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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

News: On the waterfront - riverside living planned for baths site

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A development of new family homes and large scale apartment blocks are planned for a vacant riverside site on the edge of Rotherham town centre.

Rothbiz reported last week that Rotherham Council had submitted the first two sets of proposals for a range of new housing on sites that it owns in order to boost the number of people living in the town centre.

Now details of a third set of plans have been published for the site of the former Sheffield Road baths which backs on to the River Don.

The authority has worked with architects, Bond Bryan, to put forward a development for the 2.17 acre site that is currently used as a car park on the opposite river bank to the New York Stadium.

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78 dwellings are proposed, with four and five storey apartments (one bed and two bed) facing onto Sheffield Road and two and three bed family homes facing onto the River Don.

Car parking spaces are arranged as under-croft parking and a riverside walk will be maintained.

The plans state: "Over the course of the past year a vast amount of ideas have been tested and explored in order to fully refine the brief and maximise the most fitting design response to the site's unique opportunities and constraints. Some of these ideas have remained in some form within the final design proposals, others have been adapted or left behind for various reasons.

"At all times the driving force has been a strong synergy between the client and designers to arrive at a scheme which first and foremost embraces the highest standards in design quality."

Like the other sites, the homes will be a mixture of tenures - the houses are set to be made available for sale with the apartments being for rent.

Last year, Rotherham Council committed £50m over the next three years to build homes and have launched its Rother Living brand. By putting forward land that it owns as "go-early" sites, the council hopes to kickstart housebuilding in the town centre.

Sheffield Road baths, locally known as the "new baths" complete with statue of Rotherham-born channel swimmer, T.W. Burgess, closed in 2004.

Rother Living website

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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

News: Council submits ambitious proposals for new town centre housing

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A six storey apartment block, back-to-back housing and a redevelopment of a long vacant site are all part of new proposals from Rotherham Council to boost town centre living.

Rothbiz has previously reported on preparations for the first of a potential 2,000 new homes in Rotherham town centre and the authority putting forward land that it owns as "go-early" sites to kickstart housebuilding.

Working with leading architects, Bond Bryan, planning applications have now been submitted for two of the sites - Millfold House on Sheffield Road and the former Henley's garage on Wellgate.

Under the plans for the one acre site with steep topography, Millfold House and other buildings will make way for 53 housing units of various types, sizes and ownership arrangements.

Fronting Westgate, 39 one-bed and two-bed apartments are planned in a six storey block built to a similar height to the telephone exchange opposite.

14 two and three storey back-to-back houses are to sit at the top of the site, allowing extensive views over the Don Valley.

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On the long-vacant Henley's Garage site of a former garage and car showroom on Wellgate, planning permission has previously been granted for 180 apartments. The development stalled when the developer was taken over and a 0.65 hectare site is now owned by the Council.

New plans show 54 housing units, again of various types, sizes and ownership arrangements.

Two apartment blocks, sitting back but fronting Wellgate, are designed to be three storeys high in order to sympathetically frame the grade two listed building that sits between them. They will create 34 new apartments, all with off-street parking and cycle storage.

With a new central road, two and three storey houses are proposed on the site alongside Whybourne Terrace and Narrow Twitchell, each with a private rear garden and a semi-private front garden with off street parking.

Bond Bryan states in its plans: "For the client RMBC, we aim to kick start regeneration through the creation of a high quality mixed tenure housing offer for the town centre, unlocking difficult sites."

Last year, Rotherham Council committed £50m over the next three years to build homes and have launched the first at Maltby under the new Rother Living brand.

Rother Living website

Images: RMBC / Bond Bryan

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Monday, February 27, 2017

News: Plans in for Rotherham HE Campus

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A planning application has been submitted for the new £12m higher education campus in Rotherham town centre.

Rotherham College, part of RNN Group, is moving fast having secured funding and will open the centre to students in Autumn 2018, offering a new programme of degrees and degree apprenticeships.

The project involves the construction of a 35,500 sq ft campus in Rotherham town centre which is set to be built on the site where the former Victorian hospital at Doncaster Gate was controversially demolished by Rotherham Council.

