Design and Engineering Centre, Gaydon
for Land Rover.

This award winning development for Land Rover combines several very diverse environments and operations essentially under one roof. The building has a gross area of 30,000 m² split between ; Design Studio; Showroom/Exhibition area; Offices & Conference suites; Areas of Specialisation; Production Workshops and Circulation Street to house over 1000 employees, the facility also includes a landscaped 1000 space Car park.

The design evokes the companies strong brand heritage and promotes future success by co-locating designers and engineers in one facility by catering for the respective design and engineering work streams. Essentially this involves a combination of building types. One is office based - mainly open plan - for the extensive engineering function undertaken in the building. The other is design and workshop space for developing and prototyping new models. Given the trade secrecy surrounding car design, this area is secure. What integrates these two areas is their shared use of an internal street. The street is overlooked from the design floors, and accessed directly from the workshops and studios.

The spaces have been configured and arranged to promote innovation in business performance. It has been commended by CABE as a case-study of building design that has been consciously used to increase value in the occupier's operations.

The design brief evolved through a Partnership arrangement with the client and expanded to include the principal contractor. This ethos produced a building that was one of the featured projects in 'The Seven Pillars of Partnering' extolling the virtues of Partnering in construction following the Egan report and has resulted in several awards:-