When completed in 2014, The Tower at St George Wharf will be the tallest wholly residential building in Europe. Fifty stories high, it will consist of 48 floors of 223 high-quality apartments, with the ground and first floors given over to residents’ private facilities such as conference rooms, private dining, cinema and a luxury spa facility. The Tower will provide an iconic landmark for the ongoing regeneration of the Nine Elms area of South London, which will soon be home to the new United States Embassy. [Image credit: St George PLC]

Developed to ensure the older people of the Borough of Hackney gain access to appropriate affordable housing, this project saw the refurbishment of over 1,000 housing units that were transferred to the Hanover in Hackney housing association from the local authority. AECOM’s cost and project managers worked closely with residents to ensure the successful end result of a better looking housing development, which is sensitive to the needs of its residents while providing a community that people want to live in.

Featuring prominently in the Woody Allen film “Match Point,” starring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, this high-quality residential development was delivered with help from AECOM’s cost consultants. It provides unparalleled views of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, and was delivered with help from AECOM’s cost consultants. Sandwiched between Lambeth Palace, home to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and St Mary’s Church, this facility consists of 90 units ranging from one to four bedrooms and seven penthouses.

AECOM is a key partner in City House Projects (CHP Ltd.), along with 3DReid and Arup, who are helping to deliver Rational House, a new city dwelling that provides homeowners with a highly flexible, sustainable and affordable housing model that can be adapted to suit any family’s needs. The first prototype was launched in Hammersmith, West London, in November 2011, with the first family taking up residence later that month. Rational House and CHP Ltd. are currently working with Barratt’s East London to provide 30 Rational House units for the Olympic Legacy site bid in Stratford.

Greenwatt Way, a groundbreaking project from energy provider SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy), is one of the U.K.'s largest zero carbon developments. AECOM’s building engineers worked closely with PRP Architects and Bramall Construction to ensure the development of 10 homes reached Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. Greenwatt Way uses the latest construction methods and technologies available and will be monitored over the next two years to improve the understanding of energy usage and requirements as the U.K. moves to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.

AECOM has designed a masterplan for a new town center, which is the anchor scheme for a wider regeneration of this post-industrial neighborhood. The scheme is recommended for outline planning approval for a hybrid application, including design codes for the scheme as well as the wider area. Our design repositions the site with London and the East End as a major urban center with high density living that utilizes excellent transport links in relationship to the business hub at Canary Wharf and the Olympic Park.

The Greenwich Millennium Village (GMV) phase 2 design competition was devised to create an alternative approach to land-use and urban form for the final phases of this ambitious riverfront mixed-use development. AECOM worked with Maccreanor Lavington and Karakusevic Carson Architects on proposals that included five residential typologies, student housing, and employment uses that were used to strengthen long-term viability and to interface with the adjoining industrial area.

AECOM developed a 10-point vision for the historic Royal Docks to revive its vitality as a new, exciting urban quarter that fulfils a vital role in the 21st century economy. The vision redefines the Royal Docks not as somewhere at the edge of the city, but as a place with its own center of gravity and a clear identity. The vision is guiding the direction of the development of “The Royals,” and AECOM is now supporting the Greater London Authority in delivering an enterprise zone status for the area.

AECOM established a framework and methodology that can be used to guide the planning for and delivery of social infrastructure across the London Thames Gateway, supporting the creation of successful, healthy and sustainable communities. The approach has been piloted across a number of locations and now forms the backbone of a bespoke methodology that can be used to determine future needs for education, health, community and leisure, open space, and emergency service facilities provision. AECOM has been engaged to update the model with the latest data available.

AECOM led a multidisciplinary team to prepare Area Action Plans (AAPs) for City Fringe, Isle of Dogs and Leaside. The team established a clear vision for each, ensuring that the population and economic growth proposed in these areas within the wider London Plan are delivered in a sustainable manner that balances the needs of the existing population. AECOM undertook capacity testing, reviewing proposed development outputs against open space, education, community facility and other social resources. Following on from these consultations, AECOM prepared three preferred option AAPs to guide social development through to 2016.

An important thoroughfare providing the gateway to Stratford Town Centre while forming the southern edge of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford High Street will link central London with the Olympic zone. In an overhaul of the street, AECOM designed the public realm improvements on approximately 1 mile (1.5 kilometers) of street, including pedestrianization of a vehicular dominated road, new paving, iconic lighting columns, a public arts scheme and a way-finding strategy.

Prepared over two years by an AECOM-led team, the Lower Lea Valley Vision, Regeneration Strategy, and Lower Lea Valley Opportunity Area Framework set an exciting, joined-up vision for this large and largely derelict area in East London, which is centered around the Lea River from north of the Olympic site down to the Thames River. The strategy seeks to better link up disparate parts of the area, transforming it into a thriving mixed-use urban environment with canals and parkland at its heart. The studies made specific recommendations to improve the provision of social infrastructure, sustainability, investments, land use and capacity, flood risk, and sustainability