Project Centre is a leading design, engineering and landscape architecture consultancy that is passionate about designing places for the people that use them.
Our portfolio includes many of the UK’s iconic landmarks but we are equally adept at taking on small projects that make a big difference to the people using them.
Our approach to integrated design produces award winning results that have won international recognition. What makes Project Centre exceptional is our people, our passion and the quality of the places we help design.
We employ over 100 highly skilled professionals who work in multi-disciplinary teams that are tailored to our clients’ requirements so they provide excellent value for money as well as outstanding results.
We work in partnership with clients, and engage with their stakeholders and the wider community to deliver visionary, affordable and practical solutions. If you want to help shape our towns and design safer streets, have a look at the join us page, or give us a call.
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Exhibition Road
As well London’s landmark museums, Exhibition Road is home to 15,000 students and one of London’s busiest underground stations, used by 30 million people every year. This project applies current theories on ‘shared spaces’ by removing barriers and allowing pedestrians and traffic to share space.
Project Centre was the lead highway, traffic and lighting engineering consultancy involved in this project (and was since project inception) which included the following works
• The first phase examined traffic flows in South Kensington in preparation for phase two. Public realm services (street lighting, signalling, paving, signage, etc.) was revised
• The second phase was the radical redesign of 16,000m2 of public realm and the associated engineering along the full length of the street from South Kensington station to Hyde Park.
Traffic data was collected in order to model vehicle and pedestrian flows at individual junctions and across South Kensington. Origin and destination data was used with junction surveys to ensure junction and signal designs met their demands before they were introduced onto the street. Project Centre was also responsible for the complete new drainage design and profiling the street.
The lighting design was based on a linear arrangement of 20.35m bespoke columns coordinated with the geometric design of the surface finishes. Each column provides night time “White light” illuminance which contributes to personal security. LEDs mounted on the columns provide the sparkle, visual diversity and interest needed in this high profile public space to create a world class streetscape
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Parsons Brinckerhoff and Project Centre win prestigious national highways award
Parsons Brinckerhoff, the global engineering consultant, and Project Centre have won Highway Magazine’s prestigious annual ‘Highway Partnership Award’, for their innovative work on venue transport management to protect residents and businesses from spectator parking during the London 2012 Games.
The award recognised the excellence of Parson Brinckerhoff’s joint work with Project Centre, for LOCOG (The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) on managing this logistically complex and critical area of activity during the Games. The Judges declared that lessons from the partnership’s approach should be used as examples for future British events.
The award was presented at the magazine’s tenth annual ceremony, held at London’s Grosvenor Park Hotel on 10th October. The judging panel was chaired by Richard Hayes, President of the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE), and the panel comprised several leading highways and engineering figures.
On the Parsons Brinckerhoff and Project Centre partnership, the Judges said: “There was a magnitude of obstacles overcome in a very short time period to make this partnership a great success for an event being watched and judged by the world. Lessons can be learned from this example for future British events.”
Parsons Brinckerhoff, Technical Director, Stephen Wojcik said: “The Games provided the transport industry with many challenges. This prestigious award is the result of the performance delivered through unparalleled partnerships not just with the event organiser LOCOG and our partners Project Centre but with Transport for London (TfL), government bodies, local highway authorities and businesses. Our work allowed us to push the boundaries in terms of approach and technology, which will benefit future public events and the wider transport industry, as well as local communities and the general public.”
Project Centre MD, Kevin Donnelly, said: “Everyone at Project Centre is extremely delighted to have won such a prestigious award from Highways Magazine for our work in partnership with LOCOG and Parsons Brinkerhoff. We are particularly pleased that the Judges highlighted how lessons can be learnt from the project for future British events. We are certainly drawing on the valuable experience we gained to add value to the partnerships we create on current and future projects.”
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