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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.
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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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Design: Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. The Health Sciences Technology Park is a complex dedicated to science and technology-related research, training and business activities.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. A 167,000 sqm campus of integrated buildings that combine intelligent technologies and environmental sustainability, comprising a new global center for R&D, a Chinese herbal medicine research and safety assessment center, plus an exhibition center and gallery.
Latest phase of Cardiff University’s £300m Innovation Campus approved by planners: two new buildings will bring researchers, businesses, public sector backers and students together to unlock ideas that drive economic growth.
Design: Behnisch Architekten. Groundbreaking of the new building for the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research: ISREC will bring together under one roof 400 researchers, scientists, doctors and clinicians.
Design: Toshiko Mori Architect. This 55,000 sqft research center building on a brownfield site is for a federation of over 200 institutes, corporations and academic programs that collaborate on the research and promotion of environmentally responsible technologies.
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects. The design of the new educational, conference and seed production complex, responds both to the site as well as the orientation and geometries of the existing buildings.