TECHNOLOGY
28 and baffles ,” explains Hutchinson , whose company are also working on a £ 25m project at the Royal College of Music . “ Adjacent to the Royal Albert Hall its bounded on all sides ,” he adds . “ So , in terms of the logistics of working in a live school with around 800 students on site it ’ s a huge challenge removing earth from inside the space site and craning it over the top of a listed building from such a confined area .”
Hutchinson maintains Gilbert-Ash couldn ’ t complete the projects it is involved in without being innovative to overcome the technical challenges . “ We have different strands to how we work ,” he reveals . “ We do these landmark projects yet have also worked on
“ On a Belfast Marriot hotel project , we actually used Minecraft and challenged six schools to build a hotel inside the game . What we learned from the back end of that allowed a few of the ideas from the schoolchildren to find their way in to the final design ”
— Ray Hutchinson Managing Director , Gilbert-Ash
NOVEMBER 2018