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Andrew Waugh
Andrew Waugh is a founding Director of Waugh Thistleton Architects. Andrew's prime responsibilities within the practice are design and research. His passion for architecture and the built environment is expressed outside as well as within practice and he regularly lectures internationally on design and the environmental impact of architecture. As well as being closely involved in several London-based design bodies, Andrew teaches and is an external examiner at a number of Architecture schools in London. |
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Paul Fast
Paul Fast establshed his own company, Paul Fast Associates Ltd., and in 1989 the corporate partnership of Fast + Epp was formed. For the past twenty-three years, he has been involved in the design of many challenging projects throughout British Columbia.
Paul has also developed innovative recreational product designs that have been sold in international markets, and was granted a U.S. Patent for the design of the "Sunshell" Beach Canopy.
He has been a guest lecturer in Engineering and Architecture Schools in Canada and Germany.
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Ruth Slavid
Ruth Slavid is a freelance architectural writer, editor and consultant. She is the author of Wood Architecture (2005) and Wood Houses (2006) published by Laurence King as well as Micro (2007) and Extreme Architecture: Building for Challenging Environments (2009). She is currently writing a book on the use of timber in existing buildings for TRADA.
Ruth worked for The Architects’ Journal for 15 years, in roles including deputy editor, online editor and editor of AJ Specification. Since becoming freelance in October 2008, she has written for AJ Specification, BSD, Building Design, The Guardian, New Civil Engineer, Specification Magazine, and Stadia. She worked on the exhibition ‘Major London Issues’ 2009 at New London Architecture, ran the website at the World Architecture Festival and is on the editorial panel of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. |
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Niall McLaughlin
Niall McLaughlin was born in Geneva in 1962. He was educated in Dublin and received his architectural qualifications from University College Dublin in 1984. He worked for Scott Tallon Walker in Dublin and London between 1984 and 1989. He established his own practice in London in 1990. Niall McLaughlin Architects make high quality modern buildings with a special emphasis on materials and detail. Niall won Young British Architect of the Year in 1998, he was one of the BBC Rising Stars in 2001 and his work represented Britain in a recent US exhibition Gritty Brits at the Carnegie Mellon Museum. His designs have won many awards in the UK, Ireland and the US, including RIAI Best Building in the Landscape and the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Award for the Best Building under £1million. Niall is a visiting professor of architecture at University College London. He was chair of the RIBA Awards Group from 2007 to 2009. |
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Tim Lucas
Tim joined Price & Myers after graduating from Leeds University in 1996 and worked on a number of notable projects including; the Dublin Millennium Footbridge (£2m, 1999) with Howley Harrington Architects won in an international competition and the O2 Millennium Mast, (£5m, 1999) with Hunt McGarry Architects. In 2000 he left to work for Arup, where he was involved in the structural design of several major buildings with Foster & Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership and Future Systems.
In 2001 he returned to Price & Myers to form our Geometrics group, which works on structurally and geometrically challenging projects. The group has completed a number of high profile projects, including; the De La Warr Pavilion Bandstand (£60,000, 2001) with Niall McLaughlin Architects; the Bullring Spiral Café (£750,000, 2003) with Marks Barfield Architects, and a Martello Tower conversion (£500,000, 2005) with Piercy Conner.
He has recently completed a 55m span stainless steel bridge in Bristol , Meads Reach Bridge, (£2.5m, 2008) and a new iroko framed café on Deal Pier (£1.1m, 2008) both with Niall McLaughlin Architects, a 100m long ‘Media Wall' (£1m, 2008) in Liverpool with Hakes Associates and Land Securities.
He is currently working on a high strength concrete Ductal staircase in the Building Centre, London, a two storey timber and steel extension to a mill in Bradford with David Morley Architects, and Urban Splash, a cable stayed bridge in Moscow with Hakes Associates and a housing project in Kolkata with Piercy Conner and Living Steel.
He became a partner in 2007.
