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Building blocks in place for BSF school
Steelwork has been completed for the new educational block at Washington’s Biddick School Sports College. The project forms part of Sunderland City …
SSDA 2009 – New Academic Building, London School of Economics & Political Science
A range of innovative strategies were employed for this extensive remodelling of an Edwardian government office block. This project skillfully combined steel …
SSDA 2009 – Oxford University Biochemistry Building
An iconic building housing a state-of-the art facility, the Oxford University Biochemistry Building provides a functional laboratory space alongside a high …
School timetable dictates construction programme
New buildings for Catford High School in south London have been completed, with all building work having been coordinated around the school’s timetable in …
SSDA 2009 – Other finalists
30 Crown Place, London EC2 The project at 30 Crown Place is a £60M 18 storey high commercial office development offering 17,500m² of grade A office space …
New college is lesson in design
A confined site and a protected copse were just two of the challenges overcome and then incorporated into the design of a new college in Crewe. South Cheshire …
Transformation of university campus
The University of Leeds is transforming its campus by investing more than £300M in a host of new state of the art educational research, residential and …
New school is lesson in design
Large internal spans and plenty of exposed steelwork were central to the design of new buildings for a school in south London renowned for its performance and …
Putting a step into education
Locality and making the best use of existing topography influenced the design of a new BSF college in Bideford. Martin Cooper reports from the north coast of …
June 2009 – Education ambition demands benefits of steel
The search for those elusive green shoots of recovery sometimes seems to be taking on near manic proportions, with City commentators falling over themselves to …