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A2DOMINION AND ASSAEL ARCHITECTURE SECURE PLANNING CONSENT FOR 400 CANALSIDE HOMES A2Dominion, a G15 residential property group that operates across London and southern England, and award-winning Assael Architecture have been given the green light for 400 new homes at Clayton Road in Hayes, immediately adjacent to the Grand Union Canal. The design has undergone extensive consultation with Hillingdon Borough Council, and an appropriate scale of redevelopment for the site has been mutually agreed. The scheme has also been designed as part of a wider masterplan that includes the neighbouring Crown Trading Estate site.

This scheme will give a real lift to the area and provide excellent homes and facilities for a diverse mix of people, including local families and young professionals

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The development includes a variety of new homes across a range of tenures, with a particular focus on affordable family homes comprising four-bedroom townhouses, and three-bedroom duplexes and apartments. The scheme also includes a mix of one and twobedroom apartments for sale, each with its own private amenity in the form of projecting or inset balconies. The site benefits from being close to the new Crossrail train station, offering quick access to central London. Other benefits include electric car parking spaces,

biodiverse green roofs with renewable energy in the form of PV panels, ASHP hybrid heating strategy and over 1,300 sq m of commercial space. A key objective of the design and a significant benefit to the broader masterplan, the scheme at Clayton Road achieves public connectivity to the Grand Union Canal where it was previously inaccessible. In addition to the canal edge, the project sees a large amount of additional public amenity being introduced in the form of parks, lawns, seating and gardens, with the landscape and public realm designed in partnership with the Crown Trading Estate site to ensure a cohesive place. The individual buildings have been orientated to maximise views to the canal with a high number of apartments and houses being dual aspect. Residents will also benefit from large communal podium gardens, in excess of 3,200 sq m, that include children’s play areas with views to the Grand Union Canal and the newly designed waterfront edge. The architectural design comprises three character areas: the ‘industrial’ buildings reference the site’s history with features from the existing warehouses transferred to the new buildings, such as generous window openings and transom bars; the ‘residential’ buildings respond to the existing architecture on Clayton Road, with building heights lowered to a more appropriate scale and identifiable front doors accessed directly from the street; and the ‘canalside’ buildings respond directly to the waterside with full height windows to maximise views and a contemporary design that includes sash windows, recessed panels and a clear horizontal datum banding.

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Danny Lynch, Director of Land and Development, A2Dominion said: “Having worked with Assael on a number of excellent developments in recent years, we were always confident in their ability to create a design that best utilised the space around Clayton Road. Everything that we envisaged in these plans, from the new canal side access to the highquality designs of the homes themselves, is there. This scheme will give a real lift to the area and provide excellent homes and facilities for a diverse mix of people, including local families and young professionals.” Tim Chapman- Cavanagh, Director at Assael Architecture says: “It is always a pleasure to work with A2Dominion, bringing forward this type of regeneration project that offers

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PLACEMAKING TO BEGIN FOR THE NORTH WALSHAM HIGH STREET HERITAGE ACTION ZONE Exciting progress has been made for the North Walsham High Street Heritage Action Zone project. North Norfolk District Council is thrilled to announce the appointment of Influence, chartered landscape architects who will be undertaking the townscaping element of the project along with expert partners. The team aim to provide sustainable solutions to urban planning and have extensive experience of working in conjunction with local authorities and communities to deliver landscaping and public realm services, including working on High Street Heritage Action Zones projects elsewhere in the UK. Shona Hatton, associate director at Influence, said: “High Street Heritage Action Zones are such a key part of the future for our towns - especially post the pandemic – and are often driven by a strong local community interest. Revitalising and regenerating our high streets whilst reinstating the heritage roots is critical to their success, now and in the future.

significant benefits to the local area and muchneeded new homes. Working closely with Hillingdon Borough Council, we have collectively designed a scheme that aligns with their local aspirations and links well with the adjacent Crown Trading Estate development. “As one of our key objectives for the design, we’re proud to be part of the process that will see the community and developing area reconnected to the important Grand Union Canal.

“North Walsham is a vibrant market town but has been waiting for a long time to bring forward a high street public realm project. Now that it’s here, myself and the Influence team are honoured to have been selected to work on this important project, and are pleased to be supporting North Norfolk District Council’s in-house team. “Our previous experience in delivering High Street Heritage Action Zones has given us specialist knowledge and understanding of the challenges and huge opportunities in our high streets -and we are using those assets to re-imagine the physical and social environment in North Walsham - to enable it to be a prosperous town where people want to live, work and relax.” Master planning and consultation will be led by HETA - a studio of architects, designers and thinkers. Their focus is on people and how to create better, more meaningful experiences for them. Having completed a site visit the team will implement a programme of consultation and community engagement to see how the people of North Walsham want to see the space in the town centre used. Other partners involved include Rees Bolter Architects as heritage consultants, BSP for highways and transport consultancy and Gleeds Cost Management, quantity surveyors.

The Council and partners will seek to hear what residents, businesses and visitors want to see in North Walsham and foster a sense of community that maximises shared value by making it easier to move around the town centre and improve the appearance and quality of public spaces, starting with work which will see the improvement of the Lokes and alleyways that connect different areas within the town centre. As part of this, the Council intends to purchase a piece of land adjacent to Black Swan Loke, a long-standing derelict area on an important pedestrian approach to the town centre, and is exploring options to maximise the potential of this busy route. Cllr Richard Kershaw, NNDC’s Portfolio Holder for Sustainable Growth, commented: “We are very pleased to be working with Influence on this project and have been impressed with work they have done in other market towns. “This will be an exciting, inclusive project to bring lasting improvements to the fabric of North Walsham and to bring visitors to the town for the benefit of local businesses. “In addition to this, the Cultural Programme will soon get underway will bring together various societies and groups in and around the town to help celebrate the rich history of North Walsham.” The Heritage Action Zone grant will also provide an opportunity to review the options for the most suitable use of the Council’s New Road site and the Listed buildings on it (known as The Cedars), and the role it can play in the regeneration of North Walsham town centre. In the shortterm, essential repair work is set to begin soon. The project is part of Historic England’s High Street Heritage Action Zone scheme to renew and revive town centres in England, with match funding from The Council and additional funding secured from the New Anglia LEP’s “Getting Building Fund”. Over the next four years, the programme of work is designed to secure lasting improvements for the town’s historic core and the communities who use it. This will be achieved through a range of both physical interventions, such as the placemaking work and Building Improvements grants (opening soon), as well as community led programming to bring the town’s rich history and stories to life.

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This work is a vital part of the programme’s wider “placemaking” objectives, inspiring people to re-imagine and re-engage with the town centre as the heart of the community. It will focus on making the

town centre a destination which embraces its heritage and community, creating a shared space people can enjoy, take pride in and encourages others to visit.

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MAJOR WALSALL HOUSING TRANSFORMATION UNLOCKED AS HOUSEBUILDING BEGINS Housebuilding has commenced on the site of a derelict Black Country steelworks in Walsall, which will transform the site into a new 252-home community. The scheme on Green Lane, named Lockside, is the first development for joint venture (JV) developer Anthem Lovell LLP. The JV is a partnership between leading developer, Lovell, and Anthem Homes, a subsidiary of Midlands’ housing provider and place shaper, whg. This follows the clean-up of the former Caparo Engineering works in Walsall made possible with a multi-million-pound investment from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) under its ‘brownfield first’ policy. The approach unlocks and prioritises former industrial sites for new development ahead of green belt land, working in partnership with Walsall Council. The £44 million development will see the derelict 16-acre site brought back into economic use, injecting new life and a sense of place into this important canal-side site. Lockside will bring a selection of one, two, three and four-bedroom homes with 132 available for open market sale through Lovell Homes, with whg taking on 120 properties including, 32 for private rent, 38 for affordable rent and shared ownership and a 50-unit wellbeing housing scheme for over-55s. Andy Street, the Mayor of the West Midlands and chair of the WMCA, said: “We announced the funding deal for Lockside at the end of February last year, and a couple of weeks later we were hit by the outbreak of Covid-19. “So it’s really encouraging that despite 12 months of turmoil and uncertainty caused by the pandemic, we have still been able to press ahead and complete the clean-up of this site and are now seeing new homes rise from the ground.

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“Covid-19 has hit this region harder than most, but throughout the crisis we have continued to use the money we have won from Government to transform derelict sites like this one in Walsall to give local people the opportunity of a good quality, affordable home. As well as providing homes for the

future, our clean-up of derelict brownfield sites to make way for housebuilding helps to create local jobs for local people in the construction sector, whilst also protecting precious greenbelt land across the West Midlands.” Stuart Penn, regional managing director at Lovell, said: “I’m delighted to mark this exiting milestone at Lockside as we see progress on this joint venture scheme which will expedite the delivery of much-needed new homes to Walsall. “The development will considerably boost the local economy as we continue to deal with the backdrop of the pandemic whilst creating jobs, training opportunities and apprenticeships alongside a new community for the people of Walsall.” Gary Fulford, Group CEO of whg and director of Anthem Homes, said: “This development will be transformative. We are focused on creating a sustainable and safe community where people can lead happy, healthy lives.

Lockside will be a well-designed development of quality, affordable homes close to the town centre. Most importantly, it will be a place people will be proud to call their home. “It’s great to see that the remediation work has been completed and the layout beginning to take shape. I look forward to seeing the construction of much-needed new homes in the months ahead.” Councillor Mike Bird, added: “The Lockside development is a shining example of what the public and private sector can achieve when they are working together. “The transformational investment from the WMCA has enabled a site that has been a derelict eyesore for many years to be brought forward as an exciting opportunity to build much needed homes and become a catalyst for major regeneration in the area.” The project is expected to take five years to complete, with the first homes predicted to be ready in October 2021. It is anticipated that projects like this, by Anthem Lovell, will to make a significant contribution to the region’s target of delivering 215,000 new homes by 2031.

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Leading public service provider, Amey, has partnered with mental health charity, Mates in Mind, to promote positive mental wellbeing across the business. Mates in Mind, established to tackle the challenges of mental ill-health specifically within the construction sector, will help Amey drive positive change for both its employees and the industry. The partnership will enable Amey to roll out a comprehensive, bespoke mental health and wellbeing programme that will include all employee mental health awareness training, as well as people manager training, to provide vital guidance and support when it comes to managing mental health within the workplace. Taking proactive steps to address mental health in the workplace has never been more important as everyone continues to adapt to the challenges of the pandemic. Taking steps towards building a thriving workplace and a positive mental health culture that supports all employee’s mental wellbeing is essential. Emma Shakespeare, Amey’s Group Wellbeing Manager, said: “By implementing a comprehensive programme, we are encouraging a positive mental health culture that supports every employee’s mental wellbeing. We hope that as the training will provide a better understanding of mental health issues and how to address them, everyone at Amey will feel supported in better managing their own

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wellbeing and that of others across the business. We are incredibly proud of the role our employees play across the country and it’s important we look after them in every way we can.” James Rudoni, Managing Director of Mates in Mind, said: “We are delighted to welcome Amey as the latest major employer to join Mates in Mind and create a mentally healthy workplace that will ensure vital advice, guidance and support is there to help individuals take control of their mental wellbeing.” Amey has also recently introduced Wellbeing Wednesdays, which give employees the opportunity to focus on a different wellbeing topic each month and normalises the conversation around wellbeing. Amey has also launched a wellbeing podcast that supplements its wellbeing hub, that acts as a one-stop shop for wellbeing and mental health resources – including support on financial, physical, social and workplace wellbeing. All of Amey’s wellbeing initiatives are supported by a large network of Wellbeing Ambassadors and Mental Health First Aiders from the business that receive ongoing training, development and support to enable them to have the confidence and skills to deal effectively with whatever situations they are faced with.

