Our office Friday morning start the day meeting took a more playful turn last week with great fun and healthy competition in games of an Architectural pop-Quiz, Articulate and paper airplanes!

Office night out with great food at Rico Libre Tapas her in Digbeth followed by bowling fun Lane 7 in The Cube.

D5 Partner Martin Rennie enjoyed an afternoon with RLF's Birmingham office at this years British Council for Offices (BCO) Midlands Awards 2019 Great. It was great to see our hosts RLF take a win with the Cornerblock scheme and congratulations also due to regular co-consultant WSP for their winning own office scheme in The Mailbox.

D5’ers Joe Bowman and Chris Maloney spoke at Birmingham School of Art and Design’s ‘BIM in Birmingham’ event today at Birmingham City University with a presentation about D5’s broad approach to BIM and the wider benefits the technology offers our clients both creatively and technically.

Since joining D5, David has demonstrated a passion and commitment to his work with a natural leadership style. He will now go on to lead his team in diverse project sectors including residential, commercial, transportation and education projects.

Submission of the new development has been reported in the Birmingham Post. To read more, click on the following link.

The new build project creates all new Male, Female, PRM and Baby Change facilities.

For more information on the project, follow this link.

Passing the course also provides Saiman with RIBA Part III exemption and he can now register with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) as a qualified Architect. Saiman has worked very  hard for the course, resulting in not only a Pass, but a Commendation for his efforts. Well done Saiman!

Huge £82m expansion plans at Coventry railway station will press ahead after they were approved by the council’s planning committee on Thursday (15/11/2018).

Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration Councillor Jim O’Boyle said the plans would ensure Coventry had a train station “fit for purpose” ahead of taking over the City of Culture title in 2021.

“This is a significant investment,” he said at the meeting.

The station opened in 1962 and in that time there has been no real investment to the station.

“Passenger numbers have tripled since 2003 and now we are talking about 7.4 million passengers coming through a year," he said.

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The building represents a £40m investment for Boeing in their first manufacturing facility in Europe. The striking purpose built facility designed by D5 will manufacture parts for all future 737 & 767 aircraft.

Unbuilt Brum will be an exploration of the city’s unbuilt history that highlights lost projects that form a potential alternative to the built environment we inhabit today, and which celebrates the creativity of the city’s architectural and engineering designers.

As a collaborative exhibition, the evening will feature a talk from guest speak Mike Dring of Birmingham Modernist Society and Birmingham and Five Counties Architectural Association, who will also be providing content for the exhibition. Additionally, an open call for submissions, will provide a platform for Birmingham practices and practitioners to exhibit their unbuilt projects.

There are no limitations on the type, scale or budget of the project; the only two conditions being that it must have once been a live commission that now has no prospect of future construction, and you must be satisfied that you or your company own the copyright to have the images displayed for the evening. All submissions should be sent to info@d5architects.net and should contain the following:

- Confirmation of copyright ownership.

- Company or individual name.

- Project name.

- Project year.

- A selection of project images.

Set within the context of W R Headley’s 1960’s Grade 2 listed station, the new footbridge and canopies will provide an additional step free route between the station’s 4 platforms.  Located to the north of the station, the footbridge will also provide a direct connection to the proposed future Station Building and Multi Storey Car Park. Collectively these developments form part of the Coventry Station masterplan- an £82 million package of works that anticipates the stations continued expansion as the fastest growing station outside of London.

The project forms part of a wider redevelopment plan of Coventry Station to include a new additional station building, footbridge, multi-storey car park, bus interchange and associated public realm works. More information about this project can be viewed by following this link.

To celebrate the start new recruits Nidhi Shah and Hannah Davies to the D5 team, we had an office night out to Digbeth's own Ghetto Golf. Once the serious (!) sporting activity was over, we headed to Dig Brew Co Brewery + Taproom, also in Digbeth, for some great wood fired pizza and local beers.

D5 Architects are delighted to have been awarded Cyber Essentials certification, a world-leading assurance mechanism to demonstrate to our clients and other stakeholders that the most important basic cyber security controls have been implemented. The scheme provides five security controls that, according to the UK government, could prevent “around 80% of cyber attacks”.

• Secure configuration
• Firewalls
• Access controls
• Patch management
• Malware protection

D5 Architects passed the requirements of certification, following assessment by IT Governance.

Just a week until BIM in Birmingham - Two days of BIM from RIBA, archeducate & BCUPressOffice . Join us in Birmingham on the 25 Jan.

Tickets available at Eventbrite

D5 Architects have obtained Full Planning Permission for a roof top extension to Kimberley House in Leicester city centre. D5 have designed the extension to accommodate 8 dwellings including two 2-bed  and six 1-bed units. Prior to the roof top extension D5 obtained Planning Permission for conversion of the existing building from Office and Educational uses to Residential use via both Permitted Development and Full Planning Permission means.

D5 will now mobilise a design team to progress RIBA Stage 4 Technical Design for tender and construction.

The proposed facility will support Boeing’s European GoldCare customers. Utilised by more than 60 airline customers around the world, GoldCare is a flexible set of fleet engineering, materials and maintenance services tailored for airlines and managed by Boeing.  The facility will also add engineering capacity at Gatwick to support airlines as the airport continues its growth in both short and long-haul services.

The Sheffield facility is part of Boeing’s broader plan to grow in-house production of selective technologies. The Boeing Sheffield team will manufacture key actuation systems with improved productivity, enhanced production efficiency and reduced costs while maintaining quality. Boeing Fabrication's Portland facility in Gresham, Oregon, U.S.A., will also produce actuators and assemble actuation systems for these models as a new work statement. Actuation systems move the flaps on the trailing edge of an aeroplane wing to provide extra lift at low speeds during take-off and landing