21 Category 1: Buildings 1 AstraZeneca’s New Global R&D Centre and Corporate Headquarters - Cambridge, United Kingdom SE Contact Tom Carr Address 16 Brewhouse Yard Clerkenwell EC1V4LJ London, United Kingdom Website www.bdp.com BDP is a major international, interdisciplinary practice of architects, designers, engineers and urbanists; embracing all the skills needed to provide an integrated, comprehensive service. We work closely with users, clients and the community to create special places for living, working, shopping, culture and learning across the world. BDP has a leading track record in all major sectors including health, education, workplace, retail, urbanism, heritage, housing, transport, leisure, public safety and energy utilities. Owner AstraZeneca Architect Herzog & de Meuron General Contractor SKANSKA Engineering Office Building Design Partnership Construction Period 04/2015 - 07/2016 BDP were responsible for the design of a new research and development laboratory and office for AstraZeneca, in collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron architects. The building consisted of a 5 storey concrete framed structure, with a steel roof. The lowest 2 levels were situated in a basement, whilst the upper 2 storeys incorporated large cantilevers to the external envelope of the building, and around an internal courtyard. SCIA Engineer was utilized on virtually every aspect of the project. To speed up analysis, the building was split into 2 models - one consisting of the concrete frame, whilst the other formed the roof. These models were initially created by importing a revit model into SCIA Engineer. From this we were able to analyze virtually everything on the structure. Overall the project itself proved a major challenge, with SCIA Engineer proving particularly valuable in the following areas: • Monitoring long term and short term vertical slab edge deflections. • Monitoring vertical and horizontal deflections at the roof-facade interface. • Establishing movement joint requirements across the slab by considering the impact of thermal load cases. • Value engineering - Working out upstand beam requirements for the slabs and member reduction for the roof. • Accurately modelling the forces and stresses within the slab with an extremely irregular column array. Building Design Partnership
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