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teel and brick – two of the cornerstones of British design, and two materials that have received recent boosts in the industry. The former from the £500m investment being made by the Government (but still dwarfed by Tata Steel’s reported £1.25bn committed spend at its Port Talbot works alone) in
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greener Electric Arc Furnaces which will make ‘British steel’ a viable global proposition for the future. The restructuring needed to end coal-based steel production will undoubtedly cause huge amounts of disruption and job losses, but nobody said that moving to more sustainable production that reduces reliance on fossil fuels was going to be easy. How diffi cult it will be in the short term, we don’t know. I recently got to visit Tata’s Shotton facility in North Wales, where the company demonstrated how its Building Systems UK division was innovating in MMC approaches in order to provide full offsite options using steel frame construction, from small domestic to large applications. A variety of delegates from across the sector, from steel fabricators to experts promoting sustainability standards, heard some interesting discussions, including how the Golden Thread approach of continuous project data could be applied in domestic settings, to create a new sense of value for sustainable building performance. One speaker (ex Arup QS, Kevin O’Grady) posited the compelling idea that homeowners could split investment in sustainable retrofi t of a property with a buyer, bolstered by a digital ‘data logbook’ containing unprecedented detail on those rigorously-designed retrofi t measures. I enjoyed a very different event in London recently, which both celebrated and helped to sustain the popularity of brick cladding in our industry, particularly among architects. The Brick Awards saw the softly-spoken owner of GMA Gerard Maccreanor earnestly praising brick from the stage as a ‘local material,’ but I fear his words were sadly lost on a large number of the very excitable audience (who even chatted through large chunks of George Clarke’s attempts to charm the attendees in his trademark way). There are some truly great projects among the winners, which we feature on pages 43 and 44. As well as the more ‘landmark’ schemes like the curvy Yoko Ono Lennon Centre in Liverpool, the larger residential projects demonstrate what might be an unexpected level of care and fl air at least where their brick detailing is concerned. Niall McLaughlin’s International Rugby Experience in Limerick (the Worldwide winner) looks fantastic, using vertical brick fi ns to lighten and enliven the overall feel of this new cultural destination, as well as providing shading on lower glazed sections.
However when it comes to the truly sustainable projects that the Brick Development Association is keen to promote, the refurbishment of Shrewsbury Flaxmill, a 19th century pioneer as the iron-framed ‘forerunner of the skyscraper’ is hard to beat. Feilden Clegg Bradley’s careful work was always going to be a restoration, not a tabula rasa, given its heritage, and we look forward to reporting on it in 2024.
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