Listed buildings and Places of Worship and Meditation

From listed stately homes on country estates to small parish churches; historic buildings have wider environmental needs than basic human comfort - every stone, timber, artefact and decoration is part of the building’s history and designs should seek to preserve them for future generations.

We work closely with conservation and heritage specialists to develop details and solutions that:

Sensitively integrate modern systems into delicate and visually important building elements.

Combine energy efficiency solutions with older, less efficient buildings.

Balance the preservation needs of the building and fabric with those of congregations and visitors.

Environments for Learning

We aim to be involved as early as possible to help shape building and campus designs; using both intuitive methods and dynamic simulation modelling to:

Promote and test innovative, zero carbon and low energy solutions.

Manage thermal comfort, and air quality; reflecting the use of internal spaces as well as the specific needs of the occupants.

Design ventilation systems that exploit passive elements as much as possible.

Control the transfer of sound between treated spaces and mitigate noise from mechanical plant.

Provide good visual comfort; from both natural and artificial sources.

Leisure

We apply one golden rule in our designs for leisure projects: guests should not notice when it works.

We operate ‘back of house’ in the boiler rooms, service corridors and plant spaces to make sure the building systems deliver the best quality of service to paying guests.

We also understand that ‘front of house’ interior concepts are vital to the guest experience and here we focus on the important details in creative lighting designs, scene setting controls, and discrete heating and air treatment.

Residential

Robust, reliable infrastructure should be both the starting point and central design feature for all multi-occupancy residential development.

We have a wealth of experience in assessing existing buildings for residential conversion and developing innovative solutions for delivering services to new residential developments.

Commercial Projects

Avoid over-complication.

Commercial environments have complex needs; this can mean anticipating individual responses to environments in open plan offices or the demands of short-term tenancies.

Solutions to complex problems do not need to be complex themselves and simplicity is often the best approach for environmental control or ‘plug-and-play’ fit-outs.

We aim to match design solutions for building services to the needs of the space; engaging as early as possible to embed systems into the architecture:

Flexibility and future proofing – ensuring commercial spaces stay viable for a life beyond the next occupants or tenants.

Building integrated solutions to solar gains, glare and ventilation.

Energy and carbon efficiency at the core of all building services design