WILLMOTT DIXON BECOMES THE FIRST CONTRACTOR TO ACHIEVE LEVEL 3 OF THE CARBON TRUST’S SUPPLY CHAIN STANDARD Willmott Dixon is the first contractor - and one of only three companies globally - to achieve Level 3 of the Carbon Trust’s industry leading Supply Chain Standard. Achieving a score of 82%, it builds on the company’s knowledge and skills gained through the award of the Carbon Trust’s two previous standards, with this version recognising organisations that can demonstrate they are measuring, managing and reducing carbon emissions from their supply chains. To achieve Level 3, Willmott Dixon worked closely with two of its category A supply chain partners; TJL Plastering and McDermotts Building & Civil Engineering. Together, they created carbon management plans which included measures to reduce fuel use on site, reduce office energy use and create a more sustainable approach to transport. Both partners reported significant carbon and cost savings between 10-20%. Willmott Dixon also examined the embodied carbon of the materials purchased on their projects, with a particular focus on concrete, developing carbon reduction strategies as a result.

Achieving Level 3 builds on six years of work, with Willmott Dixon achieving Level 1 of the Standard in 2015, where initial investigations showed that Willmott Dixon’s supply chain emissions (scope 3) are 99 times greater than what they emit in their own operations (scopes 1 and 2). In 2018, Willmott Dixon achieved Level 2, after helping three high-impact supply chain partners baseline, monitor and reduce their footprint, with McDermotts achieving ISO50001 as a result. The criteria for Level 3 also required Willmott Dixon to expand the approach developed during Level 2 and to engage with more of its supply chain. They worked with three further groundworks companies, helping them baseline their carbon footprint. Marta Iglesias, associate director, The Carbon Trust, said: “Willmott Dixon is the first company in their sector to be certified to Level 3 of the Supply Chain Standard. This achievement is a reflection of their robust strategies and plans for climate action in their supply chain, and their successful engagement with suppliers. We hope this is a step towards extending their positive impact and building a net zero future.”

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Julia Barrett, chief sustainability officer, Willmott Dixon, said: “We are delighted to have met the criteria for the award of the prestigious Carbon Trust Supply Chain Standard at Level 3. Achieving this accreditation is key to meeting the objectives of our ambitious ‘Now or Never’ 2030 Sustainability Strategy, where we have set some of the toughest sciencebased targets in the industry. Through our strategy, we will continue our work to reduce our scope 3 emissions, this is driven by our ambitious target to achieve a net zero carbon supply chain and deliver net zero embodied carbon on our projects by 2040.” Further to its collaboration with the Carbon Trust, Willmott Dixon is also working closely with the Climate Action Group, part of the Supply Chain Sustainability School. Together the organisations are developing a carbon footprint tool to help the industry’s shared supply chain better understand their own carbon emissions and take steps to reduce it.

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PERMAROOF MAKES A MOVE ON THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR After dominating the domestic EPDM rubber flat roofing market for the past two decades, Permaroof – the UK’s leading importer and distributor of Firestone RubberCover – is expanding into the commercial sector. Building on its past experience of supplying rubber membranes to its customer base working on commercial projects and its expansion into modular projects during the UK-wide lockdown this year, the business – which was set up in 1999 and is based in Derbyshire –now offers design, specification and installation on commercial projects using the proven and durable rubber membrane Firestone RubberGard EPDM. Adrian Buttress, managing director of Permaroof and the wider PermaGroup, said: “During our time specialising in domestic flat roofing projects, we’ve proven ourselves in the residential sector and gained unrivalled expertise of the industry. “After hitting our 20-year-old company milestone and with a record year in 2020, we were ready to expand our offering. The next logical step was to use our knowledge and move into the commercial sector – further increasing our portfolio of providing permanent solutions to age-old problems. Our vision is to become a leading commercial flat roofing supplier within just two years.” As part of the firm’s strategy to increase the delivery of large-scale installations, Permaroof has hired experienced national commercial manager Sunny Lotay to lead its new commercial flat roofing division. Adrian said: “While we’re not new to EPDM, having specialised in Firestone membranes for the past 17 years, residential rubber roofing and commercial flat roofing are two very different animals. Because of this, we’ve recruited an experienced national commercial sales manager, who will lead our new commercial flat roofing division and work with the Firestone technical team to ensure its global reputation is maintained.

Sunny – who has more than 14 years’ experience under his belt – started his career at SIG Roofing where he spent almost seven years as a business development manager, followed by one year as a specification manager at SIG Design & Technology. He then moved to Saint-Gobain/Jewson as head of flat roofing. A five-year stint was followed by almost two years as a regional specification manager at Flex-R. He said: “The launch of the commercial flat roofing division in partnership with Firestone is part of Permaroof’s continued success story, which is steeped in providing waterproofing systems and solutions to its customers. “Because of the number of waterproofing solutions available for commercial flat roofing, building owners and project managers need to think in the long term and research the economics of their decisions, and this is where we can help. Our industry knowledge and experience combine to make us perfectly placed to support customers in finding the best commercial roofing system for their premises. “I’m incredibly excited to start working closely with customers to help them get the most value from their roofing system investment. From the initial design right through to the end user walking into the building, we’re on hand throughout the entire lifecycle of a built environment project, providing an excellent waterproofing solution with full technical assistance, and a warranty to back it up – providing peace of mind.” Firestone RubberGard is a high performing synthetic flat roof membrane that has an expected lifespan of more than 50 years. The system offers a unique combination of features, including superior weatherability and durability, low lifecycle cost, and high

flexibility and elongation. The material is available in standard grade at 1.14mm and premium grade at 1.52mm for heavy duty installations and can be custom cut to size. Adrian added: “Since their introduction, Firestone EPDM membranes – which are backed by more than a century of Firestone experience in rubber technology – have dominated the single-ply roofing market through their proven performance, durability and flexibility over a wide range of building types. “EPDM – which has a low lifecycle cost, requiring little to no maintenance once installed correctly on a well-prepared substate – is proving to be the leading flat roof material for the future, particularly due to its environmental properties. “If you are an architect, specifier or building owner, please do get in touch with our team of experts, who can fully explain how Firestone RubberGard can benefit your commercial project.” Permaroof offers products and services that provide permanent solutions to age-old problems. It offers this through a variety of products – its central offering of Firestone RubberCover EPDM roofing, as well as artificial grass through its Permalawn brand and maintenance-free fencing via Permafence. This is in addition to Permatile promenade tiles, skylights and rooflights through The Skylight Company and, most recently, steel-framed buildings. In 2020, Permaroof celebrated its most successful year in its 20-year history, after maximising the lockdown effect on the DIY market as well as quickly diversifying in the face of the pandemic. Its positive end to the year follows several record months including a 26% increase in sales in May 2020 compared to 2019 and a staggering 86% increase when comparing June 2019 to 2020.

“Permaroof will be following Firestone’s proven business model, which has led to some very prestigious jobs around the world, totalling millions of square metres.

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“Through our national contractor stockist network, we have extensive access to commercial projects, which will enable us to organically tap into this source. We know we will be able to make a substantial difference in the number of projects we can bring flat roofing solutions to and we are thrilled to now be offering design, specification and installation to the commercial sector.”

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SIMON ACRES GROUP LAUNCHES MOVERS AND SHAKERS PODCASTS Kbb and merchant service provider Simon Acres Group (SAGL) has launched a series of podcasts, showcasing views and thoughts from young people making a mark in the industry. The first interview is with designer Amanda Jayne Gow, currently Interior Design Assistant at Neptune Home, moving to Brayer Design in Surbiton shortly. Amanda is an industrial design and technology graduate from Loughborough University who moved into residential interior design after working as a design intern for a commercial design and build company. “Amanda has tremendous enthusiasm and passion for design,” says SAGL director Simon Acres. “She represents a new generation of talented people that are building successful careers and bringing new ideas into showrooms.” Amanda said that she had benefited from fantastic support and training from the senior team at Neptune when she joined eighteen months ago. She said, “The customer journey has changed so much since I started because of the impact of COVID but we have adapted and developed new ways to engage with customers. “Communication has become much more frequent. We now utilise many different channels, text, WhatsApp and Zoom for example, at different stages to keep the project on track and keep our customers informed. “It is important when we can’t have face to face meetings to ensure that as a designer, we really listen to what our customers want. Getting to know them and how they will use their kitchen is the key to success. With most people spending more time at home, the kitchen and living spaces have to work even harder, and it’s our job to deliver a room that will meet their needs. “I am excited about showrooms re-opening again soon, as it provides the perfect environment to inspire customers, with welldesigned displays and show stopping pieces.”

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TRITON TO RESTORE ICONIC PICTURE HOUSE Triton Construction has been appointed as main contractor to preserve and redevelop the historic, Grade 2 listed Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds. The £2.8 million contract follows news that the treasured venue has secured a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant with match funding from Leeds City Council to secure its future. Renowned for its history and architectural prominence, Hyde Park Picture house opened at the beginning of World War One in November 1914. It was popular for screening patriotic dramas and newsreels to boost morale during the War. The Picture House survived the advent of sound in the movies and remains an iconic independent cinema, screening the best films from around the world. The major revamp is to include conservation works to the external façade, expansion of the foyer and the creation of a second cinema room in the basement, underneath the main auditorium. Whilst modern facilities will be installed, much of the heritage features will be retained and restored, including the gas lamps thought to be the only lights still in operation in a cinema anywhere in the world. Following a rigorous prequalification and tender process, Triton Construction was appointed for the job due to its extensive expertise in listed building restoration.

around the footprint of the site. Considerable provisions and ongoing public consultation are also critical for delivering the works in a live environment.” Wendy Cook, Head of Cinema for The Hyde Park Picture House, said, “From the very start, The Picture House Project has been a labour of love for all involved. And with the appointment of Triton as the project’s main contractor, we’re confident that we’ve found a partner who not only shares in our passion but has the vital heritage experience required to realise our exciting plans to the highest possible standard.” Triton will start on site next month and expects to complete the restoration within 57 weeks. The professional team includes Page\Park Architects, project manager Avison Young, engineering consultancy Buro Happold and cost consultants Gardiner Theobold. Triton Construction Ltd has considerable experience of working on heritage projects and is familiar with working alongside the Historic England Guidelines, planning conditions and Listed Building Consent. Last year it successfully completed the major redevelopment of the landmark Royal Liver Building in Liverpool.

Ian Chapman, Construction Director at Triton Construction, said, “As a local contractor we are delighted to be appointed to restore this cultural gem that we are fondly familiar with and to play our part in securing its future.

Local project experience includes the refurbishment of three mill buildings at a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Saltaire, the £2.8 million refurbishment of the Grade 2 listed Unity Hall in Wakefield, and the £1.5 million refurbishment of the Grade 2 listed Cliffe House and Coach House in Shepley.

