GDEC, Gaydon
Client
Jaguar Land Rover
Value
£25,000,000
Division
Main Projects
Awards
Featured as an exemplar project in The University of Reading's publication Seven Pillars of Partnering and won six national awards including Office of the Year.
Key Features
State-of-the-art venue designed to house the Rover Group's (now Jaguar Land Rover) car designers.
Split into a an open plan office for engineers and a design and workshop space for developing prototype models.
The building is roofed with curved steel trusses that span wall-to-wall without intervening columns.
Features many unique engineering solutions, including passive fire engineering, an architecturally exposed structure, passive and active acoustic control, solar gain control and centralised energy centres and plant.