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Reference Number NIA_NGGT0025
Title Architectural Design of Compressor Site Architectural Design of Compressor Site
Status Completed
Energy Categories Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal (Oil and Gas, Refining, transport and storage of oil and gas) 100%;
Research Types Applied Research and Development 100%
Science and Technology Fields ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment) 100%
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator Project Contact
No email address given
National Grid Gas Transmission
Award Type Network Innovation Allowance
Funding Source Ofgem
Start Date 01 February 2013
End Date 31 January 2014
Duration 12 months
Total Grant Value £200,000
Industrial Sectors Manufacturing
Region London
Programme Environment / Low Carbon Environment / Low Carbon
 
Investigators Principal Investigator Project Contact , National Grid Gas Transmission (100.000%)
Web Site http://www.smarternetworks.org/Project/NIA_NGGT0025
Objectives
This project will explore three environmentally sensitive architectural design alternatives that will be suitable for a typical compressor site, based on size (one small, two medium).
Expected Benefits:
National Grid will be able to use the resulting 3D animations and models for presentations during public consultations, as appropriate, where projects are being planned, and for submissions to the Planning Inspectorate to gain a Development Consent Order, with a view to improve the efficiency of the National Grid Compressor facilities in the future.
Abstract National Grid has to operate in an ever more stringent planning environment. The implementation of the Planning Act 2008 has resulted in all Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects being captured by the Planning Act. The result of this has been a greater responsibility on a developer to provide evidence that a full and open engagement has been undertaken with both statutory and non statutory organisations and particularly the public at large and further that opinions expressed by third parties have been properly noted and where possible used to influence the final design submitted for consent to the Planning Inspectorate.
National Grid is committed to being the industry leader in the implementation of the requirements of the Planning Act. To this end, where National Grid is required to construct an above ground installation, it is imperative that they investigate fully all alternatives available to minimise the impact of the development on its environment and those who live in that environment. As part of the early stages of the public consultations on the Don Valley Power CCS project, preliminary compressor site design drawings and animations were created for three different design options:
  • Contemporary
  • Farmstead
  • Landscaped
The overwhelming preference from the public was for the landscape design (i.e. the environmental option).
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Architectural Design of Compressor Site Architectural Design of Compressor Site: Final Report

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