Our current work sectors include:
RESIDENTIAL:
- Mixed tenure/mixed use projects
- Affordable, social, special needs, housing for sale and intermediate tenures
- Modern methods of construction
- Modular offsite manufacture
- Low energy/carbon solutions e.g. Passivhaus, CfSH, Silver Standard, BRE Home Quality Mark
- Design audits
SUPPORTED LIVING:
- Homelessness
- Elderly Care
- Students and young people
- Disability adaptation
- Design for impairment including dementia and autism
- Homes for older people including extra care and residential care
- Design audits such as HAPPI and Design for Dementia.
REFURBISHMENT & CONVERSION:
- Highrise remodelling
- Victorian terraced housing
- Tackling problem estates
- Upgrading older stock including low energy solutions
- Supported living adaptation within older properties
CONSERVATION & HERITAGE:
- Conservation architect
- Restoration of listed buildings
- Conservation areas
- New use for old buildings
- Innovative intervention into existing structures
REGENERATION:
- Sustainable Communities Modelling
- Stakeholder Engagement Strategies
- Neighbourhood revitalization
- Option Appraisals, surveys, strategies and studies
- Action plans
- Regeneration strategies
MASTERPLANNING:
- Urban renewal, plans and strategies
- Town centre plans and strategies
- Rural fringe, urban extensions and edge of settlement masterplanning
- Communication and consultation strategies
- Planning applications and appeals
- Strategic planning documents
- Neighbourhood Development Plans
LANDSCAPE & URBAN DESIGN:
- Landscape strategies
- Public realm
- Openspace planning
- Parks and recreation
- Leisure and sport
- Bio-diversity, ecology
- Urban design codes
- Design guides
- ‘Greenprints’
- Landscape visual impact assessments
ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY:
- Energy and Carbon advice and assessment
- Low energy/ carbon design strategies
- Ecology reports and assessments
- Carbon reduction planning
- BREEAM domestic assessment
COMMUNITY:
- Community facilities, feasibility studies
- Community design participation
- Co-design strategies and techniques
- Large scale community involvement
- Profile raising, promotion campaigns
HEALTH:
- Primary care centres
- Hospitals
- Hospices
EDUCATION:
- Childrens’ centres, SureStart
- Primary and secondary schools
- Higher education – universities
- Training initiatives and programmes
INTERIORS:
- Public buildings
- Care environments
- Show houses
- Dementia friendly design and audits
GRAPHIC DESIGN:
- Exhibitions, leaflets, 3D modelling
- Online web based communication
- Brochures, presentations
HEALTH & SAFETY:
- Principal Designer role including Construction Design and Management Regulations
- Health & Safety training
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN:
- ArchiCad 18
- Sketch Up
- BIM Stage 2
RESEARCH & INNOVATION:
- Collaboration with universities
- Book publication
- Specialist areas including:
Conservation techniques
Therapeutic environments
Design for dementia
‘Green’ technology
Building Information Management (BIM)