Inspired

On a drizzly and overcast morning in Skipton, a motley crew of Architects and Technicians put themselves through what’s understood to be the toughest endurance event in the country: the ‘Tough Mudder’.

There was certainly a lot of the stuff (mud) along with many other leg trembling obstacles ranging from ’the Arctic Enema’ which entailed being plunged head first into an ice bath at the start of the course, to crawling through closely confined tunnels neck deep in, yes you guessed it, mud.

Not known for their sympathy, the organisers erected electrically charged swinging cables at the finish.  Despite everything that was thrown at them, the whole team succeeded in finishing the course and so far have managed to raise an impressive £1,435 for our nominated charity, MacMillan.  We extend a big thank you to everyone who sponsored the foolhardy team.

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Pictured (left to right): Gonzalo Carmona, Matthew Hutton, John Ward (guest), Chris Commons, Geoff Halliwell, Mick Heydon, Eamonn Chapman and Mark Dobbs.

Tonbridge Grammar School has been awarded planning permission for it’s new, Bond Bryan designed, Sixth Form Study Centre.

The International Baccalaureate will be delivered within the new facility and this curriculum encourages inter-disciplinary thinking. In response to the IB’s flexible space requirements, we have designed the ‘I-barn’ to provide the ultimate space for this activity.

With a budget of only £1500/m2 and a six-month construction programme, our challenge has been to work very closely with suppliers to develop a solution that can be pre-fabricated off site.

Bond Bryan Architects worked with AA Projects to secure £2.4m worth of funding from the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund. This also covers the cost of refurbishing space, liberated by the sixth form move, for Art and Music studies.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority has lodged a planning application for a specialist research centre, designed by Bond Bryan, at its Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) site in Oxford.

Bond Bryan has been working closely with the Authority for the last two months to design a unique research centre, enabling industry and academia to gain expertise in remote and autonomous handling techniques and opening up access to a multi-billion pounds worldwide market.

Bond Bryan Director Darren Southgate said, “We have thoroughly enjoyed putting this facility together with key members of the CCFE team; the abundance and variation of expertise in the UK is amazing!”

At the recent Global Manufacturing Festival hosted in the UK, Vince Cable stated that his government department wanted to leave a legacy of cross party agreement around how the UK will sustain its engineering revival through a business bank, new skills centres and research based activity, transforming blue sky thinking into commercial opportunities.    The Culham Centre facility is part of this strategy.

Nikken, leaders in tooling technology, have lodged a planning application for a new facility on Harworth Estates’ Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham. 

Designed by our Advanced Manufacturing team, this application is part of Harworth Estates’ R-Evolution Development Site, the successor to the much acclaimed and Bond Bryan designed Evolution Development.

Project Architects Olly Powell and Arun Dhindsa worked closely with Nikken; the client expressed a strong desire for crisp detailing and a simple, bold overall form, reflecting Nikken’s confidence and ability to deliver the very best products into a performance driven high-value manufacturing marketplace.

Following further expansion of our business we have recently appointed two new Associate Directors at our Sheffield Studios.

Our established BIM expert Rob Jackson (left) was promoted to the rank of Associate Director.  We were also very happy to be joined by new Associate Director Miles Rooker (right).  Miles has experience across a range of sectors, most particularly healthcare obtained during an extended stay at BDP.

In addition we confirmed Mark Cooper (Sheffield) as an associate as well as Matt Hodgson (London) and Caroline Gibbs (Westerham).

This follows the promotions last year of Matt Hutton and Zubin Masters (Associate Directors) plus Afshan McKay; Christina Burnie; Ian Taylor and Phil Alden (Associates).

Our practice is now welcoming applications from Project Architects (Sheffield) and RIBA Part I students (in Sheffield, London and Westerham).

Bond Bryan Architect’s proposals for two co-located schools on the Wildernesse site in Sevenoaks have been granted planning approval by Kent County Council.

The two secondary schools, Sevenoaks Grammar Annexe and Trinity School, will accommodate 1260 and 790 pupils respectively and provide much needed selective and non-selective provision in Sevenoaks.

Bond Bryan are working with Kent County Council and their preferred construction partner Willmott Dixon Construction to deliver this £30m education campus.

Bond Bryan attended the annual Architects’ Journal AJ100 Awards at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London on 22 May 2014.

We rose to 47^th place in the AJ100 rankings, which identifies the 100 largest employers of architects in the UK.  Bond Bryan Managing Director Jonathan Herbert said, “we are very pleased to have made good progress over the last year; as our workload is increasing we are now looking to recruit more architects to our Sheffield studio.”

Our design for a new Environment Facility at York University has received planning consent.  The project is part of the University’s on-going commitment to expand the range and quality of science facilities at the Heslington West campus.

The proposal, targeting a BREEAM sustainability rating of Excellent, will have a green-roof whilst heat-pumps will use the adjacent lake to cool the building in summer; in addition roof mounted photovoltaic cells will supply renewable electrical energy.

Bond Bryan Managing Director Jonathan Herbert said, “As a major, prestigious Higher Education Institution, York University is an extremely important new client for us, so we are very pleased that the Local Authority has approved this important facility.”

Bond Bryan Architects’ Director John Lee is, “very surprised but delighted” to discover that he is on a shortlist of four for the Property Personality of the Year award, to be decided by a poll of visitors to Insider Magazine’s website.

John has been a leading light at Bond Bryan for more than fifteen years working on residential, retail, commercial office and manufacturing projects.  Although based in Sheffield, he has also supported the recent establishment of Bond Bryan’s increasingly successful London office.

On 3 July at the Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield, Insider will host its South Yorkshire Property Gala Dinner and reveal the winners of the Property Personality of the Year and also the Property Deal of the Year.  The annual dinner is now firmly established as a key event in the region.

Voting closes on 30th May; you can nominate John for the award here