CWCT AGM & Members Meeting

BDA will be attending the CWCT AGM and Members Meeting 2025.

Cuba Street Residential Tower

BDA are working with Ballymore on Cuba Street Residential Tower, London Canary Wharf.

BDA will be attending the ZAK London conference for the Chapter Living project.

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BDA are happy to pass on more good news for the Cadenza commercial building on Earlsfort Terrace. The building has attained GOLD Level for Final Performance Review to WELL v1, Q3 2018 on 30th January 2024. BDA were involved in this development on all stages resulting in an exceptional building wrapped on the two prominent sides with a suspended limestone clad veil, providing shade to the office glazing and reflected light deep into the floorplates. This all hovers over the ground floor which consists of largely shaded 6.8 metre curved glass units to open up the entrance area. Together these greatly enhance the quality of the working environment.

The final panel has been installed on One Nine Elms. BDA are proud to have been involved in this project from the very outset through to completion. A great example of outstanding teamwork and collaboration from Multiplex, KPF, Yuanda and the whole team.

BDA are pleased to see the One Crown Place project win three awards against strong international competition:

• One Crown Place (Best Tall Building Europe)

• One Crown Place (Best Tall Building 100-199 meters)

• One Crown Place (Best Tall Mixed-Use Building)

2022 Building of the Year Awards: Medium Office Award

Irish Times Article

The BCO NextGen event took place in the Storey Club at 100 Liverpool Street.

Architect: MAKE

Contractor: Balfour Beatty

BDA send our congratulations to MAKE for a stunning design.

Architect: KPF

Contractor: MACE

BDA send our congratulations to MACE

Grafton Architects' Kingston Town House in London wins the Mies van der Rohe Award, in a first for a university building.

The Wardian, London project is a finalist in the 2022 Tall Buildings Awards for Best Residential Tall Building Project and Best Tall Building Client.

Colman Billings presents ‘Going Tall’ at the Zak World of Facades conference, Dublin 2022.

The Kingston University London Town House designed by Grafton Architects wins the 2021 Sterling Prize.

Learn more here: www.dezeen.com

The former An Post site at Cardiff Lane and Hanover Street has been developed by Marlet Property Group and designed by Henry J Lyons Architects. The new building offers a seven storey high commercial office building, built to the highest construction standards. The Sorting Office project was completed in July 2020 and has since been awarded LEED Platinum certification.

The external façade consists of a combination of acid etched precast concrete panels with large aluminium unitised curtain wall frames, incorporating high performance insulated glass units. The average weight of the glass units are in excess of 600 kg per pane.

Both the South and East elevations of the building have horizontal and vertical perforated aluminium brise soleil fins, strategically placed to minimise solar gains. The upper terrace levels are set back to create external terrace gardens with a fully transparent cantilever glass balustrade framing the perimeter of the building for the occupants’ comfort.

Grafton’s Kingston University Townhouse project has been shortlisted for the 2022, European Commission, Mies van der Rohe award. BDA were involved throughout the process from early design and tender to design development and site review. The use of multi-level clear curtain walling to vast communal areas provides truly transparent façades, opening up the building to the public. This was a successful translation of the architects intent.

See the article on Building Design linked for the shortlisted projects from the UK showing The Kingston University Townhouse as a prime contender:

https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/revealed-the-uk-contenders-for-the-eu-mies-award-2022/5110180.article

This project also won a 2021 Civic Trust Award:

https://www.civictrustawards.org.uk/winners/kingston-university-london-town-house

BDA have been involved in this landmark project since 2013, initially with KPF and latterly Multiplex and R&F. With its scale, rich mixture of uses and elegant design the project has given BDA the opportunity to exercise our full range of skills and has given us the chance to help create a stunning world class project creating some of the tallest residential towers in Europe. The project comprises a 56 storey City Tower, a separate 42 storey River Tower and a 173 room luxury hotel that will occupy the lower floors of the River Tower up to the 18th floor.  Upon completion, the development will provide in excess of 730,000 sq ft of residential apartments, 267,000 sq ft of hotel accommodation and 1,000 sq ft of retail outlets. A stunning residential lounge and sky garden will be located on level 50, offering panoramic views of London across the River Thames.

