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Structural Steel Design Awards 2022
On the evening of the 29 September 2022, the 54th Structural Steel Design Awards were held at Christ Church, Spitalfields in London.
It was a wonderful celebration, showcasing some of the finest steel projects which demonstrate the sustainability credentials, flexibility, versatility and varying applications of the material.
21 projects were shortlisted for the awards and the results can be seen below.
The Structural Steel Design Awards 2022 (SSDA), were jointly sponsored by BCSA and Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd.
Projects which received an Award
1 Triton Square, London
Architect – Arup Associates
Structural engineer – Arup
Steelwork contractor – William Hare Ltd
Main contractor – Lendlease
Client – British Land
The Judges’ comment:
“This outstanding project is an exemplar of sustainability thanks to the use of steel. It demonstrates how an existing building can be almost doubled in floor area, for a fraction of the embodied carbon of a new building the same size. The achievement was a clear team effort where all options and details were scrutinised to meet the client’s tough brief.”
Esperance Bridge, Kings Cross
Architect – Moxon Architects
Structural engineer – Arup
Steelwork contractor – S H Structures Ltd
Main contractor – Galldris
Client – Argent
The Judges’ comment:
“An elegant, pragmatic solution that is carefully crafted and beautifully made. This pedestrian bridge adopts the alignment of a historic bridge with its design appropriately reflecting the site’s industrial heritage. Thoughtful detailing of the curved steelwork to create the three-dimensional sculptural balustrade fully exploits the properties of steel and the potential it offers.”
Bombardier Maintenance Hangar, Biggin Hill
Architect – Civils Contracting Ltd
Structural engineer – REIDsteel
Steelwork contractor – REIDsteel
Main contractor – Civils Contracting Ltd
Client – Biggin Hill Airport Development Ltd
The Judges’ comment:
“Bombardier’s new headquarters at Biggin Hill Airport is the UK’s largest dual cantilever hangar providing two clear spaces of 7,200m2, including 160m clear span openings and full lifting
coverage from underslung cranes. The central spine of the building anchors the cantilevers as well as housing the building functional spaces. The structure achieves remarkably good embodied carbon figures, in line with the LETI 2030 aspirational values.”
Tower of Light, Manchester
Architect – Tonkin Liu
Structural engineer – Arup
Main contractor – Vital Energi
Client – Manchester City Council
The Judges’ comment:
“This shell lace structure exemplifies perfectly the synthesis of striking architectural form, advanced engineering, iterative technical analysis (Grasshopper and LS Dyna) and craft-based
fabrication. A superb example of how design can transform a utilitarian chimney into a piece of urban art, intelligently conceived and impressively executed.”
Lord’s Cricket Ground, Compton & Edrich Stands Redevelopment
Architect – WilkinsonEyre
Structural engineer – Buro Happold
Steelwork contractor – Severfield
Main contractor – ISG Construction
Client – Marylebone Cricket Club
The Judges’ comment:
“The new twin Compton and Edrich Stands frame the Media Centre as a considered composition to complement Lord’s historic festival atmosphere, while accommodating increased numbers of spectators in style and comfort. The apparent easy symmetry belies the many difficulties of planning sensitivities, timetable, site and ground constraints that were overcome.”
Projects which received a Commendation
Central Atrium at Hilltop, RHS Wisley
Architect – WilkinsonEyre
Structural engineer – Michael Barclay Partnership LLP
Steelwork contractor – Hillcrest Structural Ltd
Main contractor – Osborne Ltd
Client – Royal Horticultural Society
The Judges’ comment:
“The elegant steel grillage gives a lightweight aesthetic to the glass atrium and external canopy that would not have been possible in other materials. The attention to detailing on all the exposed connections, despite the complex geometry of the roof, was truly commendable.”
Assembly Bristol, Building A
Architect – Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Structural engineer – Arup
Steelwork contractor – Severfield
Main contractor – Galliford Try
Client – Bell Hammer
The Judges’ comment:
“Part of a new city office complex, Assembly Building A is striking for its robustly designed and detailed steel exoskeleton, coloured ‘Bristol green’. It, and a new pocket park, is squeezed onto a site tightly constrained between Bristol’s Floating Harbour, surrounding highways and several immovable ground structures. This new destination development, built at regional economic costs, has attracted the very best tenants.”
Fire Station Auditorium, Sunderland
Architects – Flanagan Lawrence, Howarth Litchfield
Structural engineer – JC Consulting
Main contractor – Brims Construction Ltd
Client – The Sunderland Music, Arts & Culture Trust
The Judges’ comment:
“The century-old fire station has been refurbished into a performance venue in Sunderland’s Music and Cultural quarter. Acoustic considerations initially suggested a concrete solution, but the frame was changed to a fully steel structure resulting in excellent acoustic performance in a very flexible facility, that was produced at substantially lower cost.”
