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Building Regulations and Approved Documents

Paternoster Lift Challenge

Association and University Directors of Estates

University of Sheffield: Estates and Facilities Management

“Kommt, eilet und laufet” 1725 Johann Sebastian Bach

The choir was founded in the late 15th century by King Henry VI, who established King’s College as a center of learning and worship; respected for its high standards of performance and its repertoire of traditional choral music.

The choir is composed of 16 choristers, who are boys between the ages of 7 and 13, and 14 choral scholars, who are undergraduate students at the university. The choristers receive a full scholarship to attend King’s College School and to sing in the choir, and many of them go on to pursue successful careers in music.

A Ukrainian Prayer

Winton Chapel

“Architecture is a public art, and architects have a responsibility
to create buildings that enhance the quality of life
for everyone who uses them.”

— Roman architect, Vitruvius

Design Engine: Inspired Architecture, Design and Interiors

University of Winchester Estates and Facilities Services

United Kingdom: Approved Documents

£195 Million: Life and Mind Research Center

The “Life and Mind” building at Oxford is a new research center that aims to bring together researchers from different fields to study the intersection of biology, psychology, and philosophy. The center’s research focuses on the fundamental questions about the nature of life and mind, including the origins of life, the evolution of consciousness, and the relationship between mind and body. The center brings together researchers from diverse fields, including biology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence, to work collaboratively on these questions.

Several noteworthy challenges which should not be unfamiliar to Friends of Standards Michigan:

How to accommodate a ~~diverse~~ wide range of academic departments and programs, while also providing flexible and adaptable spaces for research, teaching, and collaboration. This required careful consideration of the building’s layout, structural design, and mechanical systems, as well as the materials and finishes used throughout the building.
Another major challenge was preserving and enhancing the historic character of the building’s site, which is located in the heart of Oxford’s historic city centre. This required sensitive design solutions that could integrate modern facilities and technologies while also respecting the surrounding architecture and urban fabric.
The building’s complex structural design required careful coordination and collaboration between the architects, engineers, and contractors involved in the project. The building includes a large underground lecture theatre, which required innovative solutions for acoustics and ventilation, as well as advanced construction techniques to ensure stability and safety.

We feature a new construction or renovation project every day (or the codes and standards that inform the safety and sustainability of such projects) and maintain them on our periodic AEDificare* colloquium. We are online every day — our “office hours” — so don’t be shy about clicking in. Plenty of cool stuff to talk about.

*Because the word “construction” shows up so much in our characters strings, we use Greek and Roman mnemonics to keep content organized.

West Yorkshire

The Future Building Standard

Summary of responses received and Government response (December 2021)

Zuleika Dobson

“She was one of those who are born to make chaos cosmic.”

“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.”

“I could no more marry a man about whom I could not make a fool of myself than I could marry one who made a fool of himself about me. Else had I long ceased to be a spinster.”

“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”

“One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally.”

“He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.”

“You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. For the attractive woman, dogs are mere dumb and restless brutes—possibly dangerous, certainly soulless. Yet will coquetry teach her to caress any dog in the presence of a man enslaved by her.”

“She remembered having read that all the greatest men in history had been of less than the middle height.”

“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. If man were not a gregarious animal, the world might have achieved, by this time, some real progress towards civilisation. Segregate him, and he is no fool. But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost—he becomes just an unit in unreason.”

Max Beerbohm