The plans, drawn up by Bond Bryan Architects, are for a simple L shaped, three storey building that "encourages and supports innovative forms of collaborative working and learning" with adaptable and flexible space from large open plan areas to more cellular classrooms, supported by specialist teaching zones.

The centre will have an average occupancy of approximately 560 people on a typical term day but will be built with expansion in mind and teaching space for approximately 1,000 students.

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The plans state that: "The Centre for Higher Level Skills offers an opportunity to enhance the existing learning facilities at Rotherham College and provide a bespoke environment for higher degree level education that has the potential to develop the college, town and region of tomorrow.

"Externally the design seeks to create a distinctive and exciting building typology delivered within an economic solution. Our intention is to take reference from the surrounding buildings in form and colour, but create a modern contemporary building that provides a high quality statement for the College."

The Sheffield City Region (SCR) Combined Authority has agreed to fund infrastructure works which will allow construction to start in June. A grant of £3.5m has been approved with the balance coming from RNN Group.

A short walk from the College's town centre campus, the whole of the 4.62 acre Doncaster Gate site is not required for the campus and the institution is purchasing the land from Rotherham Council in a half-price deal. The Rotherham Health Village, including two doctors' surgeries, will remain and further plots will be available for development by the Council. A potential extension of the HE campus is also already under consideration.
The planned centre will have a highly glazed frontage, a reception and waiting area under a full height atrium and also contain café space, a library, shared social and informal study space.

One of the issues is the site's lack of parking spaces, with only eight spaces proposed in the plans. With 24 new members of staff, the new HE centre will need to link into RCAT's existing town centre campus with its current parking provision of 78 spaces and the two local public surface car parks located nearby on Percy Street and Wharncliffe Street.

RNN Group website

Images: RNN Group / Bond Bryan


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Monday, May 9, 2016

News: Plans progress for AMRC 2

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Further details of the planned advanced manufacturing campus based on the success of the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing have been revealed.

In 2014 the institution signed a deal to secure 50 acres of land at Sheffield Business Park, paving the way for the expansion of the AMRC and building on its success on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham, where it already operates from 300,000 sq ft of accommodation within seven separate buildings.

A masterplan was submitted which highlights that the development could lead to the creation of 1,494 – 1,881 jobs directly related to the proposal.

With outline planning secured, detailed plans have now been submitted to Sheffield Council for the first phase of multimillion pound research buildings. Drawn up by DLP Planning and Bond Bryan architects. the plans are for four buildings on the site of the former Sheffield City Airport.

The University of Sheffield is part of the £30m National Material Institute, part of the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Material Science and the Royce Translational Centre is planned for the AMRC 2. The 11,700 sq ft materials processing laboratory for the University "will be a state-of-the-art research infrastructure for materials testing and production at demonstration scale."

The aim is to de-risk the steps in the commercialisation of new materials.

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The plans add: "The Royce Translational Centre will become a World leading facility for the science of materials processing, coupling the University's internationally renowned expertise in materials science and engineering with unique capability in manufacturing.

"The intention is to create an environment where academy, commerce and government can collaborate to address multi- disciplinary issues of materials processing, to cocreate new knowledge and understanding which is rapidly exploited for commercial, environmental and humanitarian benefit."

The building will include private R&D space combined with a more open reception and atrium area with a double height space with floor to ceiling glazing on the external face.

The Integrated Civil & Infrastructure Research Centre (iCAIR) will be a state-of-the-art building which will help the University foster and accelerate translational innovation in civil engineering, national infrastructure and advanced construction.

The 12,100 sq ft building will be home to around 40 staff and house facilities for manufacturing, robotics and automation and infrastructure sensing. It will contain two workshop areas, an open plan office, a meeting room, reception, circulation, toilets/showers/changing along with catering facilities.
The proposed £11m Structural Dynamics Laboratory for Verification and Validation will provide the ability to test in realistic conditions at full scale and is set to pave the way for engineers to create lighter, greener, safer structures.

The 8,000 sq ft building will provide the capability to test at full scale and across realistic environments rather than in the standard laboratory conditions that are currently used.

