Programme
8:30
Registration and refreshments
9:20
Opening comments from the Chair
John Dales
Director
Urban Initiatives Ltd
9:30
Tracking progress and outlining upcoming station design opportunities for the forthcoming year
- Update on station developments for 2010 from Network Rail
- Examining the project scope, progress and timelines for different stations developments
- Examining clients’ procurement and delivery strategies and key selection criteria for potential supply chain partners
- Balancing budgets, design aims and timelines for station projects
Robert Thornton
Principal Architect
Network Rail
9:50
Question and answer session
10:00
Applying civic building design principles to station developments
- Viewing stations as civic buildings and applying specific design principles to emphasise and celebrate their presence
- Fitting in with urban surroundings – modern, traditional or pastiche?
- Working with listed station buildings
- Maximising the effectiveness of the external public realm
- Determining what your gateway design should symbolise and assessing the suitability of using iconic designs
- Determining the appropriate civic presence of different underground stations
Alan Baxter
Senior Partner
Alan Baxter
10:30
Question and answer session
10:40
Morning refreshments
11:10
Interchange Design: Achieving Easy And Seamless Transfers Between Trains And Onward Transport
- Examining TFLs best practice guidelines for designing interchanges
- Identifying different parties crucial to designing effective interchanges and establishing good working practices
- The importance of good collaboration and joint governance for effective multi mode design
- Designing a city gateway interchange using effective concourse and public realm design
- Developing effective urban flow where transport links are not immediately available
- Overcoming space constraints and exploring effective shared space solutions for taxis, buses and cars
- Encouraging use of more environmentally friendly onward transport methods
David Sterry
Premises Development Manager
Tfl - London Buses
John McNulty
Head of Interchange
Tfl
11:40
Case Study: Masterplanning The Belfast Interchange To Develop A New Gateway To Belfast
- Linking the Belfast Interchange design to strategic integrated transport objectives
- Identifying the scope of the redevelopment: redeveloping a mixed use scheme and re-orientating the station
- Examining key constraints and challenges to the redevelopment
- Evaluating approaches to fully integrate passenger flows into the fabric of the city
- Designing a vibrant public realm
Paul Reynolds
Associate Urban Designer
Atkins
12:15
Question and answer session
12:25
Lunch
13:25
CASE STUDY: Birmingham New Street - examining best practice in station design
- Successfully balancing the functional and operational requirements of a station with aesthetic design and a positive passenger experience
- Ensuring the building fabric, services and systems are tightly integrated through effective design
- Examining key design principles to optimise way-finding without the use of signage
- Evaluating key considerations for passenger flow design: effectively meeting the requirements of different passenger segments
- Understanding the impact of new station technologies on concourse design
- Using a loose fit approach to future proof capacity enhancement
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Principal
Foreign Office Architects
13:55
Question and answer session
14:00
Panel Session: Effective Urban Planning To Establish Stations As Catalysts For City Development
- Implementing the Mayor’s strategy of understanding stations as a focal point and as catalysts for city development
- Identifying the successful design principles which ensure stations are well integrated into the urban fabric
- Optimising the impact of passenger flow on the local community and economy
- Understanding the impact of stations on the wider urban community and examining how stations can be designed to help reinvigorate surrounding neighbourhoods
Ian Lindsay
Head of Major Developments
Network Rail
Kulveer Ranger
Director of Transport Policy
Greater London Authority
John McNulty
Head of Interchange
Tfl
Sir Terry Farrell
Principal
Terry Farrell & Partners
14:40
Afternoon refreshments
15:10
Balancing Passenger And Commercial Requirements For Integrated Station Developments
- Balancing passenger and commercial requirements within stations: the dos and don’ts of incorporating retail and leisure components into stations
- Determining whose needs come first – shoppers or passengers?
- Evaluating techniques to effectively integrate over site developments with stations
- Maximising the effectiveness of entrances and exits to both the station and commercial development
- Quantifying the impact of integrated developments on future station capacity
Larry K. Oltmanns
Design Director and CEO
Vx3
15:40
Achieving Sustainable And Energy Efficient Station Design
- Examining passive energy reduction techniques for concourse design to reduce heating and lighting requirements
- Evaluating passenger temperature requirements relatively to minimise heating and cooling in stations whilst maintaining comfort
- Exploring the practicality and cost of incorporating renewable energy sources on over site developments to power stations
- Ensuring station design does not reduce future energy efficiency options of over site developments
- Assessing approaches to reduce subterranean energy use
- Quantifying energy saving that can be achieved through an integrated approach between architects and BSEs
Henry Luker
Senior Partner
Max Fordham Consulting Engineers
16:10
Question and answer session
16:20
