Sector experience
We offer a comprehensive range of complementary services, including -
Also available from Stride Treglown are details of our experience in the following sectors -
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Town planning and Masterplanning Landscape Architecture BREEAM Assessments Interior and Graphic design Building Surveying Access and Inclusion Consultancy Project Management and CDM
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Complementary services
Defence Healthcare Hotels Industrial Leisure Office Public and Community Regeneration and Sustainability Residential Retail Schools Student Accommodation Town Planning, Landscape and Urban Design
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Clients Bournemouth University Brunel University Combined University, Cornwall De Montfort University Goldsmiths College, University of London Keele University Middlesex University New York University, Abu Dhabi Open University
Project: Windsor Building Client: Royal Holloway, University of London Location: Egham, Surrey
Project: Kegie Building Client: University of Wales Institute Cardiff Location: Caerleon Campus, Newport
Royal Holloway, University of London University of Bath University of Bristol University of Chichester University of Liverpool University of Plymouth University of Swansea
Our experience speaks for itself Stride Treglown has a reputation for delivering award winning, sustainable and creative design to universities throughout the UK and beyond.
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff University of the West of England
Project: Windsor Building Client: Royal Holloway, University of London Location: Egham, Surrey
Our experience in the university sector is highlighted by the vast range of projects we have been involved in. Our dedicated team provides market leading expertise and a genuine commitment to quality both in the design and the level of care we show our clients.
We offer a range of complementary services that add value and enable us to provide a bespoke and specialist package of design, technical and procedural support. We are involved in a number of framework agreements throughout the UK and work closely with universities, developers and contractors in effectively completing framework related schemes.
What makes us different?
Project: New Academic Building Client: Goldsmiths, University of London Location: New Cross, London
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Stride Treglown is a ‘Top 20’* practice, with offices throughout the UK and United Arab Emirates, over 250 members of staff and a turnover in excess of £15m
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We have over 15 years experience of delivering design solutions to universities
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We bring a creative and collaborative approach, providing design solutions in challenging and sensitive settings from historic campuses to greenfield sites
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We understand the pressures and constraints of delivering buildings in live teaching environments
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Our success is based on our commitment to sustainable building methods. We have a dedicated team of BREEAM assessors who support our desire to achieve affordable, sustainable design solutions
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Stride Treglown has dedicated access consultants who work closely with architects and clients to ensure that facilities are accessible to all and adhere to legislation
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We have specific university masterplanning experience and a dedicated team of landscape architects and town planners who provide integrated design solutions that ensure proposals are justified and are presented in a way that ‘smooths’ the planning process for applications that follow
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Stride Treglown delivers a range of additional complementary services including interior and graphic design, building surveying, project management, strategic advice and CDM
*AJ Survey Top 100 Architectural Practices 2009
Our Understanding After fifteen years building up a higher education portfolio, and having worked with more than 20 universities on everything from ten year estate development plans to designing individual new entrance canopies, we believe we have an excellent grasp of the way design issues impact universities.
The key factors required of our design and technical solutions are:
• Designing for the changing nature of education • Flexible and inclusive design • Sustainability • Adding value • Strategic advice and project management • Supporting the longer term needs and vision of the university • Creating design that exceeds expectation
Designing for the Changing Nature of Education Universities are changing, and estate departments are changing with them. The student profile is becoming more diverse, more mobile and less ‘full-time’. The authority of the lecturer is based more on the facilitation of learning. The real value of education now lies in interaction which impacts on space ownership and the management of common spaces. Learning increasingly takes place informally, in libraries, ICT centres and social spaces, so spaces are becoming less specialised. Operating hours extend towards 24/7 access, and space models enhance quality of life as much as support the learning experience. Space is being used in a very different way. Universities are becoming less self-contained; they are evolving into networked organisations. New concepts of procuring and managing space are emerging, with the estate management role shifting from cost reduction to income generation. Universities are moving from autonomous entities to partnering organisations within their communities. Existing building stock, and how it is put to use, needs to be thought of with business opportunities in mind.
