The below case studies have been taken from the shortlisted entries that were submitted for the RIDBA Building Awards 2023, which celebrate the best in rural and industrial building completed by members over the last two years.
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New Grain Store and Potato Store project
This project was the result of replacing existing buildings that were lost in a fire, for a family run business
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Replacement general purpose building
This project was in keeping with the neighbouring traditional buildings and the heritage of the circa 1950s construction.
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Roundhouse children’s play area
Matlock Farm Park is an open farm and play area located in The Peak District, it’s a family run park with all the trappings of a fun family day out.
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Tong Engineering – factory and office facility
The new facility comprises of three buildings. The team involved within this project worked extremely hard to keep the project on time and under budget.
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Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Station
An important aspect of the facility was that it had to be functional, economical and also aesthetically pleasing. Increasing it’s efforts to reach out to the local community by creating an inviting place to visit.
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Morgan Sindall Merthyr bus station
This £12 million bus station, funded via the Welsh Government, as part of its drive to electrify all public
transport by 2028. The bus station also has a kiosk, cafe and public toilets.
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Frank’s Ice Cream, Shufflebottom
With a backdrop of the Brecon Beacons mountain range, these offices and ice cream factory and parlour are designed to be a direct interpretation of its stunning neighbour.
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West Midlands Safari Park, Giraffe House
The entire project was completed in 30 weeks. Challenges include working side by side with the lodge construction site to one side, and live animal facilities to the other.
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Oxey Farm suckler building
The client housed their Suckler herd in a building which was over 30 years old and that had never been properly designed for modern livestock housing.
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Ash Holt Barns
Ash holts barns is a lovely example of high quality workmanship and design incorporating modern design systems with natural building materials to soften the overall impact within the site.
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Ben Pauling Racing Naunton Downs
The yard has been designed and built with the horses health and wellbeing as the main consideration.
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Sunnylands
To meet the environmental requirements set out during the planning phase a number of companies had to
work in partnership to find a solution for the construction project.
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The Property Hub
An innovative and eco-friendly building to operate as a new modern purpose-built office facility.
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Bacton Transport
This hugely impressive structure blends well with and, arguably, even enhances its surroundings.
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Forestry workshop
Forestry wokshop is nestled within a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Pembertons cattle shed
Wareing Buildings were appointed to build a single facility to improve the welfare 115 cows on site and support the farm with its anticipated increase in demand for dairy output.
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Smart Systems
Smarts are a huge local employer, bring huge amounts of jobs to Yatton, near Bristol. With this comes financial benefits for the local economy.
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New CJ Cox workshop
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Sir Richard Sutton Estates
Timmins Engineering & Construction Ltd were tasked with overhauling a redundant unusable farm yard and developing a complete new farm storage complex and
offices.
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Island Estates
The River Chelmer runs around the building, and hence the area is known as the island.
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Sakata UK Ltd, Sprayer chemical store
Design, manufacture & erection of a new chemical and sprayer store building with integrated rain water harvesting system and bio-filtration beds.
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McMurrays Haulage
The site’s location on an old rendering plant presented numerous challenges.
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Cropper Close, Henco International
The starter units for new or small businesses looking for high quality commercial premises
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Graham & Brown
British design institution calls on Wareing Buildings for storage support.
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Luda Barns
This project home was designed with traditional farm barn buildings in mind but with a modern reimagining.
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Dawson’s Wharf pellet bund, S&A Fabrications
Everything about this project was on a massive scale and building in a Freeport didn’t make life any easier!
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Luxury residential property in Poulton-Le-Fylde
An innovative design and clever use of steel brought cost-savings, time-savings, and compliance with planning regulations for this spectacular home.
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New grain store facility
To erect a new grain store facility on a greenfield site next to some existing buildings.