Posted in Our Work on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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The Mill Illumated for IPArt 2010 (Photo by Racing Toast Images)
Posted in Architects4Education, Conferences, Education, Exhibitions, Our Work, tagged Architecture, BSEC, BSEC2011, education, education architecture, education design, Free Schools, Nursery School, primary school, school, school architects, school design, secondary school, SEN on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How to move on without the support of organisations like BECTA and CABE
John Lyall will be speaking on day one of the upcoming BSEC conference:
How can we make sure that we build new or refurbish educational spaces to high standards and lower cost, without the support of key organisations which may no longer exist? Practical tips and suggestions will be discussed.
The Conference runs from 23-24th February 2011, at Londons Excel exhibition centre. For more details of the day one lineup click here.
John will be joined by John Jenner of Greenhill Jenner Architects – fellow practice in our education-specific consortium Architects4Education
We exhibited at last years BSEC, and found it a great way to meet new people in education, and discuss how Architects4Education work collaboratively to design great education buildings. Looking forward to February!
Posted in Awards, Infrastructure, Our Work, tagged 2012, Architect, Architects, Architecture, design, energy from waste, engineering, Infrastructure, olympic, pumping station, sewage, sustainability, water on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
John Lyall Architects are delighted that our Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station has been awarded the score of 93.8% – Excellent in the engineering industry standard CEEQUAL assessment method.
The project – the pumping station for the Olympics - incorporated several sustainable design features, including integrated bird and bat boxes, and the now ubiquitous green roof. The very concept of the design was also sustainable – by siting the building on top of the circular concrete well head collar, no additional foundations were needed – just what was already required by the engineering. This led to the striking circular form of the building. The whole design process followed the strict environmental processes of the ODA, which went way above the requirements of standard current regulations, and considered many varied aspects of the design, including materials selection, sustainable delivery, water use and biodiversity.
So detailed were the ODAs requirements that – regarding Biodiversity – it was a requirement that all plant species specified to be indigenous to the UK, leading to a specialist seed mix for the green roof, and the selection of a Field Maple tree and other local bushes for the compound. The bird and bat boxes also had to be oriented in particular directions, and adequately spaced to avoid inter-species rivalry! Working to such high standards was a great experience, and continues to inform our ongoing work.
For more information see the listing on the CEEQUAL website – click here
Posted in Architects4Education, Conferences, Education, Infrastructure, media, Our Work, Presentations and Lectures, tagged Architects4Education, Conference, education, hootsuite, lecture, school architects, school design, social media, twitter, web2.0 on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rob Scott of John Lyall Architects was one of the main speakers at the Be2Camp Education conference in London last week, explaining how JLA use Web 2.0 and Social Media in our work, and describing how he uses it to teach first year architecture students at The University of Nottingham .
Click below to watch the presentation on YouTube:
These new web tools are really useful to:
Learn – keeping up to date with new developments in architecture and helping us to better understand the needs of our clients and building users,
Share - helping us to collaborate more effectively with our partners across the architectural consortium Architects4Education,
Create – using geo-location technology such as Everytrail and Openstreetmap to map and record data on site visits
Photograph courtesy of Bernie Mitchell
The conference was held on a snowy late November afternoon at the offices of solicitors Maxwell Winward, and provided really useful insights into several aspects of education.
Useful Links mentioned in the presentation:
DimDim (for online web meetings)
Rob on Everytrail.com (a website for presenting GPS tracks and photos)
Oruxmaps (for tracking using GPS on Android phones)
