Rathbone Market
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Residential scheme along side the A13 that contains 271 home in three blocks on a wedge shaped site
The project contains 93 private homes in the 21-storey Block A tower, 75 rental apartments for young professionals in Block C on the development’s opposite side and 103 affordable units with external deck access in Block B between them.
The ground floor of the building contains 22,000sq ft of commercial space.
The development is built to Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes and all flats benefit from the CHP system. There’s LED lighting throughout, brown and green roofs promoting biodiversity, on-site composting, low water consumption appliance specification, recycled rubble from a nearby site used in the eco-garden construction, energy from 20 per cent renewable sources and east-west orientation of the blocks, which optimises heat loss and gain.
Data
- Begun: Dec 2010
- Completed: Oct 2012
- Floor area: 62,477m2
- Sectors: Residential, Retail
- Total cost: £46M
- Procurement: Design and build with developer’s brief
- Address: Barking Road, London, E16 1EQ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: CZWG Architects
- Client: English Cities Fund
- Developing partner: London Borough of Newham
- Main contractor: John Sisk & Sons
- Structural engineer: Ramboll
- Facade engineer: Ramboll
- Fire consultant: Ramboll Safe
- M&E engineer: Hilson Moran Partnership
- M&E engineer: Haydon
- Landscape architect: Churchman Landscape Architects
- Project manager: Buro Four
- Planning consultant: Longboard Consulting
- Transport consultant: Peter Brett Associates
- Environmental engineer: Peter Brett Associates
- Cost consultant: Rider Levett Bucknall
- Acoustic consultant: Hilson Moran Partnership
- Acoustic consultant: Sharps Redmore Partnership
- Affordable housing consultant: Douglas Birt Consulting
- Housing association: Notting Hill Housing Group