - people are really starting to think about this fast moving area of our built environment.

Many of the new buildings discussed at the event will convert waste into energy, and are therefore really important and very green initiatives… but such Energy and Waste buildings can be huge! The focus of Johns presentation was that although such projects are very much engineering-led functional schemes, with careful thought they can still enhance their local environment. The slides (shown below) discuss the four pumping stations that John Lyall Architects have designed around the Olympic Park. These important infrastructure buildings have added to the infrastructure work of JLA.

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