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Simon Smith
Simon Smith joined Ramboll Whitbybird in 1994 and was made Director in 2001. He is a Design Teaching Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a co-professional member of the RIBA validation panel in education. He has also served on a number of government panels, including the DTI, Office of Science and Technology and the Joint Infrastructure Fund for HEFCE funding.
Simon is a specialist in delivering low energy buildings, minimising materials use and using renewable materials, he has worked on landmark projects, both in the UK and internationally, delivering a wide range of building types. He is closely involved at Cambridge University in research on timber structures.
His extensive portfolio of timber buildings includes:
- St John Fisher School ... solid timber panel school buildings, the largest in the UK to date using 1000m3 of timber.
- .British Geological Survey ... UK's first Termodeck building supported by a 4-storey timber frame.
- Faculty of Education ... exposed glulam frame, 3-storey curved structure incorporating library space and art studios.
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Patrick Hislop
Worked for Hertfordshire County Council on school design for 5 years before working briefly in Denmark on a variety of buildings and then in the United States for 5 years (including working on Boston City Hall (winner of an International competition), and conceptual work for Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco.
Returned to England in 1965 and worked on design of Automated Telephone Exchange and then on the SEAC school building system before moving to Oxford Regional Health Authority as Principal Architect in the design of Oxford Method hospital building system (design based on 3D CAD system), and used for a £60M building programme.
In 1984 moved to TRADA as Chief Architect & Head of Building Development. Responsible for the design of several demonstration low-energy timber based buildings in the UK, a Wood Research Centre in Honduras, and two phases of the Stow Visitor Centre. Also responsible for carrying out a number of part-Government sponsored research projects, particularly on joinery topics.
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John Williams
Timber Technology Research Group at Imperial College and a Masters degree in Forest Products Technology. In his role as one of TRADA’s Consultants, John is called on to investigate a wide range of timber related problems offering advice, explanations and solutions to a varied client base including; solicitors, engineers, architects and the timber trade. John has over 15 years experience and one his areas of specialisation include in situ strength assessments of timber and condition surveys of structures within the railway, marine, power generation and telecommunication industries. John also specialises in condition surveys of historic buildings. John also has extensive expertise in product development and appraisal. |
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Robin Lancashire
Robin joined TRADA Technology in August 2001 after ten years of working in the UK Construction Industry and gaining a BSc (Hons) in Building. He has extensive on-site experience of timber frame buildings, in various forms at all stages of construction. His work involves him providing advice on best practice construction to all areas of the timber frame industry from architects and their clients, to main contractors and building owners.
Robin has been involved with the development of TRADA’s frameCHECKü service which includes:
Design detail evaluation
Structural engineering checks
Assessment of timber frame manufacturer
On-site quality assessment
Air leakage testing and consultancy
Defects and remedial consultancy
Training Courses at all levels
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Keerthi Ranasinghe
Senior Structural Engineer, TRADA Technology Ltd. Graduated with a first class honours degree, class rank 1, from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and went on to achieve a doctorate from the Saitama University in Japan in concrete technology.
Formerly a lecturer in civil and structural engineering at the University of Moratuwa, then Structural Design Engineer with Michael Barclay Partnership LLP, London, he was involved with several prestigious projects, including the £10 million refurbishment of the City University School of Arts building at Islington and an £8 million mixed residential and retail development in Covent Garden.
A visiting lecturer for the University of Surrey on timber engineering and TRADA- nominated lecturer for the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Eurocode 5 (EC5) Continuous Professional Development programme, Dr Ranasinghe is TRADA's representative on the Institution of Civil Engineers(ICE)/ IStructE Eurocodes Experts Advisory Panel and responsible for EC5 transition support programmes and publications initiated by TRADA.
Author of the TRADA Span Tables EC5 edition and lead developer of TRADA's Timbersizer software, his work centres on design and checking of structural calculations for timber structures and products. He also works with manufacturers on product development leading to third-party certification.
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