Industrial Advisory Board

William Rankine Building

The Alexander Graham Bell Building is Phase I of a longer term strategy to invest in the Institute's facilities. Phase II involves the construction of the William Rankine Building for which construction has started. The Contractor is Henry Boot Scotland and the Architects are Hurd Rolland. Project Management is provided by the University's Estates & Buildings Department.

AutoCAD renders of the proposed design (produced by Yahya Islami, PhD student in the School of Architecture), and progress of the project will be shown on this page. Please come back to see progress!

19 July 2004
Site Clearance

21 September 2004
Bulk Excavation

28 September 2004
Pad Foundations

26 November 2004
Strip Foundations

2 December 2004
Ground Floor Column Formwork

17 January 2005
Ground Floor Foundation Backfill

24 January 2005
Ground Floor Walls

26 February 2005
First Floor Formwork and Falsework

The Proposed WRB superimposed on the currently empty space

Stair Details:

The Building has a DTi grant to install photo-voltaic cells on roof and walls - these can be seen on the proposed roof detail above

Earlier Renders: