Founded in 1966, our practice now numbers over 250 engineers, designers, consultants, and business administrators across our five offices. We’re a partnership of equals: we encourage all our people to voice their opinions and contribute meaningfully to the running of the business. We’re a partnership of equals: around half of our people are Partners, but with transparency, collaboration, and democratic decision-making as core principles, all our people can voice their opinions and contribute meaningfully to the running of the business.

We value and celebrate the fact that our people come from a huge variety of backgrounds; we commit whole-heartedly to maintaining this diversity of background and thought. Our practice numbers over 250 engineers, designers, consultants, and business administrators across our five offices, and includes engineers, physicists, architects, biologists, zoologists, mathematicians, historians, and many more. We are all united by an ability to think practically and creatively, and a shared sense of responsibility, commitment, and duty towards each other, our practice, and our projects.

Care and responsibility have always been central to our practice: for the planet, our people, and wider society. Long before it was the "standard", we were pioneering low-energy and low-carbon building design, and we remain at the forefront to this day. Below is just a small selection of the milestones along the way...

Max founded the practice from his London home in 1966, moving into a more formal London office a few years later. It wasn't until 2001 that we opened a second space, in Cambridge, then two years later in Edinburgh. In 2012, we expanded with an office in Manchester and added a Bristol base the year after.