Kew Gardens in southwest London has contracted Premier Technical Services Group Ltd (PTSG) to deliver specialist electrical services at the Japanese Gateway. Experts describe the garden as having the “largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world.
Chokushi-Mon (“Imperial Envoy’s Gateway”) was built for the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 and moved to Kew in 1911. It is a four-fifths scale replica of the karamon (gateway) of the Nishi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto. It is about 140 m north of the Pagoda, and a reconstruction of a traditional Japanese garden surrounds it.
The manicured Japanese Landscape at Kew Gardens unites a Garden of Peace, a Garden of Harmony and a Garden of Activity.
The Garden of Activity sits at the end of the landscape. It contains features that symbolise elements of the natural world. Here, raked gravel and large pebbles mirror the movement of flowing water and turbulent waterfalls. The Garden of Harmony blends the two different scenes and displays big rocks signifying Japan’s mountain regions.
In this contract, engineers from PTSG Electrical Services Ltd will deliver a lightning protection system to safeguard this beautiful structure in southwest London. It will also protect users in the event of an electrical storm.
