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Bond Bryan are delighted to announce the promotion of Cath Ward and Jon Rigby to Associate level.
Cath has been with Bond Bryan for over fifteen years contributing significantly to the firm’s success stories within the education sector. Sheffield Studio Director Geoff Halliwell said: “The Associateship is a reflection of Cath’s dedication, team working ethic, her enthusiasm, work winning qualities and the fact she always makes sure our client’s objectives are satisfied. She’s a huge asset to the Studio, to Bond Bryan as a whole and we look forward to seeing her career flourish.”
Jon joined Bond Bryan nine years ago and has since risen through his student years to become a qualified and accomplished architect. His portfolio includes Bond Bryan’s award winning Training Centre in 2014, coined the ‘Icecube’ for its sleek and shimmering façade against a monolithic black north lit workshop which references historical Sheffield.
Sheffield Studio Director Darren Southgate commented: “ We are proud of Jon’s achievements within the Sheffield Studio and look forward to his long and lasting career within our practice.”
Congratulations to both.
Marking another very successful year for Bond Bryan, our practice moved up one place to be ranked 46th in the AJ120 awards ceremony at The Tower of London last night.
Published annually since 1995, The Architects’ Journal “AJ100” survey of UK architecture practices ranks companies according to the number of architects employed. This year, to celebrate the AJ’s 120th birthday, the list has been extended to create the “AJ120”.
Managing Director Jonathan Herbert said, “We have continued to grow over the last year and are lucky to have taken on a good number of talented individuals to reinforce an already very strong team; with good growth in architectural practices generally last year, it’s pleasing to see our own progression reflected in the list of the UK’s most significant practices”.
The David Hockney Building, Bradford College
So Graphisoft ArchiCAD 19 has finally been announced!!
It feels like we have been waiting longer this year for its release than previous years. That’s partly because this year The David Hockney Building for Bradford College project which we designed has been selected as the signature building for ArchiCAD 19!
Image: Graphisoft ArchiCAD 19 Box (image courtesy of GRAPHISOFT)
Please take a look at our ArchiCAD 19 BIM Blog article and also the new David Hockney Building case study on the Bond Bryan main site
Bond Bryan Architects have been shortlisted for the Construction News Awards 2015 in the ‘BIM Initiative of the Year’ category.
Our entry, ‘Bradford College and Beyond : OpenBIM R&D’, is about our journey with buildingSMART International’s open file exchange standards including IFC and COBie. This journey began with our Bradford College project with BAM Construction completed in the summer 2014. Our learning continues with other projects that have followed and we are now embedding open data processes for all our new projects.
Rob Jackson (Associate Director | BIM & Digital Solutions) said: “It is fantastic to be recognised as an SME for our commitment to research and implementation of open international solutions. I believe our work will benefit not just us as a practice but the wider national and international community for years to come and it is great this has been recognised by making such a stellar national shortlist.”
The next step is a face-to-face presentation with the judges followed by the awards ceremony which takes place on June 30th 2015 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
We are proud to be sponsoring, supporting and looking for speakers to contribute to the debate around the future of advanced manufacturing environments.
The conference is based around four key topics:
We are particularly focusing on the built environment in a quest to find the best ways to design and construct with modern materials the Factory of the Future.
The conference will be especially appealing to academics, industrial engineers, manufacturing technologists and those involved in the design and development of existing and new innovative manufacturing processes and systems.
If you have a contribution you wish to make to this debate, please link through to http://factory2050conference.com to sign up. Alternatively contact Darren Southgate or Helen Corry on 0114 2662040 or h.corry@bondbryan.co.uk
MIPIM, The World’s leading property market, brings together the most influential players from all International property sectors – Office, Residential, Retail, Healthcare, Sport, Logistics and Industrial, offering unrivalled access to the greatest number of development projects and sources of capital worldwide.
Bond Bryan will be attending from the 10 – 13 March at the Sheffield City Region Stand in the Palais des Festivals as well as the London Tent.
To arrange a meeting with our team please email us at mipim@bondbryan.co.uk or contact our MIPIM delegates directly:
Darren Southgate
Greham Raynham
John Lee
Nigel Marcoolyn
We look forward to seeing you there!
Bond Bryan Architects were recognised as “heroes of interoperability” in the buildingSMART 2014 global awards, Small/Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Category, which took place in Toronto, Canada this week.
Bond Bryan’s work at Bradford College, where we worked with BAM Construct UK to use openBIM workflows, was recognised by the international jury.
Jan Karlshøj from the buildingSMART jury said “The jury has decided to give the SME Special Mention to two companies. The jury found it stimulating to see SMEs promoting the use of buildingSMART deliveries. SMEs don’t have the same capacity as large corporations and may, therefore, find it more difficult to promote and implement new technology… The two companies receiving the Special Mention are Bond Bryan Architects from the UK and Juul Frost Architects from Denmark. Bond Bryan Architects gets this recognition for their efforts at Bradford College—The David Hockney Building.”
Rob Jackson, Associate Director and BIM Manager added, “We worked hard to demonstrate openBIM really works on a live project. It is fantastic to be recognised internationally for our interoperability work. Our project and BIM teams worked closely with BAM Construct UK using cutting edge processes and technology to deliver a truly great building for our client, Bradford College.”
His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew The Duke of York has officially opened the Bond Bryan designed £21m AMRC Training Centre in Rotherham, the pioneering centre that is shaping young people and the future of manufacturing in the UK.
Prince Andrew said, “The level of learning and training here is absolutely outstanding and I wish all the apprentices, businesses and sponsors every success. I have been blown away by The AMRC’s contribution to the future.”
Following the opening of the centre, the building received a design commendation at the Sheffield Design Awards, a Biennial event organised by the Civic Trust with support from the RIBA.
Part of the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, the centre focuses on providing the skills that manufacturing companies need to compete in global markets.
The Regional Growth Fund and European Regional Development Fund supported the centre and 250 students a year, aged from 16 upwards, are being taken on paid apprenticeships with opportunities to progress on to undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
His Royal Highness Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex has officially opened Sandwell College’s new ‘Central Sixth’ campus.
The building, which formerly housed The Public arts centre, has been adapted in less than ten months by Bond Bryan working with the college, the local authority and contractors Interserve. Wherever possible the refurbishment focussed upon minimum intervention retaining the unique character of the original architecture and recognising that many of the existing “people spaces” are excellent environments for young people to work and socialise in. At the ground floor classroom pods have been inserted into the tall former gallery space. The centre retains facilities for the community including its original café.
Principal Graham Pennington said, “The transformation of this unique building… into a state-of-the-art sixth form centre has been part of a wonderful year for the college.”
Two locations are to become the home of the new National High Speed Rail College, the government has announced. The elite training and research centre will be based in Doncaster and Birmingham; Bond Bryan Architects contributed to the feasibility study supporting Doncaster’s bid.
The college will train the engineers needed to deliver billions of pounds worth of rail contracts over the coming decades, including the new HS2 high-speed rail line.
The successful Centre for Rail Engineering and Technical Expertise (CREATE) bid, coordinated by Doncaster Council, involved a range of private sector businesses and was supported by the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
Ros Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said, “bringing a national engineering college to Doncaster will be a game changer for the town and the Sheffield City Region…”
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