Bromley Ambulance Station
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Interior of ambulance garage with spaceframe roof
Ambulance station accommodating over fifty vehicle plus staff facilities
The first ambulance station in a series by the Greater London Council architect’s department, the scheme won a RIBA Award in 1973.
The ambulance station garaging fifty vehicles and staff accommodation, changing rooms, lecture hall/canteen, offices, maintenance workshop, control suite and car parking. The site has a natural slope, which has been exploited to provide shorter ramps to the raised ambulance garage and, via separate access, to car parking below.
The main garage floor is a waffle slab supported by stanchions. The space deck roof spans over thirty metres and is supported via a ring beam on reinforced concrete columns raised off the cantilevered edge of the slab. Engineering bricks are used generally for fairface work externally and internally, the rounded forms being made with standard curved bricks.
Data
- Begun: Aug 1970
- Completed: Sep 1972
- Floor area: 4,460m2
- Sectors: Healthcare, Civic
- Total cost: £310,560
- Tender date: Apr 1970
- Procurement: Limited fluctuations, GLC contract
- Address: Crown Lane, Bromley, London, BR2, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Greater London Council Department of Architecture and Civic Design
- Project architect: Sir Roger Walters
- Client: London Ambulance Service
- Architect to the council: Roger Walters
- Project architect: Henry White
- Structural engineer: LH Waterman
- Quantity surveyor: HS Page
- Electrical and Mechanical: CA Belcher (GLC)
