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New schools still built
Atkins scoops award
Atkins was crowned
Engineering Firm of the Year in
without sprinklers
the 2009 Middle East Architect
Awards in Dubai. Overall the as the risk is too high based on
engineering consultancy was n
New schools are being
constructed without sprinkler the previous record within a local
shortlisted as a finalist in three systems because they are still not
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education authority (LEA), so they
categories, including Young a mandatory requirement under are effectively self-insured by the
Architect of the Year and Best the Building Regulations – despite LEA, i.e. the taxpayer.
Completed Project. industry tests determining they ‘A risk-based tool was developed
www.constructionweekonline. should be included. by BRE in 2005 for this very reason.
com/meaa Figures released by Partnership It allowed for many different
for Schools (PfS), the body which aspects of design, materials, and
Foster’s $3m gift manages the Building Schools arson record before providing
Pritzker-Prize laureate and for the Future (BSF) programme, a yes/no on whether the school
Yale School of Architecture revealed that more than a quarter should be fitted with sprinklers. In
graduate Norman Foster of the 74 brand new buildings built almost all test combinations the
has donated $3m (£1.8m) to to date have been constructed answer was “yes” to sprinklers.’
the college to fund a visiting without sprinkler systems. In total, not installed as life safety systems But a PfS spokeswoman
professorship in his name. This 127 schools have been rebuilt or but more for the protection of the said alternative ‘fire engineered
will allow students at Yale to be refurbished under the scheme. property. solutions’ can be installed in
taught by some of the leading But Peter Stephenson, principal ‘Ultimately, the decision to install very low-risk schools or those
international practitioners in fire safety engineer at Kingfell sprinklers should be based on a full where sprinklers are not the most
the field of architecture. Consulting, said PfS had abided by evaluation of all risks.’ ‘appropriate form of fire protection’.
the law: ‘It must be remembered His colleague David Kershaw- According to Stephenson, the
Capita spreads to UAE that it is not a mandatory Wright, Kingfell’s business reasons why sprinklers have not
Capita Symonds has opened requirement to install sprinklers development manager, said that been included should be made
a new office in the United under current Building Regulations, another factor was insurance. clear during the decision-making
Arab Emirates capital, Abu and in most circumstances they are ‘Many schools are not insured process.
Dhabi. It will enable the multi-
disciplinary consultancy to
concentrate on working in the
School building now under ‘one roof’
real estate and infrastructure
sectors. The government has awarded transfer to PfS from the Department Devolved Capital Programmes
Partnership for Schools (PfS) for Children, Schools and Families for schools, worth almost £7.8bn
Saudi scheme responsibility for managing the (DCSF). in the CSR period up to 2011, and
Multi-disciplinary consultancy £21.6bn worth of rebuilding According to the DCSF, PfS the Targeted Capital Programmes,
WSP Group has won a contract programmes for all schools up until has already put in place day-to- which provides funding for a range
to project manage a large-scale 2011. day management of the Building of targeted projects, including
urban regeneration scheme The move makes the PfS Schools for the Future (BSF) and carbon reduction and school
in Saudi Arabia. The HEC responsible for the entire Academies building programmes, kitchens – almost £2.6bn in the CSR
development will be 156sq km, Comprehensive Spending Review which are rebuilding or refurbishing period up to 2011.
with Phase One covering (CSR). It follows the announcement all secondary schools in England. It is hoped this will lead to
28sq km, and should take in June by Schools Minister Vernon Now its remit will expand to include consistent delivery models and
30 years to complete. One of Coaker that all school building and the Primary Capital Programme. standards, as well as better sharing
WSP’s roles is to conduct a refurbishment programmes would It is also now responsible for the of learning and good practice.
master-plan review. WSP has
also recently been appointed
to advise IKEA Real Estate on
The ‘living wall’
shopping centre developments
worldwide.
of China
BDP has won a competition
World’s greenest homes? to design a new town square
Rick Fedrizzi, president of the and public park in the historic
US Green Building Council, has quarter of Shenzhen in China.
declared the post-Hurricane The winning design includes a
Katrina housing initiative, being new park shaped by a network
built by the ‘Make It Right’ New of pathways, a lotus pool with
Orleans project, the ‘largest associated waterfalls, interactive
and greenest community of fountains, a reflecting solar pool,
single-family homes in the and individual enclosed gardens
world’. The claim was made and expansive lawns that will
at the annual Clinton Global create a ‘living wall’ from east
Initiative meeting in New York. to west.
10 CIBSE Journal November 2009 www.cibsejournal.com
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