JACK COLE

Experienced in the architectural design of various live projects. From small village hubs for RIBA contest entries to multi-million pound industrial projects.

AN INDUSTRY EXPERIENCED GRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEER

Academically trained in the detailed design of structural elements and super structure stability. Awareness of the needs of various parties from experience in multidisciplinary firms.

Very high graduate competency in BIM and modeling packages, with a keen interest on expanding on these skills. Industry experience in large scale BIM co-ordination.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE

BIM / MODELLING TECHNICIAN

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CONTENTS

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Modeling complex geometry and detailing elements on a £355M recycling

and energy from waste facility. Suggesting design alterations when possible

and issuing drawings.

Working within a group of 4 young architects to design a community hub

in Sessay, N.Yorkshire. Assisting with the site plan, modeling sections and

rendering views for the presentation boards.

A collection of shorter projects I was involved in at TATA steel. Displaying a

variety of skills and proof of my technical versatility.

Leeds RERF - Recycling and energy from waste facilityTATA Steel Projects

Sessay Community Hub - RIBA contestTATA Steel Projects

Assorted Short ProjectsTATA Steel Projects

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Detailing, construction, and visualisation orientated projects I worked on with

Roost Architects.

A showcase of some of the small projects and tutorials I’ve undertaken in my

spare time to further develop my technical skills.

Fronting BIM co-ordination for the project. Devising model conversion

work-paths. Undertaking large amounts of building and site modeling.

Redesigning site layouts from a logistical standpoint.

Roost Architects ProjectsA sample of some projects from Roost

Assorted Tutorials / ExperiencePersonal development projects

Templeborough Biomass FacilityTATA Steel Projects

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LEEDS RECYCLING / ENERGY FROM WASTE

The Leeds RERF is a recycling and energy from waste centre. The £335M project aims to recycle as much as 40% of black bin waste that would otherwise go to landfill. During a summer internship in summer 2013 I had the opportunity to work alongside another intern developing a structural frame to house the projects iconic green wall (right). The second week I spent modelling and developing sheets in Revit for the green-wall structure.

I firmly believe getting to know the team during this placement helped immensely with my interview the following year.

Being able to see the structure erected during my various site visits during the internship year was surely one of the many highlights of the placement.

(The photo to the right shows the green-

wall planting boxes being prepared.)

TATA Steel ProjectsArchitectural Assistant / Technician

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Upon its completion it will be the tallest

glued laminated timber arch in the UK,

standing at 42 meters. It will also hold the

record for the largest green-wall utilizing

a single irrigation system in the world.

(The arch can be seen pictured on the left)

Finishes renders were among what I

presented to Billionaire Gary Klesch during

a tour he took of the TSP York offices.

A senior technician and I demonstrated

to him how we design our projects at TSP.

(Render presented shown below)

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This was the first live project I have

worked on and therefore my activities

consisted mainly of making amendments

to construction drawings within Revit.

This was done by developing the 3-D

architecture team model and relating

the information to the other disciplines

models. Typical sections I would model are

shown below.

A usual work day consisted of me

receiving a sketch from the leading

architect and modelling his sketches.

Then preparing the drawings to be issued

that afternoon.

During this period I learnt a lot

about detailing / buildups and other

architectural qualities. As well as this I

experienced a handful of on site meetings

and how drawings are prepared for site.

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Roof maintenance access walkway design meeting. Amendment suggestion I made to reduce visibility from the predominately viewed elevation (as well as reduced steelwork).

SESSAY COMMUNITY HUB - RIBA CONTESTTATA Steel ProjectsArchitectural Assistant / Technician

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The project was a RIBA international

competition for the design of a

community centre and cricket pavilion

(amongst other quality sporting facilities)

in the small rural village of Sessay, North

Yorkshire. 86 firms from as far as Japan

made submissions for the initial contest.

The cost for the entire project had to come

to around £1.25M - £1.5M, making it the

most intimate, and socially focused project

I worked on during my time at TSP.

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I was involved in developing relationship

diagrams with the team to reflect the

needs of the community into the layout.

As well as this there were phasing issues

to tackle as to keep the existing facilities

and cricket fields in use during the

construction phase.

My duties on this project included

making floor plans from the Revit model

(right), developing the carpark layouts

ready for the presentation boards.

In addition to this I assisted in some of the

renders on the following page.

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The design proposal draws upon the

surrounding agricultural vernacular.

Whilst aspiring to be striking the

“barn-like” structure made it sit

within the rural setting of the village.

