Projects
Buro Happold
Riverdale Country Schools
Energy cost at US K-12 schools represents the largest single operating expense after salaries and benefits. Developing a plan to help rein in those costs is important to a school’s bottom line and helps to ensure a more sustainable future. Buro Happold, through our G.Works collaboration, partnered with HR&A to provide a full infrastructure, energy and economic analysis for both the Hill and River campuses of Riverdale Country Schools (RCS) located in the Bronx, New York. The result is an energy action plan with strong economic analysis as a foundation for RCS’s infrastructure investments.
Categories: Education, United States
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Lake Bunyonyi Community School
This lecture area and dining hall is the latest building project for the Lake Bunyonyi Community School located a remote area of Uganda. Working for the Richard Feilden Foundation and the Happold Trust this simple structure was designed and constructed by Buro Happold with the expert construction help of Charley Brentnall. Utilising locally sourced round pole eucalyptus timber, the structure adopts a 'reciprocal' form of construction for the back to basics design for the roof. The foundations and retaining structures are constructed from a combination of in situ concrete and locally produced handmade bricks.
Categories: Education, Structural engineering
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The Caretaker's House, Hooke Park
Buro Happold has supported the Architectural Association Design and Make students and the Invisible Studio in the realisation of the new Caretaker's House. This exemplar timber framed building is supported on driven steel mini piles; the only non-timber elements of the structure. A green Douglas Fir frame supports a building envelope that is insulated to Passivhaus standards, with Passivhaus airtightness.
Categories: Structural engineering, Sustainability, Geotechnical, United Kingdom
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Qianhai urban design of pilot zone
Qianhai is being developed as the new central business district of Shenzhen on the coast of Da Chan Bay. Buro Happold and Field Operations scope of work was to focus on a pilot zone of 465 hectares comprising of waterfront open space, two river water parks and the urban planning of Guimian sub-district within the wider Masterplan of Qianhai. Buro Happold’s aim was to develop sustainable solutions across the site covering water, waste, energy, and traffic.
Categories: Urban development, Sustainability, Water, Urban development, Coastal and marine, Transport planning, China
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Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Centre
The Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Centre is a landmark on the Kowloon waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui. Occupying a floor area of approximately 30,000m², it comprises a 2100 seat concert hall, 1750 seat lyric theatre and a 450 seat studio theatre.
Categories: Culture, Structural engineering, China
Buro Happold
Marlowe Theatre
The new Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury opened its doors to the public on 4 October 2011, three years after construction started in 2008. The redevelopment of the Marlowe Theatre provides Canterbury with a new theatre complex to act as a hub for local, national and international productions. The redevelopment comprises a new 1200 seat auditorium and a second 150 seat studio theatre along with new front of house and technical areas.
Categories: Culture, Structural engineering, Fire engineering, Geotechnical, Geoenvironmental, Transport planning, United Kingdom
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Tongshan Street
The Tongshan Street project in the Pudong area of central Shanghai will provide our client, Vanke (one of the largest developers in China) with a unique development which is expected to set new standards for large scale residential led mixed use projects in terms of both financial return, but also sustainability which is a key driver for Vanke.
Categories: Commercial residential, Building services engineering, Sustainability, Facades, Structural engineering, China
Buro Happold
Copernicus Science Centre
Situated on the banks of the River Vistula, the mission of the Copernicus Science Centre, Poland’s most modern education and cultural centre is to inspire curiosity, support learning and make science more accessible and comprehensible to a wider audience.
Categories: Culture, Scientific, Structural engineering, Water, Environment, Poland
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Nicholson Street
Buro Happold was awarded the commission to undertake a feasibility study for the renovation of a listed tenement block in Edinburgh.
Categories: Commercial residential, Structural engineering, United Kingdom