Bringing Battersea Back To Life

London’s iconic art deco style coal-fired Battersea Power Station was constructed in various stages between 1929 and the mid-1950s. By 1983 however the entire site was decommissioned to be left empty and decaying on the south bank of the River Thames until 2013 when work was approved to begin a long-term restoration and transformation project set to cost £9 billion.

scheduled for completion in 2025, the newly restored power station and the 42 acre site will house 3,444 new homes, a new underground tube station, 233,000 square metres of office and retail space, a new medical centre along with a six-acre public park, and a town square. currently in the third phase of construction, mast climbers and hoists have played a significant role in the work from the very start, with the uk based brogan group supplying more than 75 hoists, as well as scaffolding, mast climbers and common towers for the project.

For the first phase the company provided a combination of mast climbing platforms together with 17 construction hoists with payloads of up to 2.7 tonnes. It also worked with the main contractor to provide design and fabricated solutions to overcome any obstacles that came up during the build. During Phase Two of the project, which focused on preserving the Power Station’s historic features and character, Brogan supplied 40 hoists to the main contractor Mace, although tying in the heavy duty hoists to the structure, which is made up of more than six million aging bricks, proved a real challenge. The hoists vary in size and configuration and include both goods and passenger hoists with single and twin cars. They are currently in operation internally and externally to accommodate the varying challenges of servicing a building that is both complex in size and layout while respecting its Grade II listed status.