Barking Riverside is one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects located in East London. It is being built on land formerly occupied by Barking Power Station, adjacent to the river Thames. The overall scheme will offer over 10,000 new homes alongside 2km of Thames river frontage.

BoonBrown was initially appointed as the lead consultant architect and landscape architect to produce the coordinated technical design of the first phase that comprises 227 dwellings with a mix of terraced townhouses, podium deck and mansion block apartments. With this stage 4 design completed, our appointment is now extended to include a further 482 apartments. Phase 2 where accommodation is grouped into four pods comprising apartments and town-houses around a car park zone.

This BIM 2 co-ordination project has a number of challenges, particularly in the below-ground co-ordination of the utilities, the district heating and Envac waste management system.