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🏆 Best New Commercial Building | WorkStack by dRMM Rising from a compact urban site in Greenwich, London, WorkStack redefines urban industrial design with innovation and sustainability. Designed by dRMM, this visionary high-density industrial space, inspired by the protective form of a ‘log stack,’ has been crowned the Best New Commercial Building at the #WoodAwards24. 🌳 Sustainability at its Core · Constructed from stacked Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) boxes. · Achieves 21% less upfront embodied carbon than LETI's 2030 Design Target. 343 metric tonnes of carbon sequestered in the CLT structure. · Delivered in just 15 lorries and assembled in nine weeks by a small team. ✨ Design Highlights · The cantilevered form doubles as solar shading and a covered delivery area. · Exposed CLT walls and ceilings showcase the natural beauty of timber, enhancing biophilic benefits. · Efficient, panelised components minimise material use without compromising function or aesthetics. 🌟 The Wood Awards judges praised WorkStack for demonstrating timber’s potential in creating replicable, high-density industrial buildings suitable for urban spaces. Lead judge Jim Greaves (Hopkins Architects) said: “It is a highly original approach to urban industrial design, pragmatic and spatially efficient while showcasing the structural possibilities of engineered timber.” 👏 Congratulations to the project team who brought this ambitious vision to life. Discover more about WorkStack here: https://bit.ly/4eMFfRY View all our 2024 winners here: https://bit.ly/4fA8nNu 📍 Location: London ✨ Architect: dRMM 🏗️ Structural Engineer: Arup / changebuilding 🪵 Wood Supplier: HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER / Stora Enso 🏢 Contractor: F Parkinson Ltd 🌳 Species: Spruce CLT and Glulam (Sweden, Austria, Germany), Birch and Spruce Plywood (Finland). PEFC certified 🌟 Client: Greenwich Enterprise Board ⚡️ Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: Webb Yates Engineers 🛠️ Offsite Construction Specialist: B&K Structures 📸 Photographs: Alex de Rijke / Fred Howarth

The ATLG welcomes the release of Phase 2 of the Grenfell Report and its recommendations for the design and construction industry. We have now released an open letter in support of the recommendations of the Report endorsed by 69 leading UK architectural practices, they constitute over 20% of the AJ100 list and employ over 2500 qualified architects. Read the full letter and list of endorsing practices at https://lnkd.in/eFZVfMbt Endorsing practices: 3DReid Acme Ackroyd Lowrie ADP Architecture AEW Architects & Designers Ltd Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Allies and Morrison Allison Brooks Architects Apt Archatech ltd ArchitecturePLB Architype Arup Architecture Atomik Architecture AWW Barr Gazetas Basha-Franklin BDP BGY Bond Bryan BPTW BSBG Architects Broadway Malyan Conran and Partners Corstorphine & Wright Cousins & Cousins COWEN + PARTNERS CPMG Architects Limited daab design Architects DAY Architectural Ltd dRMM ECD Architects EPR Architects FBM Architects Fereday Pollard Fletcher Priest Architects Floyd Slaski Architects Ltd Gensler Gort Scott GRID Architects Hawkins\Brown HKS Architects Ltd. HTA Design LLP IID Architects JTP LA London Lawray Architects Levitt Bernstein Maccreanor Lavington Morris+Company NBBJ Ltd. Pitman Tozer PRP Architects Scott Brownrigg Sonnemann Toon Architects SpecStudio Stanton WIlliams Studio Egret West Studio PDP Supervene Architects Ltd Turner.Works Urban Mesh Design ltd Waugh Thistleton Architects Weedon Architects White Ink Architects White Red Architects WW+P (Weston Williamson + Partners)