“The project is not without its challenges due to its listed nature, but also because of the very tight site restrictions within a dense populated area. To allow a 2-metre dig underneath the building for the second auditorium we will need to install a piled wall

Triton Construction is a £50 million turnover company providing design and build, civils, fit out and refurbishment services across all sectors. Established for 15 years it employs over 80 people across offices in the North West and Yorkshire.

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VPPR BECOME THE LEAD ARCHITECTS AND CONSULTANTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SOFT LANDSCAPING AT WEMBLEY PARK’S OLYMPIC WAY, ALONGSIDE GROSS MAX

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vPPR have been engaged as the completion architects and lead designers with Gross Max, responsible for the soft landscaping, for the completion of Olympic Way, including the Olympic Steps and Zone C. Undertaken by Quintain in partnership with the London Borough of Brent it is the culmination of a decadelong ambition and 5 years’ input over four phases, plus much enabling work to infrastructure. The project was initially designed by Dixon Jones and continues their tradition of design excellence. The fully completed project will be open to the public in June 2021. Following the removal of the unloved steeply-ramped concrete Pedway in November 2020 the final phase involves the construction of a grand granite paved staircase of a suitably shallow gradient leading up to the Stadium concourse and the completion of the landscaping nearest the Stadium as a continuation of the areas

already completed between 2017 and 2019 (generous lifts have already been installed immediately behind the new stairs as part of the project, in addition to the Stadium’s previous lift provision). The new staircase (in front of which events will also be staged), the top-lit open undercroft area and the processional route lined with ‘Avenue of Champions’ trees from all round the world unite to create a strong sense of space for residents and visitors alike. The staircase is paved with three types of granite, with the flank walls and sloping elements in polished concrete. Thirty six circular 2.2m diameter pavement flights provide daylight to the important ‘Club Wembley’ concourse below. In order to coordinate the construction with the stadium’s busy events calendar (planned before the Covid-19 pandemic), the construction comprises a steel frame onto which were applied a large number of large precast units with the finishes and paving lights already cast on. This enabled the bulk of the stair to be erected in just three weeks following the demolition of the Pedway. The grand staircase is illuminated with tall

lighting masts and lighting concealed within the handrailing. Its generosity in width forms an important part of the visitor experience whilst both arriving at and leaving the stadium. It allows the stadium to discreetly and flexibly manage the large crowd flows that attend the many memorable stadium events. The connection between Wembley Park Station and Wembley Stadium over the years (often referred to as ‘Wembley Way’) has had various interpretations. From its introduction as Olympic Way for the Games of 1948, it gave access to the Lutyens-esque stadium by John Simpson of 1923; following its demolition in 2002, Foster’s replacement stadium of 2008 proposed a direct ramped connection between station and stadium and then in 2003 Rogers’ plan to ground the stadium in its emerging urban context with the introduction of the Boulevard. Quintain is regenerating its 85-acre estate surrounding Wembley Stadium as a new neighbourhood for London, with much further work planned on site such as a 7-acre park coming to fruition later this year. On 35 days of the year the National Stadium plays host to up to 90,000 visitors and for the rest of the year.

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Wembley Park’s thousands of residents, workers and 16 million annual visitors have had to coexist with the dormant infrastructure of the pedway. The Olympic Steps transform the entrance to the National Stadium and unite the east and west sides of Wembley Park, expanding and enhancing a pedestrianised public space within a 365-day neighbourhood filled with activity.

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HUB SOUTH WEST PARTNER, LDC, COMPLETES AIRDRIE SCHOOL EXPANSION PROJECT TO INCREASE PUPIL CAPACITY hub South West’s Tier 1b construction partner, Linear Design Construction, (LDC) has successfully completed the extension of the All Saints & Rochsolloch Primary Schools in Airdrie. The Design & Build project with hub South West, on behalf of North Lanarkshire Council, involved the addition of an extension to the primary school campus. The extension has provided two extra classrooms to All Saints, whilst an internal courtyard space was reconfigured at adjoining Rochsolloch to create a further room. The new space will increase Rochsolloch’s permanent capacity to 313 pupils from its current 255, while All Saints’ pupil roll capacity will increase by 66 places to a potential 305.

the project was handed over on time with zero defects in December 2020. Ryan Broadley, Managing Director of LDC said, “We are delighted to see another vital education project completed to such a high standard. “We have thoroughly enjoyed working with the teams at hub South West and North Lanarkshire Council to bring this project to fruition and look forward to working together again in future.” Michael McBrearty, Chief Executive of hub South West said: “It is fantastic to see the extension of All Saints & Rochsolloch Primary School now complete. Students and staff can now benefit from an updated and more functional space that will enhance their learning environment. “We have collaborated frequently with North Lanarkshire Council on educational projects and early years’ developments and are delighted to have worked alongside LDC to deliver this interesting project on NLC’s behalf.”

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In the year to March 2020, £158m of projects were in construction, with £468m in development. In addition, throughout hub South West’s territory, some 518 jobs have been created, 634 training opportunities made available on hub South West projects and 100 apprenticeships have been completed since its inception in 2012.

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Appointed to the project in July 2020, LDC managed the project from inception to design conclusion with its design team, JM Architects and Blyth & Blyth (Structural & M&E).

operates alongside local authorities and private sector enterprises in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway, has delivered over £507m of infrastructure projects covering the education, health, leisure, housing, and residential care sectors.

PROJECT: THE LOFT OF TWO ARCHITECTS IN Kyiv, WITH ANTRAX IT RADIATORS

Architect Projects explores this unique project that incoperates inspiration from various countries, creating a truly dynamic design that reimagines the space of the home in a both pratical and sophisticated way. Combining design elements such as colour and textures that reference contemporary and moderrn design but also noteably embraces ancient ideas.

A hint of Japan, Indonesia and Eurasia, memories of Ukraine and suggestions from Belgium, Netherlands and Italy coexist under the same roof. The project, called Hayloft, is the house that the two Ukrainian architects of the studio Loft Buro - Oleg Volosovsky and Elena Logvynets, husband and wife built for their family in Kyiv, imagining it as a collection of cultures, colours, materials, antiques and handicrafts, paintings, graffiti, bas-reliefs, sculptures from their travels and memories of Scythians’ times. Continued >>>

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This orchestra of elements, so different and so harmonized with each other, amalgamates with two other characteristics: the large volume of the building - previously used for commercial activities, with exposed systems, metal ceilings, concrete and brick structures, double heights - which has been renovated maintaining a strong industrial appeal; and, on the other hand, the owners’ will to create a private refuge where new technologies and sustainability act as a continuous background for the eclectic compositional mix. Wrapped by white plastered brick walls and illuminated from large windows with anthracite finishes, the first level embraces the kitchen separated with glass walls, dining room and the living area that extends on the upper mezzanine, as well as a laundry and the daughter’s room. On the second floor, the living room expands into a work space and then into the bedroom, with walk-in closet and bathroom, designed according to the same concept. Continued >>>

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A philosophy that combines high-tech and antiques solutions, in a continuous contrast between ancient, modern and contemporary. Designer furniture and leather finishes, wooden floors with mosaic alternating stone, a majolica traditional Ukrainian fireplace, solid wood benches contrast with the enveloping shell and its technical dimension and function: spotlights and projectors, water channels hang from the ceiling, while the electricity pipes branch off on the wall, with the switch boxes deliberately left visible. The aesthetics of the exposed tubes, which offer a decorative pattern to the interior design, is echoed by Antrax IT A_25 and BD 25 radiators, chosen by the architects in matt anthracite tone and in different vertical configurations for the living, bedroom and bathroom environments. Both made of 100% recyclable carbon steel, the two models, composed by tubular elements with a diameter of 25mm, feature a rhythmical alternation of solids and voids: the A_25 model has been used in its vertical configuration, while BD 25 arranged horizontally, welded on two 35 mm manifolds. Antrax IT designer radiators guarantee significant energy savings, thanks to the reduced water content and low temperature operation, supporting the “green” vocation of the intervention and the great ambition of Oleg and Elena to live in a sustainable, welcoming home, where every detail has been meticulously thought, designed or chosen.

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ISO CHEMIE HAS NEW CAPITAL WINDOWS INSTALLATION SEALED Improved levels of acoustic and energy insulation will be provided following specification of ISO-Chemie’s advanced sealing tape for windows at a new mixed used development in central London. More than 1,000m of ISO BLOCO 600 tape and 300m of BLOCO ONE tape has been installed to support the conversion of unused office space to a high-class entertainment venue at 6 Grafton Street in Mayfair, providing long-term protection against wind-blown rain ingress as well as an effective acoustic and thermal seal. The self-adhesive BLOCO ONE, which uses so called ‘smart’ foam technology impregnated with different substances to create a measurable U-Value as low as 0.6w/m2k, can offer excellent thermal insulation and can contribute to acoustic sound reduction by 63dB.

Up to 70% cost savings can be achieved using tapes such ISO BLOCO 600, which enable specifiers and installers to seal windows from inside the building and avoid the need to use time consuming and costly scaffolding and ladders among other external access systems.

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A pedestrian traffic control system that complements automatic doors has been introduced by GEZE UK providing both safety and security. PACE, Pedestrian Access Control Equipment is a range of speed lanes and turnstiles that offer an efficient control of pedestrians in and out of buildings. More cost effective than manual checks and providing round the clock control in buildings that are operational 24 hours a day, they are ideal for controlling access to any part of a building that requires it, as well as the entrance. From the simplest, easy to install tripod system for buildings such as leisure centres to the most stylish, highly sophisticated security with anti-tailgating sensors designed for the most demanding government buildings or banking institutes.

Specified to meet stringent project sealing and quality requirements, the sealant tape is part of a fenestration installation package, which includes Schüco Jansen windows, completed by architectural metalwork engineers, Martec Engineering Ltd.

The tapes offer a single product ‘fit and forget’ solution for fast and effective sealing based around the European RAL principles of three level sealing - the inside seal area is more airtight than the external one, allowing any trapped moisture inside the joint, or within the wall, to escape outwards rather than into the building.

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SCHÖCK BUILDING PHYSICS EXPERTISE FOR ICONIC FRENCH BIOTOPE The Biotope building, located in the middle of the important European business district of Euralille, in the French city of Lille, is an iconic 30,000m² seven-story architectural complex that transforms conventional office accomodation into a self-sustaining ecological community. It is an ultra energy-efficient building and minimising thermal bridging throughout was critical. The architects turned to building physics specialists Schöck for their expertise in this area.

