Monday 25 October 2010

Egghead Quiz Winners 2010

Congratulations to our quiz team - David Ward, Andrew Drummond, Alex Reeve & Tim Mellor, who after many years of trying and second place finishes for the last two years won this years 'Egghead Quiz'. 

The event was hosted by Morgan Sindall at the Ravenwood Hall Hotel, Bury St Edmunds, with teams from the construction industry across the Eastern region.  The event raised £1520 for the Macmillan Cancer Support.

We'd like to thank Morgan Sindall - we promise to look after the trophy and look forward to next years competition.

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Faculty of Classics

Thank you to the members of the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, for a lovely party on Saturday evening to celebrate the official opening of their new extension.  With the new academic year well under way its great to see the faculty settling in to their new facilities.


View from Sidgwick Site towards new entrance

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Thursday 14 October 2010

RHP Brochure Launch

R H Partnership Architects are pleased to announce the launch of a series of new brochures showcasing our latest projects across a broad range of sectors.

Use the links in the left-hand column of the screen to view or download a copy:

If you'd like more information please don't hesitate to contact one of our studios:

Awards Shortlist : UEA Academic East

Congratulations to all those involved in the University of East Anglia Academic East development, having been shortlisted for this years National AV Awards.  AV design and installation on the project was completed by Snelling Business Systems Ltd.


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Building for Life : Silver Standard

The Ledge, Fishergate has won a Building For Life 2010 Silver Standard Award.

The Building For Life Assessor thought that the carefully designed buildings provide well constructed and well finished homes and added that this is an impressive development.

This scheme includes 34 flats and 6 houses for Hyde Martlet Housing Association and was completed in April 2010.

The Ledge : Completed Development

Dartford BASE Business Centre

The new Dartford Business Centre, located on the site of the former Unwins depot is now well underway on site.  R G Carter were appointed in August, and following last weeks official ground-breaking ceremony are working towards completion in Spring 2011.

Dartford Times Article, 8 Oct 2010 : click on link below

RHP visualisation of proposed business centre
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CFCI : Cambridgeshire BSF Talk

Congratulations to Kevin Myers, RHP, and all those involved in Monday evenings talk held by the Cambridge Forum for the Construction Industry (CFCI) at Clare College.

The talks outlined the current progress of the Cambridgeshire BSF Programme and the work of the successful Equitex led team, including presentations by RHP and Make Architects who have designed the two sample schools - Neale Wade Community College and Thomas Clarkson, both of which have now started on site.



Neale Wade : Flythrough, download time approx 35secs

RHP have been working with the staff and pupils at Neale Wade over the last two years to help them realise their dreams and create a vision for a new school.  Our works include the refurbishment/refreshing of approx 50% of the existing buildings and replacing 50% of the buildings to create a new entrance, LRC, cafe and teaching clusters.


For up-to-date project updates, visit the schools project blog:
www.neale-wade.net/bsf
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Tuesday 12 October 2010

Award Winning Offices

We are pleased to announce that RHP received two awards at the RIBA East Spirit of Ingenuity awards dinner at Downing College.

RIBA East Spirit of Ingenuity : Best Workplace Award

RIBA East Building of the Year Award

See the RIBA website for more details, click here

Congratulations to all involved.

The design team for the project included:

Main Contractor : Haymills
QS : Cotton Thompson Cole
Structural Engineer : Andrew Firebrace Partnership
M&E Consultant : Rolph Partnership
Landscape : Elwood Landscape Design



Welcome to RHP

Thank you for finding our new blog, the place to find all of the latest news on the practice and our projects.  R H Partnership Architects have over 35 years experience in the design and delivery of successful projects, we are an AJ100 and a RIBA Chartered Practice and work across a number of sectors - culture and leisure, education, residential, science & healthcare, sports, masterplanning, interiors and offices/workplace design. 

We also have an experienced in-house conservation team currently working with both the National Trust and English Heritage and in-house sustainability team, including a BREEAM Accredited Professional who advises on all of our projects.