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Bond Bryan are going ‘au naturel’ this month in aid of Movember.
The Foundation is the leading men’s health charity funding more than 1,200 projects in over 21 countries worldwide including funding health programmes focused on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention (SHOCKINGLY one of the biggest killers in men aged under 45).
If you can spare anything at all, please visit our team site, here.
For more information and support, if required, please visit the website here.
Good luck to all our men (and women) taking part in such a worthy cause.
Bond Bryan are delighted that the National College for High Speed Rail, Doncaster is up for Digital Construction Project/Initiative of the Year Award at the National Construction Excellence Awards 2017.
Bond Bryan worked in partnership with major contractor, Willmott Dixon and structural engineers, Curtins – our approach was fully aligned with the UK government’s “Level 2 BIM” agenda.
The Constructing Excellence Awards focus attention on some of the most important issues in the construction sector. They recognise the very best companies, collaborations and projects -sharing best practice and inspiring others to adopt new and better ways of working that deliver outstanding results.
The awards ceremony will take place on Friday, 17 November 2017 at the London Marriott in Grosvenor Square.
Bond Bryan Associate Director, Roger Newman, will be speaking at this year’s Education Estates Conference on 1st–2nd November 2017.
The presentation – “Delivering Efficiency Across Estates and Facilities” – looks at one of Bond Bryan’s projects: Bradford College.
The Further Education sector is set for a major transformation over the coming years as a result of the area reviews announced by the Skills Minister in 2015. The Government expects the area reviews to “enable a transition towards fewer, larger, more resilient and efficient providers”.
With a focus on student experience and world class facilities, Bradford College has seen a significant transformation to its assets over recent years, having commenced implementation of the recommendations of a strategic review of their estate, which identified a need to rationalise and replace their buildings. This case study sets a benchmark for what success looks like in a more efficient estate.
The first phase was Trinity Green, a vocational building completed in 2008 (8,100m²), followed by ‘The David Hockney Building’ in 2015 (23,500m²); combined, these assets have replaced a significant proportion of the College’s estate, consolidating not only the number of buildings from which it operates, but also considerably reducing the total floor area that it occupies. Central to this strategy was embracing new teaching practices around flexible learning and delivery, and a substantial investment in information technology and infrastructure, both of which drove significant efficiencies in space utilisation.
In addition to driving efficiency in built assets, the College has progressed with an in-depth review of how facilities management is implemented across their estate; this has resulted in a leaner in-house structure, use of external providers where appropriate and ultimately significant cost savings in terms of reduced in running costs.
Why does this matter?
Many FE colleges struggle to maintain and operate ageing estates, and even when estates rationalisation is undertaken, the facilities management aspect is often overlooked. Bradford College is a prime example of where both of these processes have been undertaken successfully and tangible outcomes have been realised.
Director, Stewart Binns and Associate Director, Rimko Roelvink from Turner and Townsend, will also be joining the discussion at 12:05 –12:20pm on Day 1 of the conference on the on 1st November (C&U 2017).
Congratulations to our London studio architect, Calum Shields, on successfully passing his Part 3 exam.
Geoff Halliwell, Director, commented: “This is fantastic news – I know how hard Calum has worked to achieve this. Calum is a great asset to the London studio and the wider Bond Bryan team and we would all like to wish him the very best, for what will be an extremely bright future in the profession.”
Best wishes from everyone at Bond Bryan!
Last week, Bond Bryan hosted our sixth Annual Charity Pub Quiz at Kettle Black, Sheffield.
With fantastic support and a record turn-out for the 6th year in a row, we managed to raise over £2000 for the Sheffield Hospitals Charity – an absolutely fantastic achievement!
Congratulations to the winning team – Eastwood Partners – and a big thank you to everyone who attended; please give yourselves a pat on the back!
A special thanks to the following: Anderson Green, AAD, Axis Architects, Ryder Levitt Bucknall, Castle Owen, Edge, Burmatex, Ares Landscape, Foris, Turner and Townsend, Pulse Associates, Eastwood and Partners, DLP, Wilmott Dixon, Mott Macdonald, Balfour Beatty and some new faces from all over Sheffield (and beyond) covering almost every facet of the construction industry.
