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.

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

 

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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!

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In the Pink! Pudding Mill Lane in latest RIBA Journal

Our Pudding Mill Lane pumping station features in this months RIBA Journal – in an issue entitled: Power and Production – Architects and Infrastructure.

Quotes from In the Pink article by Eleanor Young:

“The form has great simplicity and a hunkered down sense of power.”

“Lyalls design has most in common with Rogers’ (LDDC pumping station): the circular plan and intense colour. But Pudding Mill Pumping Station is a much more polite and even refined building with its cloak of concrete.”

Click here to open the article as a pdf.

The March issue of RIBA Journal can be viewed online here.

Pudding Mill lane also featured in a 6 page article in the Architects Journal click here to open. It will also appear in the Autumn edition of Concrete Quarterly.

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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)

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Pudding Mill Lane awarded Excellent in sustainability award!

John Lyall Architects are delighted that our Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station has been awarded the score of 93.8% – Excellent in the engineering industry standard CEEQUAL assessment method.

The project – the pumping station for the Olympics - incorporated several sustainable design features, including integrated bird and bat boxes, and the now ubiquitous green roof. The very concept of the design was also sustainable – by siting the building on top of the circular concrete well head collar, no additional foundations were needed – just what was already required by the engineering. This led to the striking circular form of the building. The whole design process followed the strict environmental processes of the ODA, which went way above the requirements of standard current regulations, and considered many varied aspects of the design, including materials selection, sustainable delivery, water use and biodiversity.

So detailed were the ODAs requirements that – regarding Biodiversity –  it was a requirement that all plant species specified to be indigenous to the UK, leading to a specialist seed mix for the green roof, and the selection of a Field Maple tree and other local bushes for the compound. The bird and bat boxes also had to be oriented in particular directions, and adequately spaced to avoid inter-species rivalry! Working to such high standards was a great experience, and continues to inform our ongoing work.

For more information see the listing on the CEEQUAL website – click here

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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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