Kingston Power Station

A 3 phase, £70 million project to construct a 150 bed hotel plus 400 residential apartments on part of the former Kingston Power Station and on/over the existing adjacent EDF 132kV grid transformer site.

Phase I (to commence in 2008) comprises the ‘encapsulation’ of EDF’s transformers in a blast resistant, sound attenuated freestanding 150m long x 35m wide x 15m high concrete and steel structure.

Phase II will include the hotel plus 150 flats over/alongside Phase I. This structure will generally be an 8 storey RC frame on piled foundations. However, to minimise the loading from the 3 storeys of Phase II built on top of the Phase I structure a proprietary lightweight steel frame system will be adopted. The last phase will comprise of 250 apartments in two residential blocks (constructed of reinforced concrete supported on piles). It will require a major transfer structure above the basement parking plus the sub-structure construction will be below the water table - requiring a major Thames Water sewer diversion.