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Gateway to the Knowledge QuarterRedmonds Building, Liverpool John Moores University

This impressive 124,000 sq ft, six storey facility was designed by ADP to accommodate the Liverpool Screen School, the Liverpool Business School and the School of Law. The landmark building provides a new gateway for students, residents and visitors to both Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter and the Mount Pleasant Campus.

The Redmonds Building provides a fantastic opportunity for Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to establish itself as a provider of world class undergraduate and postgraduate teaching facilities. The building is situated at the gateway to Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter, home to the city’s education, knowledge and research sectors.

This project involved the construction of a landmark building on a city centre development. It also included the demolition of a 1960s tower block, LJMU’s former home of building technology on Clarence Street. The new building houses two facilities, a new Screen School and the Faculty of Business and Law, formed around a soaring six storey atrium.

The new Screen School includes industry standard film and broadcasting studios, and embraces all forms of digital media, as a centre of innovation and research. The various workshops and studios are accommodated over four floors, including basement,

with acoustic glazed screens opening the facilities out on to the atria. Much of the designated accommodation requires limited daylight and large areas of wall space, which is cleverly articulated in a ‘pixelated’ façade.

The ground floor accommodates the café and break-out space affording great linkage to the cathedral and future masterplan landscaping.

The main entrance to the building is located on the principal arterial road of Brownlow Hill, and responds to the new axis between Lime Street and Christ the King Cathedral identified in the Knowledge Quarter masterplan. The design of the Redmonds Building actively contributes to ensuring greater integration and cohesion in the area, and positively affirms the university’s contribution to Liverpool’s knowledge economy.

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An integral part of the design has been to create a diversity of space for students, reflecting the university’s aim to prepare students for the world of work and encouraging students to stay and work in the building: promoting interaction and knowledge transfer in the vibrant spirit of the Quarter.

The building includes a large entrance atrium, new teaching spaces, social learning areas and three large lecture theatres with highly specified acoustic packages catering for 120, 150 and 360 students.

The building’s foundations comprise 50 rock anchors, threaded into the ground to hold the building’s foundations in place, reducing excavation time, cost and waste, and providing a striking seven metre cantilevered volume onto Brownlow Hill.

Sustainable features of the building include the use of Fibre C, a durable cladding solution produced with raw mineral materials. Each external panel was mounted in Structural Insulated Panels, enhancing the building aesthetically with a high-grade façade, whilst improving fire resistance.

Throughout construction, all waste steel, timber and concrete were removed from site, recycled and sent to a processing unit. Any non-recyclable materials were burnt in a gasification plant and the electricity produced was fed on to the national grid, helping achieve 99% of site waste being diverted from landfill.

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