King's Cross given ICE Award
King’s Cross St Pancras Underground Station Redevelopment project has received the Infrastructure Award at the Institution of Civil Engineers’ (ICE) London Civil Engineering Awards.
The Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering/Balfour Beatty Engineering Services joint venture completed work ahead of schedule in November last year in readiness for the increase in passengers expected due to the renewed St Pancras Station and the 2012 Olympics.
The award organisers described the project as threading 300m of tunnels and sinking a four-storey underground structure under and around the King’s Cross train shed, and listed Great Northern Hotel whilst avoiding damage to surrounding listed buildings and maintaining railway operations to double the capacity of the station.
BBES project manager Steve Waugh said: “I am extremely proud of the unprecedented work our team put into completing this project so successfully. My thanks and congratulations to go to everyone involved.”
Thomas Lane, from the judging panel said: “The rush hour crush endured by commuters as they squeezed in and out of the tube at King’s Cross Station is now a distant memory thanks to a brand new underground ticket hall and pedestrian tunnels. The result is a fine engineering achievement and valuable new addition to London’s infrastructure.”
Posted: Tuesday 10 August 2010