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INTRODUCTION Part of the Ingenium international group of companies, NORR is a leading, UK-based, architectural practice, delivering intelligent solutions to clients in both the public and private sectors. We offer the highest level of service in both design and technical delivery. Our approach to projects is always client-focused: we deliver bespoke solutions innovating to suit the precise needs of the client. Our concept design and detailed construction technology is delivered with a high level of management experience, always with a Director allocated to every client throughout the commission. Our track record of award winning projects reflects the quality of our work and our attention to detail. Serving the needs of a diverse international client base, we create the spaces and places that people value for…
Creative Integrity Economic Performance Environmental Responsibility Personal Experience Social Contribution
This is our philosophy for achieving bespoke strategic solutions for clients in every commission…
…this is what we call ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
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OUR ETHOS NORR’s focus on client requirements encompasses the consideration of a set of 5 parameters which, together combine to create a unique strategic blueprint for every project.
We call this ‘Intelligent Architecture’.
CREATIVE INTEGRITY At the heart of all successful architecture. Our approach ensures that each project delivers at aesthetic, practical and technical levels.
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Fundamental to every project’s success. We create high quality environments that are commercially robust ‘Added value’ by ‘Intelligent Architecture’ is central to NORR.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY All buildings have a short and longer term impact on the environment. NORR pioneer low-cost, commercially viable, sustainable designs.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE A project ultimately succeeds or fails at an individual level: buildings must work on a human scale and create a positive experience for every user.
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION NORR believes buildings can, and should, have a positive impact on the quality of life of those who use them, directly or indirectly.
COMPANY STRUCTURE
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STUDIO LOCATIONS Edmonton Ottawa
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BAE Building, Washington, Tyne & Wear, UK
INDUSTRIAL EXPERTISE NORR has significant expertise and experience in the whole spectrum of the industrial sector throughout the UK mainland Europe, and Internationally. Working with developers, occupiers and industrial processors with projects ranging from nursery units for start-up companies, large scale logistics and distribution warehouses to bespoke manufacturing plants for delivery of cutting edge technology. A major factor in successful industrial and logistics planning and design is site utilisation and infrastructure integration which is undertaken at initial feasibility stage as part of our masterplanning services. Also important is appreciation of potential future adaptation and many of our projects have involved fitting out complex industrial processes into previously constructed space. The success of any project is underpinned by a thorough detailed understanding of the requirements of the brief not only from the engaging client but also occupier criteria, planning constraints and the investment markets. We listen to our clients’ needs to ensure that we deliver a quality architectural solution with added value at all stages of the project. Our services include fully integrated architectural and engineering disciplines acting as Lead Consultant together with project management and where necessary process or mechanical handling installations. We strive to produce industrial workspace and logistics floorspace which are creative, cost effective and technically sophisticated solutions. The combination of these specialist skills enable successful and efficient space utilisation with in-built flexibility from initial concept and feasibility stages to detailed finer design to produce high quality schemes that optimise a site’s potential and where appropriate maximise the client’s return on investment.
Energy Expertise We believe strong ideas coupled with good contextual response will work hand in hand with functional and pragmatic thinking, thereby offering our clients exceptional solutions which are both cost effective and sustainable. NORR are committed to the creation of dynamic and architecturally responsive buildings to service the energy sector.
COMPLETION 2010
BEDDINGTON RESOURCE RECOVERY & ENERGY FACILITY CROYDON, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY The proposal provides an architectural solution for a large-scale, industrial building within an environmentally and visually sensitive location, adjacent to the proposed Wandle Valley Country Park. The site sits directly adjacent to Beddington Industrial Area, forming a gateway building to the Beddington farmlands and the future country park. It is divided into two parts separated by a new access road. The larger site, to the north, will house the integrated waste facility and associated service yard, car parking and ancillary buildings, whilst the smaller site, to the south, houses a ‘plastics to fuel‘ plant, physically linked to the waste facility by means of an underground conveyor belt. A green strip is retained to the south and west, with a substantial tree belt to connect to the landscape strip running to the south and minimise impact on the future park. The proposal seeks to minimise impact through manipulation and enhancement of the landscaped setting. The overall site is lowered by approximately two metres; the displaced earth is banked around the perimeter to form a protective bund, creating a visual barrier to the main road, entrance road and future park. This lowers the overall height of the main facility, hides the loading bay, vehicle parking and reduces associated traffic noise.
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CLIENT Halcrow SCALE 16,000 m²
RESEARCH FACILITY NUMBER ONE ALDERMASTON, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY
VALUE £300 million
We are currently nearing the end of the detailed design phase of a major nuclear research facility within a world-class laser and radiological research campus in Berkshire.
COMPLETION Due 2018
The facility consists of testing, monitoring, maintenance, manufacture and storage of precision components. It also includes supporting office, welfare, laboratory and workshops, all housed within a modern shell of aluminium, glass and concrete. As the building has a nuclear function, it must satisfy the Nuclear Installation Inspectorate requirements over a range of safety requirements, including extreme events such as earthquake, flooding and explosion. These onerous requirements have presented challenges, not least the need to normalize the building’s aesthetics such that the special measures taken are not visually obvious. The end user has expressed their view that we have been entirely successful in achieving this goal. This is part of an over-all campus re-build to continue to attract world-class scientific community to this unique facility.