Designed by Henning Larsen Architects (Copenhagen) and Keurk Architecture (Lille) the Biotope was originally designed to accommodate the European Medicines Agency (EMA). However, due to a change of circumstance, the building now houses ‘The European Metropolis of Lille’, an intercommunal public authority responsible for transport and infrastructure across 85 cities in the North of France. The building is conceived as a ripple made of glass, light and natural vegetation. These

three core elements form the building blocks of the design – with everything geared towards the wellbeing of the staff. The heart of the building is a light-flooded atrium with an imposing spiral staircase which rises upwards in a sweeping curve. Like everything else in the Biotope, the angled glass panels are both beautiful and functional; with double-skin façades regulating the interior temperature, reducing carbon emissions. The serpentine floor plan roughly follows a figure-of-eight path, a dramatic departure from the traditional

corridor-style office building. Instead, employees circulate through a winding trail of skybridges, balconies, and rooftop gardens. Large glass units link interior office spaces seamlessly and every floor has access to the numerous exterior open spaces. In terms of functionality the ground floor features a large reception hall, a 300-seat auditorium, a cafeteria and a bilingual nursery. The first floor is dominated by meeting and conference rooms; the second-to-sixth floors house offices with team and communal areas; and the seventh floor is a panoramic restaurant, which like the floors below has terraces, gardens and balconies. Minimising thermal bridging is critical A critical design consideration was the minimisation of any risk of thermal bridging, with its inherent problems of local heat loss and the formation of condensation. To counter any such problems, especially at the balcony detailing, Schöck Isokorb load-bearing thermal insulation elements are used. These thermally separate the components from each other, while also forming an integral part of the structure. The Shöck Isokorb offers the architect complete freedom of design. There are no restrictions when insulating curved shapes, balconies with offset heights, or supported balcony variants. Another special feature is earthquake resistance – which had to be

guaranteed at specific installation points – and this too is assured with the use of the Isokorb. Additional Schöck solutions The exterior walls are also designed to be energy-efficient and the Biotope is characterised by a high proportion of precast concrete elements. On the ground floor for example there are core insulated double walls and this demanded another Schöck solution. The Isolink, an energy-efficient alternative to conventional stainless steel lattice girders, when connecting the concrete skins of core-insulated sandwich and element walls. It is used here as a spacer and connecting element, where the individual components are reliably thermally separated from each other and thermal bridging reduced to a minimum. On the upper floors, yet another Schöck product is installed where expansion joint construction is required. The Schöck Dorn is used to horizontally reinforce the non-load-bearing interior walls. This serves as a safe, shear force connection between concrete components and as a result, the transverse forces occurring in the area of the expansion joints can be transmitted without any problems.

To counter any such problems, especially at the balcony detailing, Schöck Isokorb load-bearing thermal insulation elements are used. These thermally separate the components from each other, while also forming an integral part of the structure. The Shöck Isokorb offers the architect complete freedom of design. There are no restrictions when insulating curved shapes, balconies with offset heights, or supported balcony variants.

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For full information on the Schöck product range; or to view the range of downloadable software, contact Schöck on 01865 290 890 or visit the website at www.schoeck.com

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FEATURE Instead of half an hour’s rainfall hitting hard ground and rushing off a road surface into a gully and straight into the water course or drainage network at speed – effectively creating flooding – we slow it all down. We are working on a range of schemes from residential developments to visitor attractions where we have used sustainable urban drainage techniques in the new gardens, the public spaces and the car parks. Water is encouraged to run off from the car park into planted beds which are full of plants that love damp conditions. From the beds there are outlets where water can drain slowly into the wider drainage network containing swales and retention basins. We are using the same principles at a new natural burial ground we have designed the landscape for. We specified that the hard surfacing is permeable so water is allowed to run into a series of swales – shallow, broad and vegetated channels designed to store runoff and remove pollutants.

WHY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS ARE THE FUTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DRAINAGE Landscape architects hold the keys to sustainable urban drainage of the future. For decades we have been putting pipes under the ground, topping them with impermeable surfaces and encouraging water to run off as fast as it falls from the sky. In our quest to build new homes we have cut down trees and given little consideration to how deforestation impacts on our environment, causing issues like flooding. In Wales, all new developments are required to include Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)

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It works. And there are huge amounts of benefits – less flooding, it’s better for the environment and biodiversity, it is more cost effective and far less complex and easier to maintain than installing networks of pipes with their high carbon footprint.

SuDS, which replicate nature and manage rainfall close to where it falls, can be designed to move surface water, slow it down and provide water storage areas to encourage water to soak into the ground and dissipate slowly into the surrounding river network.

And we’re not the only ones doing it. The National Trust recently bought a tract of land in the lake District where they are considering natural management methods to slow the River Derwent’s flow to reduce the risk of downstream flooding in places such as Keswick and Cockermouth.

In Wales, construction work cannot start unless the drainage system for the work has been approved.

Research has shown that reforesting just 5% of the upland landscape in the Lake District could reduce flood peaks by up to 30%.

This is the future for building projects – and landscape architects are leading the way.

The principles of rewilding - the large-scale restoration of ecosystems where nature can take care of itself - are also growing in popularity.

It’s all about creating an integrated and holistic outdoor environment that slows water down, enhances bio-diversity and provides spaces for physical and mental well-being. When we are brought into a new development scheme we work with the natural landscape and look at ways we can naturally enhance drainage. For us, it isn’t about putting more pipes into the ground or increasing the amount of impermeable hard surfacing.

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The principles of rewilding - the large-scale restoration of ecosystems where nature can take care of itself - are also growing in popularity. When I started my career, landscape architects were perceived as the people brought in to add some planting around the architects design. Because of climate change, people’s awareness of the outdoors and the environment has shifted and our role has become more important than ever in building projects.

features that comply with national standards. This means that they need to reduce the risk of surface water flooding while creating opportunities for improved water quality and bio-diverse rich habitats.

These swales are conveyance structures which naturally slow the runoff to the next stage where soil and groundwater conditions allow. From the swales we are recommending a filtration bed downstream and, from there, the water either filters into the ground or gets released very slowly into the drainage network.

Instead we take a natural drainage approach that has been around for centuries and make it fit for the 21st Century. We do this by using plants, the soil and sub-soil to help store water when it lands. The water can then be released slowly.

When I started my career, landscape architects were perceived as the people brought in to add some planting around the architects design. Because of climate change, people’s awareness of the outdoors and the environment has shifted and our role has become more important than ever in building projects. Building for the future needs to be landscape driven – it’s what we should have been doing for years. • In response to this change, Land Studio is looking for a forward thinking civil engineer to join its growing team and forge new ideas and approaches for the integration of drainage solutions into the built environment.

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NATURAL DAYLIGHT – PRIORITISING CORE HUMAN HEALTH IN THE DESIGN OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Natural daylight, and the pivotal role it plays in promoting human health, wellbeing and productivity when designing our built environment is the subject of a new professional learning module approved by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Using recent scientific research and neurological discoveries, Indeglås, the innovative, internal glass specialist, demonstrates the importance of prioritising contact with variations of natural light and has launched a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module, ‘Daylight Transfer – a Guide to the Design Approach, Installation and Maintenance of Internal Glass’. “This new module is pivotal for architects, designers, engineers and those who procure buildings,” said Indeglås’s Managing Director, Jeanette MacIntyre. “We bring evidencebased data to support the notion that human performance, mental health and wellbeing should be placed at the heart of building design. “We need to stop planning and procuring our buildings based on using cost models which only reflect construction stage rates; instead, the whole life value of the building, how well it supports human productivity and long-term health, are of far greater relevance to the creation of a net zero carbon in the circular and sustainable economy. “As we build to protect mankind from the elements and to create environments which support a range of activities and collaboration, we can now use also evidencebased scientific data to design interiors which ensure occupants remain connected to

daylight, an essential component in human health and productivity.” The CPD module, which carries one hour of professional accreditation, makes references to neurological research from institutions including Harvard Medical School and discloses new data on how the human brain reacts to daylight. “It has been proven scientifically that humans have an in-built requirement to experience the continually shifting patterns of daylight from morning to night”, said Ms MacIntyre. “Part of our brain controls the circadian rhythm, an internal biological clock which amongst other subconscious functions, regulates our sleep-wake cycle. This neural function is reliant on receiving coded messages from the eyes, linked to daylight patterns. “Disrupting or confusing the biological clock – for example, by working in an environment devoid of exposure to the variations of natural light, can now be directly linked to chronic health conditions, such as sleep disorders, obesity, diabetes and depression.” Modern technology and advanced production techniques continue to produce an increasing variety of intelligent and sophisticated glass types suitable for safe use within buildings. The module demonstrates how the application of considered design methodology and engagement with experienced specialists can ensure the journey from procurement, planning, building design and engineering through to construction and on-going maintenance of future buildings can be fully supported to ensure the delivery of imaginative,

stimulating, and compliant solutions which underpin human wellbeing and productivity. Ms MacIntyre, who rebranded her business as Indeglås in 2017 after completing a management buyout, has been working with the considered application of glass for more than 30 years and is a passionate advocate of engineering daylight from the external face of a building all the way through to its core. Indeglås – Danish for ‘internal glass’ – is the sole distributor in the UK and Ireland for the product range of award-winning glass manufacturer DEKO of Denmark. A family firm established in 1970, DEKO was one of the first companies in the world to secure the European ‘Conformité Européene’ (CE) mark for glazed partition systems. Its products are highly valued for their quality, fire resistance, sound insulation, stability and environmental protection. Indeglås has already delivered its CPD sessions to more than 50 management team members at City of Glasgow College, who opened a next generation ‘super campus’ in Glasgow in 2016, and are currently investigating further development. Indeglås designed, engineered, and installed the internal glass screens in both the Riverside and City campus developments at a combined contract value of £1.5M. Included in the latter is a bespoke two-hour fire-rated atrium screen, the first of its type in the UK. The CPD seminar was also delivered to the estates team at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where Indeglås has completed numerous projects throughout the University estate and more recently secured a contract to inspect and maintain the internal glazed screens across three of the largest campus buildings. Further delivery dates are confirmed throughout 2021 with procurement, design and engineering professionals.

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Post COVID-19 and its effects on traditional learning environments, Indeglås is in discussion with a provider which can deliver the session online, information on which will be available shortly to book the learning as a webinar.

To find out more about the Indeglås Continuing Professional Development module, visit https://www.ribacpd.com/dekoscotland/26922/overview/

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WITH UK GREEN HOMES GRANT SCRAPPED, A TRAINING REVOLUTION IS NEEDED Climate solutions charity Ashden is calling for a revolution in green skills training in response to the UK government’s announcement today that it has scrapped its flagship green homes grant scheme. While the announcement of the ending of the green homes grant comes as a body blow to all involved in the UK’s retrofit industry, the government can still take action to create thousands of local green jobs around the UK. Politicians must commit to long term tailored investment in green skills. If they do not, the UK will not achieve zero carbon by 2050, and many workers will face a precarious future, ill-equipped to meet the demands of tomorrow’s job market. In Autumn 2020 Ashden consulted 20 experts across the low carbon heat and retrofit sector about this issue and launched a green skills award to uncover best practice across the UK. Insights from the consultation feature in a new Ashden report published tomorrow (29 Mar), Green skills: training UK workers for tomorrow’s job market, which will confirm that funding for green skills training is too low, too short-term, and not local enough. “The government has legal commitments to meet zero carbon – this is not a choice,” says Ashden CEO, Harriet Lamb. “But the stop-start history of its commitment to providing grants for making homes more energy efficient is undermining confidence within the industry. Companies

that have taken on the retrofit challenge are scared of entering the market when the government has pulled the rug out from under their feet too many times. The government has created a self-fulfilling prophesy of failure. It is crucial they turn this around through a long term, stable policy including investing in training.” The retrofit skills gap A massive gap exists between the UK’s current capacity to retrofit homes and install heat pumps, and the sheer volume of work needed if we are to achieve net zero by 2050. • There are only 950 heat pump installers accredited by MCS – the UK’s standards body in this area – compared to 96,000 installers of fossil fuel systems, primarily gas boilers. Government expects 600,000 heat pumps to be installed each year by 2028, so there is a need for rapid re-training of workers. • Only around 1300 installers are certified through Trustmark to undertake Green Homes Grant work. But the Government had anticipated 600,000 homes being retrofitted through the scheme each year. • There are just 500 retrofit coordinators. • Compounding this issue, fewer than 10 of the UK’s 192 further education colleges deliver retrofit and low carbon heat training – reflecting the severe lack of trained instructors in this area.

