Inspired

Bond Bryan are delighted that the York Environment Building at The University of York has been shortlisted for the 2016 York Design Awards within the ‘Community’ category – Large (more than £500k).

This prestigious awards initiative is said to celebrate and encourage good design in the city. Good architecture and sensitive building restoration play an important part in what makes York such a special place and we are thrilled to be recognised as one of those contributors.

This year, the awards will take place at the Ron Cooke Hub, University of York, on 22nd June 2016.

What a fantastic start to the week – Bond Bryan has been shortlisted for three awards at the Constructing Excellence Yorkshire & Humber Awards 2016.

Integration and Collaborative Working
National College for High Speed Rail, Doncaster Project Team, submitted by Willmott Dixon Construction

Sheffield City Council Capital Delivery Partnership Framework, submitted by Turner & Townsend

Project of the Year – Building
Factory 2050, submitted by Interserve Construction Limited

Health & Safety
Factory 2050, submitted by Interserve Construction Limited

Organised by the Centre for Knowledge Exchange at Leeds Beckett University, these awards recognise and celebrate the organisations, companies and project teams involved in delivering “excellence in construction” across 13 different categories, each one representing the core themes underpinning the Constructing Excellence movement & improvement agenda.

The gala presentation evening will be held on Friday 1st July.

We are thrilled that our design for the Oasis Academy Don Valley has been Highly Commended in the Regeneration Category at the RICS Awards 2016 – Yorkshire & Humber.

This award honours exceptional improvements to urban, rural or coastal areas. The judges look for evidence to show that the scheme has conserved or improved the built or natural environment in a way that has contributed to the viability of the area.

Oasis Academy Don Valley is an all-through school located in the Attercliffe area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England; the school opened in September 2015 and is sponsored by the Oasis Trust.

Geoff Halliwell, Project Director commented: “Our team worked really well with Sheffield City Council, Oasis Community Learning and contractor BAM and have delivered a high quality educational environment that befits the site and is a great asset to the community.”

The prestigious awards ceremony took place on 14 May 2016 at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate.

Bond Bryan Architects are delighted that Barnsley College 6th Form Centre has won ‘Best Educational Project’ and the ‘Winners of Winners’ award at the South Yorkshire and Humberside LABC Building Excellence Awards.

Barnsley College Construction Centre was also shortlisted for ‘Commercial Project of the Year.’

Director, Jonathan Herbert said: “This is fantastic news, we are thrilled and proud of all of our people whose hard work and determination has made this possible.”

The awards ceremony took place at the Forest Pines Hotel and Golf Resort last night.

Bond Bryan were delighted to attend the Ground Breaking Ceremony in Birmingham yesterday, for the National College for High Speed Rail.

Transport Minister, Robert Goodwill described the college as: “a tremendous opportunity for young people, we’re going to need a lot of technical skills and this college is all about equipping our people with the skills they’ll need to build this railway, so we don’t have to bring them in from elsewhere.”

Associate Director, Fran Holloway said: “It’s really exciting for us to be working on the National College for High Speed Rail, which will support local businesses’ growth and secure jobs for future generations.”

Phase one will run between London and Birmingham, with construction proposed to start in 2017.

To watch a fly-through of the state-of-the-art college, please click here

Pictured: John Clancy, Leader BCC alongside Project Team: Willmott Dixon / Bond Bryan Architects / Fairhurst Structural & Civil Engineers / Turley BREEAM / ARES Landscape Architects / Acivico

Bond Bryan are absolutely delighted that our very own Rob Makey has won the RIBA Yorkshire Part 1 Student Bronze Award.

The prestigious awards ceremony took place last night (Thursday 21 April 2016) alongside the RIBA Yorkshire Awards at The Aspire, Leeds.

Jonathan Herbert, Managing Director, said: “We are thrilled for Rob, he is a credit to Bond Bryan and the award is truly well deserved.”

Rob Makey, who is a student at Sheffield Hallam University, commented: “It is such a privilege to have been nominated, let alone to actually win a RIBA student award and I still don’t think it has sunk in yet. Even with the award, one of the highlights of the night was sharing the same room and managing to stand next to one of my architectural heroes, Peter Clegg of Feilden Clegg Bradley.”

A collection of Rob’s work can be found here

Congratulations from everyone at Bond Bryan!

Bond Bryan Architects are delighted that Barnsley Sixth Form College and Construction Centre has been shortlisted for the ‘Best Educational Project’ and the ‘Best Commercial Project over £1million’ award at the South Yorkshire and Humberside LABC Building Excellence Awards.

The awards ceremony will take place at the Forest Pines Hotel on Thursday 12 May 2016.

Bond Bryan Architects are delighted to have won the Hertfordshire Building Futures Highly Commended category of the Project of the Year Award for our Ware Campus (Phase 2) project.