The reduction of heavy masonry outer

walls reduced the size and cost of the

foundations. Timber cladding panels can

be factory prefabricated complete with

breathing membrane insulation and

possess outstanding thermal and sound

insulation properties. The grey brick aimed

to give permanence within the setting.

I assisted in the rendering of the internal

and external visuals followed by post

processing in photoshop was utilised in

order to make compelling atmospheres

for the boards.

As well as this I collected precedents

to give stylistic options to both us as

designers and the client.

TATA Steel Projects

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A collection of shorter projects I was involved in at TSP Testing a variety of skills and proof of my technical versatility

TSP - ASSORTED SHORT PROJECTS

Infrastructure EngineerEast Coast Mainline

When the work load became too much for

the track infrastructure department due to

people being on holiday I was drafted into

their team for a couple weeks to help them.

This coincided with work load dropping a

bit in the buildings and architecture team

meaning I could assist in this work.

ETCS is a new form of signalling for trains.

My job was to locate existing signal boxes

and junctions that this new technology

could be housed in.

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This was the project that was most

rooted in engineering principles and

problem solving logic. After marking up

8 large A0+ sheets I would then hand

over my work to be copied up neatly on

AutoCAD by another young professional.

Evidence that the team leaders trusted

my judgement and sense of responsibility

in giving work out to others.

Infrastructure Engineer

ETCS Signaling Infrastructure East Coast Mainline

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For a few weeks I worked rendering

some visualisation images for the

projects client. This was to help them

to realise if they could fit all the

equipment on the site comfortably.

Modelling plant equipment as Revit

families and conveyor belts to make sure

the size of the factory would be adequate.

As well as this I spent some time

arranging sheets to present our findings

to the client during our weekly meetings.

Blötberget Iron Ore - Sweden

Architectural Technician

Visualisation Research

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This coupled with Oculus Rift goggles

with its stereoscopic vision (simulates true

depth) had the potential to make highly

immersive walkthroughs.

As it turned out I would put this work to

one side for the rest of my time at TATA.

Templeborough was about to get the ,

requiring my full attention.

Textures and objects like doors needed

a considerable amount of extra work

assigned to them to make them operate

or look like they would in Revit

(disrupting ordinary work flow).

Also this program costs a few thousand

pounds for a licence, and around the

same time another games engine called

“Unreal” came onto the market as a

free open source piece of kit. Trumping

Unity in terms of cost and accessibility.

The images on the left show the games

engine and the oculus rift developers kit.

Due to having a keen interest in

visualisations and how to make our ideas

more clearer to both client and contractor

I was handed the chance to do some

research. Through research at work and

attending a regional BIM seminar I looked

into new ways of visualising our projects.

I researched into some new methods of

rending with tools we already had, new

render engines on the market, and even

looked at some game engines. I took a

particular interest in the game engine

Unity whilst attending the seminar.

By taking a model through a couple of

Autodesk programs I could drop models

into a “walkable” space. Allowing a client

to freely walk about the building as they

so chose.

Standard walkthroughs with set

paths of models offered some level of

immersion, but clearly nothing could

quite compare to freely moving about

the space as you would be able to if you

were actually in the building.

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In between the work load on Leeds ramping down and the work load on Templborough ramping up I helped out with some detailing and modelling on the Wilton Efw project.

Most of this time was spent altering stairs in core locations and fire escapes. The stair tool in Revit is somewhat of a dark art, but I’ve figured out some of its quirks for the future.

Wilton Efw - Modelling / Drafting

In addition to this I learnt some more general technicians tools in Revit such as door / window scheduling and key finishes.

(Finishes renders for the client Sita below)

ASSORTED ROOST ARCHITECTS PROJECTS

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Roost architects dealt with a lot of clients

that were not very in tune with the

construction industry and therefore were

not as capable of visualising build designs

as people who deal with them all day.

This meant that architectural renders

and visualisations were of the up

most importance as for a client to

realise what the design entailed.

This game me the chance of producing

some renders in V-Ray for sketch up, as well

as overshadowing as the architect photo-

shopped the images to touch them up.