Long term and consistent investment will address the current ‘on-off funding’ problem that discourages training colleges companies and workers from embracing green skills. Innovators around the UK are offering practical routes into the sector and building demand for trainee job opportunities in retrofit and low-carbon heat. Examples of best practice include: • Retrofit Academy accelerating retrofit co-ordinator training nationwide – the organisation is currently working with 800 trainees. • The Ground Source Heat Pump Association (GSHPA) and Chartered Institute for Plumbing and Engineering (CIPHE) creating new training to be accredited by City & Guilds, working in tandem with manufacturers. • Carbon Co-op in Manchester training over 200 installers and working closely with Greater Manchester Combined Authority to scale up its work. • Warmworks, a fuel poverty initiative in Scotland, creating over 100 apprenticeships and uses SMEs in its supply chain. “There is a massive opportunity for the government to fill these capacity gaps, create thousands of new jobs, and build back better– by launching a green workforce of newly trained and re-trained tradespeople,” says Harriet Lamb. “It is right to direct money via local authorities, and towards those less able to pay. But even that will need people who are trained green installers. The government needs to be proactive, this cannot happen by magic.”

“We know these are viable technologies, but to see this advocated in black and white within the CCC’s official recommendations is exactly the sort of clarity we need. This follows the Government announcing its specific aim to install 600,000 heat pumps annually by 2028 last month, which was also a very encouraging sign. “It is clear that the public and industry are behind moving towards zero carbon but there needs to be increased public awareness of how this can be achieved. One of the major challenges lies around skills, as the existing workforce may not possess all the skills necessary for operating low-carbon and low-flow temperature installations. It’s key that the Government now address these policy gaps and review what incentives may be needed to meet their green targets.

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“Both sustainability and knowledge-sharing are driving forces within REHAU’s own strategy, which is why we back these initiatives whole-heartedly. Our continuing professional development (CPD) programme has been a huge focus throughout this turbulent year, and is being revamped and expanded for 2021 with renewable technologies remaining at its heart. We believe this guidance is invaluable to the educational process. “In summary, there can be little doubt that ambitious targets like net zero challenge industry to do more, and this report really does help visualise the practical steps to be taken.”

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MoDusArchitects RENOVATES THE Cusanus Academy, IN AN ORCHESTRATION OF STRUCTURE, SURFACE AND LIGHT In Bressanone (South Tyrol, Italy), MoDusArchitects adopts a subtle design strategy for the renovation of, and addition to the Cusanus Academy, a center of learning dedicated to the exchange of ideas at the intersection of the religious and secular worlds. For the purpose of better engaging the Academy with the city, the project tackles the heterogeneous ensemble of seminar

venues and guest accommodations with a spectrum of interventions—mimetic to overtly new—that form a more organically connected complex that invites the community in. Located along the Isarco river in the eastern part of the city, the Cusanus Academy comprises three buildings: Paul Norz Haus, Mühlhaus, and Haupthaus, or Main Building, originally designed by the locally renowned architect Othmar Barth (1927-2010) — the first modern building listed under the protection of the historic preservation commission of the Province of Bolzano. At the 1962 inauguration, the building triggered much debate: many considered the boldly modern building of exposed brick and concrete to be out of place, an eyesore to the adjacent 18th century Major Seminary building, while others welcomed the contemporary addition within the medieval fabric of the historical city center.

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Today the building stands as one of Bressanone’s landmark buildings and is considered to be Othmar Barth’s masterpiece. The Academy takes its name after Nikolaus Cusanus, a 15 th century, influential and enlightened cardinal and philosopher dedicated to Renaissance humanism whose various religious and political appointments led him to Rome where he came into contact with Leon Battista Alberti.

PROJECT The affinity between Cusanus’ and Alberti’s ideas of concinnitas (congruity of the various parts of a building) provide the beautiful backdrop to Barth’s architectural elaboration of part to whole relationships in the name of unity and harmony. The architects were called upon to design a careful and balanced renovation that could absorb a host of technical and code related requirements without compromising the integrity of the Academy. More specifically, the need for greater accessibility prompted the architects to rethink the vertical and horizontal circulation as a network of social, more public spaces. The project traces a fine line between that which appears to belong to the original buildings (invisible) and that which emerges as new, more clearly stated interventions (visible). The two most significant and visible design moves occur at the ground level of the Haupthaus whereby a newly formed axis opens up the building, and at the lower level whereby a large conference hall becomes a new fulcrum.

A geometrical analysis of the Haupthaus reveals a plan made by three squares that open up towards the South to form an indelible trapezoidal footprint; the resulting interplay between an orthogonal order and a slight rotation governs the entire project be it in plan, elevation and detail. Coupled with the 2,90m pass that presides over structure and surface, aperture and closure, down to the patterning of the floor materials that in turn mark the positioning of the seating, the building is a poignant lesson in multa paucis—saying much with few words. Indeed, the careful grammatical construction of the project converges in an abstract order with the real dimensions of the concrete structural frame, the exposed brick walls and pavers, and the travertine slabs into a unified whole. >>

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Intervening in such a complete, and accomplished project proved to be a daunting task for MoDusArchitects. “This building has been our master, a treasure trove of sage architectural solutions, of refined details and measured geometric patterns; a muse in the skillful orchestration of natural light and in the use of few materials; a guide to concision, simplicity and propriety: exemplary of true beauty, or rather “concinnitas” in Latin”. - affirms Matteo Scagnol, co-founder with Sandy Attia of MoDusArchitects The double height, concrete vaulted space of the Haupthaus located on the first floor is the architectural centerpiece of the entire complex and, not surprisingly, serves as the touchstone for the tone and overall approach of the renovation. Although the laconic and bare-bones construction of the Haupthaus dictated a clear design ethos, MoDusArchitects gained precious insight into the malleability of the original project through archival research that

uncovered Barth’s copious documentation of the project along with his many variations and projected additions thereof. On the ground floor, the new North-South axis eliminates the dead-end corridor and connects the main entryway down through to the dining hall to form an articulated throughway punctuated by the newly introduced coffee shop and courtside entry area, pockets of informal seating, and views into the only seminar room located on this level. The generous hallway embodies the ambition of the project to foster a more welcoming environment without stepping outside of the constructive logic of the building. Below ground, at the semi-basement level, the former clubhouse area is recast as a series of seminar rooms that in turn become contiguous with the (excavated) addition of the large conference hall. Top lit by a U-shaped skylight, the new conference room circumscribes the footprint of the courtyard above ground, transforming what was once an

ill-defined, residual space as a public place of social exchange. Nestled within the structural logic of the Haupthaus, a new vertical circulation core represents the functional link between Barth’s project, the historic ancillary buildings, and the buried, lower level introduced by MoDusArchitects. The sleeping rooms hosting up to 96 guests are located on the upper floors of the Paul Norz Haus, the Mühlhaus and the Haupthaus’ flanking, long sides. The 55 rooms of different sizes and capacities are distinguished by blue hues in the Paul Norz Haus, pistachio green in the Mühlhaus, whereas the Haupthaus rooms highlight Othmar Barth’s original furnishings or variations thereof. In the main building, the balconied corridors accessing the guest rooms look onto the main central hall and are bookended by the Chapel to the North and another large conference hall facing South whose split level position can be opened up via a movable partition wall to the central vaulted space. The original Finn Juhl armchairs that Barth had chosen for the various common spaces throughout the building have been refurbished and re-introduced in the nooks and crannies of the building. The spiritual quality of light given by the vaulted skylights can also be found in the chapel, a solemn space modified only by the artist Lois Anvidalferei’s solid stone Ambon positioned in front of the existing altar. With a careful and tempered orchestration of a material, tectonic and technical palette of solutions, MoDusArchitects’ innumerable interventions oscillate between mimetic, reciprocal and carefully contrasting vocabularies. What results is a shifting narrative between the old and the new that confounds the boundary between the two, offering the Cusanus Academy a contemporary and timeless architecture.

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FEATURE The Building’s Inner Workings: Smart, Digital, Convenient

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The office stories have a generous, open feel to them, the concept used largely rejects the idea of internal walls. The structure of the building invites a cooperative, nonhierarchical approach to work. Communicative shared spaces and areas for focused work unobtrusively alternate with one another and the offices are fitted out with furniture that is appropriate to its urban context. The concept of a paperless office allows for light, transparent furnishings and views of what is happening outside that are largely unimpeded. Thanks to an app specially designed by the developers, staff can control pretty well everything in the building. They can select their lunches from the in-house food bar or allow themselves to be guided through the surrounding park areas in their breaks.

WHAT WILL SMART CITIES LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE? GAME-CHANGING, INTELLIGENT FAÇADE FOR 3DELUXE’S NEW BUILDING In recent years much has been said about smart cities and smart buildings but people rarely understand what the label can actually mean in real terms. Together with the client FC Ingenieure in Karlsruhe and the technology company Merck, the architects at 3deluxe have succeeded in coming up with an attractive building ensemble with an interesting, innovative glass façade which adds a fascinating new facet to intelligent architecture. The FC Campus’ “Smartphone Façade” is Globally Unique A building is intelligent if it does not just stand there but can respond not only to the requirements of its users but also to external factors. At best, it can make people more comfortable while simultaneously optimizing energy efficiency. The FC Campus building’s intelligent architectural element is a sheet of foil, something normally used in smartphones, integrated into its glass structure. In the context of a building façade, this is a global first. Interactive liquid crystals integrated into the foil allows for a sensorcontrolled reduction in light and heat transfer to the building without any negative impact on transparency. The building requires hardly any cooling, even at the height of summer despite the fact that it features large-scale glazing and does not possess any structural shading elements.

Consistent Corporate Design for FutureOriented Engineering Company The developer and user of this building ensemble, which is very prominently situated in close proximity to one of Germany’s busiest autobahns, is the Karlsruhe-based FC Gruppe. This engineering company, which has a payroll of more than 300, works both for Porsche and on innovative, future-oriented hospital concepts. In light of this, the intention in 3deluxe’s building design was to combine innovation, sustainability, efficiency and a meaningful arrangement, so as to create a distinctive composition. A cube offered the most economical ratio between outside surface and volume, thus representing the most efficient building shape from a sustainability viewpoint. The FC Group’s two identical cubes are twisted in opposite directions and stand on a large floating podium under which an open underground parking lot is located. Because of the striking, organically-shaped, story-spanning windows, the two individual cubes merge, depending on perspective, to produce a sculptural overall effect with a varying, charming appearance. The generous glazing means that these modern, openplan office premises are well lit from all sides and offer pleasant views from all their workstations. Along with the well thoughtthrough approach to the diagonals and radii in the façade, it is the building’s pared-back details that make it so compelling and unique.

