Premier Technical Services Group Ltd (PTSG) has been contracted to deliver specialist electrical services at the Japanese Gateway at Kew Gardens in south-west London, described as the “largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world”.
Built for the Japan-British Exhibition (1910) and moved to Kew in 1911, the Chokushi-Mon (“Imperial Envoy’s Gateway”) is a four-fifths scale replica of the karamon (gateway) of the Nishi Hongan-ji temple in Kyoto. It lies about 140 m north of the Pagoda and is surrounded by a reconstruction of a traditional Japanese garden.
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 and 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 and its users in the event of an electrical storm.
