Atriums The Great Indoors – Canadian Consulting Engineer

Enter almost any complex in North America and you will find yourself moving into a large open space. Atriums –or atria, if you prefer the Latin –have become the living heart of most commercial and i… Enter almost any complex in North America and you will find yourself moving into a large open space. Atriums […]

Nithurst Farm by Adam Richards

One arrives at Nithurst Farm along a country road through a band of trees to discover the house at the bottom of a straight, steeply sloping drive. It is located in the middle of a field surrounded by further bands of thick trees, which seem to stretch to ridges of the South Downs in the […]

Role of WRB in open-joint cladding design

Importance of UV stability The exterior of the Collaborative Life Sciences Building (CLSB) in Portland is made up of prefinished perforated panels of aluminum, engineered in a corrugated profile. If wind, rain, and snow can get through the open joints, it goes without saying UV light can also do so because the wall assemblies are […]