Cofely london olympics

It is located at the west-end of the Olympic Park and the utilities are partly housed in the historic Kings Yard Industrial Buildings. The facility has been built for sustainable energy generation during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. A second energy centre has been built in the Stratford City.

It will also serve the heating, cooling and electricity requirements of the Games venues and other facilities. Both the energy centres will serve the new metropolitan development in East London after the Games. About five new neighbourhoods are being planned for development in the future. Cofely has also developed about 16km of community energy networks for heating and cooling systems that operate at low temperatures to reduce energy losses.

The company will own and operate the facilities for 40 years. The Kings Yard Victorian building was renovated to visually integrate with the surrounding listed buildings. The design was inspired from the Battersea and Tate Modern power stations. A 45m high flue extractor was added to form an iconic part of the skyline. The energy centre has a flexible modular design with a natural gas-fired combined cooling heat and power CCHP unit and bio-mass fired boilers.

In October , GE Energy was contracted to supply a 3. GE Energy also supplied two 3. The Kings Yard plant is equipped with two 20MW hot water boilers, three 3. It has five cooling towers. The Energy Centres will be technically advanced, environmentally considerate, and be embedded in the community rather than hidden from it.

The Energy Centres are important new landmarks in the urban mix — architectural gateways on the eastern and western boundaries of a huge tranche of east London that will be subject to further regeneration after the Olympics. Key features such as the tall ventilation flues and the flanking walls have been given special attention.

The Energy Centres deliver new operational benchmarks for power generation. The architecture unequivocally answers a key requirement in the ODA brief: it adds to the design legacy of the Olympic Park, and contributes strongly to the developing urban character of the Lea Valley as a whole.

You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users. Whilst it might be fair to say that there was an element of aggression in Mr Bingham's exchanges with Cofely and its counsel this can be seen as being no more than professional pride being hurt by what were perceived to be unwarranted allegations.

Some of the facts relating to the relationship between Mr Bingham and Knowles is knowledge only recently acquired. Mr Bingham was not accusing Cofely of bullying tactics.

His reference to bullying referred to a general concern to the ADR community rather than this case. Whilst legitimate and reasonable enquiries and concerns of a concerned party should be addressed, there is a line beyond which such inquiries are unnecessary and intrusive. Knowles is a substantial organisation which regularly appoints arbitrators and adjudicators. None of the appointments identified over the last three years involve Knowles appointing Mr Bingham directly. Cofely has sought his appointment by specific reference to his name in the past.

This page uses so called "cookies" to improve its service i. Learn more and opt out of tracking I agree Toggle navigation. Cofely Limited v. Anthony Bingham et al. Crown Copyright. Findings Section 73 Conclusion. The Claimant "Cofely'' seeks an order that the First Defendant "Mr Bingham'' be removed as arbitrator from an ongoing arbitration between the Claimant and the Second Defendant "Knowles'' pursuant to section 24 1 a of the Arbitration Act "the Act'' , on the grounds that circumstances exist that give rise to justifiable doubts as to his impartiality.

Those doubts about his impartiality are alleged to involve apparent bias, not actual bias. The background facts 3 Cofely is a major construction company. He worked in the construction business for a number of years before selling his business in so as to concentrate on his arbitration career. He is a qualified barrister and has practised from 3, Paper Buildings since It therefore entered into direct settlement negotiations with the Employers and reached a settlement of the Time Claim, the Money Claim and other issues that had arisen under the Concession Agreement.

The Arbitration proceedings 13 The arbitration agreement in the Success Fee Agreement provided that: "The Success Fee Agreement and any dispute or claim of whatever nature arising out of or under or relating to this Success Fee Agreement shall be governed by English law and is to be and hereby is referred to arbitration pursuant to the Arbitration Act It was stated that it was preferable that the arbitrator had both quantity surveying "QS'' and delay analysis experience and the appointment of Mr Bingham was sought.