Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Last night should have seen the presentation of a range of awards for the best new buildings and refurbished, altered and conserved buildings in Cambridge for 2019. The awards evening was cancelled due to the Coro19 pandemic, however Cambridge Design and Construction this press release announces the winners and commendations that would have been handed out and applauded on the night. Award Categories

Cambridge has a long history of architectural excellence with • Best New Building of 2019 over £2m construction cost the Colleges acting as patrons over many centuries. More recently the City has been through a period of enormous • Best New Building of 2019 under £2m construction cost growth both inside the City and around the perimeter with new developments emerging at Eddington and West Cambridge • Best Conservation, Alteration or Extension to an existing building over £2m for the University, the Biomedical Campus at Addenbrookes construction cost. Hospital and the ring of science parks and new neighbourhoods surrounding the historic core. • Best Conservation, Alteration or Extension to an existing building under £2m This year’s awards illustrate the enormous range of construction • Sustainability and Engineering Award projects in the City from the very large development forming Cambridge Assessments new office campus to the tiny gem • Craftsmanship Award of a terrace house owned and lovingly decorated by the 19th C craftsman and designer David Parr. The awards recognise mould breaking projects such as Marmalade Lane Co-housing as well as the craftsmanship and engineering excellence of projects such as Other categories of award from the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry included the new Cambridge Mosque. It was a difficult and exciting year to be asked to judge such a range of submissions. • Site manager of the year award Inevitably the judging looked at projects through the lens of the current climate crisis and the bar for projects needing to deliver both a social inclusiveness agenda and a sustainability agenda Cambridge City Council Considerate was particularly high. Contractor Scheme Awards Categories The awards recognise those that aspire to retain the excellence that marks Cambridge out as different from other Cities. The • Main Award CFCI is a body that represents all those who contribute to the built environment, from those commissioning the buildings to the • The Cambridge City Council Works in progress Award crafts people who deliver and finish them off.

The CDCAwards are sponsored by the Cambridge Forum for • The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Award the Construction Industry and Cambridge City Council. Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best New Building – Large (over £2 million construction costs)

There was tough competition for this year’s awards in all categories and the final decisions reflected the level of design and workmanship that is being seen across the city. The Best New Building – Large (over £2 million construction costs) saw two commendations and two winners.

Winner Cambridge Assessment The two winners cover two very different types of new building. Cambridge Assessment is a large complex, office campus, with well-planned interiors providing exemplar environments for work and wellbeing for a 2,500 strong community. The podium top gardens and sequences of external spaces are carefully handled to ensure daylight and a connection to the natural world was present through all the internal spaces. The whole building has been constructed with immense care and very fine finishes which were highly praised by the judging panel.

Project Team Client / Cambridge Assessment Architect / Eric Parry Architects Contractor / Bouygues UK Structural Engineer / Ramboll UK Service Engineers / Max Fordham Landscape Architects / Grant Associates Tricon / Catering Interior Design / BDP Interiors Project Management / Turner and Townsend Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant / AECOM Facade Consultants / FMDC Public Art Artists / Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best New Building – Large (over £2 million construction costs)

Winner Marmalade Lane Co Housing The other winner in this category was Marmalade Lane. This cohousing scheme was a project that offered highly flexible modular dwelling types which have been successfully implemented on part of Orchard Park to the north of the city centre. The scheme is in stark contrast to the neighbouring properties. The focus on community and the diversity of the built form of the exteriors has created a quality piece of urban architecture. The scheme was applauded for the whole approach to co housing, inclusion and well-being as well as delivering a strong sustainability agenda. The determination of the whole team including the end users, the designers, constructors, and the developer to see the project through was praised by the judges.

Project Team Commissioner / Cambridge City Council Quantity surveyor / Monaghans Client / TOWN and Trivselhus Project management / Monaghans Architects / Mole Architects Contractor / Coulson Building Group Structural engineer / Elliott Wood Timber panel system / Trivselhus AB Civil engineer / Elliott Wood CLT system / Eurban M&E engineer / Hoare Lea K1 Cohousing client advisor / Instinctively Green Landscape architect / Jamie Buchanan Agent / Savills Sustainability consultants / Co-create Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best New Building – Large (over £2 million construction costs)

Commendation Royal Papworth Hospital

Royal Papworth Hospital was applauded for its contribution to healthcare and community in Cambridge. It was judged to have delivered an excellent working environment for its staff and patients. The quality of experience of patients and family members visiting this building is in stark contrast to most hospitals in the UK and was applauded. The internal spaces, the efficient way the building allowed staff to perform their duties and the ease of wayfinding were all to be celebrated. The light was described as ‘extraordinary’ by the judges.

