Case Studies
Outstanding projects highlighting services design and operation
July 2020
Health provider: The Samson Pavilion at Cleveland Clinic
With significant variation in seasonal temperatures and occupant density, the HVAC systems modelled at the Samson Pavilion in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, by Foster + Partners…
July 2020
healthcare facilities
Chamber music: Brinson Staniland Partnership’s earth labyrinth ventilation for Kent College’s Great Hall
To help maintain comfort conditions in Kent College’s Great Hall, air is cooled using five giant, subterranean concrete chambers. Andy Pearson speaks to engineer Brinson…
June 2020
Cooling
Adapting to university life: UCL’s Student Centre emerges from lockdown
The new Student Centre at University College London has reopened after lockdown, and its flexible design means numbers can increase as social distancing guidelines change.…
June 2020
building engineering
Healthy and smart: Edge’s plans for a London Bridge office tower
Smart-office pioneer Edge is coming to London and aiming for the highest ratings possible for Breeam and Well certification. Andy Pearson speaks to Atelier Ten’s…
May 2020
Health and wellbeing
A marvel of science: Institute of Physics headquarters
The Institute of Physics’ innovative use of ground source heat pumps helped it secure the Commercial/Industrial Project of the Year accolade at the CIBSE Building…
April 2020
heat pumps
Rapid response: delivering a 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale Hospital in nine days
When ExCeL was chosen as the site for an NHS Nightingale Hospital, the project team had nine days to build a 4,000-bed critical care facility…
April 2020
hospitals
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