We are delighted to announce that Bharat has successfully passed his Part 3 examination at RIBA North West.
Bharat joined the practice in 2007 having learnt his trade studying Architecture in India and has since become one of our most skilled and diligent project runners. By his own admission the route to qualification has been a long journey for him (making this achievement even sweeter) and Bharat’s wealth of experience and competence clearly shone through in the examination and interview. We are all absolutely thrilled for him and wish him all the very best for what will without doubt be a very bright future in the profession.
Congratulations from everyone at Bond Bryan!
Bond Bryan Digital are delighted to be shortlisted for The Construction Computing Awards ‘BIM Project of the Year‘ for the LEGO Architecture meets BIM project.
Having won the award in both 2015 and 2016, this year is an attempt for the hat-trick!
The Construction Computing Awards – also known as “The Hammers” – showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering projects of all sizes. The Construction Computing Awards have become a key event for the industry.
The awards ceremony will be held on November 16th, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Edwardian, Bloomsbury St, London.
For more information on the awards, please click here.
Our Kent Studio will be exhibiting at the Kent Construction Expo on 5th October 2017.
Come and meet our team at Stand 60 between 08:30-16:30.
Maidstone Exhibition Centre
Kent Event Centre
Detling, nr Maidstone
Kent ME14 3JF
If you would like to book an appointment to see one of our team, please email kent@bondbryan.co.uk, or simply pop along.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Bond Bryan are delighted to be shortlisted for two awards at this year’s Education Estates Awards. These awards focus attention on some of the most important issues within the Education sector and recognise the very best companies, collaborations and projects – sharing best practice and inspiring others to adopt new and better ways of working that deliver outstanding results.
Bond Bryan have been shortlisted within two categories: Architectural Practice of the Year and Innovation in Teaching and Learning for the £32million Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University, Charles Street.
Architectural Practice of the Year
With UK-based design studios in London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Kent, Bond Bryan Architects work embraces the worlds of Strategic Property Advice, Masterplanning, Architecture, Landscape, Interiors and Digital Strategy. 2016/17 has seen us deliver landmark projects for all main education subsectors: Commercial Research Partnerships, Higher Education, Further Education, Secondary Schools, SEN Schools and Primary/Nursery Education.
Recent projects and achievements include:
• Delivering projects with 10 Universities across the country
• £30m Charles Street major teaching building for Sheffield Hallam University
• 2 Flagship buildings on the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus that actively support and promote collaboration across academic disciplines and with industry
• Masterplanning of the two ground-breaking Advanced Manufacturing Parks with the University of Sheffield
• Delivering the first three campuses for the network of National Colleges including the National College for High Speed Rail in both Doncaster and Birmingham and the National College for Nuclear in Cumbria.
• Working with contractors and the EFA to offer technical advice and design expertise to create over 20 new schools offering high quality learning environments
• An internationally-recognised digital consultancy that is championing the benefits of truly open standards in BIM and offering leadership in its application to facilities management.
Innovation in Teaching and Learning
As well as a 268-seat lecture theatre with ‘turn and learn’ seating, Charles Street was designed to include flexible, state of the art teaching and learning spaces, including a SCALE UP room and student-centred informal learning spaces. Teaching rooms contain flexible furniture which allows academics to quickly and easily change the room layout to suit the activity taking place. The Learning Enhancement and Academic Development team have worked closely with academic staff to introduce and embed new pedagogies, enabled by the presence of these flexible formal and informal learning spaces. The easily-adaptable spaces allow academics to think differently about their teaching practice and the students benefit from the adjacent informal learning space, allowing them to continue working on tasks together outside of formal teaching time.
Taking the principles established in Charles Street, the University are now beginning to adapt spaces within their existing buildings to mirror these flexible learning environments, ensuring that students and staff can embrace new and innovative ways of working and learning.
