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Installer of the Year
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INSTALLER OF THE YEAR
Category: Have you truly excelled in the erection and installation of a structural timber solution? This category is open to any team or organisation working across any size of building or development that has used timber as a key structural system or building component. This can range from erecting a solid wood structural frame and timber frame/SIPS installation, to roofing systems, doors and windows, cladding solutions or even flooring. The winner will have demonstrated their full understanding of timber as a material and a technology, the ways timber can function in different building types and have shown an outstanding level of overall expertise and customer service. Sponsor: As a leading thermal insulation manufacturer (with factories in Ireland and the UK) Xtratherm offers the construction industry with a range of innovative complete solutions, encompassing roofs, walls and floors. By combining these innovative products you can meet your requirements, as well as reaching passive standards.
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INSTALLER OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
EURBAN: THE NEW LIBRARY AT MAGDALENE COLLEGE
Samuel Pepys, one of Magdalene College’s best known graduates, bequeathed his personal library to the College. Today his 3,000 books are still arranged in the same oak book cases he designed for them in 1666. The rest of the College’s library outgrew this building, so a new library, adjacent to the old, was commissioned to hold 10 times as many books as Pepys’ original collection. The new library required an architectural response sensitive to its historic context but also a bold and visionary design for generations to come.
MINT CONSTRUCTION: THE PARK PAVILLION IN ELEPHANT & CASTLE
The Park Pavilion is the landmark of a complete revamp of central Elephant & Castle. Constructed from CLT and glulam supplied by Stora Enso and Hybrid, the installation was extremely challenging due to the building being positioned in and around 3 large trees with low hanging branches. The building boasts large span cantilevered CLT decks supported by glulam posts and CLT walls below. The finished product contains visual CLT walls, stair treads, glulam columns.
WIEHAG: INTERDISCIPLINARY BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH BUILDING (IBRB)
IBRB is a multi-million-pound, state-of-the-art research building for the University of Warwick that fully embraces offsite construction, with 50% of construction cost going to offsite systems. The 7,000m2 area, four-storey hybrid structure is a mixture of concrete frame and CLT and glulam timber, with WIEHAG’s package taking on detailed design, supply and installation of the structural timber package including the stairs.
