Design and construction of infrastructure on the Greenwich peninsula

Redeveloping the 120 ha Greenwich peninsula in east London required a £185 million project budget for new services and infrastructure to be planned, designed and installed in just three years. The engineers were also faced with the challenge of reconciling the short-term but intense needs of the year-long millennium exhibition with the overall long-term requirements of this state-of-the-art urban regeneration project. This paper describes the planning and implementation of the various infrastructure elements, including 14 km of sewers and outfalls, 13 km of drinking water and irrigation mains, 8 km of roads, three pumping stations, an electrical power tunnel under the River Thames and landscaped parklands