Designing for Flexibility The challenge currently is to provide students and lecturers with a variety of environments that can be used in flexible ways. This makes for a philosophy of adaptable and on-demand space that makes much more efficient use of shared resources. The pay-off is that space budgets can be allocated to the areas that really benefit learning. We are focused on desired outcomes rather than new buildings for their own sake and will collaborate with specialists, such as timetabling consultants, to ensure these are achieved.
Project: Kegie Building Client: University of Wales Institute Location: Caerleon Campus, Newport
Designing Sustainably Stride Treglown has a proven track record of delivering schemes with high environmental ratings across a range of building types and sectors. We are keen to promote informed life cycle costing, rather than just capital cost, as this highlights the way low carbon technologies can reduce running costs. We understand how to deliver sustainable buildings affordably without recourse to expensive renewables as well as the difficult issue of energy saving within existing buildings.
Delivering Added Value We understand monetary limitations and designing to them - we want to raise aspirations but not exceed stated budgets. We consistently outperform the market in benchmarked performance criteria such as: ‘right first time’ planning applications; complete sets of construction information; reduced change orders and response times. As our understanding of the HE sector has developed, we have broadened our areas of expertise to match universities’ needs. As well as architecture, we offer town planning; interior design; landscape architecture; building surveying; historic building conservation; project management; strategic estates advice; access consultancy; BREEAM assessments and graphic design. We have found that these complementary services really do provide added value.
Masterplanning
Campus Masterplan and New Academic Building, University of the West of England
We prepare robust, deliverable and affordable land use strategies that give structure to university accommodation requirements. Stride Treglown has been appointed as the lead masterplanning consultant for a number of university commissions. We approach, manage and work closely with multi-disciplinary sub-consultants and advisors appointed directly by our clients. Our site analysis phase informs the preparation of strategic options, and acts as a valuable audit trail to assist the preparation of planning applications that follow. Our masterplans have presented integrated arrangements of refurbished buildings, new academic, residential, recreational and support buildings and landscape strategies that respond to on-site constraints and opportunities. The plans represent a sound development framework which will lead to informed decisions about future capital expenditure programmes,
Project: Frenchay Campus Client: University of the West of England Location: Bristol
prioritisation of construction and the creation of attractive, usable spaces. We focus our attentions on finding a way to integrate contemporary buildings with the existing building stock, and improve the relationship between buildings and their setting. We strive to discuss our approach, the results of our analysis and emerging opportunities with the local planning authority. We regularly receive positive feedback both to the objectives of the masterplans and our underlying methodology. Such consultation from an early stage can identify ways of giving the masterplan added weight in future planning decision. The approach also ensures that Councils have the opportunity to “sign up to” a positive policy context for the evolution of the Masterplan.
Stride Treglown has been appointed to design a new academic facility for the Faculty of Environment & Technology at the University of the West of England. The BREEAM ‘excellent’ rated design consists of 2,700 sq.m of teaching and office accommodation, informal learning spaces, a café, conference rooms and social spaces. The building (which will adjoin an existing studio building) will meet the requirements of the faculty and the wider needs of the university. The highly populated context has been recognised with key linking pedestrian paths being created and the creation of a clearly defined entrance and plaza for the new building. The design employs a number of innovative technologies and materials to deliver a new environmentally sustainable building which can be used as a teaching tool and an example for the architecture and design students who will inhabit it. An inventive natural ventilation strategy has been included involving: a ground-air heat exchanger ventilation system; stack ventilation chimneys; and
air intake louvres (all teaching spaces have a unique window design that includes low level intake louvres for natural ventilation that are controlled via the building management system). High levels of natural daylight are provided via large areas of glazing, controlled by external solar shading louvres and solar controlled glazing. Highly sustainable materials have been specified including a new prefabricated straw bale cladding panel which will be used to enclose a 150 seat lecture space. The building will be the first to use a new rainscreen cladding tile which has a 93% recycled material content (made from recycled slate dust and recycled clay dust). A bio-fuel (recycled cooking oil from UWE catering)boiler and rainwater harvesting are also incorporated. The building is due to be completed in September 2010 in time for the start of the academic year. The scheme is set to be the prototype for a new form of development principle at UWE, providing flexible teaching and social space which will inform the development of the campus masterplan.