The plans also include a 12,400 sq ft Energy Centre, built in two phases in order to meet the energy requirements of the wider masterplan as it is required. It will ultimately include electrical switch gear, a data room, offices for a small maintenance team which will serve the Masterplan and a biomass facility.

The plans for plots five and six will mean removing parts of the runway and the demolition of hangars.

If approved, the proposed buildings will go next to Factory 2050 - the £43m building at the heart of the campus. Opened at the end of 2015, the the revolutionary, glass-walled "reconfigurable factory" contains state of the art technology that are vital to achieving the mass customisation of products now being demanded by companies and consumers.

Planning officers at Rotherham Council are supporting the development of a new advanced manufacturing campus and have no objections in principle to the latest proposed development.

The proposals are seen as key to the emerging Innovation District idea for the Sheffield-Rotherham corridor, where the aim is to develop Europe's largest research-led advanced manufacturing cluster.

AMRC website

Images: AMRC / Bond Bryan

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

News: Factory 2050 up for architecture award

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Factory 2050, the revolutionary, glass-walled "reconfigurable factory" for the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, has been shortlisted for a prestigious architecture award.

Growing on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham, the AMRC focuses on advanced machining and materials research for aerospace and other high-value manufacturing sectors. It is a partnership between industry and academia, which has become a model for research centres worldwide.

Designed by Bond Bryan, the £43m building is at the heart of the University's new advanced manufacturing campus on Sheffield Business Park, just over the Parkway. It is one of twelve new buildings to be shortlisted for a 2016 RIBA Yorkshire Award by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

In the summer of 2013, Bond Bryan won an opportunity to design a unique facility: a factory combining cutting edge manufacturing and assembly technologies with "big data" capabilities; a factory easily reconfigured to allow rapid switching in production between multiple high-value components and one-off parts for customers from a wide range of sectors.

A circular layout was proposed for an AMRC project in 2005, but not achievable at that time due to budget and programme constraints. Factory 2050 demonstrates the suitability of a circular arrangement for a re-configurable environment.

The circular form has fully glazed elevations enclosing a totally integrated manufacturing environment. At its heart is a core of open plan desk space and meeting rooms; visually linking this "workspace donut" with production.
The rotunda will house reconfigurable, data driven assembly technologies whilst its long, rectangular extension will accommodate any commercially sensitive or larger footprint projects.

Construction group, Interserve handed over the keys at the end of last year and initial projects include a programme to take aerospace manufacturing technology into the construction industry, explore future digital factory technologies for building commercial aeroplanes and investigate digitally assisted assembly technologies which could help to fill a looming skills gap in the aerospace sector.

Chair of the Yorkshire Judging Panel, Caroline Buckingham said: "The judges were impressed by the variety and excellence of the shortlisted projects and are looking forward to visiting them in person to select the winners."

The list also included another University of Sheffield engineering facility - The Diamond. Designed by Twelve Architects, the £81m state-of-the-art building in Sheffield city centre provides space for specialist engineering teaching facilities, a range of lecture theatres, seminar rooms, open-plan learning spaces, library services and social spaces, including a cafĂ©.

The shortlisted buildings will be visited by the judging panel in March, with the winners of an RIBA Yorkshire Award announced at a ceremony in April.

The jury will select one of the winners to receive the prestigious Building of the Year Award, sponsored by Marley Eternit, which last year was presented to Sheffield Cathedral. Other category awards include Project Architect of the Year, sponsored by Tarmac, The Sustainability Award, sponsored by SIKA, and The Small Project Award which is presented to the best building with a construction cost under £500,000.

Regional winners will also be considered for a highly-coveted RIBA National Award in recognition of their architectural excellence. The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning buildings.

The Magna Science and Adventure Centre in Rotherham won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2001 when Wilkinson Eyre architects transformed the redundant Templeborough steelworks into the UK's first science adventure centre.

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Images: Interserve / Bond Bryan

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

News: Interserve land Factory 2050 contract

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Interserve Construction has been appointed to build Factory 2050, the state of the art, £43m development that is set to keep the Sheffield city region at the cutting edge of advanced manufacturing.

