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RIBA launches guidance for Client Advisers
RIBA has launched a new Professional Service Contract for Client Advisers which outlines the types of services they may offer, as well as providing guidance on how to appoint a RIBA Client Adviser, as distinct from an architect.
The RIBA Plan of Work 2020 “recognises the strategic role of Client Advisers at the very early stages of a project, before the architect and design team are appointed,” said RIBA. It added: “RIBA Client Advisors can play a unique role by enabling informed decision-making to ensure successful outcomes. They are professionals who work client-side to support, advise and direct the client through the life-cycle of a project.” Although a Client Adviser will work for the client, they remain independent from the design team, the body confirmed. RIBA Client Advisers are “highly-trained, experienced architects, specially chosen for their all-round design and quality assessment experience and business knowledge.” The Client Adviser Professional Services Contract can be purchased through the RIBA Contracts Digital tool. For more information on RIBA Client Advisers, and projects they work on, please visit
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MIXED USE
A ‘distinctively Belfast’ mixed use development
Designed by FCBStudios, a mixed-use development in Central Belfast that includes three exemplar ‘Grade A’ and SME workspace buildings plus new public realm has received planning approval. FCBStudios developed designs for the 167,000 ft² Smithfield Yard development for clients Bywater Properties and Ashmour Development NI that “reimagine a future for the Smithfield area,” said the architects. By integrating an existing listed building into a series of buildings of various scales and cladding materials, the “grain of the city is re-established where it is currently eroded,” they added. Smithfield Yard provides a mix of retail and workspaces that will support local economies and business within the historic Smithfield Market area, as well as providing “vibrant activity to the surrounding streets.” The North building is the largest of the three buildings, with 112,000 ft² of Grade A office accommodation over eight floors with amenity roof terraces, cycle storage and shower facilities. The ground floor’s spacious foyer is animated by retail units, maker spaces and a cafe, arranged around an arcade providing access to the central Yard. The building form reflects Belfast’s industrial heritage but is designed to meet modern business needs. Steel framed, it is clad in a combination of brick and pigmented, “sculpturally formed” precast. The design provides large amounts of natural light and a “robust thermal envelope,” contributing towards BREEAM Excellent energy targets.
The Gresham building is a five storey
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brick-clad office block providing 32,500 ft² of Grade A office accommodation over four floors, with ground floor units supporting smaller retail/food and beverage units. A generous floorplate is “readily sub-divisible, offering a more intimate, modern office for Belfast businesses or smaller international companies that are keen to co-locate with larger corporates in the North building.” The Sawtooth Building is three storeys and 5,000 ft² and clad in zinc with a distinctive ‘sawtooth’ roof, referencing the shed buildings that characterised industrial Belfast’s ‘backlands’ of the past, and bringing in north light to the upper floor. The Gresham and Sawtooth buildings’ common entrance foyer leads into The Yard, “ensuring that there is activity at the heart of the development,” said the architects. Sam Tyler, partner, FCBStudios said
“Smithfield Yard will create an ecosystem of workplaces from large grade A office to informal co-working spaces.” The development includes the refurbishment of a Grade B1 listed former ‘Butcher’s Building’ into a series of smaller workspaces and social areas, which reinstates architectural features such as staircases, cornices, mouldings and roof lights. “In keeping the heritage buildings, the
design not only retains the embodied carbon of the existing building stock but keeps the history and character of the area at the forefront. The new build elements are low energy and designed for a long, flexible life.”
ADF DECEMBER 2020
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