This document provides details about the applicant's work placements at TATA Steel Projects from September 2014 to June 2015. It describes several projects the applicant worked on in detail, including architectural work for a community hub in Sessay, Yorkshire and a biomass power plant. The applicant gained experience in BIM modeling, drafting, detailing, rendering, and working with contractors on construction documents. Their duties included making amendments to drawings, developing models, and assisting with design choices.

1. TATA STEEL PROJECTS (TSP)
Sept ‘14
Oct Nov Dec Jan
Having this insight into the project definitely helped getting me the interview and eventually the place-
ment I feel. Architecturally this project was the most stunning I’ve ever worked on during my time at TATA
or at any other placement. An iconic local structure made this an unbelievable experience for myself for
which I’m very grateful. Upon its completion it will be the tallest glued laminated timber arch in the UK,
standing at 42 meters. It will also hold the record for the largest green wall utilizing a single irrigation
system in the world. The project was starting to come to a close during my time on the project and so my
activities consisted of mainly making amendments. Although the odd oppertunity to assist in making
design choices came up every now and then. During the first 4 months I worked mostly as an
Architectural Technician on this project. Usual weekly duties included detailing amendments, issuing
sheets and developing the 3-D models (for use by both Client and contractor). As I had little knowledge
of Architectural details before starting work here it proved to be a fairly steep learning curve.
Sessay Community Hub (N.Yorkshire)
(October 10th - November 8th)
The project was a RIBA international competion for the design
of a community centre and cricket pavillion (amongst other
quality sporting facilites) in the small rural village of Sessay.
86 firms from as far as Japan made submissions for the initial
contest. The cost for the entire project had to come to around
£1.25M - £1.5, making it the most far removed, intimate, and
community focused project I worked on during my time at
TATA Steel Projects.
The building layout evolved using a relationship diagram to
reflect the needs of the occupants into the layout. As well as
this there were phasing issues to tackle as to keep the existing
facilities and cricket fields in use during the construction phase.
Mydutiesonthisprojectincluededmaking
floor plans from the Revit model (below),
developing carpark layouts and collecting
visualisation precedents (centre/right) for
the design.
The design proposal draws upon the surrounding agricultural vernacular. Whilst aspiring to be striking the
“barn-like” structure made it sit within the rural setting of the village. The large glazed windows al-
lowed natural light to flood the central spaces, as well as frame the famed views of Hambleton Hills and
Kilburn “White Horse”. `There are a number of benefits to larch timber cladding apart from the
aesthetic design. For example the reduction of heavy masonry outer walls reduced the size and cost of the
foundations. Timber cladding panels can be factory pre-fabricated complete with breathing membrane insulation and
possess outstanding thermal and sound insulation properties. The grey brick aimed to give permance within the setting.
Our entry did not make the short list of finalists. Non the less it was interesting to work
on a project such as this with it being so different from the rest of my experiances
on projects at TATA Steel Projects.
Leeds RERF (Recycling and Energy From Waste Centre)
(September 9th - December 19th)
The main project I worked on during the first 4 months of my placement was the
Leeds Recycling and Energy from waste facility. It operates as a recycling centre for
local domestic waste, and what isn’t recycled is used as fuel for incinerators. The waste that cannot be re-
cycled is ground to a constant calorific value and burnt to drive steam turbines for power. During a sum-
mer internship in summer 2013 I had spent one week with another intern developing a structural frame
to house the green wall (left). The main issue we faced was passing over no horizontal loading on to the
timber frames (as that was the contractors request etc). Being able to see the structure erected during my
various site visits during the internship year was surely one of the many highlights of the placement. The second
week I spent detailing and developing sheets in Revit for the green wall structure.
A couple of detailing sheets I would model
and or draw up in Revit can be seen below.
An example of a quick draft-
ing render for visualisation of
finishes can be seen to the
right hand side.

2. ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
Feb Mar Apr May
June ‘15
Blötberget Iron Ore Plant (Sweden)
(December 3rd -19th)
For a couple weeks I worked rendering some
visualisation images for the client. This was
to help them to realise if they could fit all
the equipment on the site comfortably. As well
as modeling plant equipment and conveyor belts
to make sure the size of the facotry would be ad-
equate. As well as this I spent some time arrang-
ing sheets to present our findings to the client.
Wilton EfW (Energy From Waste)
(January 5th - February 8th)
Visualisation and Rendering Research
(January 30th -14th March)
Due to having a keen interest in visualising projects and how to
make our ideas more clearer to both client and contractor I was
handed the chance to do some research. Through research at
work and attending a BIM seminar I would look into new ways
of designing our projects and realising them in a 3D space.
I researched into some new methods of rending with tools
we already had, new render engines on the market, and even
looked at some game engines. I took a particular interest in the
game engine Unity whilst attending the seminar. By taking a
model through a few conversions through a couple programs
I could take models and drop them into a “walkable” space.
Allowing a client to freely walk about the building as they so
chose. Standard walk throughs with set paths of models offered
some level of immersion, but clearly nothing could quite com-
pare to freely moving about the space as you would be able
to if you were actually in the building. This coupled with Ocu-
lus Rift goggles(right)with its steroscopic vision (simulates true
depth depth) had the potentional to make highly believable
walkthroughs. As it turned out I would put this work to one side
for the rest of my time at TATA for a few reasons. Mainly Temple
ETCS (Railway Signaling
Infrastructure)
(May 9th - 23rd)
When the work load became
too much for the Track Infrastruc-
ture department due to people
being on holiday I was drafted into
their team for a couple weeks to
help them. ETCS is a new form of
signaling for trains. My job was
tolocated existing signal boxes and
junctions that this new technology
could be housed in.
