Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station, one of London’s most iconic buildings, is being redeveloped into luxury apartments. Now that the redevelopment of the Grade II* listed building is underway it reminded us of work we carried out there in the 1980′s.

After the end of the Second World War, the London Power Company took the opportunity to use the waste heat of the water from the power station to implement a district heating scheme. The system benefited some 10,000 people by providing hot water and central heating to newly redeveloped areas within Pimlico, on the opposite side of the River Thames.

After the power station ceased generating electricity in 1983 Michael Pooler Associates were called in to oversee the structural design of a boiler station which would enable the water from the River Thames to still be used to provide hot water and central heating to the Pimlico area of London.

A history of the building and news of it’s proposed development can be found here https://www.batterseapowerstation.co.uk/