Architectural Assistant

150mm cut stonecills reveals and head

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140mm nominalcoarsed reclaimed

stone outer leaf 150mm cut stone

Wall cavity 200mm including 100mmKingspan TW50 insulation

10mm 7kN/mm2 (Mediumdensity) blockwork inner leaf

12.5mm plasterboard ondot and dabs

Thermabate cavity closer

100mm of Rockwool between trusses and afurther 200mm of Rockwool above. Toachieve a min U-value of 0.13W/m^2K

140mm nominalcoarsed reclaimed

stone outer leaf

Wall cavity 200mm including 100mmKingspan TW50 insulation

10mm 7kN/mm2 (Medium density)blockwork inner leaf

12.5mm plasterboard ondot and dabs

Breather membrane

Slate tiles

Timber roof trusses tomanufacturers recommendations

Inset mesh

25 x 32mm SW timber battens

Maintain 50mm continuous air gap

U Value = 0.18 W/m2 K

Wall ties

50mm air gap for ventilation

100x50mm SW wall platestrapped to inner leaf with

galvanised steel straps

120mm diameter 112 roundgalvanised steel gutter

Fascia board

CL4900 50

GF0

GL

Stone cill

Foundation to SE requirements

Underfloor heating

Install perimeterinsulation with a min R-

value of 0.75m2K/W

Seal between the walland floor air barrier

with a flexible sealant

GF0

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Ensure that cavities are kept clean of mortar snots or other debris during construction.

The wall insulation installed below the wall DPC must be fit for purpose with regards to water absorption.

Underfloor heating

GL

Foundation to SE requirements

Install perimeterinsulation with a min R-

value of 0.75m2K/W

Seal between the walland floor air barrier

with a flexible sealant

140mm nominalcoarsed reclaimed

stone outer leaf

Wall cavity 200mm including 100mmKingspan TW50 insulation

10mm 7kN/mm2(Medium density)

blockwork inner leaf

Cavity tray

Weepholes

150mm hardcore

50mm sand blinding

Visqueen 1200g DPM

75mm sandcement screed

150mm kingspanTF70

500g visqueenseperating layer

140mm nominalcoarsed reclaimed

stone outer leaf

140mm nominalcoarsed reclaimed

stone outer leaf

150mm cut stone

Wall cavity 200mm including 100mmKingspan TW50 insulation

10mm 7kN/mm2 (Medium density)blockwork inner leaf

12.5mm plasterboard ondot and dabs

Wall ties

Inset mesh

Catnic lintel

Thermabate cavity closer

120mm half roundgalvanised steel gutter

Painted timber SW fascia board

Truss

CL4900

150mm cut stone

NOTES

1. DO NOT SCALE FROM THIS DRAWING - USE FIGURED DIMENSIONS ONLY

2. READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALL OTHER RELEVANT CONSULTANTS / SPECIALISTS DRAWINGS. REPORT ANY DISCREPANCIES BEFORE AFFECTED WORK COMMENCES

3. ALL SETTING OUT DIMENSIONS TO BE CHECKED ON SITE BY CONTRACTOR BEFORE WORK COMMENCES.

4. THIS DRAWING REMAINS COPYRIGHT OF ROOST ARCHITECTS COPY / DISTRIBUTE ONLY WITH CONSENT OF ROOST ARCHITECTS.

5. ALL DETAILS TO BE ACCREDITED CONSTRUCTION DETAILS COMPLIANT

SCALE (@ A1)

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PROJECT NUMBER

CLIENT

PROJECT

DRAWING NUMBER REV

DRAWN BY DATE

STATUS PURPOSE OF ISSUE

CODE SUITABILITY DESCRIPTION

JC SC

Building Regulations

As indicated

10/05

/2016

14:50

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Details Sheet 2

2015 - 053

Greenlane Farm

John Fawthrop

A211

06/05/16

1 : 10Window Elevation1

1 : 10Window Detail4

1 : 10Roof Eaves Detail3

1 : 10Door Threshold Detail6 1 : 10

Wall / GF Slab Detail5

1 : 10Window Detail2

Rev Description Date

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Most of my time at Roost architects was

spent working up buildings regulations

drawings ready for site construction on

new building residential and extensions to

existing residential buildings.

My detailing skills were something Simon

(the owner of Roost) helped develop a lot

during my time there. Although I feel it is

one of my weaker skills at the moment I am

keen on further developing it into one of my

strengths.

I would frequently take phone calls from

clients and make them to manufacturers.

Sizing elements such as insulation, timber

joists and trusses. As well as confirming

technical build ups of elements such as

walls, roofs, slabs, intermediate floors etc.

Architectural Technician

ASSORTED SELF TAUGHT WORKSelf Taught Projects

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Here I have highlighted some of the

more complex parametric tutorials I

have undertaken after stopping the

MEng degree. It should be noted this

section could include rendering and

modelling tutorials / experience from

Zero Fifty. (But was left out to keep the

portfolio size down).

