Ultimately, she realised that she just couldn’t make the level of impact she wanted to by working from the bottom up, within just one small portion of the ecosystem.. Marks says the level of change needed to facilitate a true industry shift to industrialised construction requires a top-down level of influence.
Haley smiles, ‘The glass fronts of the studios are like vignettes into other people’s worlds.It’s so inspirational.’.
She is a strong believer in how an office is a physical representation of who companies are publicly and internally, GWS’s delivery of both urban beauty and an industrious artistic community answers her brief one hundred percent.. KHALIFA ABUBAKAR AND SHAUN OBINNA IHEJETOH, WEST PORT & COMPANY.Architects Khalifa Abubakar, Shaun Obinna Ihejetoh and Colin Cheng became friends whilst studying at Edinburgh College of Arts in 2006.After honing their craft at a number of renowned practices in the UK and abroad they came together in 2016 to form the RIBA Chartered architectural practice,.
West Port & Co. .They are now working on a variety of projects from residential extensions, student housing, and even a boutique hotel on the Isle of Skye.. GWS is their first HQ.
Prior to taking the space they were doing a mix of working at home and in coffee shops.
‘Moving in here has made me realise that there are some really bad office spaces out there,’ says Shaun, ‘but this place makes you realise that an environment can make you work harder and make you happier.In terms of what we do here at Bryden Wood, we’re mostly focused on the environmental side of sustainability.
We have a focus on building physics, with the aim of reducing energy costs for occupiers, as well as reducing carbon emissions.We’re also particularly committed to looking at the whole life of a building, so this also encompasses the embodied carbon within materials — from construction methods all the way through to how that material operates.
It’s very much a cradle to grave approach.We tend to not necessarily go for environmental ratings, so we can offer BREEAM, but it doesn’t have to be applied to every project.
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