UEA Enterprise Centre (Portfolio) G#12317

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Brief (Architectural Competition)

• UEA Campus, Historic House Site
• 3200 m2
• 100 year Design Life
• BREEAM Outstanding
• Passivhaus
• Net Zero Building
• Soft landings + 3 years
• Local sourcing
• Very low embodied energy
• High sequestered carbon
• £17m budget
• Single point Delivery Procurement headed by D&B Contractors

Winning team included:

• D&B Contractor: Morgan Sindall Cambridge
• Architect: Architype

Second place (apparently 1 point in it) team included:

• Contractor: Kier Eastern
• Architect: RH Partnership Cambridge
• BrianSpecMan was Environmental Specification advisor

Marketing

• Greenest building in the UK
• World Class Showcase
• 6 awards already

External shots

• E60 Precast concrete plinth
• G22 Cross laminated timber panels
• G24 Laminated Timber Columns (look closely at use of small/short pieces)
• G25 Light Timber Framed External walls
• G27 ISPS Insulated Structural Panel System (Pitched roof)
• H20 Rigid Sheet Cladding
• H21 Timber weatherboarding (recycled mahogany laboratory worktops, exits and entrances)
• H91 Thatch roofing (pitched roof)
• H92 Rainscreen Cladding (Panellised Vertical Thatch)
• L10 Windows (metal outer)
• L15 Solar Shading (solid timber louvre metal brackets)
• L19 Ventilation Louvres (with insulated door internally)
• L20 Doors
• J4_ Flat roof solar reflective flints
• P11 Warmcel recycled newspaper cellulose fibre insulation in external walls
• Q23 Mulch (Loose laid large whole flint)
• Q23 Mulch (Loose gravel grass planting bed)
• Q23 Resin bound aggregate permed pavement
• Q24/Q25 Brick Paving
• Q40 Galvanized steel fences and gates

Internal shots

• E10 Insitu concrete floor (GGBS in the mix)
• E20 IsoQuick Polystyrene formwork for Reinforced concrete raft foundation (see exhibition sample below)
• E41 Tamped concrete power ground finish
• G22 Laminated Timber Columns (look closely at use of small/short pieces)
• K13 Board wall and ceiling linings
• Straw wall and ceiling lining
• K20 Timber board floor
• K21 Timber strip linings
• K40 Heraklith ceiling
• L10 Windows Timber inner
• L10 Plywood screens
• L19 Timber doors side of ventilation louvres
• L20 Timber door frames (use of contrasting short pieces in glue lam timber)
• L30 Laminated timber stair string
• L30 Plywood slat balustrades

AECB 2016 Conference Venue

Samples from the AECB conference

• exhibition
  • F20 IsoQuick raft foundation formwork (used in building)
  • L10 Green Building Store Windows
  • P11 Warmcel wall insulation (used in building)
  • P14 Proclima airtightness layers
• workshops
  • B14 Green Core Construction Panellised Hemp-Lime walls
• workshop and demonstrations
  • H91 Thatch including heather
  • H92 Rainscreen Panellised Thatch demonstration

© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan
18th July 2016 – 28th June 2017

• CAWS
• E20 Formwork
• E41 Worked Finishes/Cutting Insitu Concrete
• E70 Hemp-lime
• G20 Carpentry/Timber Framing/First Fix
• H21 Timber Weatherboarding
• H92 Rainscreen cladding
• L10 Timber Windows
• L14 Rooflights Roof Windows
• L15 External Solar Shading
• L19 Ventilation Louvres
• L20 Timber Doors Shutters Hatches
• M21
• P10
• P11
• Q40
• Q50 Landscape Furniture