Thames Tideway

The Thames Tideway Tunnel is the new super sewer running deep beneath London, built to stop the tens of millions of tonnes of sewage that overflowed into the tidal Thames each year. Where it meets the river, at sites such as the new Bazalgette Embankment by Blackfriars Bridge, it has created acres of new public space along the waterfront, faced and paved in granite. De Lank supplied the granite for this work, on a scale few projects ever demand. More than 3,000 metres of granite was produced in over 2,900 different sizes, each piece cut to fit a specific place in the design and made up as cladding, with more than 500,000 dowel holes drilled into the backs of the panels so every piece could be fixed precisely and held for the life of the structure. It places De Lank granite in a work of twenty first century engineering on the same river its Victorian forerunner, the Embankment, was built to line more than 150 years before, and one designed to serve London for at least the next hundred years.