This was probably the project that
was most rooted in engineering
principles and problem solving log-
ic. As well as marking up this work I
would then hand over my work to
then be copied up neatly on Auto-
CAD by another young proffesional.
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BIOMASS BOILER BUILDING
STEAM TURBINE BUILDING
MAIN ELECTRICAL BUILDING
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FUEL TANK
STACK
COOLING TOWERS
SERVICE & FIRE FIGHTING WATER TANK
READY-TO-FIRE WOOD STIORAGE
RECEIVING & PROCESSING BUILDING
EXISTING BUILDING
(refurb' to Workshops, Offices and
Warehouse)
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CAR PARK
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PELLETING PLANT- ELECTRICAL ROOM 1
PELLETING PLANT - ELECTRICAL ROOM 2
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BIOMASS BOILER BUILDING
STEAM TURBINE BUILDING
MAIN ELECTRICAL BUILDING
STACK
COOLING TOWERS
READY TO FIRE WOOD STORAGE
PELLETING PLANT
MOVING FLOOR
DRYERS
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BOIMASS BOILER BUILDING1.
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CONVEYOR BELTS33.
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PELLETING SILOS20.
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RECEIVING AND PROCESSING BUILDING12.
STACK6.
BIOMASS STEAM BOILER BUILDING1.
READY TO FIRE WOOD STORAGE11.
BAG FILTER4.
STEAM TURBINE BUILDING2.
FUEL GAS TREATMENT5.
EXISTING BUILDINGS
PELLETING PLANT16.
FIRE FIGHTING WATER BUILDING22.
PELLETING PLANT16.
TWO 800 x 800 CONVEYORS
TERMINATING 5M ABOVE GROUND
LEVEL OUT OF 11 AND ENTERING
25M ABOVE GROUND LEVEL INTO 1
THE COLOURS SHOWN ARE TRUE REPRESENTATION
OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
BOIMASS BOILER BUILDING1.
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OF SECTION 73 PLANNING SUBMISSION BY ICL TO
READ IN CONJUCTION WITH OTHER SECTION 73
IMFORMATION DATED 31.07.2015. THIS DRAWING
REPLACES BRITE PARTNERSHIP PLANNING
DRAWING 5 SD/431/05C AND BRITE PARTNERSHIP
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Templeborough Biomass Facility (Rotherham, Sheffield)
(Januray 16th - June 19th)
During the second half of my placement I worked mainly on the Templeborough Bio-
mass project. This project is similar in many ways to the EfW facilities TATA is known for
designing. It is a Biomass facility, burning reclaimed wood to drive steam turbines for
electricity. During this project I mainly took on the role as an Architectural
Assistant. This still included some duties I undertook on Leeds such as issuing sheets and
live models, however on this project I did little to no 2-D detailing.
Instead I was modelling in 3-D large sections of the buildings, components and
other ancillary massing of the site. In addition to this, my main piece of work on the
project was to tackle site circulation. We had been given a site that couldn’t opperate with the
required vehicle loading during opperation (taking into account site vehicles, right of access
lorrys through the site and civilion traffic). I spent most of my time on this project developing and
evolving the site layout working in liason with other teams in the company such as Highways,
M&E, Bridges, Geotechnics and Drainage.
One of the tools we used to rectify this issue and I learnt during this project was
Autodesk Vehicle tracking. By taking the site plans we were developing from
an architectural perspective I could “drive” round virtual vehicles on the site.
Whether they be the loading lorrys, ordinary cars, waste disposal lorries or fork-
lift trucks. From this we could qualify the site layout as accetable for that revi-
sion, until the next issue arose where we would repeat this method of designing
out the problem then testing. A site plan with vehicle paths sketched on as well
as notes for futher tracking can be seen on the left. The tracking allowed us to
futher develop the overall site plan concept plan we would use to explain
our site strategy to all parties.
In addition to Tracking software I learnt some Autodesk-
Navisworks. This is clash detection software speciffically de-
signed to highlight clashes (Physical overlaps in the model).
This is used on the larger projects extensivly. At height during projects
there will be reviews attended by all parties to review clashes and seek
a way forward with the design.
Navisworks screen-
shots and animations.
One of the activites I undertook
in liason with another team was
enusring occupant and civilian
saftey on site (in regards to the
walkways). From this we could
futher the precision of the track-
ing, highlight preliminary walk-
ways from an early stage and
aim to increase general saftey.
borough was properlly starting soon. Textures and objects like doors needed a considerable extra amount of work
assigned to them to make them opperate or look like they would in Revit (disrupting ordinary work flow). But mainly
this program costs a few thousand pounds for a licence and around mid March another games engine called “Un-
real” came onto the market as a free open source piece of kit. Trumping Unity in terms of cost and acess`ability.
Inbetween the work load on Leeds ramping down
and the work load on Rotherham ramping up I
helped out with some detailing and modeling on
the Wilton Efw project. Most of this time was spent
altering stairs in core locations and fire escapes. The
stair tool in Revit is somewhat of a dark art, but I’ve
figured out some of its quirks for the future. In addii-
tion to this I learnt some more general technicians
tools in Revit such as scheduling and key finishes.