Work is already underway on the site of the former Sheffield City Airport where the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing recently signed a deal to secure 50 acres of land at Sheffield Business Park, paving the way for the expansion of the AMRC and building on its success on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP), just over the border in Rotherham.

The first development at the new location, sited directly opposite the existing developments on the other side of the Parkway, Factory 2050 will be the UK's first fully reconfigurable assembly and component manufacturing facility for collaborative research, capable of rapidly switching production between different high-value components and one-off parts.

Designed by Bond Bryan, the circular building, behind the Sheffield Business Centre and on the airport runway, will combine a range of technologies, including advanced robotics, flexible automation, unmanned workspace, off-line printing in virtual environments linked to plug-and-play robotics, 3D printing from flexible automated systems, man-machine interfaces, and new programming and training tools.
John Gittins, Yorkshire divisional director of Interserve, said: "This isn't just another project for Interserve, it is the opportunity to work on a truly world class project that will help to ensure the region remains at the forefront of the advanced manufacturing sector. The building design is unique and the completed project will provide a superb environment for both researchers and engineers."

Professor Keith Ridgway CBE, executive dean of the AMRC, said: "The start on site for Factory 2050 represented an important milestone in the continuing development of cutting edge technology in the region.

"Our ambition is for Factory 2050 to be the most advanced factory in the world.

"Over the last ten years, our initial vision of creating a centre where engineering research is translated into real practical applications for world-leading industries has been hugely successful. Factory 2050 is a vital next step in ensuring we can maximise the opportunities and benefits to the Sheffield City Region and secure our place as an international centre for excellence in advanced manufacturing, and it will be very exciting to see the development take shape over the coming months."

The government confirmed £10m funding from Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) last year with the remainder of the cost coming from industry. Manufacturers including Boeing, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and Spirit AeroSystems are committed to supporting the project.

An independent survey of the economic benefits has shown that, during construction, the building will directly contribute £6.4m to the local economy and create 162 jobs – and once operational, it will directly contribute £2m annually and employ 75 people. Expected to be completed in 2015 it is anticipated that the site will then be developed out for other AMRC research centre activities, fostering further economic growth and attracted more manufacturing firms and inward investment.

Professor Ridgway was called upon by the Government Office for Science to lead on a study into what the factory of the future will look like as part of the Foresight report into the Future of Manufacturing. Next March, the AMRC's Knowledge Transfer Centre on the AMP will host a conference focusing on the technologies and systems which will feature in the Factory 2050.

AMRC website
Interserve website

Images: Bond Bryan / AMRC

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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

News: Nikken moves forward with new Rotherham facility

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Plans have been submitted for a new research & development, training and showroom facility in Rotherham, showcasing the tools, machinery and products manufactured by Nikken.

With European headquarters on the Barbot Hall Industrial Estate and a technical office and demonstration / testing facility already at the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham, Nikken enjoys a global dominance of the rotary table technology market and supply manufacturers operating in the aerospace, defence, motorsport, automotive and medical sectors.

The new building on the AMP has a proposed gross floor area at phase 2 of 2,184 sq m and will act as a marketing and training hub for the company alongside its existing Rotherham warehouse.

Part of Harworth Estates' R-evolution development, the building is to be a showpiece element for the company and will compliment the existing buildings on the AMP. It has been designed by Sheffield's Bond Bryan architects, who have designed a number of buildings on the park, including the successful Evolution development.

The building's layout is proposed in two phases to suit Nikken's business plan for future expansion. The phases have been developed for the companies' growth, with phase two proposed within eight years. Nikken has acquired the land and is funding the development itself.

The facility is set to include a curved glazed façade and a double height reception area where visitors will be able to see directly through into the showroom area. Other areas include office space and training rooms.

Nikken Kosakusho Europe is a subsidiary of Nikken Works Limited Japan and its Rotherham headquarters opened in 1999.
Nikken's Unit 2 at R-evolution is being joined by to Maher, a supplier of high-performance alloys at Unit 1, and speculative devlopment at Units 3 & 4.

