A Next Generation Approach to Heating and Cooling Buildings
A fifth-generation network at the Bankside Yards project in London offers new possibilities for the pace of decarbonization in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Tourists strolling along the banks of the River Thames in the heart of London will soon have reason to be grateful for a busy construction site on their path.
As it nears its scheduled completion over the next few years, the Bankside Yards project of shops, offices and 600 apartments will open up new public spaces and make it easier to walk between attractions such as Tate Modern and the Royal Festival Hall.
“It’s going to be a missing link in this cultural sector along the river, turning a huge, impenetrable urban block into part of that cultural sequence of spaces,” said Daniel Moore, an architect and the technical director of the project for PLP Architecture.
But the 5.5-acre development, expected to cost 2.5 billion British pounds (about $3.3 billion), has a greater significance than speeding up a scenic pathway.