WorkStack, our light industrial project for the Greenwich Enterprise Board has won the Commercial and Leisure award, and was Highly Commended in the Structural category at the 2024 Wood Awards. The project in south-east London also picked up an Honourable Mention in the Production category at The Plan Magazine Awards, as well as recent wins at both the Structural Timber, and Offsite Awards. L-R Steve Wallis (dRMM), Judith Stichtenoth (dRMM), Michael Finlay (GEB), Adrian Campbell (changebuilding), Andrew Lerpiniere (Webb Yates Engineers), Jacqueline Wheeler (dRMM), Loyd Grossman (Master Carpenter) and Alex de Rijke (dRMM, at front)

We've all signed up to POEs as part of various climate commitments. So, how do you do yours, especially with regards to obtaining in use data from large housing projects with numerous homes and householders? Please share! UK Architects Declare Levitt Bernstein Pitman Tozer Architects Mikhail Riches Alison Brooks Architects Peter Barber Architects Ltd RCKa Karakusevic Carson Architects AL-JAWAD PIKE Pollard Thomas Edwards Studio Egret West Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) Page\Park Architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris PRP HTA Design LLP Allies and Morrison Haworth Tompkins Hawkins\Brown Maccreanor Lavington Metropolitan Workshop LLP Bell Phillips Stanton Williams Waugh Thistleton Architects etc!

🎉 Episode 12 of Chai & Chat Engineering is now out! ☕👷🏽♀️   📣 Malika Kapasi, Dipalee Jukes and I are very excited to have not one but two guests on this week’s episode, the brilliant Professor Sadie Morgan OBE and Wafa Masfari.  Listen here - https://lnkd.in/e-ppiH45 ✨ Sadie and Wafa speak about: 🌍 #Community living and the influence growing up. ⭐ What excites you? The importance of exploring your options. ⚙️ Principles for building a #highperforming, cohesive and #diverse team.  💎 Being an #opportunist - the benefits of showing your willingness and potential. ⛓️ #Allyship – sometimes from those you least expect!  🦺 The more the merrier! Having #rolemodels to cater for your different needs.  🤱🏽 Returning from #maternityleave, injecting back confidence and going on to do greater things. 💪🏽 #transport #builtenvironment #leadership #EDI

🎧 🎙 I first met Professor Sadie Morgan OBE a couple of decades ago at One Centaur Street, an early project she was involved with for Solid Space when she was a young architect at dRMM and I was at the Architects’ Journal. I was amazed at how, even though she had scarring on her face from falling off her then-partner Alex de Rijke's motorbike, she took everything in her stride. 🎧 🎙 🕶 It's been pretty much that way ever since, not least in terms of the big roles that have come her way, including for the National Infrastructure Commission, Greater London Authority, NLA, U+I, and HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd but also for the health challenges she has overcome. 🎤 So it was great to catch up with her again for the latest (the 10th!) episode of Detailer - my podcast about the city, and those who shape it. 🏊♀️ It's deeply admirable to hear and feel Sadie's zest for life, and the way she attacks amazing challenges, whether that's long-distance cycling, dangerous Fastnet yacht racing, hiking up Kilimanjaro, or her latest - swimming 5km a day on a SwimTrek Adventure Swimming Holidays. 👟 On the 'pod, Sadie also talks about how growing up on a commune in Kent helped shape who she is, and about some of her heroes. That's including those she has felt lucky enough to meet and work alongside, like Sir Michael Heseltine and key stalwart pals such as Lucy Musgrave OBE and Dame Alison Nimmo DBE; about HS2; designing; acting as a 'critical friend'; her family - and how she manages to fit it all in! 👠 Oh, and how Sadie had an embarrassing luggage/impaling incident at Heathrow on her way to the US to see RIOS. Once again, though, she seems to have taken it all in her stride... Thanks Sadie! 👉 Listen to the show on Apple here: https://lnkd.in/e3TkxrZB Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eKYtyeKw Acast: https://lnkd.in/eT7rraSY #architecture #london #podcasts #infrastructure #rail #hs2 #design #cycling #sailing #hiking #property #realestate #pedelle #fastnet Club Peloton

