Key details
| Project Scope: | Refurbishment of existing building into Health and Well-being Centre |
| Client: | University of Suffolk |
| Architect: | KLH Architects |
| Contractor: | Barnes Construction |
Key features
- IStructE Award for Structural Excellence
- Superstructures undertook the structural and civils and drainage design. The project included a new feature glass lift tower building, refurbishment and alteration of existing four-storey building and construction of new extension
- A slender, steel frame structure with the primary structural and bracing elements expressed in bright yellow and clad in glass
- Visible from Ipswich’s historic Waterfront.
- Narrow building footprint and glass cladding created challenging, horizontal deflection situation under wind loading
- Poor ground conditions required piled foundations
- Careful consideration of design and detailing of exposed steelwork
- Extensive modernising refurbishment works of existing building
- Addition of a single-storey extension within a tight site
