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    The Drawing Board (September 2020)

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    This summary provides an overview of the two winning sketches selected by Ron Slade for The Drawing Board competition in the September 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer. The first sketch was submitted by João Alves and depicts an imaginary future building environment addressing post-Covid-19 design. It illustrates how structural engineers can contribute through temporary structures, modular designs, and adaptable buildings. The second sketch was done by Cashel Cahill and shows a proposed agricultural store in Guernsey. It uses a simplistic form to minimize wind effects, and considers practical features like solar panels and rainwater collection. The sketch explains the steel frame structure and provides estimated material weights. Both sketches were selected for

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    This summary provides an overview of the two winning sketches selected by Ron Slade for The Drawing Board competition in the September 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer. The first sketch was submitted by João Alves and depicts an imaginary future building environment addressing post-Covid-19 design. It illustrates how structural engineers can contribute through temporary structures, modular designs, and adaptable buildings. The second sketch was done by Cashel Cahill and shows a proposed agricultural store in Guernsey. It uses a simplistic form to minimize wind effects, and considers practical features like solar panels and rainwater collection. The sketch explains the steel frame structure and provides estimated material weights. Both sketches were selected for

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    This summary provides an overview of the two winning sketches selected by Ron Slade for The Drawing Board competition in the September 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer. The first sketch was submitted by João Alves and depicts an imaginary future building environment addressing post-Covid-19 design. It illustrates how structural engineers can contribute through temporary structures, modular designs, and adaptable buildings. The second sketch was done by Cashel Cahill and shows a proposed agricultural store in Guernsey. It uses a simplistic form to minimize wind effects, and considers practical features like solar panels and rainwater collection. The sketch explains the steel frame structure and provides estimated material weights. Both sketches were selected for

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    The Drawing Board (September 2020)

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    This summary provides an overview of the two winning sketches selected by Ron Slade for The Drawing Board competition in the September 2020 issue of The Structural Engineer. The first sketch was submitted by João Alves and depicts an imaginary future building environment addressing post-Covid-19 design. It illustrates how structural engineers can contribute through temporary structures, modular designs, and adaptable buildings. The second sketch was done by Cashel Cahill and shows a proposed agricultural store in Guernsey. It uses a simplistic form to minimize wind effects, and considers practical features like solar panels and rainwater collection. The sketch explains the steel frame structure and provides estimated material weights. Both sketches were selected for

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    Judged by Ron Slade.

    This month Ron has selected two winners – João Alves and Cashel Cahill
    – with very different sketches.

    João Alves

    João Alves says his sketch shows an imaginary


    building environment in a post-Covid-19 world. It
    is intended to illustrate how structural engineers
    can contribute to the design of future spaces by:
    Ò| using temporary structures
    Ò| designing smart and truly modular structures
    Ò| creating new flexible and adaptable building
    structures
    Ò| restructuring existing buildings for new uses.

    Cashel Cahil
    Cahillll He goes on to say that many countries are
    experiencing what seems to be a phase 2 of the
    I love this sketch; it is clear, confident, bold and fills the emergency, and this means that society will have
    drawing sheet perfectly. to learn to live and coexist with the virus. He
    Cashel explains: ‘The client was presented with a concept believes that within architecture and construction,
    proposal for an agricultural store in Guernsey. The intended many ideas are emerging to help re-start activities
    function of the structure guided the simplistic form and impacted by social distancing and safety
    construction – the shape and orientation of the open-sided measures.
    store were such to minimise the effects of the island’s João explains that his hand-drawn sketch
    prevailing south-westerly wind. Allowances were made for accompanied an internal article written to foster
    practical features such as a photovoltaic array and a rainwater debate within his employer’s practice.
    harvesting system.
    ‘The sketch was intended to explain the structural behaviour
    of the frame – the initial proposal consisted of galvanised steel
    portal frames with multiple braced bays used to distribute the
    significant uplift loadings to the pad foundations that would
    develop due to the large, open elevations.
    ‘Estimated material weights were provided to assist with
    costing, as well as enabling an approximation of the total
    embodied carbon of the proposals using “A brief guide to
    calculating embodied carbon” in the July 2020 issue of The
    Structural Engineer.’

    Ron Slade
    BSc(Eng), CEng, FIStructE
    Ron Slade is Structural Director at WSP. Ron received his BSc First Class Honours in Civil Engineering at City
    University, London and became a Chartered Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1971 when he was
    awarded the Institution’s A.E. Wynn prize. He was first appointed as a director in 1982.
    Ron is also the author of Sketching for Engineers and Architects, published by Routledge.

    DON’T FORGET TO SUBMIT YOURS...

    To enter, submit a sketch to [email protected] together with a short description to put it into context (150 words). Sketches must be hand drawn
    (no CAD, except for ‘guided freehand’) and from a real project or assignment (i.e. not drawn for the competition). The next deadline is 16 October 2020.

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