Atkins to make London’s largest planned scheme

Atkins has won the contract to make London’s largest planned scheme at Old Oak and Park Royal.

Atkins will work with Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation and its cost consultant, Faithful+Gould, on the £26Bn Old Oak and Park Royal Project, which is expected to deliver 25,000 homes.

The project is five time bigger than the King’s Cross development in central London. The companies will work together and set of ambitious environmental sustainability targets.

There are six core themes that the sustainability targets are based around. These include urban and public space, transport, energy, waste and materials, water and green/blue infrastructure.

Sean Lockie, Sustainability Director, Faithful+Gould, said: “Old Oak and Park Royal is a massive opportunity for London to do things that haven’t been done before.

“It means creating a vision which sets out clear goals, such as being healthy to live in, flexible over time, affordable, comfortable, and being energy and resource efficient, and then taking a systematic approach to delivery.

“We’ll need to come up with some new business models to achieve this but in doing so we have a great opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives.”

Atkins and the OPCD will also be focusing on the integration of green infrastructure with urban planning and design, and the role of rapidly emerging smart technologies.

The Grand Union Canal has the potential to play a unique role in the development, providing a cost effective way of harvesting water for use in toilets, irrigation and cleaning. There will be green spaces, trees, art and other community leisure activities built around the canal, which could even be used to help cool buildings in the summer.

 

 

 

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