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BAM Construction and Bond Bryan Architects were very pleased to win Best Education Project for Maltby Academy at the 2014 LABC South Yorkshire and Humber Building Excellence Awards.
Bond Bryan Director Geoff Halliwell said, “This award is a testament to the development of an excellent working relationship between the contractor, the design team and the Local Authority Building Control team.”
The project is now shortlisted for the National LABC Awards to be held in London on 11th November this year.
The Academy’s campus has undergone a transformational change with new buildings sitting alongside refurbished structures to create an integrated environment that supports teaching and learning. In addition a new Business and Enterprise Centre increases the Academy’s presence in the local community.
Bond Bryan Director Bruce Raw, together with colleagues Sarah Bryan and Pete Severn (pictured), attended the official opening of the new Autism Support Centre at Chesterfield College on 29 April.
College Principal Trevor Clay welcomed his royal guest HRH The Countess of Wessex. The Countess, who supports charities relating to children, disabilities and communication problems, declared the £2m centre open.
The project involved the complete refurbishment of the former North Block Four, one of a series of planned improvements to the College campus.
Our £43 million Factory 2050 project for The University of Sheffield has obtained planning permission.
Factory 2050 will be the UK’s first fully reconfigurable manufacturing research facility, using state of the art equipment/robots and capable of switching rapidly from the production of one high-value component to another to meet the changing needs of aerospace and similar industries. Leading manufacturers such as Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and Spirit AeroSystems are committed to supporting this project.
The circular main hall is heavily glazed. The client team wanted an iconic structure to demonstrate to a global audience how factories should work in the future and to create a centre of advanced manufacturing excellence that would excite a new generation of engineers.
Sheffield City Council understood that our intention was to design a significant, sustainable, high quality building and planning officers have supported the project from the outset.
Director Darren Southgate says:
“The Bond Bryan team has worked tirelessly with the University Estates team, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre team plus colleagues from DLP Planning, Rex Proctor and Partners, Gardiner & Theobald and Curtins to achieve a high quality building that solves the complex manufacturing challenges of today and those envisaged in the future…”
“The architectural project team have played a critical role in producing one of Bond Bryan’s most advanced BIM – Building Information Models to date, to allow the client and the design and construction teams to better understand the project…”
It’s anticipated that the project will be on site by late summer 2014.
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It was standing room only for our masterclass at this year’s BIM Show Live delivered by “The COBieNATOR”, our BIM guru, Rob Jackson. Rob was then delighted to win the prestigious Best Class Prize at the show’s BIMMY Awards, no mean feat given the high quality of presentations.
Rob used Graphisoft ArchiCAD and Solibri Model Checker to give a live demonstration of COBie spreadsheet creation (utilising IFC). For those unfamiliar with COBie, it is the required data format for UK publicly procured BIM projects from 2016 onwards.
The UK’s largest BIM event, now in its fourth year, attracted over 650 delegates and exhibitors to Manchester on 23/24 April.
More detailed information about the presentation is in our BIM Blog
We were delighted to attend the official opening of our Harborne Academy by HRH The Duke of York on Friday 14th March. The event, hosted by Dame Christine Braddock, celebrated the completion of the new build £12m building, transforming the former Harborne Hill School site.
The Academy, with specialist facilities for medical training alongside a suite of laboratories supporting STEM subjects, offers pathways to progress onto University courses or to gain employment in occupations where there is a significant shortfall of appropriate applicants.
Our design includes a central, top-lit, three-storey atrium providing an impressive arrival space for visitors and a tiered-seating venue for the whole Academy. The retained brick, stone and glass façade of the original school hall, now framing views to the new library, forms a backdrop to the atrium that adds to the sense of drama!
Bond Bryan has obtained outline planning permission for the extensive redevelopment of the PACES Campus, managed by High Green Development Trust, a community based organisation providing specialist facilities for Conductive Education.
PACES provides exceptional care and education to children and adults living with cerebral palsy. A new ‘convivial village’ complex, nursery, sports hall expansion and reorganisation of existing spaces around an atrium will provide the site with a range of facilities for the local community.
Associate Director Chi Tso, said, ‘working with all the stakeholders has been very rewarding culminating in a permission from Sheffield City Council – the planning department were very organised and helpful throughout.’
Client Website: http://paces-school.org.uk
BBA Directors John Lee and Darren Southgate plus Associate Director Nigel Marcoolyn are off to MIPIM: the Cannes based international real estate show for professionals running from 11 – 14 March 2014.
Bond Bryan Architects are Gold Sponsors of Sheffield City Region’s mission to MIPIM as well as being affiliated with London’s exhibition stand. Our three representatives would be delighted to see you at MIPIM; their contact details are below so feel free to arrange a rendezvous!
John Lee
+44 (0)7970 772 104
Darren Southgate
+44 (0)7950 259 844
Nigel Marcoolyn
+44 (0)7827 895 140
Details of Sheffield City Region’s mission to MIPIM can be found here
Above Image (left to right): John Lee, Darren Southgate and Nigel Marcoolyn.
Bond Bryan Managing Director Jonathan Herbert spoke last week at the Association of Colleges Capital and Estates Conference 2014.
Jonathan’s talk, “Strategic Planning in an Uncertain World” stressed that in a period of uncertainty and limited funds, a strategic approach to college estates management was more, rather than less, important.
He reminded delegates to be mindful of their colleges’ long-term requirements whilst recognising the opportunity that funding via Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) offers. Crucially he advocated detailed dialogue with LEPs in order to establish a business case for development founded upon economic growth.
Bond Bryan were proud to be sponsors of the Conference.
Image Above: Chesterfield College
The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre at Sheffield University has just opened an Apprentice Training Centre for young engineers.
The Bond Bryan designed facility will offer practical and academic training for up to 500 young apprentices per year, giving each access to a career in manufacturing.
With a construction value of £9m, the luminous four-storey teaching block, affectionately known as the ‘iceberg’, contrasts with black north-lit workshops that are reminiscent of buildings from the original industrial revolution.
Darren Southgate, Bond Bryan Director said, ‘the simple juxtaposition of light and dark forms plus simple lines have resulted in a sharp contemporary building that means business. It’s literally a beacon of light, in a new age of apprenticeship training, that can be seen for miles around. The AMRC offers world class training and facilities to a new generation of young engineers’.
Sheffield University’s latest building at its Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has been handed over.
Bond Bryan Architects’ Design Prototyping Testing Centre provides engineering design and prototyping expertise to help UK manufacturers develop innovative high-value products in such industries as aerospace.
With a construction cost of £4.3 million, the two-storey centre is a mix of regular scaled research spaces and double-height workshop space. Externally the centre uses Kalwall, Alucobond and masonry.
It is designed to achieve a BREEAM rating of “very good” being linked to the centre’s existing ground source heat pumps and wind turbine systems.
Darren Southgate, Bond Bryan Director said, “This is the latest development at the Advanced Manufacturing Campus, a world leading, globally recognised centre of manufacturing excellence”.
