Gateway Building University of Nottingham Sutton Bonnington Campus Nottingham University Sutton Bonnington Leicestershire England UK GB Europe
The UK’s largest strawbale building Make Architects has completed work on the largest single strawbale building in the UK. The completed 3,100 sq m Gateway Building for the University of Nottingham’s agriculture campus at Sutton Bonington has taken one of the most traditional building materials and elevated it into cutting edge sustainable building technology. In an era threatened by global warming, straw is undergoing resurgence on the strength of its superb insulation qualities, its source as a natural, renewable and often local material and its minimal production costs. At the Gateway Building, it has been applied for the first time as an external cladding system known as a ‘curtain wall’. Here each panel covers all four floors of the building in one prefabricated piece. This quick and cost-effective system is a third of the cost of a typical high end unitised curtain walling system and combined with its environmentally friendly properties holds the potential to place straw in the mainstream of construction straw comes from the Campus Gateway Building houses a combination of laboratories and offices.
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Location: Sutton Bonnington Leicestershire England UK GB Europe
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