Design Research Unit Wales uses local wood at former steelworks

摘要

Former Yaya nominee Design Research Unit Wales has unveiled a £315,000 education centre for the country's Ebbw Vale steelworks regeneration project.rnThe 140sq m Environmental Resource Centre, clad in vertical charred timber, will provide teaching facilities for local schools and groups within the wildlife area that has emerged around the former pumphouse and concrete filtration tanks following the closure of the steelworks in 2001.rnIt will be built using a new construction system which is being developed by the practice and Welsh woodland trust Coed Cymru as part of a research study into building low-cost affordable housing using locally grown softwood Sitka spruce.