Restoring the Spanish City pleasure palace in Whitley Bay meant installing many services in the Grade II listed building for the first time. Mott MacDonald’s David Ridley explains how cloud-based BIM helped real-time collaboration to preserve the heritage of the building
Category: Case Studies
Energiesprong – the Dutch system that could rescue Britain’s social housing
Energiesprong is a Dutch housing process that encourages developers to consider real-world performance. Alex Smith looks at the first UK pilot and Melius Homes’ strategy for guaranteeing outcomes in a retrofit
Using cloud-based BIM to design London’s Royal Wharf development
Online-based BIM collaboration is helping to deliver the Royal Wharf development in London’s Docklands, as Phil Lattimore reports
Using Soft Landings to optimise the UK’s biggest Passivhaus
Soft Landings helped the George Davies Centre to a DEC A rating after completion. Willmott Dixon’s Khasha Mohammadian says Passivhaus resulted in significantly lower heat demand than on other higher education projects
Case study: Killynure Green low energy housing
A low energy housing scheme in Northern Ireland impressed at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards, where it won Project of the Year – Residential. Andy Pearson finds out why it deserved the trophy
Innovative ventilation at the Simon Sainsbury Centre
Arup’s innovative ventilation strategy not only preserved the aesthetic of the Simon Sainsbury Centre in Cambridge, but also exploited the building’s thermal mass. Arup’s Joshua Bird explains
Case study: Optimising heat at Little Kelham housing scheme
LEDA had to come up with an innovative solution when it was asked to design the heating, hot-water and ventilation systems for a part-built housing scheme in Sheffield, as Andy Pearson discovered
CIBSE’s 2018 Building Performance Champion: Meet the team behind University of Oxford’s carbon reduction programme
The University of Oxford not only tops the World University Rankings – it also heads its peers on building performance, after being named overall champion at last month’s CIBSE Building Performance Awards. Liza Young finds out why
Protecting priceless artwork at Louvre Abu Dhabi
Louvre Abu Dhabi will exhibit priceless artwork, so an environmental strategy that protects them from sand and extreme heat was essential. Andy Pearson explains how BuroHappold Engineering did it
The passive-first approach at Keynsham Civic Centre
Ahead of the Building Performance Awards, Andy Pearson looks at how soft landings and a passive-first approach made Keynsham Civic Centre Project of the Year (Public use) in 2017