Next week at London Build, our Associate Director Steve Wallis joins the panel discussing Designing Inclusive Spaces for Multigenerational Living along with Rory O'Hagan, Clare Cameron, Carly Dickson and Irene Craik. The session will be chaired by Stephen Drew. Join him next Wednesday at 4pm on the Architecture Stage. https://lnkd.in/e2K-4amA

How do you carry out your residential Post Occupancy Evaluations? We are committed to undertaking POEs on our past projects. However, residential buildings present challenges with distributed ownership and individual metering, sometimes combined with CHPs and renewable energy generation managed by private companies. So, to find out how our buildings perform, we have to speak to the residents directly. How do you make sharing utility bill data an attractive proposition to busy people who may never have been asked such a thing before? Can you use this as a very light touch educational moment about the role of buildings as part of our climate commitments, without patronising or scaring people off? We’re currently looking for feedback on Wick Lane, a mixed-use project with a combination of light industrial and workspace co-located with 175 homes. To find out how people feel about living there we’re asking residents to share their experiences so; to connect with residents individually, we printed up postcards which we posted through every letterbox on site. These had QR codes linking to an online survey, and alongside this we put up posters with information about the aims of our data gathering. We approached local businesses with a view to offering vouchers to encourage people to take part and are also offering retail vouchers as an extra incentive. The survey window is three weeks, and we received 9 responses in the first 72 hours.  The survey covers their views on the physical building, the indoor environment (which takes in acoustics, humidity, temperature and daylight) as well as asking people to share their energy usage data, aligning to guidance set out in BS EN 40101 for Building Performance Evaluations. This study builds on our experience from Measuring Mass Timber research project. With the information coming from the responses, we can benchmark the scheme’s performance against industry standards in relation to net zero carbon, such as the UK NZC Buildings Standard and for submitting the project for architectural awards as well as knowledge-sharing efforts. We are constantly seeking to improve how we design buildings in relation to comfort, wellbeing and sustainability. We’ve already received some surprising responses which will definitely inform how we consider similar situations on future projects. With POEs becoming more widespread, we hope these challenges will fade in coming years. We see a real need for managed approaches to data collation, respecting GDPR and privacy but facilitating carbon reporting and learning from buildings with greater ease. Please tell us how you do it! #POE #PostOccupancyEvaluation #UKNZCBS

WorkStack, Charlton Drawing inspiration from a ‘log-stack’, Charlton WorkStack breaks the mould of ubiquitous ‘tin-shack’ industrial units. The overlapping, cantilevering workspaces – progressively increasing in size – utilise the lightweight strength of CLT to create much-needed workspace on a reduced and compact urban site. Innovative, flexible, and commercially successful, the project is a trailblazer for re-industrialising our cities and is the UK’s first light industrial building of its type and scale. 🏆 B&K Structures, dRMM, Arup & Stora Enso won the Best Use of Timber Technology at the 2024 #OffsiteAwards for this project. One of the Judges had to say this- "The workstack project pushes the technical boundaries of mass timber, with large panel sizes used to simplify construction and maximise robustness. Innovative fire engineering enabled most of the CLT to remain exposed in the final product." Thank you again to Structural Timber Association Ltd for sponsoring this category 🙏 🔊 ENTRY FOR THE 2025 OFFSITE AWARDS OPENS IN JANUARY!! Get in touch to find out more -  📞 01743 290025 📧 emily.dyer@radar-communications.co.uk #offsiteawards #offsite #awards #Timber

Zur Verstärkung unseres Teams in Berlin suchen wir ein/e motivierte/n Studio-Koordinator/in, um einen reibungslosen Ablauf unseres Studios zu unterstützen. Die Stelle ist in Teilzeit zum nächstmöglichen Eintrittsdatum ausgeschrieben.   Es handelt sich um einen abwechslungsreichen Aufgabenbereich, der Flexibilität und positive Energie erfordert. Wir sind international, divers und inklusiv und arbeiten kollegial und mit Teamgeist in einem kreativen Umfeld. https://lnkd.in/eDRpAW9K