Project Team Client / Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Contractor / Skanska Design Team / Architect HOK MEP / Troup, Bywaters + Anders Engineering Partnership Structural Engineer / Skanska

Photography: Chris Ansell Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best New Building – Large (over £2 million construction costs)

Commendation The Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre This well-designed, elegant arts building spans everyday use by the Perse School and acts as a teaching theatre and performance space. The judges considered it to be an admirable building. It provides the school with a wonderful facility, carefully designed to a tight sustainability agenda. The facility would grace any city centre and is a great asset for the school.

Project Team Client / The Perse School Architects / Haworth Tompkins Contractor / RG Carter Theatre Consultant / Charcoalblue Structural Engineer / Price & Myers Services Engineer / Skelly & Couch Acoustic Engineer / Charcoalblue Quantity Surveyor / AECOM Artist (foyer wall hanging) / Victoria Morton Plantsman / The Plant Specialist Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best New Building – Small (under £2 million construction costs)

Winner 2b Derwent Close This single storey house was considered to be a delightful surprise when the judges visited the site. The external form and materials were handled in a careful manner which works well in the streetscene. The house is inward looking, screened by brick and lime mortar garden walls with the roofscape appearing over the walls forming elegant copings. The low budget building sits comfortably with it’s neighbours and delivers a modest but carefully considered spatial arrangement following Arts and Crafts precedents but in a modern idiom.

Project Team Client / Jenny Ogilvie and Akimichi Inaba Architect / Haysom Ward Miller Contractor / Croucher Combined Services Structural Engineer / Cambridge Architectural Research

Photo: Richard Fraser photography Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best Conservation, Alteration and Extension - Large (over £2 million construction costs)

Winner The Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School The judges found that the new Sainsbury Centre extension to the 19th C Hospital building ( previously altered and converted to designs by John Outram for the Judge Business School ) delivered a masterful massing and composition to the side of the building facing Downing College and Tennis Court Road. The external materials and composition of the façade is a delight. The design carefully knits a new and very different architectural style into the framework of Outram’s earlier interventions. The quality of the construction, especially the exposed frame, was applauded. The new extension integrates well into the tight constraints of the site in this very built up part of the city.

Project Team Client / University of Cambridge Environmental / M&E Engineer / Arup Funder / The Monument Trust and University of Cambridge Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant / Gardiner & Theobald User / Cambridge Judge Business School Project Management / Currie & Brown Architect / Stanton Williams Landscape Architect / BHSLA Contractor / SDC Builders Acoustic Engineer / AAD Strategic Project Manager / Stuart A Johnson Consulting Structural Engineer / AKT II Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best Conservation, Alteration and Extension - Small (under £2 million construction costs)

Winner The David Parr House The David Parr House in Gwydir Street is an extraordinary example of a hidden part of the Victorian housing in the city that has been saved from alteration and conserved for others to now enjoy it. The conservation work has been at the right level for the original detailing to be enjoyed and any repairs to fit in with their surroundings. The project conserved delicate artifacts, fabrics and decorations within the house which suffered from damp. The balance between conservation, repair and communication to a wider public was exemplary. The project also adapted the adjoining terrace property as a visitor’s centre. The numbers of visitors allowed inside the Parr house itself at any one time is extremely limited. The judges wanted to praise both the conservation work and the creation of the visitor’s centre.

Project Team Client / David Parr Charitable Incorporated Organisation Conservation architect / Cowper Griffith Architects LLP Main Contractor / F. A. Valiant & Son Ltd. Specialist subcontractors/ Simon Swann Associates and G.Cook & Sons Ltd Secelec Electrical Services Tobit Curteis Associates Huning Decorations Paint analysis / Hamilton Kerr Institute and Jane Davies Conservation Architectural Paint Research Cost Consultant / Sheriff Tiplady Associates Students from Lincoln University conserved the lincrusta panels The Team for the Visitors’ Centre (184 Gwydir Street) / Twitchett Architect (Visitors’ Centre) Interior Design / Will Shannon Adams & Newman Ltd. Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best Conservation, Alteration and Extension - Small (under £2 million construction costs)

