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Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
Ambient Awareness Environment ist ein Pilotprojekt der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschafetn Hamburg. Diese Ausstellung entsteht im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Projekts an der HAW Hamburg zwischen den Fakultäten Design und Informatik.
Volunteers led by staff from the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay participate in a tree planting at Wittel Farm in Elizabethtown, Pa., on Oct. 10, 2020. Owned by the Lutheran Camping Corporation of Central Pennsylvania, the farm relies on volunteers to grow several acres of produce that is donated locally. The planting included several native species of trees that will provide edible crops, such as elderberry, persimmon and sugar maple. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Swatara Creek is seen at sunset in Middletown, Pa., on June 14, 2019. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Staff from the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay fish from a pond at Meadowkirk at Delta Farm in Loudoun County, Va., on May 3, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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1 Sqn RAF Regiment practicing vehicle drills, section and individual attacks as well as dismounting drills with the Foxhound Vehicle.
The training was prior to the commencement of their live firing element of Exercise Saif Sareea. The training was located in RAFO Air base in Thumrait.
Exercise Saif Sareea 3 brought 5,500 UK armed forces (900 personnel from the RAF) together with over 60,000 Omani troops, utilising Air, Sea and Land assets in the Bilateral training exercise in the Omani Desert.
Sustainable Design experts at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) work with federal and private sector clients to optimize the performance of the built environment through an integrated systems approach balancing environmental, economic and social considerations. In this photo, the setting is the adjoined Biological Sciences Facility and Computational Sciences Facility, recently constructed “green” buildings at PNNL that benefited from the Laboratory’s sustainable design expertise.
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Soils underpin the production of a wide range of agricultural and industrial goods and services. Soil productivity is essential to agricultural activities - for food security, cash income and supporting the livelihoods of the poor. Agriculture is the major engine of economic growth in a majority of developing countries – for instance low income developing countries have a high share of agriculture in gross domestic product. This map presents a potential agricultural output from cereals, provided proper support in equipment, seeds, practices and irrigation. The map is a part of a set, presenting different natural resources, with a focus on developing countries, and the use of natural resources for economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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The Dick and Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain is seen in Lackawanna County, Pa., on Aug. 28, 2019. Once planned for partial commercial development, the 2,200-acre preserve was purchased by the Nature Conservancy in 2001. It features rare heath barrens marked by stunted pine and oak trees and low-lying shrubs such as huckleberry and blueberry. It is home to 18 rare species like the sallow moth and barrens buckmoth, as well as snowshoe hare, ruffed grouse, turkey, deer and bear. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Best viewed large. All rights reserved. A large, 6x8 Roosevelt bull elk stands in a meadow on a foggy morning. He soon joined some cows on the far end of the meadow.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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Ambient Awareness Environment ist ein Pilotprojekt der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschafetn Hamburg. Diese Ausstellung entsteht im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Projekts an der HAW Hamburg zwischen den Fakultäten Design und Informatik.
Language not only communicates, it defines culture, nature, history, humanity, and ancestry. The indigenous languages of the Arctic have been formed and shaped in close contact with their environment. They are a valuable source of information and a wealth of knowledge on human interactions with nature is encoded in these languages. If a language is lost, a world is lost. This deep knowledge and interconnections is expressed in Arctic song, subsistence practices, and other cultural expressions but especially in place names across the Arctic. Place names of the indigenous peoples reflect subsistence practices, stories, dwelling sites, spawning sites, migratory routes of animals, and links to the sacred realms of the indigenous peoples of the north. This map presents the original languages of the respective indigenous peoples, even if they do not speak their languages today. Notes: Overlapping populations are not shown. The map does not claim to show exact boundaries between the individual language groups. Typical colonial populations, which are not traditional Arctic populations, are not shown (Danes in Greenland, Russians in the Russian Federation, non-native Americans in North America).
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This particular concept was developed by Giovanni Camponovo at the University of Lausanne
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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Not sure why I took this though I suppose it shows the railway in its environment. (BJ 3664 Aug 69/11)
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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64. Padomju valsts lielas rūpes veltī zinātniski pētnieciskās darbības attīstībai Latvijā. Rīgā aug moderna zinātnes pilsētiņa. Pa labi - LPSR Zinātņu akadēmijas Organiskās sintēzes institūta ēka
«Padomju Latvija»
Izdevniecība «Liesma»
Rīgā 1965
V.Upīša foto
#RoomDecor - Modern living room decorating ideas – The living room is the environment, without a doubt, the most visited home. Therefore, it is common decorators and enthusiasts devote additional time for this environment, with the proposal to have in your living room decorating the most beautiful room...
My former colleague Aadjan van der Helm co-organised a course in creating Interactive Environments.
Experience the interactive version.
In the course of the Interactive Environments Minor, organized by the faculty of Architecture and Industrial Design and Engineering, three interdisciplinary groups of students supported by TU Delft researchers and invited guest teachers have designed and built three interactive lounge pavilions. The pavilions attract people to enter, facilitate relaxation and provide a refuge from daily chores.
Exploring the environments made me jealous of the students; why weren't there courses like this when I was a student there? Then again, would I have taken the course? My interests have changed a lot since I graduated 10 years ago this thursday.
Mosman residents can learn how to save power and money at home by borrowing a Save Power Kit from Mosman Library. Read more
Sampling boat at location close to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
IAEA experts visited Japan from 8 to 14 September 2014 and -- together with staff from NRA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- collected water samples from the sea at five locations near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,
The water samples were shared both between the IAEA Environmental Laboratories and the Japanese Laboratories to e=be analyzed independently.
Photo Credit: NRA
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
Much the same as with this new sheet: only now really taking off.. But steadily going forward ..
You can find lots and lots of info about this "new" approach to growing food, restoring the natural world.. and just plainly "life" on e.g. YouTube.
Dale Farm Team, Finalists at the Merseyside Environment Awards 2012
Dale Farm is a day centre for adults with learning disabilities, its ethos is to promote independence doing so through various aspects of horticulture. The site boasts a sensory garden with water features and pools. Visitors can also see organic vegetables being grown, whilst walking around the fields and polytunnels. Situated near Heswall Dales and the Wirral Country Park, Dale Farm has extensive views of the Welsh hills and is conveniently located for walkers who wish to rest in its tranquil surroundings. The Farm Shop sells organic vegetables, honey, perennial and bedding plants, all of which were grown on the farm.