Gallions Park
Client London Development Agency
Developer One Gallions Consortium (Crest Nicholson, Bioregional Quintain and Southernhousing Group)
Architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
Structure & Services Engineers Arup Associates
Landscape Design EDCO Design
Cost Consultancy KHK Group
The London Energy Strategy calls for one zero carbon development in each London borough by 2010 but there is little experience of such projects in this country. After a proposal by Greenpeace, the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone asked the London Development Agency (LDA) to promote a zero carbon development to demonstrate that zero carbon can be technically and commercially viable.
The LDA has chosen Gallions Park – a brownfield site at the eastern end of the Royal Albert Dock as the location for this development. To illustrate that a zero carbon development is a viable option, arup was commissioned to produce a feasibility study at Gallions Park. The LDA also asked Adams and Sutherland to produce a design code for the site.
The design brief was for 233 residential units built to very high standards so as to reduce energy demand by up to 40 percent compared to 2006 Building Regulations. Electricity will be generated on site by a combined heat and power plant, which also provides hot water for heating. this plant will use bio-mass, such as wood, for its fuel so that the site will produce zero net carbon emissions over the course of a year.
The LDA invited tenders for the project in autumn 2006. Five bids were submitted, all with valuable technical insights. The Mayor of London announced the Crest Nicholson, Bioregional Quintain and Southern Housing Group ‘One Gallions’ consortium as the preferred development partner in February.
The zero carbon development will be built on the three-acre site at Gallions Park. To ensure the development can be designed as carbon emission-free, the units will be designed to include renewable energy sources and be built to a superior environmental code.
Exhibited at New London Architecture
