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Battersea Power Station

In the last few days I managed to get on a visit to the actual Battersea Power Station (part of phase 2 within the wider Battersea project) after I hosted some of the Phase 2 engineers around the NLE site. I took some pictures and thought they might be interesting.

The Power Station itself will become home to a whole myriad of things, from multi million pound apartments, roof top gardens, a hotel, cinema, restaurants, office space and event space.

I floated the idea of a fly through drone video sequence of our site to the Project Manager but he didn’t seem to interested.

Battersea Power Station walk through model

Model of Battersea Project Phase 3 buildings. I have marked out the extent of the NLE Station and Crossover Boxes

Luxury Appartments … one day

Roof of Turbine Room A – Future Roof garden

Turbine Room A

Middle space between the chimneys.

Middle Space

Turbine Room B

NLE Update

Project milestone achieved, on the completion of diaphragm wall piling within the Crossover Box. Other than the release of funds to have a beer or two on the project it means that we can hand over some space and start the excavation. We dont the whole box as rotary bored piles still have 4 weeks left to finish so we are chasing them out of the box as we continue to excavate.

Having excavated from 101m ATD to 97m ATD the diaphragm wall need breaking out to expose the starter bars. Maximum effort to break concrete as quickly as possible without bending any bars. We are quite content with the lack of bent bars so far.

Crossover Box Excavation

Breaking down of the Diaphragm Walls and exposing of Starter Bars

The sheet piles have started springing a few leaks. They did not have any bitumen in the clutches before they were driven. We now have a problem to either construct a small sump into the blinding layer at 97m ATD or try and seal them (very difficult to do). So far we think welding might be an option but will then require digging back out to break the weld before the piles are pulled out. Not a massive issue, but interested if anyone knows how to plug a dam? water level is at 100m ATD so no more than 3m of head.