BDA have been closely involved with Santiago Calatrava and his team from the project’s inception. It will become the world’s tallest man-made structure. Construction started in October 2016. The foundations alone involved the excavation of 170,000 m³ of earth and used  15,000 tonnes of steel and 211,000 tonnes of concrete. The project itself has a cost of $1 billion dollars. The extreme climate and the building’s great height have made the design process for BDA both challenging and fascinating. When complete, the building will provide a stunning, elegant viewing platform, affording spectacular views of Dubai Creek and beyond.

Main Contractor: Balfour Beatty

Client: Manchester University

Specialist Façade Subcontractor: Sipral

Concept Architect: Mecanoo

Delivery Architect: Building Design Partnership

The project moves ahead at a pace. It comprises Manchester University’s Engineering faculty. The majority of the façade is complete and Sipral are currently anticipating early delivery of same. The system is unitised and highly insulated. The design incorporates fritting on the glass that is functional, delivering a low ‘G’ value and at the same time playing an important part in the aesthetics of the building.

Main Contractor: BAM

Client: Ballymore Hines

Specialist Façade Subcontractor: Rinaldi Structal

Concept Architect: Sidell Gibson HLM

Delivery Architect: Weedons

This comprises a super prime office scheme in central Birmingham. The project is moving fast towards practical completion. July saw the installation of the last element. The project forms the last part of the Snowhill masterplan. The design is principally unitised, with very large format stick curtain walling at the ground floor level.

Main Contractor: Balfour Beatty

Client: LBS Properties

Specialist Façade Subcontractor: Yuanda

Architect: Make

This project, moving fast towards practical completion, comprises a 53 storey prime residential pencil tower, in London’s docklands. July saw the topping out ceremony that BDA were proud to attend. The design is principally unitised with very large format stick curtain walling at the ground floor level and at the 16th floor level. Fins of varying geometry are incorporated, creating a rippled effect, linking the design to the surrounding docks and the river Thames.

The MECD development reached another milestone in September, topping out at level 7. Well done to Balfour Beatty, the University, and the team. Here we see the topped out structure and the start of unitised install.

Designed by Hopkins Architects for British Land, this office and retail building has flexible floor plates and keeping the original structural frame, uses a gently curving façade to give it an updated look. This September, we see the new curved lines and work under way on a set of installed façade panels.

March visit to the Crescent City job in Baku for hose testing - the façade work is nearly finished.

The Wardian, London main towers are well under way in late June, with the floor levels visibly on the rise around each of the cores. 

August shows Wardian with only another 25 storeys to go! We can see the integrated façade and balconies.

The LIDL HQ project wins the Architectural Project of the Year at the Irish Building & Design Awards, 2017. 

BDA has been appointed by PLP Architecture and Mace Developments to the Westferry Printworks job. This development, near Canary Wharf, will be a vibrant new waterfront neighbourhood for London.

BDA are proud to be working with Multiplex on One Nine Elms, London

Façade testing at Wardian London has been undertaken and construction is under way. The first balcony panels were installed during November.

Facade packages have been let and detail design is underway for 100 Liverpool Street, London.

Façade installation has commenced at Capital Dock Dublin..

During the winter, the BDA team successfully completed the First Aid Responder (FAR) training course provided by the Order of Malta.

BDA have been appointed for Calatrava Dubai Tower

Completions this year have included:

Providence Wharf Tower in London; a 45 storey pencil tower for Balfour Beatty.

Trinity Square in London; a luxury hotel development.

Citizen M Hotel in Shoreditch London for Citizen M.

The opening of Path Station in NYC. BDA were delighted to have worked as the façade consultants for Calatrava on this prestigious project.

