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Engineer of the Year
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ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
Category: The Engineer of the Year can be an individual or team. They need to have demonstrated an innovative and integrated approach to create a landmark building with timber technology at its core, or in developing an engineered timber product. This can encompass using timber as a base material to overcome site or projectspecific challenges, using products and systems in a different way to the ‘norm’, taking timber and/or particular species to new performance levels, or employing BIM and LEAN techniques to meet the challenges of designing any type of building. Sponsor: ITW Construction Products Offsite is part of the Illinois Toolworks family (NYSE: ITW), an international corporation with over 100 years in the building and manufacturing industry. We are a trusted partner to leading offsite component manufacturers, housebuilders and designers allowing our customers to design, manufacture and sell the highest quality roof, floor and wall components. We are a fully integrating supply partner for all things related to the offsite and prefab industry in UK, Ireland and Nordic.
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ENGINEER OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
ARUP: INTERNATIONAL QUARTER LONDON (IQL)
At the heart of a 22-acre development, the Pavillion provides a gateway between the International Quarter and the Queen Elizabeth Park. Situated over the Woolwich Line tunnels, only a timber building would be light enough to not overload the bridge structure. Showcasing the construction benefits of mass timber, the striking architecture was achievable with glue-laminating timber into the required shapes and CNC cutting of CLT panels to fit the ‘stingray’ geometry of the frame below.
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS: EBURY EDGE
Ebury Edge is a temporary work and community space at the heart of Westminster, providing affordable workspace and retail units, a cafe, community hall and public courtyard. As part of the redevelopment of Ebury Bridge Estate, Westminster City Council was keen to give the local community an immediate sign of the regeneration. The meanwhile buildings include a community hall, cafe and workspace and will be in place while the renewal of the estate progresses for about five years.
PARAMOUNT STRUCTURES: LD-44
The LD-44 is a bespoke, purpose-built salt storage facility which combines functionality with aesthetics to provide a pleasing yet practical structure for long term usage. As salt is a very corrosive material, no steel was allowed in the barn. The brief from the client was therefore to use timber, to create a simple dome with clean lines and striking visuals. There was also a dimensional challenge, as the minimum height needed to be 16m in the middle to allow plant to operate on 12m pile height.
RAMBOLL: CYBER QUARTER
Working for Hybrid Structure, in collaboration with Cundall and the Design team, Ramboll provided the timber design for Cyber Quarter, a trailblazing multi-purpose centre of excellence for tackling the ever-growing threats in cyberspace. The highly sustainable and aesthetically striking building utilises a CLT frame, timber finishes, and striking glulam structure. Timber is used as the visual language throughout to create a natural aesthetic that provides a calming and inspirational environment for working and collaboration.
THE OXFORDSHIRE WOODLAND GROUP: THE CRUCK BARN
The Oxfordshire Woodland Group built a woodland cruck barn with low cost eco-friendly timber-framing floor instead of a concrete foundation. All timber employed, including 60-year-old Douglas Fir, European Larch & Western Red Cedar, has been grown, felled, extracted, converted in the woodland using hand hewing and mobile saw conversion as appropriate.
