Inspired

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 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.”

The Bond Bryan team is delighted to have three projects shortlisted for prestigious awards in one week.

Factory 2050 (for the University of Sheffield), the UK’s first fully reconfigurable assembly and component manufacturing facility, is shortlisted for The Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Yorkshire Annual Award; this project is also featured on the World Architecture News’ (WAN) Award website (Education category).

The Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology (NUAST) has also been shortlisted for the RIBA East Midlands 2016 Award.

Meanwhile the Oasis Academy, Don Valley, Sheffield has been shortlisted for the RICS’ (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) Regeneration Award.

Director Jonathan Herbert said: “We are delighted to be shortlisted for each of these awards and are proud of all of our people whose hard work and determination has made this possible.”

Last night Bond Bryan Architects scooped up the Construction Computing Awards for BIM Project of the Year for Bradford College and beyond: OPEN BIM Research and Development. Rob Jackson, Kevin Grayson, Greham Raynham and guests were there to collect the award.

The awards affectionately known as the Hammers are in their 10th year and recognise both technology solutions and the use of technology solutions in the construction industry.

The award was for Bond Bryan’s OPEN BIM research and development work at Bradford College and other subsequent projects. This work has been pioneering by not only carrying out extensive testing but also in the way Bond Bryan shared that information through their BIM Blog, at events and through social media.

This award follows other awards this year for Bond Bryan’s BIM work including winning Best SME BIM Project (Medium Enterprise) and Best BIM Blog at the RICS BIM4SME Awards, as well as being shortlisted for the Construction News Awards in the BIM Project of the Year category. Also this year Bond Bryan were awarded Graphisoft’s signature building on the front cover of their flagship product ARCHICAD.

Associate Director and BIM Manager, Rob Jackson said: “It’s fantastic to be recognised for our work which has benefited our real life projects. However the real reward for me personally is seeing that this investment in research is resulting in improvements to many technology solutions and ultimately making BIM simpler and easier for everyone. We hope that our small contribution plays a part in helping to fully digitise the construction industry to provide better outcomes on projects for years to come.”

A full list of the 2015 winners is available here:

Last night’s Yorkshire Property awards ceremony revealed that for the second year running Bond Bryan have won the Award for Architect Firm of the year.

John Lee, Director at Bond Bryan commented: “This is no mean achievement and fabulous recognition of the qualities of our business and the people in it!”

There to collect the prize were (pictured from left to right) Paul Shaw, Sarah Hussain, Rosanna Sutcliffe, Eamonn Chapman and Matt Hutton.

Bond Bryan Architects are delighted to be selected as a finalist in the BIM Project 2015 category for The Construction Computing Awards 2015. Our entry is entitled “Bradford College and beyond: OPEN BIM Research and Development”. The awards will be held on November 19th 2015 at the Hotel Russell, London.
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