Nature and the Protection of Endangered Species between a Commercial Park and the Autobahn The FC Campus building is situated in a seminatural environment, between an industrial park, the autobahn feeder road and a small tree and meadow biotope with a little stream, an environment very much deserving of protection. The architecture has adopted a circumspect approach to this residual natural environment. In order to avoid birds crashing into the generous glazing which stretches around corners the architect in cooperation with the Swiss ornithological station Sempach came up with the kind of delicate, semitransparent pattern printed onto the glazing of which birds would be aware but which would not, at the same time, spoil the view. The outside lighting was designed to take the form of insect-friendly LED lights with a low beam height and focused lighting on the surfaces, without light emission into the surroundings. The decision was taken not to install scenic lighting on the vegetation or the building shell. Throughout the entire site and in the open underground parking lot underneath the building’s floating base plate sealed areas have been reduced to a minimum, which means the roadways and the footpaths. FC-CAMPUS \\ © by 3deluxe Architect Projects

The trend in recent years towards cutting the expanses of windows in new buildings in order to save energy conflicts with people’s desire for bright, cheerful rooms flooded with light – and does not, therefore, represent real progress. Extensive glazing and the corresponding effect this has on the

way people relate to their environment is an emotionally important aspect of wellbeing and thus always a significant factor in 3deluxe’s building concepts. Accordingly, intelligent glass is not only durable and efficient but also helpful in the innovative design of people-friendly architecture and one of the many technological innovations that will be necessary for planning smart cities in the future.

To avoid plastic, water is provided from the well on the grounds, while the carpet is made of recycled fishing nets and plastic bottles. Modern heated and chilled ceilings ensure a pleasant ambient temperature in the offices. Cooling and heating is provided from a geothermal source that uses 24 probes that run to a depth of 130 meters and electricity is generated by a PV system on the roof, meaning that the building requires zero outside energy.

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GRAHAM COMPLETES CONSTRUCTION OF The Copper House RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT The privately-owned construction, facilities management and investments contractor delivered the high-quality, multi-storey scheme following an intensive 33 month programme. It was appointed by joint venture partners, Patten Properties and Panacea Property Development, on behalf of Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager, as part of its growing UK residential portfolio. The new landmark property features 383 apartments which are a mixture of one, two and three bed that offer stunning views across the River Mersey and Albert Dock. Designed by Leach Rhodes Walker Architects, The Copper House is framed around two concrete tower structures, with off-site podded bathrooms, and a system façade designed to withstand inclement riverside weather conditions. It includes communal space, resident’s lounge and a private gym, alongside 1,000 sq ft of ground floor commercial units. Residents will also benefit from rooftop facilities, such as a garden space with flexible and fixed seating, booth seating areas with fire pits and fire tables, an outdoor covered kitchen, and a multi-use central space suitable for events or exercise. The area is enclosed by a 2m high glass balustrade to provide weather protection. Architect Projects

Peter Reavey, GRAHAM Construction Director, believes The Copper House has set a new standard for residential accommodation in the city. He said: “GRAHAM is proud to have delivered this high-quality residential scheme that provides a stunning addition to this iconic part of Liverpool city centre. The Copper House is a stand-out development which is already attracting significant demand.

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“The quality of both the design and the build sets it apart, offering future residents a modern living environment with a community feel. Our early involvement, and close collaboration with our client Panacea throughout the journey, have been crucial to the success of this project, bringing our collective skills together to positively influence design, the construction methodology and the delivery programme.” Commenting on making a “lasting impact” in Liverpool, Peter added: “It is important to us at GRAHAM to deliver lasting impact and to enhance opportunities for local people. Strand Street is a great example of how we engaged with the Liverpool supply chain and provided employment opportunities for local people, apprentices and students. “With a significant presence in the city, we look forward to strengthening and building upon these relationships in future construction projects.” Continued >>>

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We were ambitious in the vision we set out for The Copper House, and to see it realised in such a spectacular way is something the entire team is very proud of

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Neil Patten, Joint Managing Director of Panacea Properties, said: “We were ambitious in the vision we set out for The Copper House, and to see it realised in such a spectacular way is something the entire team is very proud of. This has been a long, challenging scheme, but the commitment to get every detail right has paid off considerably. “Liverpool now has a sought after residential development that encapsulates the optimism and ambition of the city. We have enjoyed working with Invesco Real Estate and the delivery of the project by GRAHAM has been first class. The consultant team including Leach Rhodes Walker, Curtins, DFC, Sharps Redmore, Lendlease, Capita and Squire Patton Boggs have all worked tirelessly to deliver a building that sets a new standard for the quality of residential living in Liverpool City centre. “My thanks go to the entire team for their efforts, especially in the face of the challenges presented by the pandemic this year.”

JACKON IS ‘FUTURE HOMES’ READY! The Government’s new Future Homes Standard is set to be a key part of the construction industry’s framework going forward, underpinning the planned green recovery of the housebuilding market in particular. With new cuts in emissions of up to 80% required and a ‘fabric first’ approach, the Standard will be the guiding principle of new housebuilding in the future. It will become a requirement for housebuilders to build wellinsulated homes, in which on-site renewable energy sources cannot be used to offset inadequate insulation at the construction phase. The Government is proposing target u-values of 0.15 for external walls and 0.11 for floors from 2025.

JACKON is ready for these changes and is in fact arguing for them to be even more rigorous. The new targets are not a problem, since JACKON’s THERMOMUR 350 Super range - currently the company’s best-selling range in the UK - already achieves 0.15 for walls with no added materials, and the JACKODUR ATLAS system can be designed to achieve 0.11. JACKON brings its 60 years’ expertise in EPS (moulded expanded polystyrene) and XPS (extruded polystyrene) manufacturing to this market. It has two complementary systems, JACKODUR ATLAS which uses XPS (extruded polystyrene) to create an insulated floor slab and THERMOMUR ICF which uses EPS (moulded expanded polystyrene) to create the formwork. ICF is a modern construction method, which is widely used in Europe and North America, but is still relatively new in the UK. It integrates insulation materials into the concrete formwork, totally revolutionising the way a house is constructed. As well as being easier and quicker to build, an ICF house provides massive advantages during the life of a building. These include: dramatically improved insulation and air tightness leading to reduced expenditure on heating or cooling; excellent acoustic performance; fire resistance; enhanced resilience to flood, extreme weather and seismic activity; rot and vermin resistance; versatility with regard to remodelling; minimal maintenance requirement; mortgage, insurance and planning acceptance.

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GILBERTS STEPS UP TO ENABLE SCHOOL RE-OPENING Working together, safely, was central to enabling one construction team to deliver a £19.5m new school build project on time, ahead of usual schedules. The team from main contractor Bowmer + Kirkland, in partnership with Gilberts Blackpool, at Ealing Fields High School in West London overcame the impact of COVID on site working to still deliver the bespoke screening louvres in less than three months from initial order to installation compared to the programmed 15 weeks. Thus the project was completed in time for the official handover date and school reopening. In that time, Gilberts designed, supplied and installed the bespoke WGK75 louvres to create plant ventilation screening 1.55m high x up to 20.7m long, with a double door section

to allow access for plant maintenance etc. The louvres are mounted, using the Big Foot non-penetrative support system, on the flat roofs of the new two- and three-storey teaching and sports block, adjoining the refurbished and remodelled Grade II listed central school building- a former manor built for Charles II’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. “As the plant was being mounted on the flat roof element, the architect had specified we use BigFoot to avoid penetrating the membrane,” explained Bowmer + Kirkland QS Garry Healy. “It was the first time I had used it: Big Foot recommended Gilberts as being expert in working with the system, so it made sense to go with them to supply and install, particularly as, with COVID, we were against time meeting the deadline for the school to re-open. Because of COVID, we were at reduced capacity, as were the construction team,” explained Gilberts Contracts Supervisor Robert Wardle. “By working closely with the client at all stages, we were able to work as efficiently as possible, which gave us a fighting chance to complete the installation by the required date.” Gilberts WGK louvre system is specifically designed for bespoke screening and ventilation in unusual applications, allowing for planned or last-minute variations in size or shape. As standard, it provides a 75mm pitch at 45dgrees with 50% free ventilation area whilst protecting from ingress by weather and airborne particulates.

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WGK is one component of Gilberts’ range of standard and high performance screening louvres, including acoustic, factory assembled and kitform solutions. In turn, the louvres are just part of Gilberts’ range of ventilation strategies that have established it as the UK’s no 1 independent commercial air movement supplier. Family owned, the company has a 60 year heritage of innovation, operating from a 95,000 sq ft facility in the Northern Powerhouse of Lancashire.

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TWO AEDAS PROJECTS RECOGNISED AT THE REARD AWARDS 2020 At the REARD Awards this year, two Aedasdesigned projects received accolades for their design excellence and innovation. They are:

1. Chengdu Shimao Festival City, Chengdu, China (by Global Design Principal Kevin Wang and Executive Director Yao Chun Wen)

Gold, Category – Commercial & Silver, Category – Tourism Chengdu Shimao Festival City is located in Longquan, a well-known leisure destination in east Chengdu. Over the course of rapid urbanization, high-density developments have gradually eroded the laidback spirit of the district. In an effort to reinstall this spirit, the design is centered around the idea of constructing a commercial building in which Chengdu’s languid energy is encapsulated. Multiple elements of the building demonstrate the aforementioned intention, such as the unique dimension of the building - informed by the craft of Sichuan bamboo weaving; the central courtyard that interacts with our ecology; as well as the aesthetically pleasing promenade filled with flowers and shrubbery. 2. Guanyun Qiantang City, Hangzhou, China (by Global Design Principal Dr Andy Wen and Director Nicole Liu) Bronze, Category – Commercial

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Located in the Olympic Sports Center and International Expo Center of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, the Guanyun Qiantang City is a 334,290 sq m mixed-use project comprised of office towers and retail programs along the mother river of the city. This development takes full advantage of the surrounding landscape to create a high-quality commercial, business integrated community. Applying the “encircled, not enclosed” notion from traditional Chinese gardens designs, it instills a sense of openness in the connected space. The five towers - inspired by the Chinese axiom “ride on wind and break through the wave”, embody at once the beauty of strength and tenderness. Above all, the marrow of the design lays in the Yin and Yang philosophical thought, creating a dynamic but tranquil space.

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CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER CENTRE SCOOPS MORE DESIGN AWARDS AS IT CONTINUES TO PROVIDE WORLD-LEADING CANCER CARE IN LIVERPOOL The new Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool is transforming the lives of people in the city and improving the standards of cancer care in the UK, whilst continuing to win accolades for its design and construction. The cancer hospital - which delivers highlyspecialist care including chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy along with clinical trials of new treatments - beat a high-calibre of competition from projects across the North West to win the Project of the Year in the North West Regional Construction Awards, last week. Since it opened in June, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Liverpool has been attracting compliments from service-users, staff and the local community with its peopleled design, providing enhanced care and developing leading-edge clinical trials in a calming and therapeutic environment. Reactions to the hospital have been overwhelmingly positive with the facilities already benefiting thousands of patients and providing increased capacity at a time when it has never been more needed. Patient, Amanda Melia, said: “This is the place to be when you are in need of treatment. The hospital is second to none, clean, modern and comfortable. The treatment given is done so with complete professionalism, thoroughness and care. The staff are so caring and friendly in every respect. I cannot speak too highly of the place and consider myself so lucky to be able to receive treatment here.” Another patient, Rowena Robinson, added: “Clatterbridge is a beautiful new building. The staff are wonderful all very friendly and efficient, no matter how busy they are. Altogether, it really does take the stress out of a very difficult situation.” The project is part of a £162m investment in transforming cancer care for the 2.4 million

people of Cheshire and Merseyside - a region where people are more likely to develop cancer than almost anywhere else in the country.

even more special and it’s testament to our outstanding design & construction partners as well as our staff, and the in-house team who managed the project so brilliantly.”

