Projects
Happold Consulting
Sleeping Giants
Sleeping Giants - large scale buildings built in the first half of the 20th century today lay empty and unused, due to economic and social changes. The potential re-use of the Tempelhof airport building, the largest individual building in the world in the 1930s, was the impetus to compare the re-use and modernisation process of other large buildings worldwide.
Categories: Sustainability & Environment
Happold Consulting
Mobile Nano Smart Grid
Commissioned by the Berlin Senate the team of Happold Consulting Berlin has developed a mobile smart grid, which allows the provision of locally sourced, renewable energy.
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Buro Happold
Rosario to Victoria Toll Bridge
The Rosario to Victoria Toll Bridge and associated embankment provides a direct 60km link between Rosario in the province of Santa Fe to Victoria in the province of Entre Rios in Argentina. A ferry service was in operation prior to the bridge being built but stopped once the bridge was opened.
Categories: Economic Infrastructure
Buro Happold
I25/US36 Express Lanes
The I25 Express Lanes in Denver were originally built as seven miles of HOV and Rapid Bus Transit lanes between downtown Denver and the US36. In June 2006 they opened to traffic as express lanes which means that solo drivers are now also allowed to use the HOV lanes if they pay a toll. The lanes have proved very popular and there are now plans to extend the scheme along the US36 to Boulder. Although the construction of Phase I of the US36 is already underway, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDoT) and the High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE) have proposed that the Phase II extension along the US36, along with Phase I and the existing I25 express lanes, should be combined into a single design, build, finance and operate concession.
Categories: Economic Infrastructure
Happold Consulting
JingJin New Economic City
Working closely with architects SOM and our colleagues based in the UK, USA and China, our team prepared a detailed economic strategy to support a concept masterplan for the proposed JingJin New Economic City.
Categories: Economic Development, Integrated Development Planning, Sustainability & Environment, London, New York
Happold Consulting
Dalian Diamond Bay Regeneration
Working closely with architects John Thompson and Partners, we prepared a detailed economic and spatial strategy to support a masterplan for the redevelopment of Dalian’s eastern coastal periphery. The proposed redevelopment, adjacent to the CBD of Dalian City, is substantial in scale incorporating former docks, shipyards, commercial zones, areas of natural beauty and a large petrochemical plant. The economic study involved significant data collection, analysis and interpretation of primary and secondary data sources, in order to best appraise alternative uses for the site.
Categories: Economic Development, Integrated Development Planning
Happold Consulting
BeMobility: Berlin Elektromobil 2.0
Today, cities face a number of challenges related to motorized transport such as congestion of city centres and environmental degradation. Taking into account these challenges and the rising number of car owners, individual car traffic seems insufficient for the urban challenges of the 21st century. Hence there is an urgent need to develop new mobility concepts that guarantee a high degree of individual mobility whilst facing the social, economic and environmental challenges of our future cities.
Categories: Integrated Development Planning, Regional Planning, Sustainability & Environment, Economic Infrastructure, Germany
Happold Consulting
KAMA Tri-City Integrated Masterplan
The Kama Tri-City region is one of the major industrial centres in Russia. It sits upon 30% of the world’s potash resources, a key fertiliser, and also holds metals, oil and gas reserves. It should be a buoyant area. All the major businesses together with new players have plans for expansion. Instead it is suffering from a declining working-age population and increasing proportion of elderly residents.
Categories: Integrated Development Planning, Russia
Happold Consulting
Jamaica Bay
Perched on the eastern edge of New York City, the Jamaica Bay parklands cover more than 10,000 acres of land surrounding one of the most bio-diverse urban estuaries on the Atlantic seaboard. Historically, sections of the parklands have been separately owned and managed by the federal National Park Service (NPS) and the city Department of Parks, with limited collaboration in land management and provision of services. Numerous other organizations ranging from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to non-profit land trusts are involved in advocacy for, and conservation of, various sections of the parklands.
Categories: Economic Development, Integrated Development Planning, Organisational Development, Project Management, USA, New York