I was interested in the free

Revit plug-in called Dynamo

and decided to complete some

tutorials on the software. It’s

essentially grasshopper for Revit.

Parametric design excites me immensely

as I truly believe it is the way forward

in terms of complete holistic design

between the disciplines. On the right

is a system the dilates holes in the

cladding structure according to the

solar radiation expected.

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Grasshopper / Rhino Tutorials

However the two tools that I’m most

interested in were Rhinoceros and

Grasshopper. To myself (and from the

opinion of other professionals) they are the

industry standard for complex modeling.

Pictured on the right is a tutorial for

applying structural diagrids to NURB

curved surfaces.

NURB - Non-uniform rational basis

spline. (A clever modelling algorithm

reducing computational power required,

and opening the doors to more

interesting solutions.

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The panels can be orientated to

minimise manufacturing waste. Panels

are tagged to assist fabrication/

manufacturing processes.

Pa r a m e t r i c S p a c e Fr a m e - A p a ra m e t r i c s t e e l s t r u c t u r e c r e a t e d u s i n g G ra s s h o p p e r.Panelisation / Manufacturing

Structural Design Using Karamba

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By applying a loading pattern to the

structure you can start to interrogate the

stability of the super structure.

Analysis can be provided to find how much compression, tension and torsion the members were subjected to.

TEMPLEBOROUGH BIOMASS FACILITYTATA Steel ProjectsAssistant / Technician / BIM Co-ord

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During the second half of my placement

I worked mainly on the Templeborough

Biomass project. This is where my

responsibility on projects really started to

increase and I felt truly instrumental to

the buildings and architecture team at

TATA Steel Projects.

Project value £170M / LD’s £250K a week.

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The project is a Biomass facility,

burning reclaimed wood to drive steam

turbines for electricity.

During this project I mainly took on the

roles of an Architectural Assistant and

project BIM coordinator.

This still included some duties I

undertook on Leeds such as issuing

sheets and live models, however on this

project I did little to no 2-D detailing.

Instead I was modelling in 3-D large

amounts of the site, components

and other ancillary context massing.

(Images showing various software formats)

I learnt Autodesk Navisworks to assist

in project co-ordination. (Pictured left).

This is clash detection software specifically

designed to highlight clashes (Overlaps

in the models). The problems were

highlighted within the register and

discussions could be made as how to

tackle the issue.

Aside from Revit BIM co-ordination I also

devised a workflow path to make our Revit

models useful to the process engineers

and their models useful to ours.

This included a lot of research, trouble

shooting and phone calls to certain parties.

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In addition to this, my main piece of work on the project was to tackle site circulation.

We had been given a site that couldn’t operate with the required vehicle loading

during operation. This would take into account the loading and unloading of vehicles,

other operative vehicles, civilian traffic and right of access through roads for other

adjacent industry vehicles.

Most of my time on this project developing and evolving the site layout working

in liaison with other teams in the company such as Highways, M&E, Bridges, Civils,

Geotechnics and Drainage.

Site Circulation

One of the tools we used to rectify this issue, and I subsequently learnt during this

project, was Autodesk Vehicle tracking. By taking the site plans we were developing

from an architectural perspective I could “drive” around virtual vehicles on the site.

Whether they be the loading lorries, ordinary cars, waste disposal lorries or forklift

trucks. From this we could qualify the site layout as acceptable for that revision,

until the next issue arose where we would repeat this method of designing

out the problem then re-testing. A site plan with vehicle paths sketched on as

well as notes for further tracking can be seen below. The tracking allowed us to

further develop the overall site plan concept plan we would use to explain

our site strategy to all parties.

Site Vehicle Tracking

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One of the activities I undertook in liaison

with another team was ensuring occupant

and civilian safety on site (in regards to

the walkways). From this we could further

the precision of the tracking, highlight

preliminary walkways from an early stage

and aim to increase occupant safety.

Due to the project being altered more

than was initially expected when the

company received the concept design a

lot of logistical thinking was required to

solve potentially project halting issues.

I believe my course prepared me well

for such logistical architectural design

which is why I was selected to tackle such

problems before any of the other aspiring

young architects.

Biomass Logistics Site Access Design

E-mail: jackacole@sky.comMobile: 07527336987Address: 17 Mayville Place Hyde Park Leeds West Yorkshire LS6 1NELinkedIn: Profile Link