2017 BUILDING CRAFTS AWARD: sponsored by Pilbeam Construction
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The Gateway Project comprises of two separate clusters of buildings. Both principal anchor buildings are roofed from 60,000 local English chestnut shakes, cut from Prickly Nut Wood near Lodsworth, Sussex by two local woodsmen and their teams, to ensure a truly local and sustainable product from the outset.The roofing sub-contractor, Kingsley Roofing, was appointed by the main contractor, Pilbeam Construction, to construct the unique natural roofs on the north and south anchor buildings for The Gateway Project at the Museum.
Submitted by: Matthew Richardson, ABIR Architects, Hove. www.abir.co.uk
Architect: ABIR Architects.
Contractors: Pilbeam Construction, Brighton. www.pilbeamconstruction.co.uk
A combination of random knapped flint with knapped flint quoins and coursed knapped flint, for the walls and roof to the education room, and to the entrance aedicule forms an important part of the contextual design for the Depot Lewes, rooting it through craft traditions, in its locality.
Submitted by: Burrell Foley Fischer LLP, London. www.bff-architects.com
Architect: Burrell Foley Fischer LLP
Craftsmen: The Flintman Company Ltd, Brighton. www.flintman.co.uk
The project’s aim was to create a link between a basement office and the family home. The staircase was inspired by the relics of partially submerged fishing boats on the mud flats on the River Adur.
Submitted by: Grain Furniture, Iford nr. Lewes. www.grainfurniture.co.uk
Craftsman: Jodie Flaherty Rigg, Grain Furniture
Picture: Jim Stephenson
The conservation and repair of the Grade II listed, 16th-century box framed barn. Careful repairs to large scale 16th-century timber sections involving the following components: oak trusses and jowled posts, oak purlins & rafters and oak box frame (in-situ repairs).
Submitted by: Nicola Davies, Savills (UK) Ltd, Petworth. www.savills.co.uk
Project Officer/Designer: Nicola Davies MCIAT, Savills (UK) Ltd.
Site Manager: Simon Medhurst, S & P Comber Ltd, East Grinstead. www.comberandson.co.uk
Contractors: John Comber, S & P Comber Ltd.Craftsmen: Phil Gregory (Carpenter/Joinery Foreman), S & P Comber Ltd.
Other: Robin Nugent RIBA (Conservation Architect), Robin Nugent Architects, Horsham. www.robinnugentarchitects.co.uk | Adrian Warburton (Structural Engineer), Dixon Hurst Kemp, Horsham. www.dhk.co.uk | Huw Lloyd (Timber Defect Specialists), Environmental Building Solutions Ltd, Milton Keynes. www.ebssurvey.co.uk
The Grade II listed Dove Cote was not a large project but important to the history of Eastbourne, originally forming part of the farm yard for the Duke of Devonshire, where the adjacent pond is the source of the Bourne spring from which East-Bourne got its name.
Submitted by: Clarke Roofing Southern Ltd, Eastbourne. www.clarke-roofing.co.uk
Site Manager: Karl Strudwick, Clarke Roofing Southern Ltd.
Contractors: Woods Scaffolding, Eastbourne. Tel: 01323 644 467.
Craftsmen: Karl Strudwick, Robert Sedgwick, Mark Ince (Clarke Roofing Personnel).