{"id":788785,"date":"2026-02-25T20:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788785\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:44:27","slug":"university-station-birmingham-has-been-shortlisted-for-a-riba-west-midlands-award-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788785\/","title":{"rendered":"University Station, Birmingham has been shortlisted for a RIBA West Midlands Award 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project demonstrates a strong commitment to sustainability, with every design decision focused on minimising environmental impact while delivering long\u2011term value.<\/p>\n<p>The use of Design for Manufacture and Assembly and off-site fabrication allowed the use of high-strength concrete and minimised any concrete wastage. The exposed finishes also minimised the need for painting, finishing and fire protection. The use of Modern Methods of Construction systems for the external cladding reduced the amount of embodied carbon from the original scheme design.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the project click here- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkerfitzpatrick.co.uk\/en\/projects\/birmingham-university-station\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project \u2013 building University Station Birmingham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project demonstrates a strong commitment to sustainability, with every design decision focused on minimising environmental impact while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[4023,14010,855,748,393,4884,595,112087,16,15,229545,229544],"class_list":["post-788785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-architecture","tag-awards","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-rail","tag-riba","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-university-station","tag-volkerfitzpatrick"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}