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We are delighted that our conversion of the Public arts centre into a sixth form centre with Interserve for Sandwell College Sixth Form Centre, West Bromwich, has been selected as the winner for the 2015 West Midlands LABC Building Excellence Awards in the Best Change of Use of an Existing Building or Conversion category. Bruce Raw and Mark Dobbs collected the award this week, pictured above with the Interserve team – Graham Neil, Dan Evans, Clive Nelson and Stephan Harrison.
The shortlists for one of the most prestigious property awards of the year have now been revealed. Judges for Insider’s Yorkshire Property Industry Awards 2015 agreed the entries were of a higher standard not seen for many years.
The experienced judging panel featured Gerald Jennings, president of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce and former portfolio director for North and Scotland at Land Securities; Martin McKervey, partner at Nabarro, Sheffield; Angela Barnicle, director in real estate advisory at Deloitte, Leeds; Guy Gilfillan, development director at Regus; Grant Edmondson, property director at Wykeland; and Trevor Mitchell, planning and conservation director at Historic England.
Gilfillan said: “The quality of this year’s entries reflects the significantly improved conditions seen across all property markets in the Yorkshire region. This is evidenced by the large number of cranes now appearing on the skylines of our towns and cities, stimulating economic activity and creating good quality employment.
After winning in 2014 Bond Bryan are delighted to be short listed again.
The winners will be revealed at the awards dinner on 24 September at New Dock Hall, Royal Armouries, Leeds.
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Our own Sam Trevor has been shortlisted for the prestigious Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Technology awarded by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists. This is the only accolade which recognises outstanding research achievement in Architectural Technology. The winners and Awards will be announced and presented at the 50th Anniversary Celebratory Luncheon to be held at The Savoy Hotel in London on Friday 25 September 2015.
Sam read Architectural Technology at Sheffield Hallam University and recently graduated with a First Class Honours. He has a keen interest in sustainable timber construction and is keen to implement such construction methods as Cross Laminated Timber, particularly UK sourced Brettstapel.
His report ‘Massive Timber Construction’ critically examines the specification, performance and connectivity of the Solid Wood Panel primary structure and building fabric assembly of his final year degree design project – a Passivhaus certified Healthcare scheme.
Good luck to Sam from all Bond Bryan Architects!
Full details of the award can be found here.
Kathy Calverley, managing director of The Concrete Society, said, “We had a remarkable response to our call for nominations and our judges have had a difficult task to reach the final shortlist. We look forward to celebrating these wonderful projects and to present such excellent examples of design and construction in concrete at The Concrete Society Awards dinner in November.
May I take this opportunity to offer my congratulations and that of our President Designate, Martyn Fear, to all those who have reached this stage of the competition.”
This year, The Awards will take place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on 4th November 2015 and we are delighted that the charming raconteur and broadcaster, Huw Edwards, will be hosting this esteemed event.
Bond Bryan Architects’ Director Darren Southgate is, “very surprised but delighted” to discover that he is on a shortlist of four for the Property Personality of the Year award 2015, to be decided by a poll of visitors to Insider Magazine’s website.
Darren has been a key player at Bond Bryan for more than 14 years working on residential, retail, commercial office, manufacturing and research projects. Darren is based in Sheffield, but also pursues business opportunities by supporting Bond Bryan’s increasingly successful London studio several days a week.
On 2 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.
Last week proved to be a celebratory week for Bond Bryan when Matt Hutton, Associate Director responsible for the design and delivery of the David Hockney Building, picked up the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Building Excellence Award in the education category.
Only hours later Rob Jackson, Associate Director for Digital Innovation & Integration at Bond Bryan, scooped up two awards at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) BIM4SME Awards in London for Best SME BIM Blog and Best SME BIM Project (Medium Enterprise).
Bond Bryan’s design of the David Hockney Building responded to the client’s call for a landmark building that would encourage and support innovative forms of teaching and learning. To deliver this, and to provide long-term flexibility, a series of dynamic interlocking open floor plates were crafted within a simple exposed concrete frame. The result is a multi-level open plan collaborative heart-space for student-centred learning, with specialist cellular teaching zones at the perimeter. The building was officially opened in September 2014 and has since been a great success with students and staff alike.
At 24,000 square metres and a construction value of £36 million, the project is outstanding value for money.
The project was designed with a pioneering digital approach using a three-dimensional virtual model created with GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD, which together with the engineers’ design information were then combined into a single model using Autodesk Navisworks. This is an early and highly successful exemplar of the combination of information from different software platforms. Bond Bryan resolved interoperability issues by working closely with the software vendors and main contractor, BAM Construct UK Ltd and as a result were commended under the title of “heroes of interoperability” in the buildingSMART 2014 global awards (SME category). GRAPHISOFT have since made the David Hockney project their “signature building” for the global release of ARCHICAD 19.
Rob Jackson commented: “We’ve always believed passionately that being an SME is not a barrier to BIM. The BIM4SME’s work though is important to promote BIM to SME’s who have still yet to take up the challenge or who need support in the early stages of adoption. It is nice to be recognised at the RICS BIM4SME Awards as an SME who is demonstrating that BIM can bring real reward with the right commitment to the challenge.”
Bond Bryan have recently completed a further building at Bradford College, The Advanced Technology Centre, which will be officially opened in September 2015.
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”.
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.
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.”
