King Alfred Centre

Brighton, UK

Project outline

£250m mixed use development located on the seafront in Hove, Brighton.  The development design is a joint venture between Gehry and Partners and HOK SVE.  This will be the first commission undertaken in England by Frank Gehry the iconoclastic architect responsible for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and more recently the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Contract value

£250M

Key features

• State of the art leisure centre comprising 3 swimming pools, sports hall, bowling green, health and fitness studio and supporting facilities.
• 750 residential units of which 160 are assigned for social/key worker housing.
• 6,000m² of retail and commercial space.
• Green Travel plan, car club and improved transport links.
• 5% on site power generation from renewable sources.
• On site combined heat, power and cooling plant.
• Solar hot water heating to leisure centre facilities.
• Recycling of pool water filtration blow down water.
• Integrated security, access control, electronic billing and ICT system.
• High sustainability agenda with respect to social, economic and environmental issues.
• Public realm spaces.

Appointment

• Building Services
• Sustainability
• Transportation
• Acoustics
• Fire
• Environmental
• IT
• Advanced Security

For more information please contact John Lloyd.