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
Buro Happold
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
Buro Happold
Claremont McKenna College Masterplan
To accommodate for future growth and its ever expanding student population, Claremont McKenna College looked to develop a masterplan with a focus on sustainable planning and development, optimizing facilities, and enhancing the appeal and identity of the campus to encourage community and social interaction. Collaborating with stakeholders and Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, Buro Happold provided strategic sustainability consulting for a 25-Year Masterplan intended to guide the university through expansion and renovation.
Categories: Education, Building services engineering, United States
Buro Happold
Castle Rock High School
Forming part of the Leicestershire BSF scheme, Buro Happold teamed up with Leicestershire County Council to replace the outdated Castle Rock High School with a new purpose-built facility packed with carbon-saving features. The school has achieved a ‘Very Good’ BREEAM rating for both its commitment to energy efficiency, and for its incorporation of the buildings green credentials into the curriculum. Ofsted has described Castle Rock as having ‘outstanding features’.
Categories: Education, Structural engineering, Fire engineering, Acoustics, Sustainability, Computational analysis, United Kingdom
Buro Happold
University of California Los Angeles Engineering VI Building (WIN-GEM)
Built in 1945, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) will expand its facilities with the addition of Engineering VI. Engineering VI is comprised of two phases, Phase I being the...
Categories: Education, Building services engineering, United States
Buro Happold
St Mary Magdalene Academy
A pioneering new school in Islington, the St Mary Magdalene Academy posed unique challenges to Buro Happold’s design team. Squeezed into a very tight inner city space, the existing school had to stay open throughout construction, in addition to offering impeccable green credentials. To achieve the client’s brief Buro Happold offered a variety of innovative solutions to the many complex issues, resulting in a school which provides the optimum learning environment for both staff and students.
Categories: Education, Structural engineering, Building services engineering, Acoustics, Geotechnical, United Kingdom
Buro Happold
Holland Park School
Buro Hapoold worked with architects AEDAS on this project to create a new, purpose built secondary school in the Holland Park Conservation Area. The aim was to create a building that “neither looks nor feels like a school”, the new building was designed to accommodate the 1,500 pupils and 100 staff, within a modern, flexible teaching environment, occupying a much smaller footprint than its 1950’s, campus style predecessor. Arranged over 6 levels, the school comprises a single atrium running the full length of the building to create a social hub and carry light deep into the building, with teaching wings on each side.
Categories: Education, Building services engineering, Structural engineering, Fire engineering, Sustainability, Safe & secure, Geotechnical, United Kingdom
Buro Happold
California Institute of Technology Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory
Designed by Quincy Jones in 1971, the original building was a three storey concrete computer laboratory in need of significant renovations before it become the new home to the Institute. Primary renovations involved removing oversized sun shades, installing high performance double paned glass, introducing a new atrium and transforming what were once offices into research laboratories. The restoration resulted in improved natural lighting and views to the outside, as well as cutting edge energy efficient research space.
Categories: Scientific, Education, Building services engineering, Sustainability, United States
Buro Happold
The McClay Library
Queen’s University Belfast has a long history of excellence in teaching, in research and in contributing to the educational, economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland. It has, from its foundation in 1845, combined a liberal education with professional, vocational and applied subjects, and it offers degree courses in all the major disciplines. Until 1968, it was the only university in Northern Ireland.
Categories: Education, Computational analysis, Sustainability, United Kingdom