Designing and delivering ‘The Cube'mixed-use building in Birmingham, UK

Stuart Brumpton; David Trujillo; Simon Walker

doi:10.1680/cien.13.00042

Designing and delivering ‘The Cube'mixed-use building in Birmingham, UK

Stuart Brumpton, David Trujillo, Simon Walker

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Abstract

‘The Cube' is an iconic new mixed-used building in the Mailbox development in central Birmingham, UK. Its competition-winning design provided a pragmatic approach to maximising the use of the site but also required a number of complex engineering details to be resolved. This required collaboration between all parties at all stages of the project, making full use of an integrated site office. This paper provides an overview of the project, then describes in greater detail the challenges associated with two of the more complex areas – the large basement construction, containing one of the biggest automated car parking systems in the UK, and the open, irregularly patterned facade structure.

Original language	Undefined
Pages (from-to)	115-122
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering
Volume	167
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1680/cien.13.00042
Publication status	Published - 25 May 2015

Keywords

buildings
steel structures
structures & design
temporary works

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