Darlington Gateway Station and Multi-Storey Car Park
year RIBA Stage 3 Nov 2020
category Transportation
client Darlington Borough Council / Willmott Dixon Construction
location Darlington
project value £15M
TGA have been commissioned to work alongside Willmott Dixon in the development of a multi storey car park and new gateway station for Darlington Borough Council. The scheme will include a new station, multi-storey car park as well as works to the platforms (part of another construction team).
All images courtesy of Darlington Borough Council
Project Summary
TGA Consulting Engineers LLP are currently working as part of the design and construction team to deliver this amazing project on behalf of Darlington Borough Council and their plans to provide an improved passenger experience and to accommodate more trains. The project is seen as being crucial to enable growth over the coming years for both local and national trains.
The Darlington Railway Heritage Quarter project which will create a major new museum and visitor attraction celebrating the pivotal role that the area played in the development of passenger railways 200 year ago.
The project will conserve and refurbish three of the world’s oldest railway buildings and well as building a completely new building in which heritage railway groups can flourish whilst allowing visitors to see their work. The project also incorporates a substantial public realm linking the buildings together and containing other visitor attractions.
Darlington Borough Council is committed to achieving carbon neutral status and has challenged the design team to develop proposals which include a path to this aspiration for the site.
As part of this TGA’s Building Performance Team have been working with the wider design team to sensitively enhance the performance of the historic building envelopes without detracting from their important aesthetic qualities or causing harm to the historic fabric.
Our Specialist Lighting designers have worked closely with the architect to develop proposals to effectively light the various spaces with a mix of contemporary and period luminaires which suit the feel of the various buildings whilst enabling the various functions for which they are intended to be used to be fulfilled.
Our M&E Engineers have developed means by which modern building engineering systems can be sensitively incorporated into the evolving design working closely with the wider Design Team.
This has been particularly challenging for the design of heating systems for which it is desirable that they are able to operate at lower circulation temperatures without resulting in spaces being dominated by large emitters.
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