Harworth recently completed a forward-purchase agreement for Plots 3 & 4 with Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council for £4.3m, with Harworth being responsible for the letting of those units in 2014. It also secured a £2.7m loan from the Sheffield City Region Joint European Support for Sustainable Investment in City Areas (JESSICA) Fund.

Elland's Marshall Building Contractors has begun the construction of Plots 3 & 4 (pictured).

Nikken website
Harworth Estates website

Images: Bond Bryan / Harworth Estates

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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

News: AMRC's showcase of good design

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The DPTC is the latest acronym to open at The AMRC on the AMP.

The latest investment from the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing is the Design Prototype & Test Centre (DPTC) that is currently being filled with new 3D printing and machining equipment, ahead of an official opening.

Based on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham, the 2,700 sq m extension to an existing building will bring together design and prototyping with structural testing, key areas in the research of high-value manufacturing sectors such as aerospace, energy, motorsport and medical technology.

More than doubling the size of the original building that opened in 2004, the centre has secured funding from the European Regional Development Fund and High Value Manufacturing Catapult.

The AMRC is a world-class centre for innovative research and focuses on advanced machining and materials research. All research is led by industrial partners, ensuring that work provides lasting value. The adjacent Nuclear AMRC provides a focal point for the bulk of the UK civil nuclear manufacturing industry supply chain.

The new facilities provide state of the art means, methods and skills to validate engineering materials, components, assemblies and full products. Certification and product validation are critical to the adoption of new manufacturing methods and technologies.

The new facilities also provide the Design & Prototyping Group, that has over 40 highly qualified design engineers, with a large prototyping workshop.
Over 50 delegates from around the world recently attended the two-day conference to showcase the work undertaken at the centre, including representatives from Boeing, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, Goodrich, Spirit AeroSystems and Sandvik Coromant.

Adrian Allen, commercial director at the AMRC with Boeing, said: "It's hugely important that we run conferences like this – being able to showcase the results of what we are doing is vital.

"While much of our work is commercially sensitive and we can't shout about it in the public arena, our goal is and will always be to create jobs and wealth for the UK economy by undertaking the highest level research to create sustainable wealth for all."

Constructed at a cost of £4.3m by Miller Construction, the centre was designed by Bond Bryan to achieve a BREEAM rating of "very good" as it is linked to the centre's existing ground source heat pumps and wind turbine systems.

The architectural firm has an office in Sheffield and has played a significant role in shaping the world-leading advanced manufacturing facilities on the former Orgreave colliery site at Waverley. Bond Bryan has again been chosen by the University to work on designs for the AMRC's proposed Factory 2050, the £43m state-of-the-art research factory that is currently out to tender.

The AMRC Training Centre, the AMP's £20.5m centre also designed by Bond Bryan, has a launch event later this month.

AMRC website
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Images: Bond Bryan

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Friday, February 10, 2012

News: AMRC construction nears completion on AMP

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BAM Construction is weeks away from the completion of a major development on the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham.

The £20m development for the University of Sheffield includes the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, which opened in October, and the Knowledge Transfer Centre.

The Nuclear AMRC is a joint initiative between the University of Sheffield, The University of Manchester, and a consortium of industry partners. It will provide a focal point for the bulk of the UK civil nuclear manufacturing industry supply chain, ensuring that manufacturers in the UK have the capability and capacity required to compete for nuclear new build in the UK and globally, from skills training to research and development.

The Knowledge Transfer Centre will enable the AMRC to increase R&D activity and collaboration with regional manufacturers. It aims to increase the rate of knowledge transfer, bringing more companies into long-term collaborations with the AMRC Hub's research centres.

The two and three storey building will be used for the training of industrial experts in certification and regulations.

The advanced facility is being powered by the first Powerwind 56 turbine installed in the UK. BAM recently installed the German-manufactured wind turbine outside the research centre.

Standing 99 metres tall, it has generated 170 Mwh since it first started production in December, equivalent to the annual electricity use of 50 households.

The turbine will generate electricity to power the facility, and feed any excess to the National Grid.

Nick Howdle, project manager for BAM, said: "The turbine is the first of its kind in this country.