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COMPLETION 2010
GLASGOW RECYCLING & RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITY POLMADIE, GLASGOW, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY The primary design idea is based on the basic building elements of roof and wall which twist to reflect the special content and reinforce the sustainable nature of the plant. These elements comprise a green wall to the public frontage and a folded metal roof, which rises and falls to suit the functionality of the spaces below. The flanking walls, which sit underneath the overhanging roof, are composed of gabion baskets filled with reclaimed red brick from the existing plant and augmented by a palette of carefully placed, recycled products such as plastics, glass, metals etc. offering both colour and vitality, whilst reinforcing the building’s function and raison d’être. The gabion wall serves as a datum at ground level to a height of 10 metres. Above this, the proposal offers a mix of materials with untreated timber, pre-cast concrete panels and curtain walling of polycarbonate glazing. The living, green wall, facing the street, picks up on this datum height with a mix of selfmaintained planting hung in baskets over a steel frame. The perforate nature of the material reveals elements of the concrete containers behind, whilst disguising the industrial kit and faceless frontage of the digestors with an environmentally friendly face.
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COMPLETION Design
VISITOR EXPERIENCE GLASGOW RECYCLING & RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITY, POLMADIE, GLASGOW, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY The visitor centre is designed as integral to the plant with coach drop off at the Polmadie Street frontage and entrance via the framed glass box. Visitors access vertically via lifts or stairs to the roof level of the digestors at the top of the green wall offering views back across the street, over the green roof of the digestors and ultimately to the main plant building highlighted by a large vertical slot into which the visitor walkway disappears. Visitors are exposed to actual views into the digestors along with an interactive AV display within this viewing tunnel. The tunnel walkway continues through the plant via the turbine hall with framed views to key areas, sailing over transport routes below. The route culminates in a fully simulated control room which sits directly above the actual control room with views over the reception hall, autoclaves and recycling hall offering a fully interactive visitor experience.
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Energy Recovery Viewing Platform
Autoclave Viewing Platform
The energy recovery processes
Waste from the reception hall is treated
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Waste deliveries and transfer to the loading conveyor
Waste Reception Viewing Platform
Anaerobic digestion
Material separation stage of the process
Waste Digesters
MRF Viewing Platform
COMPLETION Design
FINNIESTON SUBSTATION GLASGOW, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY The basic design parameters were dictated by Scottish Power’s exemplar scheme which sets out length, width, height and mass of the building. In addition to this the base scheme defines ventilation and access requirements which had to be adhered to comply with stringent technical and statutory guidelines. Whilst it is fair to say these constraints limited the teams ability to push the limits of the design the sensitivity of the neighbouring conservation area and in particular the proposed sites direct relationship with the grade A listed terrace opposite allowed NORR to create an architectural response which is not typical of its industrial function. The other key driver in respect of the building’s position on the site was the extant planning consent for 132 residential units held with a 4 storey curved block which ran across the site of the existing offices and the existing yard area. Whilst Scottish Power have no plans to develop the remainder of the site in the short term it is recognised that by building the proposed substation this should not prevent future residential or commercial development of the office site. With this in mind NORR opted to design the substation on the premise that proposed residential scheme was in place albeit a shorter more truncated version, but maintaining the basic mass and elevational treatment. The proposal therefore has a curved footprint mirroring the terrace opposite and raises its roof to deal with the transition from 2 to 4 storeys. This curve and lift of both wall and roof create a more iconic form which sits as comfortably as a pavilion as it does a part of a terrace. Clearly the potential for residential will have to be considered as a separate application but it is the clients intention that this indicative ‘masterplan’ will future proof the whole site.
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COMPLETION Design
ENERGY CENTRE ABERDEEN, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY The proposals are for the development of a combined heat and power production plant with an ORCA unit, energy centre, drier, wood-chip store and dry wood and chip store in one building. There will be five car parking spaces directly adjacent to the western gable end of the CHP Plant. The yard outside will have space for the weighbridge and single storey weighbridge office, and for the manoeuvring of wood chip delivery vehicles. The weighbridge office building will provide staff welfare facilities and will be located close to the site entrance. The proposed building will be 85m in length and 23m wide. It will be 10 metres high to the eaves level and 14 metres high to the roof ridge above the biomass boiler and 12 metres high to the roof ridge above the wood dryer and storage areas.
CLIENT Internation Container Hubs Ltd SCALE 110 ha COMPLETION Design
SCAPA FLOW ORKNEY, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY A major new international trans-shipment hub is proposed for Scapa Flow on Orkney, involving the regeneration of 110 ha of industrial land, and will also require the building of a new energy centre; administration facility; a new hotel complex at Roan Head; and a new RO-RO Ferry terminal linking Flotta with Lyness and St Margaret’s Hopel. The feasibility study and masterplan for the project has been prepared by NORR in full consultation with the Orkney Islands Council, Orkney Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Executive. Scapa Flow port has been a port for 1,200 years and is strategically ideal to serve 400 million people in northern Europe. The location in Orkney provides shorter trade routes between many of the worlds leading trade sources. The site has direct deep water access to the ocean and can provide all year operation. The development proposes twin canals 55 m and 65 m wide, with more than 5,000 m of commercial quayside offering 10 deep water berths and covered warehousing. Fully automated container movement will provide a high degree of flexibility and security and will ensure a short turn-round duration for each vessel.
