Great Northern Hotel - Kings Cross, UK

As part of the Kings Cross regeneration project developers are proposing a 90-room boutique hotel located adjacent to both Kings Cross and St Pancras railway stations. Developers commissioned a feasibility study for the hotel which was then compared to a similar study for serviced office use. Longer term returns from hotel use have swayed the developers’ decision to pursue this route. Hotel management structures are currently being considered.

http://www.kingsturge.co.uk/commercial/news/great-northern-hotel-kings-cross.htm

Duty of care "Kings Cross Development"

The King’s Cross programme is one of the most significant development and regeneration opportunities in Central London.

Proposals for the new site include 1,900 new homes, hotels, retail, student accommodations, offices, sports and leisure facilities, open spaces, cultural uses, the refurbishment of historic structures and buildings. This project will regenerate the area and will also provide tourism, commerce, better travel connection and employment opportunities beneficial for local residence.

The King's Cross masterplan has been prepared by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates, with landscaping by Townshend Landscape Architects.
It is being developed as a joint venture between three companies:

- Argent (King's Cross) Limited
- London & Continental Railways Limited (LCR)
- DHL - Exel Supply Chain (DHL-Exel)

Argent and landowners London & Continental Railways and DHL-Exel have chosen BIW Technologies (BIW) to provide its construction collaboration and process management software to support the development at King's Cross in central London.

Also it involves planning authorities such as: planning lawyers, legal associates, private and public sector planners, surveyors advising on planning issues and elected members. Also CDM (Construction design and management regulations), Building control, Camden's Development Control, Architects, Engineers, Builders Local communities, contractors and others.

Duty of care

Duty of care

It means duty to exercise utmost skill, care and diligence. We offer professional advice and services, and implicitly undertake that we are possessed of the knowledge and skill for the purpose. We bring to the task our experience with knowledge and skills.


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Plan of work

Relationship with clients

Involvement and liaising with authorities includes:

-The planning authorities
-Building control
-CDM (Construction design and management regulations)
-CDM construction risks
-CDM health and safety

Studio Miessen

Studio Miessen is a collaborative agency for spatial strategy and cultural analysis, accommodating change through research, criticism, writing, teaching and design. As motors and productive elements of change, these means build the fundamental basis for alternative policies in urban centres. Studio Miessen design space, services and strategic framework proposals, research and write on spatial practices and comment on a wide range of cultural phenomena through international publishing, architectural proposals and the vigorous production of ideas.

Unique solutions are being delivered through a network of high-profile international practitioners with expertise in architecture, urbanism, contemporary art, curatorial practice, literature, cultural studies and social sciences. Collaborating with institutions, NGOs, local government, and independent practitioners, project teams are assembled on an ad hoc basis delivering a polyphonic team of experts in regards to the issues presented by our clients.

The Studio is currently working on projects in Brazil, the US, Europe, and the Middle East, for clients and collaborators such as the European Union’s Institute for Culture, the Government of Slovenia, the European Kunsthalle, the Architectural Association, and several individuals and institutions of various scales.

from http://www.studiomiessen.com/

Kings Cross Development Model

Model showing the redevelopment of the Kings Cross area of London and the new terminal for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
The new Rail Link Terminal is the flat roofed building behind the barrel arched St Pancras Station on the left. The front of St Pancras Station is the ornate Gothic revival Midland Hotel by Sir George Gilbert Scott which is also being redeveloped as accommodation.
The edge of the British Library just encroaches on the far left.
A second collection of tracks converge on Kings Cross Station on the right.

Ref: www.wikipedia.org

Our Team

CDM: Carrying out the construction

CDM Regulations 2007