TATA STEEL PROJECTS (TSP)

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Having this insight into the project definitely helped getting me the interview and eventually the place-ment I feel. Architecturally this project was the most stunning I’ve ever worked on during my time at TATA or at any other placement. An iconic local structure made this an unbelievable experience for myself for which I’m very grateful. 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 project was starting to come to a close during my time on the project and so my activities consisted of mainly making amendments. Although the odd oppertunity to assist in making design choices came up every now and then. During the first 4 months I worked mostly as an Architectural Technician on this project. Usual weekly duties included detailing amendments, issuing sheets and developing the 3-D models (for use by both Client and contractor). As I had little knowledge of Architectural details before starting work here it proved to be a fairly steep learning curve.

Sessay Community Hub (N.Yorkshire) (October 10th - November 8th)

The project was a RIBA international competion for the design of a community centre and cricket pavillion (amongst other quality sporting facilites) in the small rural village of Sessay. 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 - £1.5, making it the most far removed, intimate, and community focused project I worked on during my time at TATA Steel Projects. The building layout evolved using a relationship diagram to reflect the needs of the occupants 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 inclueded making floor plans from the Revit model (below), developing carpark layouts and collecting visualisation precedents (centre/right) for the design.

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 large glazed windows al-lowed natural light to flood the central spaces, as well as frame the famed views of Hambleton Hills and Kilburn “White Horse”. `There are a number of benefits to larch timber cladding apart from the aesthetic design. For example the reduction of heavy masonry outer walls reduced the size and cost of the foundations. Timber cladding panels can be factory pre-fabricated complete with breathing membrane insulation and possess outstanding thermal and sound insulation properties. The grey brick aimed to give permance within the setting. Our entry did not make the short list of finalists. Non the less it was interesting to work on a project such as this with it being so different from the rest of my experiances on projects at TATA Steel Projects.

Leeds RERF (Recycling and Energy From Waste Centre) (September 9th - December 19th)

The main project I worked on during the first 4 months of my placement was the Leeds Recycling and Energy from waste facility. It operates as a recycling centre for local domestic waste, and what isn’t recycled is used as fuel for incinerators. The waste that cannot be re-cycled is ground to a constant calorific value and burnt to drive steam turbines for power. During a sum-mer internship in summer 2013 I had spent one week with another intern developing a structural frame to house the green wall (left). The main issue we faced was passing over no horizontal loading on to the timber frames (as that was the contractors request etc). 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 second week I spent detailing and developing sheets in Revit for the green wall structure.

A couple of detailing sheets I would model and or draw up in Revit can be seen below.

An example of a quick draft-ing render for visualisation of finishes can be seen to the right hand side.

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Blötberget Iron Ore Plant (Sweden) (December 3rd -19th)

For a couple weeks I worked rendering some visualisation images for the client. This was to help them to realise if they could fit all the equipment on the site comfortably. As well as modeling plant equipment and conveyor belts to make sure the size of the facotry would be ad-equate. As well as this I spent some time arrang-ing sheets to present our findings to the client.

Wilton EfW (Energy From Waste) (January 5th - February 8th)

Visualisation and Rendering Research (January 30th -14th March)

Due to having a keen interest in visualising projects 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 BIM seminar I would look into new ways of designing our projects and realising them in a 3D space. 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 few conversions through a couple programs I could take models and drop them into a “walkable” space. Allowing a client to freely walk about the building as they so chose. Standard walk throughs with set paths of models offered some level of immersion, but clearly nothing could quite com-pare to freely moving about the space as you would be able to if you were actually in the building. This coupled with Ocu-lus Rift goggles(right)with its steroscopic vision (simulates true depth depth) had the potentional to make highly believable walkthroughs. As it turned out I would put this work to one side for the rest of my time at TATA for a few reasons. Mainly Temple

ETCS (Railway Signaling Infrastructure) (May 9th - 23rd)

When the work load became too much for the Track Infrastruc-ture department due to people being on holiday I was drafted into their team for a couple weeks to help them. ETCS is a new form of signaling for trains. My job was tolocated existing signal boxes and junctions that this new technology could be housed in.

This was probably the project that was most rooted in engineering principles and problem solving log-ic. As well as marking up this work I would then hand over my work to then be copied up neatly on Auto-CAD by another young proffesional.

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Templeborough Biomass Facility (Rotherham, Sheffield) (Januray 16th - June 19th)

During the second half of my placement I worked mainly on the Templeborough Bio-mass project. This project is similar in many ways to the EfW facilities TATA is known for designing. It is a Biomass facility, burning reclaimed wood to drive steam turbines for electricity. During this project I mainly took on the role as an Architectural Assistant. 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 sections of the buildings, components and other ancillary massing of the site. 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 opperate with the required vehicle loading during opperation (taking into account site vehicles, right of access lorrys through the site and civilion traffic). I spent most of my time on this project developing and evolving the site layout working in liason with other teams in the company such as Highways, M&E, Bridges, Geotechnics and Drainage.

One of the tools we used to rectify this issue and I learnt during this project was Autodesk Vehicle tracking. By taking the site plans we were developing from an architectural perspective I could “drive” round virtual vehicles on the site. Whether they be the loading lorrys, ordinary cars, waste disposal lorries or fork-lift trucks. From this we could qualify the site layout as accetable for that revi-sion, until the next issue arose where we would repeat this method of designing out the problem then testing. A site plan with vehicle paths sketched on as well as notes for futher tracking can be seen on the left. The tracking allowed us to futher develop the overall site plan concept plan we would use to explain our site strategy to all parties.

In addition to Tracking software I learnt some Autodesk-Navisworks. This is clash detection software speciffically de-signed to highlight clashes (Physical overlaps in the model). This is used on the larger projects extensivly. At height during projects there will be reviews attended by all parties to review clashes and seek a way forward with the design.

Navisworks screen-shots and animations.

One of the activites I undertook in liason with another team was enusring occupant and civilian saftey on site (in regards to the walkways). From this we could futher the precision of the track-ing, highlight preliminary walk-ways from an early stage and aim to increase general saftey.

borough was properlly starting soon. Textures and objects like doors needed a considerable extra amount of work assigned to them to make them opperate or look like they would in Revit (disrupting ordinary work flow). But mainly this program costs a few thousand pounds for a licence and around mid March another games engine called “Un-real” came onto the market as a free open source piece of kit. Trumping Unity in terms of cost and acess`ability.

Inbetween the work load on Leeds ramping down and the work load on Rotherham ramping up I helped out with some detailing and modeling 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. In addii-tion to this I learnt some more general technicians tools in Revit such as scheduling and key finishes.