The specialist cancer hospital was built on a constrained site in the heart of Liverpool’s new Knowledge Quarter, adjacent to Royal Liverpool University Hospital. BDP designed the building to step back in profile at its upper levels, creating external terraced space for wards and the chemotherapy floor. The terraces have spectacular panoramic views, connecting the building with the city of Liverpool, whilst giving staff patients and visitors access to external landscaped areas and fresh air.

Emma Lepley, Architect at BDP, said “The patient and staff experience was at the heart of this project. The focus was on providing a comforting and less clinical feeling environment for patients and their families, whilst also designing in efficiencies for the staff, as well as places for them to rest and share ideas and research.

A sunken landscape courtyard at the prow of the building creates a covered winter garden, lined with natural stone gabions and filled with natural timber landscape planters. This connects staff, patients and visitors to the healing qualities of natural environments and provides more space that promotes recovery, health and wellbeing. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust and its in-house property and estates team, PropCare, coordinated a collaborative design and delivery team for the project with BDP (architect), AECOM (multi-disciplinary engineering services) and Laing O’Rourke (lead contractors) working closely together to design and deliver the project from concept through to completion. Liz Bishop, Chief Executive of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, said: “It’s a fantastic achievement for the new cancer hospital to win Project of the Year and a justified tribute to all involved in creating such a spectacular building and superb facilities for our patients and staff. It is already transforming care and will continue to benefit people with cancer across Cheshire and Merseyside for generations to come. The fact that it was completed on schedule in the height of a global pandemic makes it

“This award win shows just what can be achieved by committing to collaborative working with the supply chain and community focus groups throughout the whole design process.” Rory Pollock, health sector leader at Laing O’Rourke, added: “This award is testament to the enormous efforts of a collaborative project team of healthcare experts and I am proud that Laing O’Rourke played its part in delivering a major new hospital that will transform cancer care throughout Merseyside.” Richard Mann, Director – UK and Ireland Healthcare and Science Sector Leader, AECOM, commented: “Projects such as Clatterbridge are all about outcomes and how the work we do enables NHS staff to deliver the best care to patients. Seeing the hospital up and running and achieving success such as this award gives me immense pride in the hard work the team put in, going above and beyond to complete the hospital in a challenging year.” The North West Regional Construction Awards celebrate key construction projects and the construction industry. The awards are hosted by the School of Science, Engineering and Environment at the University of Salford, as well as Constructing Excellence North West and the Centre for Construction Innovation.

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GEORGE CLARKE LAUNCHES EXCITING HOME DESIGN COMPETITION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCOTLAND Architect and TV presenter George Clarke today launches a national challenge for young people in Scotland to design an extension to the Resource Efficient House in Glasgow. The challenge is being run by the City of Glasgow College, the Energy Skills Partnership (ESP) and George’s education charity for young people, MOBIE (the Ministry of Building Innovation and Education). The challenge will inspire the next generation of home designers, makers and innovators. The presenter of Channel 4 TV programmes Restoration Man, George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces and Old House New Home, joined Jacqueline Schindler of Tigh Grian Ltd and Robert Cowie of ÜserHuus Ltd, the creators of the Resource Efficient House, at a webinar hosted by Caitriona Jordan of the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre

(CSIC), to launch the exciting challenge to schools and colleges. The Resource Efficient House was assembled in 2013 at the Building Research Establishment’s Ravenscraig site. It is a ground-breaking, exemplar quality, sustainable and affordable family home of the future that includes the latest green technologies. It was purposely designed to be deconstructed and moved to a new site and it is now time for it to be relocated to the centre of Glasgow and retrofitted with the latest technology. The challenge invites schools and colleges from across Scotland to design an extension to the Resource Efficient House, to provide a beautiful, green and healthy living space for its occupants. College students are also being asked to plan the dismantling and relocation of the house to the centre of Glasgow and

to upgrade the building with the latest smart technology and services to make it more energy efficient and zero carbon. The challenge is open to young people aged between 11 and 25. The deadline for entries is 28 June 2021. Speaking at the launch George said: “MOBIE is all about the future of home design in Britain and across the world. I am delighted to be launching this exciting challenge, the first MOBIE challenge for young people in Scotland, with our partners the City of Glasgow College and the Energy Skills Partnership. Clarke added “We all need a shelter and our home is the most important piece of architecture in our lives. But home is more than just a shelter, it is a place that enhances the quality and experience of our everyday lives and our health and well-being. Homes of the future must look after our planet. That is why we are asking students to think about designing an extension for and relocating the Resource Efficient House, so they are thinking about new technologies and approaches to buildings that can help us become zero carbon. He went on “By harnessing the talents, ideas and energy of the young people of today we can change the way we build homes. The amazing student designs that I know will flow from this challenge will show that we have a future generation with the talent and the imagination to really make a difference for people and the planet.” John Renwick, Construction Sector Manager at the Energy Skills Partnership, a collaboration of all Scotland’s regional colleges, said “construction is a vital sector to the economy and it is an industry crying out for more people with the right skills. This challenge gives students at Scottish colleges an opportunity to experience real construction problems with a real house. By involving schools, it will help show children how interesting, rewarding and varied a career in the built environment can be. He added “Our future homes need to help us avoid climate change and environmental damage, so with COP26 the UN Climate change conference coming to Glasgow in November, it is most appropriate that this challenge is asking young people to learn about and further develop the groundbreaking ideas used in the Resource Efficient House”.

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George Clarke is the founder of MOBIE, an educational charity which is spearheading a fundamental change to the building industry. MOBIE is focused on raising the design standards, build quality and innovation around home building. Its mission is to inspire new generations into the building profession and to fundamentally transform the way we think about, design and construct homes in the UK.

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BAKERHICKS DUO ACHIEVE PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGN CERTIFICATION

Two members of design, engineering and project delivery company, BakerHicks’, Scottish architectural team, Michael Edgar and Katherine Gibson, have achieved certified Passive House designer status. This further extends the company’s expertise in sustainable and energy efficient construction. Both Michael and Katherine undertook the exam with the Passive House Institute, passing an international written exam to achieve this status. The qualification gives them the in-depth knowledge and tools to design to the Passive House standard, helping the company’s clients reduce their ecological footprint through ultra-low energy buildings.

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Passive House buildings are truly energy efficient, comfortable and affordable, offering space related heating and cooling energy savings of up to 75% compared to the average new build. They require very little energy to achieve a comfortable temperature year-round, making conventional heating and air conditioning systems obsolete. Whilst it delivers superior levels of comfort, the Passive House standard also protects the building structure. It can be applied to all building types, from residential properties to schools and offices, and focuses specifically on ‘superinsulation’, airtight envelopes, high-performance window installation, minimal thermal bridging and mechanical ventilation with

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The holistic approach of Passive House necessitates earlier collaboration of design teams and a keener focus on the finest details to ensure all criteria are met. Ultimately, this delivers a project that is designed around sustainability from the very outset, making it a clear driver to achieving cleaner building design.

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heat recovery. This will make it a key element in the drive to halt global warming. Laura James, Head of Scotland at BakerHicks, says: “As a company, it is important for us to lead the way in setting sustainable practices. We recognise that governments, local authorities and our individual clients are all really driving the effort to construct more environmentally friendly buildings. And, with new net zero targets set out by the UK and Scottish Governments, this is becoming ever more prevalent. Passive House design will be one of the key ways we can help them achieve this. “We are already seeing a real appetite amongst our clients and are employing the principles on a number of projects, so it’s great to have that added in-house capability with certified designers. To design these buildings, you need an in-depth knowledge of the standard, so by supporting our architects and engineers through this qualification we are giving them the tools to do so. It also provides our clients with the confidence that we can deliver the level of sustainability they require.” Michael Edgar, Principal Architect at BakerHicks, added: “The holistic approach of Passive House necessitates earlier collaboration of design teams and a keener focus on the finest details to ensure all criteria are met. Ultimately, this delivers a project that is designed around sustainability from the very outset, making it a clear driver to achieving cleaner building design.” Katherine Gibson, Senior Architect at BakerHicks, says she is looking forward to applying the design principles to future projects: “The fabric-first approach of Passive House provides a clear framework to reducing harmful carbon levels and making buildings more energy efficient, ultimately creating more healthy spaces for occupants.”

One of the Directors of the Borders’ leading architectural practice is stepping down after 21 years to continue the development of an innovative technology created to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia. David Burgher, a director of awardwinning architectural practice Aitken Turnbull, based in Galashiels’ Bridge Place, is leaving the firm to focus his efforts on further developing this pioneering design tool - VR-EP (Virtual Reality - Empathy Platform) which allows architects and designers to enhance the environments and living spaces for dementia sufferers. Current estimates suggest there are 50 million people globally and 90,000 people in Scotland living with the condition and David’s aim is to make Scotland the most dementia-inclusive country in the world. People with dementia can experience varying levels of impaired memory, sight and hearing impairment, and cognitive challenges. The VR-EP (Virtual Reality - Empathy Platform) uses smart technology and bespoke software to enable people to have a tangible experience of how physical spaces can feel to someone living with dementia and brings a new understanding of how dementia affects not only those who live with it, but their families, friends and carers. David comments;

The VR-EP platform aids designers to conceptualise dementia-friendly buildings and spaces that can transform people’s lives, bringing about significant and lasting change across the nation and setting an example to the rest of the world of how people with dementia can be supported. It is a system which can deliver real-time comprehension and empathy to a widereaching audience and with the advent of shared VR, overcomes current challenges of social distancing. Recent international investment has given David the opportunity to work on VR-EP as an independent business, whilst maintaining the close relationship with Aitken Turnbull where the concept originally emerged. Alasdair Rankin, Managing Director of Aitken Turnbull comments; “David has been working on developing VR-EP for quite some time and it got to the point where he felt he needed to devote his energies full time to take the platform to the next level. He has been an integral part of Aitken Turnbull’s evolution for the past two decades and is renowned across the Borders and beyond for his visionary approach to his profession. “He’s been a fantastic business partner and played a critical role in making Aitken Turnbull, a true Borders’ success story.”

“It was a wrench to be leaving Aitken Turnbull after 21 years – a practice that has been part of the Borders community for well over 130 years. “However, the more I researched the devastating impact living with dementia has on individuals and their families, the more I realised that addressing issues around living environment and space needed a full-time focus. I studied architecture because I was interested in how the built environment influences how we live. It has a significant role to play in supporting people to live well with dementia, especially when a person experiences visuospatial difficulties and where changes to an environment can compensate in part for reduced sensory, cognitive and motor ability. “Designing with empathy produces the best environments, so being able to understand what someone experiences with dementia is crucial in developing enabling places.”

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BakerHicks have committed to supporting others from across their design disciplines through the accreditation process, with four from their Mechanical and Electrical Engineering team registered to undertake the exam this year and more expected to follow suit in 2022. This follows their parent company, Morgan Sindall Group’s, recent announcement of their intention to achieve net zero by 2030.