BDA celebrated thirty years of activity this year.

Miesian Plaza in Dublin and One Crown Place were appointed.

Completions this year have included: 

The Diamond Sheffield; a new engineering building for Balfour Beatty by 12 Architects.

Nottingham University; a faculty extension for Sir Michael Hopkins and Partners.

Kerry Global and Lidl HQ.

Sharq Crossing is a large infrastructure project in Doha, Qatar, scheduled to be completed in anticipation of the Qatar World Cup in 2022. The project consists of a series of bridges and tunnels in the Doha bay, which will link Hamad International Airport, the Katara cultural village and the west bay financial district. BDA have been assisting Santiago Calatrava in the development of the tunnel and building cladding, glazing and shading devices.

Facebook have recently occupied No. 4 Grand Canal Square. The fit out was carried out by Michael Collins Associates, who BDA assisted in the design of timber portals which inset into the existing glass façade. The timber portals consist of steel bracketry and Douglas fir plywood.

The Providence Tower construction is underway, with a large portion of the unitised façade system already installed.

Grifols Pharmaceuticals new headquarters, at Grange Castle Business Park, is nearing completion. The majority of the glazing elements are complete, with the fibre cement cladding panels remaining, as part of the installation.

BDA have recently been appointed as façade consultants on the One Nine Elms project in London, UK, by Wanda One.

BDA have been appointed by Balfour Beatty for the new 43 storey residential tower in new Providence Wharf, London. The tower, designed by architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, will be the final building of the Providence Wharf Estate. Construction has started.

BDA have been appointed for the internal glazing, fit out design, in Facebook’s new Dublin offices.

The Rooftop Lounge at the Marker Hotel was opened in June 2013, with a bespoke glazing system, offering panoramic views of Dublin City. BDA assisted in the design and delivery of this spectacular venue.

January 2013 saw the launch of the Halley VI Research Station, Antarctica. BDA assisted in the development of the insulated panels, which comprise PIR insulation and fibre reinforced polymer. The modular construction will allow continuing research on global change, at the site where the hole in the ozone was originally discovered.

Sean Billings passed away at 12.10am on 10 July 2012. He was surrounded by his family and was very comfortable. We thank all the wonderful staff, at the Blackrock Hospice in Dublin, for their amazing work.

BDA have been appointed to provide technical assistance to Herzog & de Meuron and their design team, on the new extension to the Tate Modern Gallery, London. Construction is due to commence soon.

The new Digicel development, in Jamaica, will house their Caribbean headquarters. It will include retail areas intended to help revive this historic area of Kingston. Designed by de Blacam & Meagher Architects, BDA have been appointed as the cladding consultants for all façade elements.

BDA have recently been appointed by Bakkala for the design development phase of this 50 storey office building in the centre of Warsaw. This toroidal, twisting, glazed tower has been designed by Belgian architects, Jaspers - Eyers & Partners and developers Ghelamco.

Santiago Calatrava’s complex steel and glass structure is in the procurement stage. The sliding glass roof, for which BDA provided scheme design solutions, is currently being tendered.

Santiago Calatrava’s pedestrian and bike bridge will connect downtown Calgary with the community of Sunnyside, over the river Bow. The Peace Bridge is currently being installed.

The British Antarctic survey facility has now been installed on site, with all of the blue pods and “BIG RED” moved into position.

This state of the art research facility, for training in Dermatology and System Biology, at the UCD campus, is now fully operational, since April of this year.

The 5 star W Hotel, London, recently opened its doors to paying customers. The high end hotel development was also awarded a prestigious award at the MIPIM 2011, in Cannes.

BDA have been appointed as cladding consultants on the following projects:

Herzog & de Meuron’s designed TM2; a proposed new wing to the TATE Modern, London, UK.

BIG Architects; a new National library, Astana, Kazakhstan.

Jestico + Whiles; 2-14 Baker Street, a prestige retail & commercial building, London, UK.