Architecture Staff

Lightweight Structures
Low Energy Housing and Sustainable Communities

Outputs 1

Lightweight Military Shelter

Outputs 2

Deployable Grandstand Canopy

1. Mobile Shelter Systems - Feasibility and Market Research Study
   Scottish Enterprise Tayside, Sir Norman Fraser Trust, Arena Seating Ltd. October 2003, £24,500
2. Determination of Optimal Design Criteria for a Range of Unusual Tensegrity Type Structures Using Restrained Elastically
   Deformed Members for the Primary Supporting Structure - Proposal No. 1145, British Council ARC / DAAD, June 2000, £4,500
3. To Develop to Production Stage a New Design of Canopy for Use with Modular Demountable Grandstands (TCS Contract No. 3001), Teaching Company
   Scheme / Arena Seating Ltd (UK), February. 2000, £245,000
4. Novel Aluminium Construction Systems - The Royal Society. February 1999, £7,825
5. Assessment of New Techniques to use Glass in Innovative Structural Applications (Award No. GMcN/SPD/FR5243A) Sir Norman Fraser Trust. November 1998, £4,870
6. Development of New Coated Membrane Textiles Using Agro Natural Fibre Based Substrates (Proposal No. BEST-3343) Brite Euram III: Industrial And Materials Technologies - Exploratory Awards Proposals, September 1997, 32,000 ECU's
7. Lightweight Structures Design and Engineering Centre (Proposal No. ES/T/96/018, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF): East of Scotland Objective 2, 1994-1996 Program - Technology and Innovation, Measure 4.2, October. 1996, £61,062
8. Military Shelter System, JT Inglis & Sons Ltd. / UK Ministry of Defence. March 1994 - December 1997, £35,462
9. Extruded Aluminium Construction Systems, University Initiatives Fund (UOD). December 1998, £7,690

1. Main-Streaming Solutions for Zero-Carbon Buildings, ERDF Lowlands and Uplands Scotland Programmes 2007-2013, 1st Stage Application Award, University of Dundee, (To enable the Scottish construction industry to deliver mainstream solutions for zero carbon buildings of all types),October 2009, £1,145,000.
2. Tactility Laboratory, AHRC, Morrow + Belford, University of Ulster, Burford, School of Architecture (UOD). The project aims to build a cross-referencing knowledge base (database) of textiles and the built environment, which can inspire and inform the development of innovative tactile products, elements and structures (Not Awarded)July 2008, £780,000
3. Advanced Composite Construction Materials From Non-Wood Fibres (FIBSTRUCT Project CSA6128), LINK / DEFRA. October 2002, LSU (UOD), Scottish Crop Research Institute (lead), Biocomposites Centre, University of Bangor, Imperial College London, Various Industrial Partners, Research into the development of new environmentally benign biocomposites based on plant fibre resources and recycled PET based resin systems for use in advanced construction applications. (Grant subsequently abandoned after main industrial partner take-over), October 2002, £540,000.

PCT / GB 0002519.7

Grandstand Canopy System, Burford N.K. & Smith F.W., (PCT & UK patent awarded for a restrained elastical bending truss for use in rapidly deployed grandstand canopies.)

PCT / GB 96 02062

Fabric Web Reinforced Truss (military shelter system), Burford N.K. & Smith F.W., (PCT & UK patent awarded for a fabric restrained elastical bending truss for use in rapidly deployed lightweight structures.)

1. Proposed Unicorn Visitor Centre and Protective Enclosure, Unicorn Trust, Design in Tension, Nicoll Russell Architects, University of Dundee, Concept design and Lottery bid for Unicorn Historic Ship, Dundee, Dec. 2000, £2.5m
2. Rainscreen Canopy for New Concert Arena, Crystal Palace, Ian Ritchie Architects, Design in Tension, University of Dundee, Design and installation of protective canopy system, August 1998, £25,000.
3. Concept design and development for a new mobile concert arena for Midland Bank / MTV Music Awards, Landrel Fabric Structures, Midland Bank, Buro Happold, Design in Tension, University of Dundee, World's largest mobile building enclosure toured Europe and USA for 1 year and was erected as a permanent performance space beside the Millenium Dome, London.

• MSc Sustainability: Zero-Carbon Housing Module Leader
• Unit Leader (with Thurrott) Macro-Micro Unit (5th year M.Arch)
• Director of Technology: Co-Ordinator Years 3+4 Design Technology Programmes
• Postgraduate Coordinator

• Alexander Pearson, 2012 (1st)
• Tamer Gado, 2015 (1st)

PhD (Dundee/TUM), ARIBA, RIAS, ARB, Ove Arup Award 1991, Mathewson Award 1991, Guild Bequest 1989, IFAI International Achievement Award 1997, Dundee by Design: (Scottish Product Design Awards) ARIES Canopy System 2002, Rural Building in the Countryside Award: Natioanl Trust Visitor Centre, Killiecrankie, 1994.