Client: University of the West of England Location: Bristol Total GIA: 2,700 sq.m Project value: £4.4m
1. New Student Accommodation Two phases of student accommodation provide 1868 new bedrooms. Phase 1 due for completion summer 2010 consists of 965 ensuite bedrooms in cluster flats. Phase 2 due for completion summer 2012 includes 300 rooms arranged in 12 bed town houses with the remaining 603 bedrooms arranged in cluster flats.
University of Reading - Development Plan Client: University of Reading Location: Berkshire
Stride Treglown was appointed as lead consultant to manage the preparation of a 10 year Development Plan for the Whiteknights Campus. A review of previous published information and surveys was supported by new urban design, landscape, ecology and visual impact appraisals. Our “Initial Site Analysis Report” identified, in broad terms, those areas of the Campus considered able to absorb new forms of development and which were not (due, primarily, to their environmental or nature conservation importance). Our second work stage focused on completing a Capacity Study of the Campus. Development plots were defined and concept options presented for each: this included the potential form of new buildings and areas of car parking and landscaping enhancements, all linked by a series of common urban design principles. A series of “Key Themes” were prepared, referring to access and movement, catering, waste collection and transfer, Student Halls, improving the Campus environment and supporting the delivery of new academic accommodation.
The Draft Development Plan was the subject of a 6 week public consultation exercise during which over 13,000 local residents were consulted and responses informed the final proposals.
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The Development Plan proposals were carried forward and Stride Treglown designed and secured planning permission for the first phase of 2,500 bedrooms, a new internal access and road strategy linking the Campus elements together and a new Central (Catering) Production Unit.
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2. Department of Film, Theatre and Television The University’s F,T&T department is relocating and this new £7.2m building will include screening spaces, student production facilities, a television studio and theatre as well as teaching, rehearsal and social space. The new building will also occasionally act as a public performance space. 3. The Windsor Hub A new £6m catering and social hub forms part of the redevelopment of the halls and catering facilities. Made up of three buildings, the hub defines an external public square which represents the heart of the new development. 4. Central Production Unit This new £4.6m food preparation and cooking facility will supply food outlets throughout the University in line with a new catering strategy that abandons the distinction between ‘halls’ and ‘central’ catering, so eliminating the need for multiple kitchens across the site. 5. Humanities and Social Sciences The HUMSS building is undergoing extensive refurbishment which also includes making space for the University’s Language Centre.
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6. Infrastructure Network A central principle of the development plan was to improve internal connections. Working with highway specialists, our planning and landscape team secured permissions for internal roads and footpaths, including a new bridge over the lake. 3
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Residential Accommodation
Chatham Street EcoResidences
To date we have designed over 10,000 student bedrooms in the UK, making us the leading provider of accommodation design and refurbishment in the country. We work alongside universities and private developers to deliver innovative and sustainable design and support our clients’ current and long term accommodation needs whilst helping to achieve significant returns on investment. We believe that within the constraints of highly repetitive design elements and standardised construction techniques it is still possible to generate exciting architecture that contributes positively to its surroundings.
Whether new build design or exisiting bulding refurbishment, we offer market leading knowledge and experience through our design, support and advice.
Chatham Street is the first of several phases of new student residential accommodation planned by the University of Liverpool as part of its long term halls provision strategy. In generating the brief for this important flagship development, we questioned the current trend for providing a ‘one size suits all’ solution e.g. 5 bed clusters throughout with a few studios or larger rooms at the extremities. Our design allows the University to provide accommodation across its undergraduate and postgraduate intake.
The scheme boasts a range of self catered, communal clusters in sizes from two to eight bedrooms. There are also a number of studio apartments integrated within the body of the building and unique duplex loft penthouses offering the highest quality accommodation which can attract visiting academics.
Client: The University of Liverpool
The inclusion of a restaurant at ground floor facilitated the University’s desire to offer a large number of catered places within the hall. The design of the west block is served by a single, sub-dividable corridor, and the layout can be configured as a series of seven bed clusters or can be opened up to act as a more traditional open hall.
