At the meeting, Travelstead's idea provoked dissent. Reg Ward, however, agreed with Travelstead and pointed out that Citibank had successfully moved into mid-town New York and had also moved from the central business district in Hong Kong, drawing other users with it. Eventually it would do the same in Docklands, constructing its own building, Citigroup Centre at Canary Wharf. Travelstead managed to persuade the LDDC and the Government of Margaret Thatcher that a new financial services district of ten million square feet, located at the old West India Docks, was viable.
He was the first to propose a single main tower, which later became One Canada Square. However, Travelstead was unable to fund his project and in late , CSFB and Morgan Stanley pulled out of the consortium, effectively pulling the plug.
However, they remained interested in occupying the development if someone else were to build it. The idea of a new financial services district was not popular with local residents or their representatives on the Isle of Dogs. Residents' groups including the Association of Island Communities led by individuals such as Ted Johns did not feel that they had been part of the consultation process and did not see that local people would gain any benefit from the development. The expectation was that the development would provide no local jobs or transport improvements.
However, over the course of the development relations with the local community have improved and more than 7, local Tower Hamlets residents now work at Canary Wharf. During a bitter campaign against the LDDC's plans, the residents made their voices heard and gained concessions. One memorable stunt took place at the ground-breaking ceremony for Canary Wharf. With dignitaries and government ministers in attendance the developers were launching their plans. I had 29 meetings with business leaders in London to see if such a project made sense… I detected that the great majority were very unhappy with their premises but their attitude was that they had no choice.
The Isle of Dogs isn't an island. It's a teardrop-shaped piece of land on the river Thames. It's thought King Edward 3 kept greyhounds here — leading to the area's name. Canary Wharf tube station is big enough for One Canada Square to lie down in it. The mega-station has 20 escalators. The job you end up with in civil engineering is likely to link back to what you studied at school, college or university. Here you can see your options at any age. Canary Wharf redevelopment Year: Area improved The original docklands has been changed out of all recognition.
Conservation Historic wharves and dock infrastructure have been given a new lease of life. Economy boosted The area has encouraged and facilitated economic expansion. Solved the problem What to do with a large area of London full of redundant docks. Used engineering skill To build brand new offices, shops and flats and create an adjunct to the City. Canary Wharf after the redevelopment in the 's. Create a whole new shiny business district in the run-down east London docks area.
Canary Wharf Redevelopment Contracts Engineer at Kelbray Piling, Georgios Soldatos, tells us about Canary Wharf which contains 16 million square feet of office space, more than shops, restaurants and bars and four shopping malls. Despite the urgings of the Light Railway Transport League, fn. Thus, given the need to attract developers to a poorly served area, the DLR seemed to offer 'a credible, highprofile passenger transport system with an air of permanence and reliability, free of the notorious congestion of some East End roads'.
Strictly, the DLR is not a light railway but a fully fledged one. Nevertheless, the system is entirely separate from both those of British Rail and London Underground, and does not have to conform to their standards. It operates on much sharper bends, for example, and the trains are more akin to trams than to conventional railway carriages. The DLR uses standard-gauge track, and electric power is supplied at volts direct current from a lowlevel third rail.
All trains are automatically driven and controlled by a central computer at Poplar. No drivers are required, but there is a 'Train Captain' who controls the opening and closing of doors at stations, and can, in certain circumstances, manually drive the train. The route through the Isle of Dogs betrays the fact that the DLR was meant to serve the commercial developments within the Enterprise Zone, rather than those of the residential areas around the periphery of the Island.
Approximately two-thirds of the first phase of the DLR was built on disused or under-used railway lines. East of Limehouse it is carried on the former London and Blackwall Railway viaduct, built in , and south of Mudchute station on a arch viaduct built in and totally disused since New bridges, utilizing specially fabricated 65m-wide steel spans, carry the railway over the three West India docks. The dramatic way in which the railway crosses the water draws attention to its presence in the heart of the Enterprise Zone.
The stations closely follow the designs suggested by Arup and their collaborators. They relied on a 'kit of parts' approach, employing standard prefabricated components to provide only very basic facilities, which could be improved as the need arose and finance permitted. They are made of metal and are glazed with polycarbonate. The stations have ticketvending machines at street level.
Even as the DLR was being built, the vast number of jobs expected to be created by the Canary Wharf development rendered the railway incapable of coping with the predicted quantities of passengers from an original estimate of 1, per hour, to 13, per hour. These included new trains, the lengthening of platforms to allow double-length trains, and additional track facilities at Canary Wharf.
After its opening the DLR was beset with operating difficulties. For example, any failure of the central computer brought the whole system to a standstill. In particular, its popularity with tourists, who were curious to see the new system or who used it as a route to Greenwich, seems to have been grossly underestimated.
The provision of this link was one of the requirements of the developers of Canary Wharf from the earliest days, under G. Ware Travelstead. Work began on a further 8km-long extension, to the Royal Docks at Beckton, in The Beckton extension came into service in March This technical restriction around adding height forced us to examine the building in its current state to look at how we could add floorspace without pulling it down and rebuilding it.
They were quick to appreciate the value-add, both from an environmental and viability perspective, in refurbishing the existing building, which ultimately promised a shorter programme and far less embodied carbon. Sustainability and well-being has been at the forefront of the design process. The building has been designed to minimise energy and water use, and provide a healthy, comfortable environment for tenants and visitors. In addition to the proposed improvements to the facade, energy efficient measures have been incorporated into the design.
For example: the building is all-electric, it utilises high-efficiency building services, photovoltaic panels on the roof, the use of an air source heat pump to provide free heating, and waste heat produced during cooling will be redirected to other areas in the building. We have also interrogated all products used within the building to try and use materials that can be recycled at the end of their life.
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