One Braham, London
Architects – WilkinsonEyre
Structural engineer – Arup
Steelwork Contractor – Severfield
Main contractor – McLaughlin & Harvey
Client – Aldgate Developments
The Judges’ comment:
“This City fringe office building is a fine example of the use of steelwork to meet the demanding commercial requirements of the client. By applying many intelligent devices, an additional floor was squeezed into the planning envelope. Fabricated plate girders, composite beams, higher grades of steel and pre-cambering resulted in a ruggedly practical finish”
One Crown Place, London
Architect – KPF
Structural engineer – AKT II
Steelwork contractor – Severfield
Main contractor – Mace
Client – AlloyMtd
The Judges’ comment:
“Two 28 floor concrete-framed residential towers are, remarkably, supported on a steel-framed office block. A two-storey transfer structure of 15 steel trusses transfers the dense residential column loads over the largely column-free workspace floors below. This compact zone also imparts a bold theme to the interior architecture of amenity areas, and of the first of the residential levels.”
Britannia Leisure Centre, Hackney
Architect – Faulknerbowns Architects
Structural engineer – Buro Happold
Steelwork contractor – Severfield
Main contractor – Morgan Sindall Construction
Client – Hackney Council
The Judges’ comment:
“A multitude of diverse and highly popular leisure spaces have been cleverly interlocked and stacked to reduce the building footprint. This has generated great civic presence and released land to help fund the development. The structural design has resolved the resulting technical challenges created by the solution.”
Projects which received a Merit
Hydro Ness, Inverness
Architect – Leslie Hutt Architect
Structural engineer – Hasson Engineering Solutions
Steelwork contractor – M.Hasson and Sons Ltd
Main contractors – Bradley and Company, Hydro NI
Client – Highland Council
The Judges’ comment:
“This unusual steel structure houses a small hydroelectric unit producing renewable energy and providing schoolchildren with a practical educational opportunity. Its eye-catching form is of a leaping salmon with stainless steel perforated panels representing fish scales on an arched skeleton. A small but
significant project demonstrating the versatility of steel.”
LCT 7074 Canopy, The D-Day Story, Portsmouth
Architect – Pritchard Architecture
Structural engineer – Mann Williams
Steelwork contractor – Hillcrest Structural Ltd
Main contractor – Ascia Construction Ltd
Clients – The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth City Council
The Judges’ comment:
“A floating canopy supported by raking steel pylons reminiscent of beach defences of the past announces this new museum. The judges were impressed by the balance of the design which creates a positive sense of place for visitors and whose form is referential and empathetic with the unique landing craft it covers.”
Houlton School, Rugby
Architect – Van Heyningen and Haward Architects
Structural engineer – Price & Myers
Steelwork contractor (new blocks) – Mifflin Construction Ltd
Main contractor – Morgan Sindall Construction
Client – Urban&Civic plc
The Judges’ comment:
“This project has transformed the former listed radio station, built in 1926, into a large secondary school. After cleaning and repainting, the original steelwork was fully expressed and new steelwork carefully integrated, creating an excellent internal environment. A very high-quality heritage project of which all users are justly proud.”
Pace Gallery, Hanover Square, London
Architect – Jamie Fobert Architects
Structural engineer – Price & Myers
Main contractor – QOB Interiors
Client – Pace Gallery
The Judges’ comment:
“The gallery’s feature staircase connects the basement and entry level, blending seamlessly into and contributing to the gallery spaces. The attention to detail in both design and manufacture have resulted in an exemplary and beautiful structure which embraces the steel manufacturing process from rolling mill to final welding.”
National Finalists
22 Bishopsgate, London
Architect – PLP Architecture
Structural engineer – WSP
Steelwork contractor – Severfield
Main contractor – Multiplex
Client – Lipton Rogers Developments
Abbey-Chesterton Bridge, Cambridge
Architect – Knight Architects
Structural engineer – Milestone Infrastructure
Steelwork contractor – S H Structures Ltd
Main contractor – Tarmac
Client – Cambridgeshire County Council
Bloom Clerkenwell, London
Architect – John Robertson Architects Ltd
Structural engineer – Buro Happold
Steelwork contractor – Severfield
Main contractor – HB Reavis UK Ltd
Client – HB Reavis UK Ltd
Joules Head Office, Market Harborough
Architect – Edge
Structural engineer – Cundall
Main contractor – Bailey Construction Ltd
Client – Joules
St James Quarter, Edinburgh
Architect – BDP
Structural engineer – Arup
Steelwork contractor – BHC Ltd
Main contractor – Laing O’Rourke
Client – Nuveen
The Glass Works, Barnsley
Architect – IBI Group
Structural engineer – Adept Civil and Structural Consulting Engineers
Steelwork contractor – Billington Structures Ltd
Main contractor – Henry Boot Construction Ltd
Client – Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