Size: 750 beds
Location: Liverpool City Centre
Mix: 350 Self catered bedrooms in a range of cluster types from 1 bed studios to 8 bed flats. Also includes 1 and 2 bed penthouse lofts. 300 catered bedrooms clustered in groups of 4 to 16. Construction type: Tunnel form concrete Total GIA: 22,000 sq.m Project duration: Summer 2008 – Summer 2011 Construction Period: 78 weeks Project value: Approx £35m Planning authority: Liverpool City Council Main contractor: Marcus Worthington
Project: Uxbridge Campus Client: Brunel University Location: Uxbridge, Middlesex
Supporting Commercial facilities
New Academic Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
With the increasing popularity of self catering accommodation for students, the rapidly evolving changes in the ways students are able to work, and the expanding role that student welfare plays in university life, we have expertise in providing support facilities that complement core teaching and living spaces. Retail developments, restaurant and bar fit-outs, student support offices and students unions provide important income and can be delivered as individual projects or as part of much larger plans to have combined service centres for higher education institutes, either as individual projects or, increasingly, as combined services centres.
We recognise the commercial opportunities that some of these facilities represent for universities, and are able to bring in the expertise of our interior, retail and graphic designers to create innovative, cost effective and attractive supporting facilities.
In order to maintain the College’s reputation for excellence, enhanced purpose-built facilities are needed and this new building will replace existing teaching spaces and bring related subjects together.
The academic accommodation required has influenced much of the form of the building but has also allowed scope for the concourse and cladding materials to express the building’s function more creatively.
The prominent site overlooks the College Green and faces the listed Richard Hoggart building, where the college originated.
The design features a concourse that expresses informal meeting rooms and incorporates a projection screen to display students’ work. The use of terracotta cladding can be interpreted as ‘pixels’ and the expression of natural ventilation on the concourse roof demonstrates the sustainable aspirations of the College.
The building, in a tightly constrained and built up area, will house a 250 seat lecture theatre with associated facilities along with studios, editing suites, teaching spaces and offices.
Client: Goldsmiths, University of London Location: New Cross, London Total GIA: 6,650 sq.m Project duration: March 2009 August 2010 Project value: Approx £15m Main contractor: Willmott Dixon
Project: The Hub Client: Royal Holloway, University of London Location: Egham, Surrey
Landscape
The Store Lab, De Montfort University Client: De Montfort University Location: Leicester Total GIA: 160 sq.m Project duration: 8 Janauary 2010 – 26 March 2010 Project value: Approx £100k Main contractor: Willmott Dixon
Stride Treglown provided the design and implementation of a resource efficient Retail Design Laboratory within the University’s Art and Design faculty.
The Laboratory provides a flexible use of space, and a good case study by which to evaluate a number of retail and associated activities, including:
This included creative design proposals for the Store Lab, Knowledge Bank, entrance lobby and training facilities for up to 20 people.
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Our innovative solution creates a flexible retail experimental environment. Leading major retailers (e.g. Halfords, M&S, Boots) are encouraged to showcase new concepts, prototypes, retail activities and develop future retail ideas with the University. The Store Lab is a highly creative and visually attractive space that minimises construction waste following best practice in sustainability.
POS Design (Point of Sale) In store lighting systems Illuminated signage and display Alternative materials and design procurement Design rationalisation Environmental management system Supply chain development Customer behaviour analysis Merchandising assessment
Stride Treglown landscape architects work closely with our education team to provide innovative landscape design to universities throughout the UK. Working with in-house architecture, planning and urban design disciplines has led to a co-ordinated and holistic approach highly valued by our clients. We provide contract supervision for clients at implementation and aftercare support to facilities managers and grounds maintenance departments. This ensures the successful establishment of the landscape and realisation of the longer term design aspirations for the maturing landscape.
Our landscape architects provide a range of services, including:
Our focus is on integrated and sustainable design solutions, effective and economic use of land resulting in high-quality campus environments to facilitate the evolving needs of education establishments in the twenty-first century.
• Landscape masterplans • Campus design codes • Infrastructure landscape • Parks and public realm detail design • Landscape design in the context of historic buildings • Centrepiece landscape projects • Sustainable water management systems • Landscape maintenance and management plans
Project: Ten Year Development Plan Client: University of Reading Location: Whiteknights campus
Conservation and Re-investment
A holistic approach to BREEAM
There are many examples of fine University buildings, often listed, which require a sensitive approach to design. We work closely with the university, planning authority, conservation officer and English Heritage to draw up re-modelling proposals where required, and to carry out refurbishment and restoration works which will ensure the sustainability of buildings. Our in house building surveying team includes conservation experts who are on hand to provide specialist advice.
