Design and construction of infrastructure on the Greenwich peninsula

Redeveloping the 120 ha Greenwich peninsula in east London required a pound 185 million project budget for new services and infrastructure to be plann ed, designed and installed in just three years. The engineers were also fac ed with the challenge of reconciling the short-term but intense needs of th e year-long millennium exhibition with the overall long-term requirements o f this state-of-the-art urban regeneration project. This paper describes th e planning and implementation of the various infrastructure elements, inclu ding 14 km of sewers and outfalls, 13 km of drinking water and irrigation m ains, 8 km of roads, three pumping stations, an electrical power tunnel und er the River Thames and landscaped parklands.