Matt Hutton, Lead Designer, commented: “This project has been a labour of love for the whole design team and we believe the results speak for themselves. The opportunities provided by the building and the flexibility in teaching and learning methods available will, undoubtedly, enable the University to be at the forefront of education delivery for many years into the future.”
The annual Education Estates Awards & Dinner will take place on the first night of the Education Estates conference – 1st November at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel.
Bond Bryan Architects were at the National College for High Speed Rail in Birmingham yesterday to welcome Brumstar – a completely refurbished ‘Trans Manche Super Train’ generously donated by Alstom and Eurostar ready for the arrival of students next month.
Designed by Bond Bryan Architects – in partnership with Birmingham City Council, HS2 Ltd and major contractor, Willmott Dixon – the £22m facility is the first major National College development in the country. Bond Bryan worked closely with the client from the outset, to develop a strategic brief for both the Birmingham and Doncaster sites.
Bond Bryan Director John Lee, and Associate Director Steve Maslin, worked with the client team to produce a detailed brief from which the two ‘sibling’ projects emerged – one College in two locations.
The design brief and overall priority was to create a building which generates a revived sense of excitement around the rail industry and would attract the next generation of engineers.
The rail college represents the first “physical build” of the HS2 programme, delivering “on time and to budget”; this sets a great example for the country’s largest and most significant infrastructure project.
Internally, a large central atrium spine connects three floors of flexible-learning spaces and creates an opportunity for break-out, collaboration and social interaction. A vibrant double-height entrance space provides a public-facing café to encourage prospective students and interested members of the wider community to discover more about the opportunities the college offers and to re-engage with Birmingham’s – perhaps ‘lost’ – connection to trains and rail travel. These spaces all benefit from direct views into the main workshop, complete with its own full-size power car, this strong visual connectivity to the main engineering ‘showpiece’ reinforces the focus of the college as a national and pioneering centre of excellence for rail engineering.
Externally, the three-storey, 5,700 square metre building provides a ‘shop window’ to the passing traffic on Birmingham’s busy A4540 inner ring road, offering a direct view into the principal workshop and external training area. The projecting second floor creates a canopy over the main entrance and forms a pedestrian gateway through the site, linking the building to a reinvigorated Digbeth Branch Canal and opens walking routes to the nearby Aston University Campus and the wider city beyond.
The site itself, within Birmingham’s former industrial heartland, was previously occupied by a large metal works foundry – specialising in the production of bronze and brass extrusions throughout the height of the industrial revolution. Glass-making was also a prevalent industry in the area for centuries and, as such, the building design utilises these two main materials in its outward expression. Conceived as two intersecting volumes – one glass, one extruded bronze cladding- the building design embraces simple, understated and elegant industrial workplace design: the architectural vision was to create a building which embodies not only both the heritage and the future of rail engineering, but is also deeply connected to its local context.
The Birmingham Campus is specifically geared towards delivering the digital components of the college curriculum, so the idea of expressing the lines and dots of digital binary codes formed a key part of the elevational treatment from day one. Perforated cladding panels and linear fins, which wrap around the building, capture this ‘digital’ character but also reference some of the more historical parts of rail heritage. The repetition, rhythm and proportion of tracks and railway sleepers feature heavily in the vertical shading fins which enclose the building – creating ever-changing layers of light and shadow as one moves around the building – such that the façade always appears to be in “a state of motion”.
Bond Bryan are the foremost designers of advanced manufacturing and vocational learning buildings; Bond Bryan Director, John Lee explained: “The High Speed Rail College aims to provide specialist training within a stimulating environment, in which staff and students can develop the wide range of engineering, digital and commercial skills required to support major rail and infrastructure projects. The college, is a catalyst for national skills renewal and wider urban generation – it helps to position Birmingham at the centre of a 21st century industrial revolution.”
The National College for High Speed Rail will open its doors to students this September.
Bond Bryan Architects Team: John Lee, Steve Maslin, Fran Holloway, Jon Rigby, Paul Shaw, Adam Helliwell, Simon Creaney, Mick Heydon
