› 8 TheStructuralEngineer Upfront December 2016 Institution news Structural Awards 2016: taking structural engineering to new heights The winners of The Structural Awards 2016 were announced on 11 November during a ceremony held at The Brewery in London. Over 380 people attended the event, which was hosted by BBC presenter Clive Myrie. On the night, the Institution presented its The new home for Oxford University’s of alternating radial and circumferential ultimate accolade – The Supreme Award School of Government features high- trusses. for Structural Engineering Excellence – to quality exposed concrete throughout. Its the Grandview Heights Aquatic Center in unusual form, established through a series Award for Structural Heritage Surrey, Canada, engineered by Fast + Epp. of stacked, off -set cylindrical and square Mount Stewart House The Center boasts the world’s most volumes, creates a variety of diff erent (County Down, Northern Ireland) slender, long-span timber catenary roof. spaces. The whole building is designed to Mann Williams The undulating roof shape reduces encourage openness and communication. This fi ne house was in need of a thorough the amount of air to be heated and overhaul. Signifi cant structural problems dehumidifi ed, cutting operational costs, Award for Pedestrian Bridges included the 8m span of the fi rst-fl oor while ingenious steel tube columns in the Elizabeth Quay Bridge (Perth, Australia) joists, the sag in the gallery round the facade serve a double function: resisting Arup octagonal hall, and partial failure of a large wind loads and acting as ventilator ducts. Elizabeth Quay is part of a bold plan to timber truss. The Awards judges said: “We were struck revitalise central Perth. This striking 22m by the undulating roof, which elegantly high cable-stayed bridge is the project’s Award for Infrastructure or balances structural form with building use centrepiece. The design benefi ted from the Transportation Structures and celebrates the expressed materials. use of a range of digital tools. Transformation of Birmingham New The adoption of timber in catenary Street Station (Birmingham, UK) permitted a structural depth of just Award for Sports or Leisure Structures Atkins/AKTII 300mm for a 55m span – a design which Etihad Stadium Expansion Birmingham New Street Station was defi es convention and demanded design (Manchester, UK) offi cially re-opened by the Queen in excellence.” BuroHappold Engineering November 2015 after a fi ve-year, £750M For full details of this year’s winners The project to expand Manchester City transformation. The new roof comprises an and shortlisted entries, visit www. Football Club’s stadium with a new South EFTE infl ated cushion system supported structuralawards.org. Stand saw engineers required to modify off curved steel tubular arch beams, which an existing cable-net roof with complex in turn are supported off two dramatic Awards winners geometry and load paths, while providing wishbone truss arches. Supreme Award for Structural continued rain protection to fans. Eighty- Engineering Excellence & Award for fi ve per cent of materials used for the Award for Arts or Entertainment Community or Residential Structures expansion were locally procured. Structures Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural (Surrey, Canada) Award for Small Projects Centre (Athens, Greece) Fast + Epp Formby Helical Stair (Formby, UK) Expedition Engineering & OMETE Webb Yates Engineers A new home for the Greek National Library Award for Sustainability A breath-taking, two-storey stone staircase and National Opera, the Centre features 5 Broadgate (London, UK) that springs from one landing and sweeps a number of engineering innovations. A BuroHappold unsupported through 320° to the next. super-slender, lightweight ferrocement Housing the European trading operations of The total weight of French Combe canopy roof is raised on slender columns Swiss bank, UBS, this 13-storey building is Brune limestone making up the stairs is over the whole building, and carries a huge the largest single let offi ce space in Europe. approximately 6.6t. solar panel array. The structure is a steel frame with concrete fl oors on profi led metal decking, founded on Award for Small Practices Award for Commercial or Retail a 1.75m thick reinforced-concrete raft. Expo2015 Hive (Milan, Italy & London, UK) Structures Simmonds Studio Torre BBVA Bancomer (Mexico City, Mexico) Award for Education or Healthcare A highly complex sculptural structure that Arup Structures was the centrepiece of the UK Pavilion at The Latin American HQ of the bank, BBVA Blavatnik School of Government the Milan Expo 2015. The Hive consists of Bancomer, and the tallest completed (Oxford, UK) 60 000 unique aluminium parts, formed in building in Mexico. The architecture Pell Frischmann a structural system of 31 stacked layers clearly expresses the engineering of the TTSE60_08-09SE60_08-09 InstInst Awards.inddAwards.indd 8 117/11/20167/11/2016 112:092:09 www.thestructuralengineer.org 9 5 Broadgate Grandview Heights Aquatic Cente r Blavatnik School of Government EMA PETER EMA JUMP EDDIE Elizabeth Quay Bridge Etihad Stadium Expansion Formby Helical Stair ARUP BUROHAPPOLD Expo2015 Hive Transformation of Birmingham New Street Station NETWORK RAIL NETWORK Torre BBVA Bancomer HUFTON+CROW Mount Stewart House structure. Engineers designed for Mexico City’s low-frequency earthquakes by placing the structural frame on the exterior of Stavros Niarchos Foundation the envelope. This eccentrically braced Cultural Centre megaframe acts as an external protective skeleton, carrying all the building’s lateral wind and seismic loads. 2017 Awards Next year will see the 50th anniversary of The Structural Awards, with entries opening in January. 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