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COMPLETION Design
PROJECT BLADES ABERDEEN, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL & ENERGY To take advantage of the large offshore windfarms proposed around UK waters and in the North Sea this project looked at a major new blade manufacturing facility with related laydown, marshalling and assembly yards with dedicated deep water berthing for a major European manufacturer. The main building was designed to be up to 300m long to reflect the linear manufacturing process while allowing for a three fold expansion in the plant capacity without interruption to the manufacturing process. Careful consideration was given to separating out office / worker traffic from the marshalling process and the overall site was masterplanned to allow the development of related facilities adjacent. While the building was large in scale and necessarily robust in material specification it was also designed to maximize natural daylight, to minimize energy consumption and to provide a visually striking to reflect this young and exciting new industry. The building was also designed to achieve an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM rating.
COMPLETION 2013
BIOGAS ENERGY VILLAGE NEWTON AYCLIFFE, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL & ENERGY NORR were involved in the design stages of an anaerobic digestion plant and visitor centre, using food waste, mixed with organic waste and energy crops from local farms, to create biogas for power.
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COMPLETION 2008
PROJECT BLADES FIFE, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL & ENERGY To take advantage of the large offshore windfarms proposed around UK waters and in the North Sea this project looked at a major new blade manufacturing facility with related laydown, marshalling and assembly yards with dedicated deep water berthing for a major European manufacturer. The main building was designed to be up to 300m long to reflect the linear manufacturing process while allowing for a three fold expansion in the plant capacity without interruption to the manufacturing process. Careful consideration was given to separating out office / worker traffic from the marshalling process and the overall site was masterplanned to allow the development of related facilities adjacent. While the building was large in scale and necessarily robust in material specification it was also designed to maximize natural daylight, to minimize energy consumption and to provide a visually striking to reflect this young and exciting new industry. The building was also designed to achieve an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM rating.
COMPLETION Ongoing
ENCAPSULATION FACILITY HUNTERSONE, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY NORR was involved in the design of the proposed Hunterston B Encapsulation Facility. The facility will be part of the decommissioning of the former Hunterston A Magnox generation power station and will involve the automatic encapsulation of low level waste in cementaceous grout within a radioactive secure environment. The Facility forms part of an overall process involving robotic recovery of low level waste, encapsulation and long term storage.
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CLIENT Total E+P UK Ltd SCALE 848 Bed 3,165 m² Amenity VALUE £22 million COMPLETION 2011
TOTAL COMPLEX ABERDEEN, UK COMMERCIAL: INDUSTRIAL + ENERGY Total E&P UK Limited appointed NORR to design temporary living quarters and leisure facilities to house 800 construction workers in Shetland as work starts on building a £500 million gas processing plant at Sullom Voe. As well as dormitory facilities, the self contained block will contain a canteen, recreation area, reading room, gymnasium, computer room/internet café, medics’ room, convenience store, laundry room, prayer room and a bar. Other amenity facilities include the formation of a 5-a-side football pitch to the north of the accommodation block. The design solution is based on a modular construction method involving pre-made accommodation units being shipped to Sella Ness, where there is a pier immediately adjacent to the site. This transportation arrangement will enhance the sustainability of the development and avoid traffic disruption. The use of bright colours on the exterior cladding of the modular units has a twin purpose Firstly, to enhance the legibility and sense of place of the building – these colours will be replicated inside and will be useful in allowing the residents to find their bearings within the large footprint which will be created – and, secondly, the bright colours reflect those used in some of the contemporary Scandinavian style housing increasingly found in the wider countryside in Shetland.
QUALITY + SUSTAINABILITY In each project, regardless of scale, we are driven by the pursuit of excellence. We are a creatively focused organisation believing that our ethos of ‘Intelligent Architecture’ makes life better. At the same time we are aware of our social, economic, and environmental responsibilities: we seek to implement appropriate design solutions, use resources wisely, and advise our clients accordingly.
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WE CARE ABOUT uality of Service Q Use of Energy Materials and Water Use Staff and Community Engagement Suppliers and Purchasing Transport Waste & Recycling
OUR COMMITMENT As leading members of the World’s design and construction professions, we commit ourselves to: – Place social, economic, and environmental sustainability at the core of our practices and professional responsibilities – Develop and continually improve practices, to enable the implementation of sustainable design – Educate our fellow professionals, the building industry, clients, students and the general public about the critical importance and substantial opportunities of sustainable design
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A DECADE OF GREEN BUILDINGS Working with UK government BRE/University research work Projects achieving BREEAM Excellent rating Buildings Design Advice (LCBDAA) Carbon emission / energy figures, EPC rating Carbon Management Energy Efficiency advice (CMEE) for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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