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Video: Reiach and Hall's Dundee Civic Offices

The council's original office building, the bleak 1960s "Tayside House", will be demolished as part of Dundee's £70 million, 30 year, Central Waterfront Development. For this programme, unique access was gained to the construction site, to speak to the architect about its urban integration and value-engineering, and the fire consultant to speak of a new, reasonably untried fire engineering solution.

Key learning:

Fire engineering generally
Value-engineering
Hand-made brick specification
The formation of urban space and regenerating derelict urban spaces
Glazing and sprinkler systems (explaining relatively novel system of glass washing)
Exploring ventilation systems, natural flows powered ventilation systems and the fire engineering of voids through compartments.