Inspired

Bond Bryan are going ‘au naturel’ this month in aid of Movember.

The Foundation is the leading men’s health charity funding more than 1,200 projects in over 21 countries worldwide including funding health programmes focused on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention (SHOCKINGLY one of the biggest killers in men aged under 45).

If you can spare anything at all, please visit our team site, here.

For more information and support, if required, please visit the website here.

Good luck to all our men (and women) taking part in such a worthy cause.

Bond Bryan Associate Director, Roger Newman, will be speaking at this year’s Education Estates Conference on 1st–2nd November 2017.

The presentation – “Delivering Efficiency Across Estates and Facilities” – looks at one of Bond Bryan’s projects: Bradford College.

The Further Education sector is set for a major transformation over the coming years as a result of the area reviews announced by the Skills Minister in 2015. The Government expects the area reviews to “enable a transition towards fewer, larger, more resilient and efficient providers”.
With a focus on student experience and world class facilities, Bradford College has seen a significant transformation to its assets over recent years, having commenced implementation of the recommendations of a strategic review of their estate, which identified a need to rationalise and replace their buildings. This case study sets a benchmark for what success looks like in a more efficient estate.
The first phase was Trinity Green, a vocational building completed in 2008 (8,100m²), followed by ‘The David Hockney Building’ in 2015 (23,500m²); combined, these assets have replaced a significant proportion of the College’s estate, consolidating not only the number of buildings from which it operates, but also considerably reducing the total floor area that it occupies. Central to this strategy was embracing new teaching practices around flexible learning and delivery, and a substantial investment in information technology and infrastructure, both of which drove significant efficiencies in space utilisation.
In addition to driving efficiency in built assets, the College has progressed with an in-depth review of how facilities management is implemented across their estate; this has resulted in a leaner in-house structure, use of external providers where appropriate and ultimately significant cost savings in terms of reduced in running costs.
Why does this matter?
Many FE colleges struggle to maintain and operate ageing estates, and even when estates rationalisation is undertaken, the facilities management aspect is often overlooked. Bradford College is a prime example of where both of these processes have been undertaken successfully and tangible outcomes have been realised.

Director, Stewart Binns and Associate Director, Rimko Roelvink from Turner and Townsend, will also be joining the discussion at 12:05 –12:20pm on Day 1 of the conference on the on 1st November (C&U 2017).

Congratulations to our London studio architect, Calum Shields, on successfully passing his Part 3 exam.

Geoff Halliwell, Director, commented: “This is fantastic news – I know how hard Calum has worked to achieve this. Calum is a great asset to the London studio and the wider Bond Bryan team and we would all like to wish him the very best, for what will be an extremely bright future in the profession.”

Best wishes from everyone at Bond Bryan!

We are delighted to announce that Bharat has successfully passed his Part 3 examination at RIBA North West.

Bharat joined the practice in 2007 having learnt his trade studying Architecture in India and has since become one of our most skilled and diligent project runners. By his own admission the route to qualification has been a long journey for him (making this achievement even sweeter) and Bharat’s wealth of experience and competence clearly shone through in the examination and interview. We are all absolutely thrilled for him and wish him all the very best for what will without doubt be a very bright future in the profession.

Congratulations from everyone at Bond Bryan!

Today marks another step forward for our Digital brand as we take on our first new employee since setting up the brand 18 months ago!

We welcome Emma Hooper who joins the team as a Digital Information Specialist.

Emma has a wealth of experience with BIM and digital construction – including being integral to delivering the world’s first ‘Integrated Project Insurance’ project at Dudley College Advance2.

As a certified Autodesk Revit expert, Emma brings new and complementary skills to our team – particularly with open file format exchange (e.g. IFC and COBie).

Emma is a core member of ‘Women in BIM’ and is also the co-author of recently-published “Delivering COBie with Autodesk Revit” which was written with Bill East, the author of COBie, and others. This work complements the work done by our Associate Director, Rob Jackson, who produced the “Delivering COBie with GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD” book with Bill last year.

Both Emma and our other Digital team members have a shared passion for delivering information which is structured, reliable and reusable and, most of all, built around open standards and processes. Emma’s role will be to support our clients on real projects – delivering “Better Information Management” at the same time as doing research and development into better ways of working. Of course, through this work, Emma will be contributing to Bond Bryan’s BIM Blog to share some of this work with a wider audience – so that others will also benefit from Emma’s joining us!

Emma says: “We are starting to turn a corner in the evolution of ‘BIM’, with the focus being on the integrity and structure of data. In tandem, we need to develop a greater understanding of the mechanics of information, and its application within industry, for efficient project use. Together with concentrating on changing people’s attitudes and behaviours, this is how we will gain real value from “BIM” and create the change that the industry so desperately needs.”

Rob Jackson added: “Emma’s joining the team means we can push on with our research and development into delivering open standards effectively and efficiently but, at the same time, deliver more projects that push to change construction for the better!”.

Follow Emma on twitter (@liccle_em) and watch out for her posts, in the near future, on our BIM Blog!

Please be advised that our London Studio has moved into a new office at Bedford Square, providing a larger space for our team and one that’s more suited to our future plans for growth.
The office is located a short walk from both Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street tube stations.

Our new address is: 26-27 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3HP
Our telephone number remains the same: 0207 812 0601

We hope you’ll get acquainted with our new office soon.

Bond Bryan Architects were at the National College for High Speed Rail in Doncaster this morning to welcome Donnystar – a completely refurbished ‘Trans-Manche Super Train’ which has been generously donated by Alstom and Eurostar.

National College for High Speed Rail Chief Executive, Clair Mowbray, added: “This generous donation of two power cars allows us, as a world-class college, to offer our students the opportunity to develop real-life skills using industry-leading technology.”

Designed by Bond Bryan, the college provides an innovative campus, located on two sites – one in Birmingham with the additional hub in Doncaster.

Mark Dobbs, Associate and day-to-day Project Lead explained: “The design takes its inspiration from Doncaster’s historical railway heritage, with linearity and visibility being the two key themes.”

The college will open its doors to students this September.

Bond Bryan are delighted to announce a number of key promotions within the practice – to Associate level – as part of our commitment to continually improve our service. This includes 6 promotions to Associate, across the practice, for Rosey Alexander, Gonzalo Carmona, Mark Dobbs, Duncan Hogg, Pete Severn and Mita Solanki.

This important development recognises their significant contributions across the business and we look forward to seeing their future success.

Congratulations to all.

Congratulations to our Sheffield studio architects, Sarah Hussain and Eamonn Chapman, on successfully passing their Part 3 exams.

Geoff Halliwell, Director, commented: “This is absolutely brilliant news. I know just how hard Sarah and Eamonn have worked to achieve this. They are a great asset to the Bond Bryan team and we would all like to wish them the very best for what will be without a doubt, a very bright future in the profession.”

Congratulations from everyone at Bond Bryan!

Bond Bryan are delighted to announce that Arthur Pescher is now a fully dual-qualified Architect. (France and UK)

Having joined BBA less than 2 years ago, Arthur has very quickly become a key and valued member of the Westerham and BBA team.

Arthur has been instrumental to the success of a number of key projects across the southern studios. We wish him all the very best for what will without doubt be a very bright future in the profession.

Congratulations from everyone at Bond Bryan!