East Wick and Sweetwater (EWSW) defines the western edge of the Queen Elizabeth Park and plays an important role in mending the gap in the urban fabric between Hackney Wick and the Olympic Legacy communities.
Places for People
Three of the buildings, providing around 200 new homes, use a pre-fabricated lightweight steel primary structure, a system which reduces sub-contractors and trades on site, increases speed of delivery and reduces the overall weight – an important consideration in light of the Elizabeth Line tunnels below ground.
A new diagonal link provides a glimpse to the Velodrome in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and in the opposite direction to the City of London’s iconic skyline. A swathe of the park is pulled into the residential neighbourhood to bring green space to the doorstep of the new homes. The scheme forges new connections, both physically and visually.
Sustainability
The energy strategy for the first phase of the masterplan follows the London Plan’s Energy Hierarchy approach of using less energy (‘Be lean’), supplying energy efficiently (‘Be clean’), and using renewable energy (‘Be Green’). But we’ve pulled out all the stops to far exceed this. All homes will comply fully with The Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard (FEES) set by the Zero Carbon Hub, which sets the maximum space heating and cooling energy demand for zero-carbon homes.
One of the aims for East Wick has been to create the most sustainable community in the UK, with a focus on high energy efficiency, low levels of carbon emissions, reduced water use, materials with high recycled content, climate change resilience, and high-quality and diverse public spaces. We’ve worked hard to reduce the impact on the environment during construction and to make this a place where everyone, whatever their situation, can live and work sustainably.
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