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CALEDONIAN APPOINTED ON 20 STOREY CANARY WHARF GROUP DEVELOPMENT Caledonian secures modular contract for One Charter Street, a 279-key aparthotel in Canary Wharf, London. The 20 storey building will provide the “gateway” to Canary Wharf’s new district, Wood Wharf. It has achieved planning consent and will provide 17 floors of high quality volumetric modular serviced apartments over a retail/amenity space in the lower podium levels. Two full-height concrete cores will provide structural stability and the scheme will be crowned with a rooftop restaurant providing a unique dining experience with prime views over London City. An open and collaborative approach between Canary Wharf Group, edyn, Caledonian and design partners HTA and Holloway Li has resulted in the development of a high-quality precision manufactured design solution that maximises levels of offsite completion and significantly reduces onsite resource and programme. The steel framed modules are being designed and manufactured at Caledonian’s 40 acre manufacturing facility in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where Caledonian’s offsite solution enables each room to be completed to a very high standard including fitting of furniture, bathrooms, kitchens and en-suite facilities prior to transport. This is the latest significant success for Caledonian that underpins continued growth plans and investment in the business and contributes to current secured pipeline in excess of £200m.

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Caledonian continues to invest in new systems and technologies to advance precision manufactured techniques and processes, producing products that are over 90% factory complete and actively advancing our design principles towards a Net Zero Carbon future.

SUSTAINABLE £7M STEM FACILITY COMPLETES IN BRISTOL Work on a £7m specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) and creative further education centre at a college in Bristol has now completed (Mar 2021). The three-storey Brunel Centre building at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS) puts sustainability and wellbeing at its heart, with a number of key features prominent in its design. Leading independent property, construction and infrastructure consultancy, Pick Everard provided cost management services throughout the project, working closely alongside the project manager Provelio, the main contractor Willmott Dixon and architect Hewitt Studios. Barry Reeves, associate quantity survey at Pick Everard has been working on the project. He said: “Sustainability and user wellbeing were really important to the client when considering this new facility and you can really see that has been integrated into the design throughout the building. “During the pre-con phase the decision was made to switch from a traditional steel frame for the building to a CLT (crosslaminated timber) one instead, which had a significant positive impact on the building’s carbon footprint – the switch itself meant we have prevented 445 tonnes of carbon from entering the atmosphere.

“This approach also meant that the number of people on site at any one time was drastically reduced – something which meant managing COVID restrictions on site was much less challenging than on some traditional constructions. “The building is naturally ventilated throughout, uses air source heat pumps, and there is a photovoltaic system integrated into the building’s brise soleil – just one of the examples of putting renewables at the fore of design for students to see every day. “The building also features a ‘live’ monitoring panel in the foyer where students can see exactly how much energy, water and other services the building is using.” The project team adopted a ‘fabric first’ approach meaning the scheme is highly insulated and sealed, combined with natural ventilation and lighting, solar panels and the CLT frame, delivering a highly sustainable building. The project also saw the replacement of 400 sq. m of car park and tarmac replaced with wildflower meadows aimed at encouraging biodiversity on site. The brise soleil also features a number of LED lights, making an artistic feature of it at night. Now complete, the 1722 sq. m building sits across three storeys and will provide teaching and learning spaces for hundreds of students for STEM and creative subjects. The building has been funded by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) through the Local Growth Fund, administered by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA). Pick Everard was appointed via the NHS Shared Business Services framework.

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ST. MODWEN PUSHES ON WITH PLANS TO DELIVER MORE THAN 70,000 SQ FT OF SPACE AT ST. MODWEN PARK BROOMHALL St. Modwen Logistics has been granted permission to build more than 70,000 sq ft of logistics space at its site in South Worcester. St Modwen Park Broomhall is a 12-acre site and will be developed in several phases, with the first phase set to commence in March this year. Two units consisting of 42,711 sq ft and 30,240 sq ft will be delivered, providing high-quality warehouse and logistics space for the area. St. Modwen has also submitted plans to build an additional 79,907 sq ft in three units for phase 2 and, if approved, will be delivered in 2022.

Gemma Butler, Leasing & Development Manager at St. Modwen Logistics, said: “Worcester is already established as a prime manufacturing and logistics location with several high-profile names in the local area. St. Modwen Park Broomhall is set to be an incredibly popular scheme and the first phase of development will help meet the growing demand for high-quality space that’s ideally located.” Joint marketing agents for the scheme are Fisher German and Avison Young.

Richard Tomlinson, Partner at Fisher German, added: “The plans St. Modwen have in place will be sure to attract many high-quality businesses to the area. “The location and quality of the proposed units means St. Modwen Park Broomhall is already looking like it will be a highly sought-after site and we anticipate significant demand for this first phase, especially given the success of St. Modwen’s nearby Nunnery Park development which was fully let within a month of completion last year.”

St. Modwen’s plans could create a further 300 new jobs across the region and will be designed to meet the growing demand for warehouse and logistics space in the area. Strategically located on the southern outskirts of Worcester, the scheme is less than one mile from Junction 7 of the M5 Motorway via the A4440 Southern by-pass. The M5 provides access to the wider Midlands region, the South West of England and South Wales. This site forms part of the developer’s biggest-ever committed industrial and logistics pipeline of developments standing at 1.5m sq ft nationally.

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Lipton Plant Architects REIMAGINES STRIKING APARTMENT OVERLOOKING REGENTS PARK Lipton Plant Architects reimagine striking apartment overlooking Regents Park Lipton Plant Architects has transformed an apartment overlooking Regents Parkin central London,part of the palatial,Grade I listed,Nash designed terrace,York Terrace. The practice was engaged by an existing client to ‘rethink’their home and to enhance the connection between the interiors, architecture and stunning park surroundings. They drew inspiration from John Nash’s original vision for York Terrace and the landscape beyond, which was designed to interact like an auditorium and a stage. With carefully framed views and staged settings, this‘ metropolitan picturesque theatre’ was intended to be enjoyed looking to and from, between the interiors and the park.

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Modernising and expanding on Nash’s intended arrangement, Lipton Plant Architects has reimagined and recreated a sense of theatre. Internally, the huge 60ft central room is now framed by multiple ‘opened’ rooms, each with new views, through the columns, across the interiors and beyond across the park. The design also celebrates

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By transforming the entire interior outlook of this expansive apartment, Lipton Plant Architects has staged a completely immersive experience of landscape and architecture. Jonathan Plant, Managing Director at Lipton Plant Architects, said: “Working on this project has been a real pleasure for us. We were able to capitalise on the relative freedom from stringent rules that normally govern the refurbishment of a period-building whilst also creating beautifully crafted, elegant interior spaces and finishes that would no doubt satisfy the original designer and occupants. We also enjoyed embracing the theatrical analogy, the wider, historical story behind the original design–we wanted to play with this idea of a performance space overlooking the park, with the two half levels above and below the central living space as ‘backstage’ spaces. It was our intention from the outset to celebrate this important story, reconnecting

the apartment, as intended, with the park surroundings and creating a new home for our clients which offers both drama and tranquillity.”

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the terrace’s layers of history. Concrete columns created to remedy extensive WWII bomb damage have been revealed, cast and multiplied to dramatic effect. Spaces with distinctively different characters cleverly connect through new views, through staggered levels and grand double and triple height spaces. Lipton Plant Architects commissioned bespoke, hand-crafted furniture for the scheme which delicately balances both Georgian and contemporary sensibilities. Along with reinstated period features such as new shutters and cornicing, more contemporary elements have been introduced such as the bronze handrail and gaboon timber walls and eye-catching blue linen lines the walls of the living space, providing visual warmth, elegance and opulence. The view from each room and of each room is created to be both a backdrop and a dramatic setting, for the unfolding scenes of the occupant’s life.

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EVENTS & AWARDS NEWS

SOLENT’S HEAD OF ARCHITECTURE FIRST WOMAN TO RECEIVE NEW INDUSTRY RECOGNITION FOR SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION

LSBU ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WINS GATWICK DIAMOND BUSINESS APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR AWARD An architecture student from London South Bank University’s (LSBU) School of Architecture and Built Environment, has won the prestigious Gatwick Diamond Business Apprentice of the Year award. Max Rayner, who won the award, is a level six apprentice studying for a BA (Hons) Architecture at LSBU, while employed as an Architectural Assistant by urban planning and architecture consultancy, Woods Sanders & Co Ltd.

Solent’s Head of Architecture, Sarah Radif, has become the first woman to receive recognition as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)), the global membership qualifying body for Architectural Technology. The new ‘Fellow’ Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (FCIAT) membership grade, which launched in March 2021, is an acknowledgement of a Chartered Member’s significant contribution to and/or excellence in Architectural Technology. Head of Architecture, Design and Built and Environment, Faculty of Creative Industries, Architecture and Engineering at Solent University, Sarah Radif, says: “In an industry that is still very much male dominated, it is important that women are recognised by their peers for their contribution and achievements so they could be seen as role models and inspire other woman, or those from any underrepresented group, to break the barriers that still exist.” With 25 years’ academic experience, Sarah is also the only woman at present to have qualified as an FCIAT Assessor and was the only female academic invited to take part in the refinement and development of the Fellow Membership criteria before it was officially launched to the wider membership in March 2021.

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The FCIAT membership gives additional external recognition and eminence from colleagues, peers, clients and employers. It offers the opportunity to be involved and represent CIAT and be part of the built environment community of Fellows. Sarah has worked with CIAT for over 20 years and is currently a member of the Education Board and Accreditation Group where she chairs and attends accreditation panel and is also a professional assessor and moderator.

Luke Murray, Head of Architecture at LSBU, said: ‘’Winning Apprentice of the Year is a great achievement for one of our aspiring students and a very great honour for LSBU’s School of Architecture. Max Rayner’s success in this competition shows how well the University has prepared and equipped students for employment in their chosen field.’’ The Gatwick Diamond Business awards were announced at a virtual ceremony on 3 December.

GEBERIT TO HOST A SERIES OF DIGITAL INNOVATION DAYS LIVE FROM HOUSE OF GEBERIT

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Leading bathroom designer and manufacturer, Geberit, is set to showcase its latest product launches and industry innovations at a unique three-day digital event for architects and specifiers.

Pete Davis, Director of Marketing and Products at Geberit UK said: “As part of Geberit’s Innovation Days, we are inviting architects and specifiers to take part in a very special series of event live from our House of Geberit.

The ‘Innovation Days’ will be streamed live from the ‘House of Geberit’ and will bring an exciting programme of talks, demonstrations and presentations taking place in a real trade fair setting from Wednesday 7 to Friday 9 April.

“Participants can plan their individual schedule around what suits their personal calendar and interests and are free to attend as many or as little as they wish.

The purpose-built showroom, measuring over 300-square metres, will welcome a host of experts to present Geberit’s new innovations for the coming year, as well as industry insights, the latest trends and need-to-know knowledge. Streaming live on a purpose built platform, the so-called ‘Innovation Days’ will use a real booth to provide a realistic and practice-orientated

The packed programme of events will explore ten key industry areas, including touchless technology, planning made easy, water flow and usage, sustainability, and the power of washing with water. It will also provide architects and specifiers with a first look at Geberit’s 2021 product launches.

“The sessions will also provide guests with the opportunity to interact with Geberit experts via a live chat function, providing a realistic, fully interactive and unique experience.” Each topic discussion and demonstration is expected to take around 20 minutes. To register your attendance and find out more about the Innovations Days visit www.innovation-days.geberit.co.uk