Alan’s CV

CAREER OBJECTIVES:

I would like to further my aspirations to produce truly sustainable architecture, and help provide sustainable buildings and homes for others to enjoy. I believe by combining my experience of housing, MMC & environmental design, buildings can be crafted that are low carbon, healthy, affordable and fun to live, work or play in.

AWARDS:

‘Sigma Home’ Stewart Milne Group Design Architect

Best innovation in technology House Builders Federation Awards ’07 Winner

Best Timber project Offsite Construction Awards ‘07 Short listed

Best Housing project Offsite Construction Awards ‘07 Short listed

‘Jepson Design Guide’ Jepson Housing Association Co Author

Tools of the Trade BURA Awards ‘07 Winner

‘Ecological Sandwich’ PRP Co Architect

Families in the City PRP internal competition ’06 Short listed

‘Lingham Court’ Metropolitan Housing Trust, PTE Architects Project Manager

Project Award Housing Design Awards ’05 Winner

‘Oakridge Village’ Sentinel Housing Group, HTA Architects Project Manager

Housing Corporation Award Housing Design Awards ’05 Winner

‘Beaufort House’ Peabody Trust, Feilden Clegg Bradley Design Manager

Housing Corporation Award Housing Design Awards ’04 Winner

Project Award Housing Design Awards ’01 Winner

CAREER:

Jan 2009 – Present Eco Design Consultants

As Proprietor I started Eco Design Consultants to provide a combination of sustainable architecture and environmental consultancy. Environmental and Ethical considerations are at the heart of the new company, including projects, management and procurement of stationary. Projects have included Architectural Revamping Newport Pagnell Museum, Site wide energy strategy report for 16 refurbished and extended flats in Bromley, Sustainability support for an Architect in Stevenage, Working drawings for a low energy house, Code for sustainable Homes and Eco Homes Assessments, Garden rooms and environmental extensions / refurbishments. A highlight has included designing one of the successful Bids of the TSB retro fit for the future completion, to reduce the total carbon footprint of a house by at least 80%. We are now involved with a new consortium to help provide smart metering technology to help reduce energy use in the home.

2003 – Dec 2008 PRP Architects, Milton Keynes

As an associate I have responsibility for a team of architects and environmental consultants. I co-ordinate the Milton Keynes office environmental services, including Eco homes, Code for sustainable homes assessments, SAP and NHER calculations and sustainability and renewable’s strategies. Other management responsibilities include learning & development.

Whilst with PRP I have designed various schemes, including; Broughton Square in Milton Keynes, which was one of the first large scale housing developments to achieve EcoHomes Excellent; the Bellway Homes submission for the 60K home competition; Redevelopment of a Brownfield site in Bethnal Green, with 112 flats and 45,000sq.ft of office space; and 53 Flats in Luton. I also led PRP’s wining PFI bid for a series of children’s homes and family centres throughout Hertfordshire.

I have worked closely with many timber frame manufactures; Kingspan, in helping produce a design and technical manual, which is soon to be published; Stewart Milne for the Sigma Home and a housing development in Basingstoke; and Eleco Timber frame for a concept house achieving a 3 star rating for the code of sustainable homes, without renewable’s. I helped develop the new digital design brief for Jepson Housing Association. I currently sit on the DAP (Digital Access Provision) forum which was recently established to achieve a step-change in the supply and integration of digital communication technologies within the UK built environment.

I was the design architect for Stewart Milne’s Sigma Home, a pair of houses on the Innovation Park at the BRE in Watford. This was the first to achieve the 5 star rating for the code for sustainable homes, achieving carbon neutrality in respect of heating, lighting and hot water. Features included open plan split level living protected by a sprinkler system, bathroom pods, solar lantern, ‘eco play’ grey water recycling, PV’s, solar thermal, wind turbines, whole house heating and ventilation including heat recovery, phase change materials.

I led PRP’s winning competition bid with Circle Anglia, to provide 29, Code for sustainable homes 5 star rated, affordable houses as a sustainability showcase for Huntingdon District Council. The project at Greenhart Grove off Mayfield Road, Huntingdon, are constructed using timber and lime render to provide contemporary homes that have a negative carbon footprint in terms of embodied energy. The project utilises passive design, MVHR, solar hot water and photo voltaic cells. We also hope the scheme will employ a green caretaker to challenge behaviours.

1999 – 2003 Forge Company, London

The Forge Company was a Design & Research Company specialising in providing sustainable design led factory manufactured light gauge steel-framed housing. As a director I was responsible for 12 of the 16 members of staff in the running of the drawing office. My role grew from producing details and framing drawings for various social housing projects, to project and office management. This included the design of the first structural bathroom pods used in the award winning Feilden Clegg Bradley’s & Peabody, Lille Road housing project. I project managed several projects, include 67 award wining houses at Basingstoke with HTA, another award wining complex mixed use scheme flats for the frail & elderly with PTE in Stockwell, south London. As project Architect I designed houses in Hackney and Basingstoke where we were able to develop the system and details further. The project in Basingstoke included the combination of completely fitted out kitchen and bathroom modules and insulated panels, to provide a cost effective, quick solution for Key workers.

With Forge I was responsible for commissioning and developing new software and systems to help produce the fabrication drawings more efficiently. I also sat on the Light gauge steel sub committee, producing robust details for Part E of the building regulations and the SCI’s Light steel framing group.

1997 – 1999 Department of Architecture, Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka

1995 – 1997 Berman Guedes Stretton Architects, Oxford

1994 – 1995 Financial Design Partnership, Oxford

1993 – 1994 Frederick Gibberd Partnership, London

1990 – 1991 J. Alan Bristow & Partner, Oxfordshire