Winner Nos. 33-34 Trumpington Street This group of 15th and 16th C buildings is another hidden gem which has been meticulously repaired and refurbished. The complex of timber framed buildings sits opposite the much grander Fitzwilliam Museum, but still makes a distinctive contribution to the streetscene. The lane and yard from the original layout have been reopened and the scheme creates collegiate sets for academics from Peterhouse College who own the building with two shops restored and re-opened on the ground floor. The project peeled back layers of alteration and additions, exposing original staircases structures, 16th C glass, a witches sign and delicate building fabric. These were all carefully recorded and repaired with skilled crafts persons delivering new and repaired reed plaster, lime render, pargetting, oak frame repairs, glazing repairs and joinery. The conservation has achieved excellent results.

Project Team Client / Peterhouse Architect/Project Manager and Heritage & Conservation / Bidwells LLP Planning & Conservation Authority / Cambridge City Council Mechanical & Electrical Engineer /BBSD Ltd Interior Designer / Tim Marshall Design Main Contractor / Thorwood Construction Ltd Pargeter / Anna Kettle Leaded Window Restoration / Chapel Studio Structural Engineer / Wright Consulting Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Best Conservation, Alteration and Extension - Small (under £2 million construction costs)

Commendation Conservation project at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Gallery III This project was commended for its attention to detail in both the roof repairs conservation and craftsmanship as well as the refurbishment of the dramatic interior to Gallery III. The judges applauded the Fitzwilliam and the construction team for the continuing programme of repair and conservation at the museum.

Project Team Client / University of Cambridge Paint/Plaster Conservation / Cliveden Conservation Architect / AMA Chartered Architects Electrical Subcontractor / Eyre Building Services Group Structural Engineer / Andrew Firebrace PartnershipLtd Scaglioli Repairs / Gem Conservation Ltd Quantity Surveyor / Henry Riley LLP Paint Analysis / Crick-Smith Ltd Sheet Metal Workers / Norman & Underwood Internal Gallery Lighting / Precision Lighting Ltd Glass Conservation / Glass Made Art Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Craftsmanship Award

The awards also celebrate the craftsmanship that is involved with the construction and renovation of the buildings in the city. For the 2019 awards, there were two winning buildings.

Winner The Cambridge Central Mosque The mosque incorporates craftsmanship and engineering detail in ways which reflect both traditional architecture and a modern interpretation of detail. The traditional elements range from the brick patterning on the facades to the carved marble fountain in the entrance garden, inlaid marquetry doors and floor patterns. The modern elements of the Glulam timber tree structures were also praised for their modern engineering craftsmanship.

Project Team Client / The Cambridge Mosque Trust Architect / Marks Barfield Architects Project Manager / Bidwells Structural Engineer / Price & Myers (construction) /Jacobs (planning) Timber Engineer / Blumer Lehmann Building Services Engineer / Skelly & Couch Landscape Architec / Emma Clark with Urquhart & Hunt Geometric Artist / Professor Keith Critchlow Cost Consultant / Faithful & Gould Acoustic Consultant / Ramboll Fire Consultant / Harris TPS Approved Inspector / MLM Timber Consultant / Smith & Wallwork Engieners CDM Principal Designer / Faithful & Gould Planning Consultant / Bidwells Main Contractor / Gilbert-Ash Cambridge Design and Construction Awards / 2019

Craftsmanship Award

Winner Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre This perfoming arts building was praised for the high quality of the interior in particular. The concrete structure, timber engineering, the joinery and fitting out of the foyer and the theatre were all beautifully conceived and finished. The building was constructed to a high standard of workmanship.

Sustainability and Engineering Award

Winner The Cambridge Central Mosque The Mosque was praised by the Judges for the careful analysis of the occupancy and use of the building, the site and the opportunities to deliver a modern building with a relatively low embodied carbon footprint using engineered timber for the primary structures. The careful analysis of daylighting and energy usage in a large internal volume was also praised. The building uses screened natural ventilation air intake through a basement to cool and ventilate the upper floor through a largely passive approach. There is no fossil fuel use on site with all heating demands met using an air source heat pump. The distinctive timber engineering of the tree structures forming the primary support for the roof throughout was also praised for the precision of the design, fabrication and installation.

