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After years of meticulous planning and construction work along Exhibition Road, South Kensington, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson officially opened the new-look road on 1st February 2012, which features a kerb-free single surface with no barriers or street clutter.
Aworth Survey Consultants were appointed by architects Dixon Jones to undertake topographical and measured surveys of Exhibition Road, the Underground Pedestrian Tunnel and detailed drawings of the Victorian Lanterns. The £29m scheme has changed this once unwelcoming road into a world class streetscape, the largest project of the Mayor’s ‘London’s Great Outdoors’ programme.
(Photo: © All rights reserved by RBKC Exhibition Road)
Award winning garden designers Modular Garden, co-foundered by Joe Swift a regular BBC Gardening Presenter, use Aworth Survey Consultants to provide them with detailed surveys to base their innovative designs upon. We are delighted to work with Modular on bespoke survey specifications, allowing their garden designers to create stunning gardens with the confidence of accurate and comprehensive survey data.
Designed and Installed by Modular (photo by Pedro Silmon)
The new landmark bridge at Borough Viaduct, due to be completed in late 2012 and part of the £6 Billion project Thameslink Programme is based upon Aworth survey data. In 2002 when the initial proposals began under the Thameslink 2000 branding, Aworth Survey Consultants were commissioned by Skanska to provide accurate topographical and measured building surveys for the project.
Aworth delivered comprehensive topographical and underground services surveys for the entire project, and in addition provided detailed measured building surveys of all the properties along the new viaduct’s route.
The Grade II Listed hotel with evocative Art Nouveau styling and Rococo plasterwork has been entirely renovated, and the original courtyard garden restored and lushly replanted, together with the metalwork arch rebuilt between the gothic creatures guarding the entrance.
Aworth were commissioned by Terry Farrell & Partners to undertake a detailed measured building survey of the hotel, including the elevations, sections, floor plans, reflected ceiling plans and rectified photography to English Heritage specifications.
Amerimar Enterprises specialise in hotel redevelopment and the £30 million refurbishment of the 330 room St. Ermin’s Hotel, London represents their first international endeavour outside of the U.S.
Sherfield Park is Croudace Homes flagship development in Hampshire, all designed from Aworth topographical survey data.
The development in Chineham with over 800 carefully considered dwellings creates a vibrant village life with attractive communal spaces, pleasant street layouts and an extensive grid of cycle ways and footpaths. The scheme is also very environmentally conscious with water retention facilities for each property, a series of balancing ponds and an underground recycling centre.
Aworth have been connected with the scheme since 1996 and we are proud to continue to work closely with Croudace Homes on their projects, from small housing developments to large masterplanning projects.
The refurbishment works and major new access platform improvements at Stratford City Regional Station for the London 2012 Olympics are all based on recent Aworth survey data for Ove Arup & Partners. The station will be the key transport hub and the main gateway station to the Olympic Park.
Aworth were able to assist production company Outsider with surveys of buildings on film locations to enable scale models for studio film recording. The Stand Tall advertising campaign for Clarks Shoes combines centuries of shoe making expertise with classic and contemporary design for new styles designed to make you Stand Tall.
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Aworth have been on hand throughout the development of this project, assisting European Land with Land Registry compliant surveying services, topographical surveys, setting out, as-built surveys and visualisation surveys. Merchant Square is superbly located within Paddington Basin where M&S and Orange have already located their headquarters. Renowned architecture by Mossessian & Partners and the proposed 42-storey skyscraper, dubbed the Cucumber Tower by Robin Partington Architects are set to dominate the skyline.
