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Lincoln’s Sarah Swift Building wins peer approval


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NEW academic building – named after Lincolnshire’s Dame Sarah Swift, founder of the Royal College of Nursing in 1916 – is home to the University of Lincoln’s School of Health and Social Care and Psychology. Comprising a broad spectrum of research and learning spaces that spans from offices and laboratories to teaching areas and nurse training facilities, the five-storey building is designed to enhance student learning. As the new 5,500 sqm building houses laboratories which include vibration- sensitive equipment, the main contractor had to meet challenging design specifications. A key element of the brief for this specialist building was to create spaces that have the right environmental conditions, vibration levels and acoustic separation for their different functions, while ensuring the building remains simple to commission, build and operate. EOS designed and manufactured a


robust steel framing infill panel solution for the Sarah Swift Building to meet the project brief. Bespoke zed bars were developed for overhang and intumescent paint clearance. The restrictive site presented access challenges and storage limitations – offsite technology provided the optimum solution. All deliveries were colour coded by floor and craned directly into the correct location. Through careful design detailing and value engineering, EOS was able to design and offsite manufacture the highest quality steel framing solution to deliver this environmentally sustainable project on time and to budget. In order to achieve the most effective design possible, the engineering team developed 3D models of all rooms at an early stage to ensure the users’ requirements were clearly captured. This resulted in a flat slab structural design allowing for a straightforward installation of services and offering greater


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adaptability to meet future uses. Light gauge steel framing systems offer unparalleled freedom to construct faster and more accurately. The combination of strength, durability and precision engineering ensures steel framing systems offer broad parameters to explore innovative solutions and optimise value engineering. This offsite construction project was delivered in half the time that could be achieved using traditional methods. Steel is renowned for its longevity and ability to be multicycled – providing no onsite waste thus enabling a more sustainable future. Factory controlled manufacturing conditions eradicate the risk of onsite variability, delivering safer construction and improved health and safety onsite – reducing the risk of unexpected delays and costs during the build. The Sarah Swift Building project won the Celebrating Construction Award for Offsite Project of the Year in the Offsite Construction Awards, as well as Healthcare Project of the Year in the same awards. Steve Thompson, Managing Director of EOS said of the awards success: "Not only is the building outstanding but the pioneering work that is taking place


within makes this accolade even more rewarding. Through close collaboration with the architects and engineers, we were able to design and offsite manufacture the highest quality steel framing solutions to deliver an environmentally sustainable project that met the challenging brief. This award is testament to a progressive approach, the dedication of the EOS team and the partnerships we have formed with some of the most forward-thinking companies in the construction industry." Thompson added: “2019 has been a


great award-winning year for the EOS team. These accolades are the result of continual investment in our advanced manufacturing facility and commitment to research and development. As part of Etex Building Performance which brings together the products and solutions of three dry construction materials companies, our combined expertise in drywall, passive fire protection and steel framing systems has created a range of unique solutions from the building envelope to internal linings, partitions and penetrations.”


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