"Within six years it will have paid for itself and any electricity sold to the grid after that time will be pure profit.

"This turbine shows German engineering at its best and BAM is pleased to have played a part in introducing it to the UK."

As well as wind power, the facility uses ground source heat pumps with a capacity of 850kW heating and 690Kw cooling.

Nuclear AMRC website

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

News: Planning secured for RCAT town centre campus

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Rotherham College of Arts and Technology (RCAT) has been granted planning permission for the first phase of redevelopment at their town centre campus.

Designed by Bond Bryan, the new three storey building will be erected on the site of the recently-demolished Floreat House on Howard Street. It will provide a new focal point entrance for the campus, with classrooms and facilities equipped to modern standards.

The new building will also link to the existing advanced manufacturing facilities and provide an improved environment for the development of higher level and technical skills courses.

The value of the project is £8.15m in total with funding coming from a combination of a loan of £5m from Rotherham Council and the use of some of the college's own financial reserves to the value of £3.15m.

Bond Bryan associate director Bruce Raw said: "The college's intention is to rebuild the entire town centre campus over five phases as funds become available.

"This [first phase] comprises 1,975 sq m of new building teaching space and 1,200 sq m of refurbished accommodation. This will provide a new entrance for the college and create a brand new identity for the college in the town centre, together with high quality teaching and support accommodation for enrolment and student support services as well as other functions.

The college is hopeful that the new building work will be complete by August 2011.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

News: AMRC Knowledge Transfer Centre approved

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Members of the planning board of Rotherham Council have approved plans to create a Knowledge Transfer Centre at the Advanced Manufacturing Park.

The £4m centre has been designed by Bond Bryan architects for the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing (AMRC) and is part of a £40m AMRC Hub that also includes the Nuclear AMRC and a Composite Manufacturing Facility.

The Knowledge Transfer Centre will enable the AMRC Hub to increase R&D activity and collaboration with regional manufacturers. It aims to increase the rate of knowledge transfer, bringing more companies into long-term collaborations with the AMRC Hub's research centres.

The two and three storey building will be used for the training of industrial experts in certification and regulations.

Professor Keith Ridgway, AMRC research director said: "The Knowledge Transfer Centre will be an extremely valuable facility for companies - they can get hands-on training with the new processes and technologies we're developing, and take that knowledge and experience back to their own factories."

Darren Southgate, associate design director at Bond Bryan said: "The design focuses on the sharing of ideas, on communication and on human interaction.

"As well as workshops and communal spaces the Knowledge Transfer Building features a 350 seat conference space.

"We are adopting the sustainable features of the other buildings we have designed on the AMP and are aiming for a BREEAM Excellent rating."

BAM will construct the centre.

AMRC website
Bond Bryan website

Images: AMRC / Bond Bryan

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

News: Dearne fire station sets on fire several times a day

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The recently opened £5.5m Dearne community fire station sets on fire several times a day.

National architectural practice Bond Bryan describes the fire training facility on the site as the most technologically advanced in the UK.

It has been specially designed to be set on fire several times a day and create realistic conditions likely to be encountered in many types of real fire situations.

Stephen Mitchell, associate director at Bond Bryan admits the building was an unusual brief: "Designing a building which has to be frequently, and safely, set on fire demands an alternative design approach from our standard practice of ensuring buildings don't catch fire.

"For the training building we had to provide a range of realistic scenarios that fire-fighters may experience in real emergencies, such as live carbonaceous burns, working at height and flash-over training. Sophisticated specialist computer controlled equipment ensures scenarios can be created and accurately reproduced on demand."

Constructed by North Midland Building Ltd, the facility is built of reinforced concrete, robust engineering bricks and dense block work and is designed to last much longer.

It is also designed to be environmentally sustainable and incorporates the use of 100m deep ground source heat pumps linked to the underfloor heating, rainwater harvesting and photovoltaic panels.

Additionally, a wild flower meadow has been planted to increase biodiversity and provide habitats for new species of insects and wildlife. Bond Bryan worked with project managers Turner & Townsend on the building.

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue website
Bond Bryan website

Images: South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue

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