Project Team Client / The Cambridge Mosque Trust Cost Consultant / Faithful & Gould Architect / Marks Barfield Architects Acoustic Consultant / Ramboll Project Manager / Bidwells Fire Consultant / Harris TPS Structural Engineer / Price & Myers (construction) Approved Inspector / MLM /Jacobs (planning) Timber Consultant / Smith & Wallwork Engieners Timber Engineer / Blumer Lehmann CDM Principal Designer / Faithful & Gould Building Services Engineer / Skelly & Couch Planning Consultant / Bidwells Landscape Architec / Emma Clark with Urquhart & Hunt Main Contractor / Gilbert-Ash Geometric Artist / Professor Keith Critchlow Cambridge City Council Considerate Contractor Scheme Winners and Commendations for 2019

Sustainability and Engineering Award Commendation Marmalade Lane The judges praised Marmalade Lane as an exemplar of thoughtful design with sutainable communities at the heart of the project. The project is a shining example of delivery high design quality alongside high thermal performance of the fabric using modular construction methods.

The Considerate Contractor Scheme Awards are presented annually to firms that have made significant efforts to minimise noise and disruption on building projects in the city, with due consideration for neighbours and members of the public in keeping sites safe, clean and accountable.

Overall Winner 2019 Geoffrey Osborne Ltd This year the top Considerate Contractor Award sponsored by builder’s merchants Ridgeons, in association with the CFCI, was awarded to Geoffrey Osborne Ltd for their work to construct four student accommodation buildings on behalf of St Edmund’s College on the site of the former Mount Pleasant House, Huntingdon Road. Given the site location, traffic management throughout the project was important as was communication with residents and businesses. Osborne’s were very keen from the commencement of the works to engage locally and a number of invitations to visit site were made. Cambridge City Council Considerate Contractor Scheme Winners and Commendations for 2019

Certificates of Excellence were awarded to R G Carter for their project at Bodley Court, King’s College where extensive works took place to re-roof the building. This required the re-opening of the of the Colleyweston slate mine in Northamptonshire. SDC were also awarded a Certificate of Excellence for their project on behalf of the National Institute of Agriculture and Botany (NIAB) where at Lawrence Weaver Road a new state of the art laboratory, growth rooms, office facilities and new reception were constructed.

The Cambridge City Council Works in Progress Award for ongoing projects of more than two years’ duration was awarded to Bouygues (UK) Ltd for their ongoing project on the University’s West Cambridge site. Here the new Cavendish Laboratory facility is under construction and this is Bodley Court, King’s College National Institute of Agriculture and Botany currently the city’s largest construction project being undertaken.

The Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce Award for contractors undertaking small to medium sized projects was presented to the Coulson Building Group for their work to construct the new Milton Road Library. This also included a number of new residential properties. A Certificate of Excellence in this category was awarded to Bayard Construction for their efforts in complying with the scheme at their project to refurbish the Cherry Hinton Road Care Home.

Cavendish Laborary, West Cambridge site Milton Road Library CFCI Award for Site Manager of the Year

CFCI Award for site manager of the year This year’s award for site manager of the year has been awarded to Alex Pett, Site Manager at Morgan Sindall Construction. The award for Alex is true testament to the payback from investing in young professionals early in their career. Alex first started at Morgan Sindall in a placement year from Nottingham Trent and after obtaining a first class degree returned to work for the company full time. Despite being thrown into the deep end on a £40million project, Alex excelled through the Morgan Sindall graduate programme with a ‘hunger for opportunity and responsibility’ and was promoted to Site Manager in 2019. Alex was particularly praised for starting initiatives within the business on mental health and Human Performance training, seeking to improve others as well as himself. He is currently Site Manager on a new ‘forest school’, which alongside the day job he regularly hosts students on site to help development as the next generation of professionals for the construction industry. Cambridge Design and Construction Award Judges for 2019. Dame Fiona Reynolds. Master of Emmanuel College Cambridge and past Director General of the National Trust

Di Haig. Architect and Chair of the City Council Cambridge Design and Conservation Panel

Councillor Katie Thornburrow. Architect and Executive Councillor for Planning Policy and Open Spaces, Cambridge City Council

Gavin Heaphy CFCI Trustee and Construction Director for Cambridge University North West Cambridge Team

Meredith Bowles. Architect and CFCI Trustee

David Emond Architect and CFCI Trustee

Engineering and Sustainability Award Judges Joel Gustafsson, Engineer Max Fordham and CFCI trustee

Bob Ensch, Area Director Morgan Sindall and CFCI trustee

Simon Smith, Engineer and Chairman of CFCI trustees.