Roger Stevens Building
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Roger Stevens Building
Classmark: LUA/PAD/002
Date(s): 1965-1975
Size and medium: 38 bundles (11 boxes)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/4107
Collection group(s): University Archive
Description
Bundles of plans:(1) General site development, setting out and precinct plans etc. 1966-1970(2-13) Architects' details and drawings, 1967-1970(14-15) Electrical drawings, 1969-1975(16-17) Service plans inclu. drainage, water, gas, fire etc., 1967-1969(18) Heating plans, 1967-1969(19) Glazing drawings, 1969-1970(20) Plans of builders' work details, 1968-1969(21-21A) Plans of mechanical services and layout of plant rooms, 1968-1969(22) Plans of the paternoster, 1967-1968(23) Plans of the suspended ceilings, 1969-1970(24) Plans of control panels etc., 1969(25) Plans of teaching wall arrangement, 1970(26-27, 29-34) Plans of the furniture, 1965-1970(35) Seating plans, 1970(36) Plans of lock systems, 1969-1970(37) Misc lighting and ceiling plans, 1968-1970(38) Misc plans inclu. lift, folding partitions, wiring, lighting, steelwork, workshop drawings etc., 1967-1969.Architects: Chamberlin Powell & Bon.
Biography or history
Roger Stevens building was built between 1967 (the bill of quantities for the lecture theatre block and television centre for the University of Leeds was dated July 1967) and 1970 (when the topping off ceremony occurred).
The main construction of the Roger Stevens building was completed in 1969/1970 and went into use in the 1970/1 session.
The architects were Chamberlin, Powell & Bon; Flint & Neill were consulting engineers and Davis, Belfin & Everest chartered the quantity surveyors.
The building itself was a three and four storey lecture theatre building and a two storey television centre built in a combination of BS 12 compliant ordinary and rapid-hardening Portland cement (rapid hardening cement only used with the written permission of the Engineer) and reinforced with mild steel round bars in accordance with BS 785, cold twisted deformed steel bars to BS 1144 and hot rolled high tensile deformed steel bars (GK 60 high tensile reinforcing bars by GKN (South Wales) Ltd. There was also more cosmetic use of brickwork and asphalt, along with structural steelwork and metalwork.
It was originally known as the Roger Stevens lecture theatre block and was to be the main centre for teaching through the creation of 25 lecture theatres for a variety of subjects. It was also envisaged that the television service, the language laboratories and the director of combined studies should be housed in the lower floors by Oct 1970.
The building was undertaken in this form as a response to the Robbins Report proposal envisaging the expansion of the university to 10,000 students.
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