Sanford Underground Research Facility, South Dakota

Sanford Underground Research Facility, South Dakota

The LEO A DALY-designed project makes way for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to take place in the former Homestake gold mine, USA, where, shielded from cosmic background radiation by nearly a mile of rock, scientists hope to make the next breakthrough in the search for dark matter.

Building Research Establishment news, BRE

Severfield BIM Level 2 certification

Building Research Establishment news 2017: To help drive better security in the built environment, a new Special Interest Group has been launched by building science centre, BRE, in partnership with the Security Institute – the UK’s largest professional membership body for security professionals.

Offsite construction: building industry news

offsite construction building industry

The building industry is looking for ways to reduce disruptions to communities after almost a quarter of UK residents admitted being irritated by how long construction projects take to complete.

Designing Buildings Wiki News: Construction

what the construction industry write about

Designing Buildings Wiki, the construction industry knowledge base, has joined forces with BSRIA to launch a new competition looking for fresh and innovative ideas in response to the question.

Jinwan Aviation City Research & Development Center

Jinwan Aviation City Research & Development Center in Zhuhai | www.e-architect.com

Architects: 10 Design. The 55,000 sqm R&D Center is located on a prominent site on the eastern edge of the Jinshan Lake that forms the heart of the district. The buildings will become an incubation platform for start-up companies and entrepreneurs.

BRE Partnership Sustainable Construction in Russia

Metropolis building in Moscow

National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) and the Russian Green Building Council (RuGBC) announce launch of a partnership with BRE, the world leading multi-disciplinary building science centre.

Biophilic Office Project at BRE, Watford

Biophilic Office Project at BRE | www.e-architect.com

World first biophilic design research project connects buildings with nature: a live office refurbishment providing quantified evidence on the benefits of biophilic design on health, well-being and productivity of office occupants.

NRP Enterprise Centre: Norwich Research Park

Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia | www.e-architect.com

This is an ambitious project that set out to be the first Passivhaus office building in the UK, to source low-carbon materials locally and explore the idea of a contemporary vernacular. A lot has been learnt on the way and the learning process has been as important as the end result.

HCLAF Pirbright Institute Building in Woking

High Containment Large Animal Facility Woking

Design: NBBJ, Architects

Architectural practice NBBJ appointed by The Pirbright Institute to design a new £48m High Containment Large Animal Facility, a specialist laboratory and work space for research in large farm animals and viral diseases.

Orkney Research + Innovation Campus

Orkney Research + Innovation Campus Building

Design: Threesixty Architecture. Redevelopment of the old Academy and former Primary School of Stromness. The research, academia and business campus will house institutes, consultancies and new start companies, generating long-term economic development.

Campus Jourdan Paris Building

Campus Jourdan Paris Building

Designed by Thierry Van de Wyngaert and Véronique Fiegel, the Jourdan Campus for higher education and research unites the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Paris School of Economics.

James Dyson Building, University of Cambridge

James Dyson Building at University of Cambridge

Design: Nicholas Hare Architects. The technology hub was funded in part by a £8m donation from the James Dyson Foundation, and will give some of the world’s brightest young engineering students access to advanced laboratories.

Schlumberger Building Cambridge

Schlumberger Research Centre Cambridge

The Twentieth Century Society welcomes listing of Sir Michael Hopkins’ landmark Schlumberger Gould Research Centre. The C20 Society Director said it’s “an innovative and influential example of High-Tech design, by an extremely interesting architect”.

Kolon Future Research Park HQ in Seoul, Korea

Kolon Future Research Park HQ

Design: morphosis architects. The Kolon Group, based in Seoul, is a diverse corporation whose activities range from textiles, chemicals, and sustainable technologies, to original clothing lines in the athletic and ready-to-wear fashion markets.