The integration of new development, adjacent to listed buildings, presents an exciting challenge – our aim is to design contemporary and attractive buildings which meet the brief, and which enhance the setting of the listed buildings.
Stride Treglown has a dedicated team of BREEAM Assessors who provide market leading advice and support, ensuring that new buildings support the environment both through their design and management. The BREEAM team works closely with our award winning architects and Stride Treglown Management Ltd to provide strategic advice and support to a range of private and public sector clients. Our BREEAM Assessors also work directly with universities, contractors and developers to ensure that BREEAM guidelines are considered and implemented whilst also ensuring that each client understands and receives the real business benefits that BREEAM can bring.
With many years experience of designing and managing sustainable buildings and advising clients on how best to utilise guidelines and knowledge to increase the value and performance of their building stock, the Stride Treglown BREEAM team lead the way in delivering sustainable advice and assessment.
BREEAM Real business benefits:
• Utilising BREEAM guidelines to achieve a better place to live and work • Achieving greater rental incomes and building efficiencies whilst appealing to an increased number of tenants and customers • An opportunity to demonstrate corporate support of environmental issues and compliance with standards that support occupiers,planners, development agencies and developers
Project: Founders’ Building Client: Royal Holloway, University of London Location: Egham, Surrey
Stride Treglown Management
Practice Profile
Stride Treglown Management is a specialist consultancy, offering strategic support and management for a range of higher education developments, some of which can be complex and challenging.
Stride Treglown has a reputation for delivering innovative, expert design and a range of complementary services that maximise the potential of each scheme.
Our success has been achieved by delivering a consistent, professional, focused and bespoke service that supports our client’s objectives and the role of their Estates Manager.
Our CDM team ensures that the appropriate level of information is provided in a timely manner and in this way everyone can work efficiently and within a ‘right first time’ environment.
Our practice is a ‘Top 20’ firm with an international scope. Our design is award winning. Our approach is inspirational and our commitment to good design and good client care is well respected.
This is delivered by a dedicated team of construction professionals, who offer a well balanced and proven approach to project delivery.
All of our CDM Co-ordinators are construction professionals in their own right.
We offer a comprehensive range of complementary services, enabling HEIs to select what they need when they need it, or rely on us to deliver a scheme from feasibility, through to design, planning, interior design and building management.
We provide an independent CDM service that effectively contributes to design development and the progress of a scheme.
Our Project Managers and CDM Co-ordinators provide a range of services, including:
Being part of the Stride Treglown Group and working closely with our architect colleagues, our CDM Coordinators possess an excellent understanding of the whole design process. They also continually review the design development process to fulfil the requirements of the HEI and the regulations.
• Strategic planning and estate advice including capital projects procurement, controls and systems and masterplanning • Project management - specialising in fast track” complex fit outs and refurbishments
We focus our attention on being an extension of your team, ensuring we understand objectives, deadlines, budget, aspirations, vision, culture and need. This enables us to design and implement architecture which adds value, makes a tangible difference and supports a sustainable future.
Complementary services
We continue to invest heavily in our business, ensuring that we have the right people and the right tools, whilst also having an ongoing commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility, ‘Investors in People’ and sustaining our ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 18001 accreditation. Our vision is to continue developing our business, our ideas, our knowledge and our success, always adding value by delivering more.
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• Town planning and Masterplanning • Landscape Architecture
• Technical adviser and project monitoring
• BREEAM Assessments
• Specialist cost advice, cost planning and whole life costing
• Interior and Graphic design
• CDM co-ordination • Risk management • Workshop facilitation for risk, value management and partnering • Project auditing and review including design quality indicators and peer reviews • Strategic alliances
• Building Surveying • Access and Inclusion Consultancy • Project Management and CDM
Project: Student Services Building Client: University of Reading Location: Whiteknights campus
Project: School of Film, Theatre and Television Client: University of Reading Location: Whiteknights campus