David Mackay Award for Engineering and Sustainability
For this final award, unusually, and perhaps a reflection of the increasingly mainstream character of sustainability, we have no less than four highly commended projects as well as an overall winner. Each of the commendations are of a particular aspect as follows:
Highly commended for engineering solutions in a tightly constrained site: Vinery Road
Vinery Road Office
This highly sustainable, adaptive reuse and conversion of a warehouse into an office in a restricted residential site, enclosed by terraced housing and private gardens, involved the innovative use of natural materials and expressed structural steelwork.
Ciient:
Simon Gusterson at Vinery Mews Ltd
Consultants:
Architect – Owers Warwick Architects
Structural and Civil Engineer – Cambridge Architectural Research
QS – Bremner Associates – Stuart Bremner
Part Wall Surveyor – Award Associates
Building Control – Assent Building Control
CDM – Atkins Realis
Fiore Consultant – Marshall Fire
Contractor Team:
Principle Contractor – P.B.Doyle
Mechanical – Adcock Refrigeration Ltd
Electrical – DWE Services Ltd
Rainscreen & Cladding – DB Industrial Roofing Ltd
Timber finishes – M&S Contractors (EA) Ltd
Steelwork & Metalwork – Pleshey Forge Ltd
Curtain Walling – SYTE Architectural Glazing Ltd
Decoration – AW UK Contractors Ltd
Concrete Floor – Co-Dunkall Ltd
Grinding & finishing of concrete floor – Direct Stone Ltd
Image: Photograph of atrium © Richard Fraser Photography
Judges citation:
“We recognise that adaptations of existing buildings are far more complex than new build when it comes to sustainability, and we praise Vinery Road for its ambitious goals and determination to create a modern, attractive, ‘green’ office in a tightly constrained industrial site, and for excellent neighbour engagement.”
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