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Spotlight Façade Awards: WSP Paddington Square

Spotlight Façade Awards: WSP Paddington Square

The SFE Façade Design and Engineering Awards recognise excellence and achievement in façade engineering. We will be using the SFE newsletter as a platform to showcase some of the winners from 2023. WSP's Paddington Square was awarded first place for the New Build UK category.

Welcome to the new SFE Newsletter

Welcome to the new SFE Newsletter

The SFE are delighted to launch the inaugural edition of their new Quarterly Newsletter.

SFE Post nominals: show your standing in industry.

SFE Post nominals: show your standing in industry.

For SFE members who have achieved a professional grade of SFE membership, a key member benefit is the use of post nominals to highlight their achievements.

Improvements to the Society of Façade Engineering Website

Improvements to the Society of Façade Engineering Website

New CWCT Technical Notes on condensation

New CWCT Technical Notes on condensation

The CWCT has recently published two Technical Notes on condensation: TN110 - Designing building façades to manage the risk of surface condensation and mould growth, and TN111 - Designing building facades to manage the risk of interstitial condensation.

SFE Newsletter spotlight interview: Chris Macey

SFE Newsletter spotlight interview: Chris Macey

In 1983 Chris co-founded Wintech, now in its 40th year, the company has grown from a single client, to be recognised as one of the UK’s largest Façade Engineering Consultancy. Employing more than 100 industry experts in a range of specialist sciences and disciplines from all over the world. Wintech group are dedicated engineering specialists in the science of Façade Engineering, including Façade Access & Maintenance, Fire Engineering, MEP and Sustainability Consultancy services from the early phases of building delivery strategic development to completion. Chris has provided strategic direction, over the past 40 years for the Group operations that focus on the science and delivery of façade engineering. Chris is the founder member for the Society of Façade Engineering, past Chairman, a Fellow of the Society and is passionate about the further professionalism of the science of façade engineering and the specialist training needed to support this important discipline.

Spotlight Academia: Retrofit design for grade-II listed Inland Revenue Centre in Nottingham

Spotlight Academia: Retrofit design for grade-II listed Inland Revenue Centre in Nottingham

Our environmental façade module investigated a real-life study to evaluation the University of Nottingham Castle Meadow Campus, CMC. To review the historic vision of Modernism through the original concept applied by Michael Hopkins & Partners' 1994 Inland Revenue Centre and current listing achieved June 2023. Our façade program undertook measures to progress a 30-year design through the challenge to integrate new technological advances in materials science, pre-heat and heat recirculation’s systems for the UoN Business School.

Group B: Spotlight Academia: “Retrofit design for grade-II listed Inland Revenue Centre in Nottingham”

Group B: Spotlight Academia: “Retrofit design for grade-II listed Inland Revenue Centre in Nottingham”

Group C: Spotlight Academia: “Retrofit design for grade-II listed Inland Revenue Centre in Nottingham”

Group C: Spotlight Academia: “Retrofit design for grade-II listed Inland Revenue Centre in Nottingham”

Group S: Spotlight Academia: “Retrofit design for grade-II listed Inland Revenue Centre in Nottingham”

The University of Nottingham façade program undertook measures to progress a 30-year design through the challenge to integrate new technological advances in materials science, pre-heat and heat recirculation’s systems for the UoN Business School.

Spotlight Façade Awards: Battersea Power Station Phase 2

Spotlight Façade Awards: Battersea Power Station Phase 2

The SFE Façade Design and Engineering Awards recognise excellence and achievement in façade engineering. We will be using the SFE newsletter as a platform to showcase some of the winners from 2023. The UK Refurbishment prize was picked up by seele, Wilkinson Eyre and Buro Happold for their work on Battersea Power Station Phase 2.

SFE University Outreach

SFE University Outreach

Members of the Society of Façade Engineering (SFE) were delighted to present an ‘Introduction to Façade Engineering’ at the University of Exeter in January, the University of Surrey in February, at UWE Bristol in April. These lectures included presentations by Simon Bate and Claudio Marini (Buro Happold), Kaman Wong (AESG), Tapiwa Kapofu (Wintech), and Heran Yang (CBRE).

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