BDP Wins TTJ Achievement in Engineered Timber Award

BDP has won the TTJ (Timber Trades Journal) Award for Achievement in Engineered Timber for its recently completed new Business School and ICMA Extension project for the University of Reading. The awards were hosted by John Prescott MP who presented the award at a ceremony held at the Park Lane Hotel in London on 17 September.

Stephen Beggs, civil and structural engineering director at BDP commented: “This award is great for BDP and the project and recognises the contribution made by many people in achieving a fine building.  The Business School celebrates the use of timber as a primary structural material, and Wiehag must take credit as the specialist timber supplier.  The university is delighted with the finished building.”

BDP was architect and C&S engineer for the new building which opened earlier this year on a prominent site within the university’s Whiteknights Campus. The aspiration from the start was to create a world-class building which sets academic offices and flexible learning spaces around a social heart-space.  Wood is used widely throughout as structural timber for the main roof, cladding for the lecture theatre, the main element of an elegant timber curtain walling system, and in numerous pieces of high quality internal joinery and fittings.