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Video: Strata SE1: The Wind Turbines

BFLS Project Architect Robbie Turner and BFLS Director Ian Bogle explain how and why the team decided to integrate the turbines into the building fabric – something that had never been attempted before. And why turbines were preferred over other renewable technologies.

We learn about the optimum conditions for peak performance, whether the engineers' hopes for the creation of a Venturi effect were realised, and why for a considerable amount of time the turbines are predicted not to turn at all.

Strata SE1 sits three miles away from a main line railway and towers above Elephant and Castle, one of London's busiest transport hubs. Matt Hewitt, of Brookfield (which was both developer and main contractor on the scheme) runs through the challenges faced by the team when it came to installing the turbines.