This scheme is the final phase in the redevelopment of the Ware Campus, creating a high quality facility, sensitively designed around a new, landscaped courtyard.

The new three-storey, double-aspect building provides 3,600 sq.m. of high quality teaching and learning space, primarily for the Creative Arts and Industries Department; the creation of a building – which brings together creative disciplines and encourages collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas – is at the core of the design approach.

The building is modern yet contextually sensitive; at the eastern end of the main wing, the ridgeline steps down to reduce the scale and massing and links with the more domestic scale of the College’s historic Grade II* Listed Building – Amwell House.
A simple palette of brick and render with a standing seam roof complement the existing campus buildings, helping them to appear as a cohesive development.

At the heart of the building, a double-height gallery space, with glazed curtain walling, fronts onto the courtyard, creating a high-quality flexible space to both showcase students’ work and host internal and external events. Radiating from the gallery is a wide range of specialist teaching and learning rooms, as well as incidental spaces that provide opportunities for informal meetings and collaboration. The internal spaces are naturally ventilated and roof lights create light and airy studio spaces; the exposed concrete adds to a rich mix of internal finishes.

Bruce Raw, Director at Bond Bryan’s Sheffield Studio said: “We are delighted that our design, for the completion of Hertford Regional College’s Ware Campus, has been recognised in the Hertfordshire Building Futures Awards for Project of the Year. This is the second time that Bond Bryan Architects’ work at Hertford Regional College has won a Building Futures Award and we feel that this is a fantastic recognition of the effect that excellent learning environments can have on the future of training and the development of skills in the region. This project is the successful culmination of a working relationship between our team and the College that has developed over 10 years. We are delighted with this highly-commended award and to have completed the designs for the transformation of the College’s Ware Campus.”

Judges commented: “We were most impressed by the consistency and continuity of the design of this campus, its new courtyard and Creative Arts building. For young people, it seemed to be a wonderful place to learn, providing institutional comfort, gallery space, with great transparency and verve in the treatment of the teaching spaces. An excellent backdrop for the visual arts. This exceptional building is the final piece of the college strategy. The students love it.”

On Monday 14th March, the Bond Bryan team of Rob Makey, Rosanna Sutcliffe and Matt Hutton attended the Sheffield University Careers Event – ‘Ask an Expert: Work in the Built Environment’.

This event brings together organisations from across the Built Environment industry and students from the Urban Studies and Planning, Architecture, Landscape and Geography departments.

Rosanna Sutcliffe, Architectural Assistant said: “I always enjoy sharing my experiences with students. I found it highly rewarding to be involved with this event and to help students with their career decisions based on my own experiences – especially after graduating from The University of Sheffield myself!”

Bond Bryan has launched a new service: Bond Bryan Digital.

Bond Bryan Digital has been founded on the same principle to those of our design services: that time spent talking to us is time invested in your future.

Bond Bryan Digital will provide consultancy services to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry and its clients, sharing our expertise built up over many years and guiding others on their journey to a digitally integrated future. The team aims to manage and deliver digital information and help achieve a step change in the quality of outcomes in construction and the on-going management of built assets (the “BIM” process). This requires sharing information in an open format capable of use by a variety of bespoke digital tools; as a result our approach is built around recognised national and international standards.

The term BIM (Building Information Modelling) has become synonymous with virtual 3D models usually generated by designers. Whilst 3D modelling can be a significant cornerstone of the process, BIM at Level 2 is really about the creation of high quality and coordinated information for the construction and management of built assets.

So we prefer to think of BIM as “Better Information Management”.

Associate Director Rob Jackson said, “Bond Bryan Architects is at the cutting edge of digital development in the UK and working with colleagues to achieve this has meant the practice has acted as a live laboratory to test new ways of working. At the same time we have been sharing information and perspectives with other consultants both within the UK and internationally. I’m very pleased we are able to offer advice that draws upon the significant knowledge that we have amassed.”

From April of this year the UK Government requires publicly procured design and construction projects to achieve “BIM Level 2”, compelling the AEC sector to abandon traditional approaches in favour of a digital approach. For many, meeting these targets will be challenging and for others a journey into the unknown.

Those looking to implement BIM can benefit from Bond Bryan Digital’s “Information Management” service, a core requirement of BIM Level 2. This service can help clients understand the benefits of the process, for example by defining the “Employer’s Information Requirements” (EIR) at the very outset of a project. We can then provide the management of documentation and processes to support the efforts of design and construction teams.

For more information about Bond Bryan Digital and how the team can help you please contact either Kevin Grayson or Rob Jackson at: digital@bondbryan.co.uk.

Bond Bryan Digital: bondbryan.com/digital