Collaboration is the key to success
Morgan Sindall Construction is a UK business with a network of local offices. Project capabilities cover the entire range of construction activities, from special works and repair and maintenance, to major landmark schemes delivered as standalone projects or as part of larger multiple project frameworks. The company operates across the public and private sectors to deliver the social infrastructure around us – from schools, universities and hospitals to retail, office and leisure environments.
Morgan Sindall Construction is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, a leading UK construction and regeneration group with revenue of c£3 billion and which operates through six divisions of Construction & Infrastructure, Fit Out, Property Services, Partnership Housing, Urban Regeneration and Investments.
Louise Townsend, Director of Social Value & Sustainability
Louise has worked in the construction industry for twenty years and has led on Social Value for Morgan Sindall since 2012.
She is an advocate for change in commissioning, procuring, monitoring and monetising the delivery of the very broadest social value criteria to ensure resource is efficiently deployed to improve wellbeing in society.
Chris Macdonald, Project Manager
As the project lead for the Circular Twin project, Chris prides himself on having a friendly, inclusive and value-driven management style. With the hands-on experience of leading construction projects, prior experience as a mechanical engineer, and strategic roles in the procurement of specialist national frameworks, he is able to leverage Morgan Sindall's supply chain for enhanced engagement in line with the collaborative nature of Circular Twin.
Tim Clement, Head of Carbon & Environment
Tim's role is to make a positive difference on climate change and the wider ecological crisis by changing the way projects are designed and built, empowering teams to realise customers’ sustainability aspirations. With a background in design management, he studied Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment at the University of Cambridge, with a focus on the empirical and sociological aspects of the whole life carbon footprint of buildings.
Tim also sits on the carbon and energy action panel for Morgan Sindall Group, and has been instrumental in creating a whole life carbon assessment methodology for building projects.
Lee Ball, Cost Planning Director
Lee has over 25 years' blue chip, construction experience. He has been instrumental in a number of prestigious projects involving traditional tender submission, design and build, management fee, two stage tender, negotiation, framework and PFI/PPP/BSF.
SCAPE is one of the UK’s leading public sector procurement authorities, dedicated to creating spaces, places and experiences that leave a sustainable legacy within the community.
Since 2006, SCAPE has accelerated over 12,000 projects across the UK with their direct award frameworks, property services and innovative architectural designs. Working with SCAPE is all about partnership, bringing together the brightest talent from the construction industry and the local economy.
SCAPE projects are collaborative, compliant and fully performance managed to ensure delivery efficiency, taxpayer value, targeted local economic enrichment and offer a direct response to the climate emergency.
Chris Clarke, Performance & Improvement Director
As Director of Performance and Improvement, Chris is responsible for environmental and social value policy and performance measurement, as well as providing strategic input into the improvement of SCAPE’s service offering and the development of new products. He is also responsible for group Risk Management strategy, infrastructure and systems.
Tom Allen, Category Lead - Consultancy
At the time of Circular Twin, Tom was leading SCAPE's sustainability working group. Tom is a Chartered Architect by profession and has spent more than 30 years in the construction industry, latterly as a partner of a 400 strong national multi-disciplinary practice. Recently he has focused on consultancy, offering strategic and specialist advice to both the public and private sectors to help ensure their projects deliver the best outcomes and community benefits.
Lungfish Architects are experts in creating public buildings and specialists in education. They deliver purposeful, elegant, sustainable buildings that involve and inspire the people who use them. As part of SCAPE, Lungfish has a structured, client-focused approach with the single aim of providing the best possible solution for their clients’ needs. Lungfish were also shortlisted for Building Design’s Architect of the Year 2021.
Richard Murray, Technical Lead
With over 20 years’ experience working in the design and construction industry as an Architectural Technician, Richard adopts a “keep it simple but intelligent” approach to deliver cost effective but more importantly technically robust constructions.
Yasmin Nally, Associate Architect
Yasmin has a passion for sustainable design and champions this across her projects to better building performance, whilst reducing impact on users and the environment. Yasmin worked as part of the Circular Twin team to innovate a new processes by which construction projects are designed and delivered with ambitious whole life targets for embodied carbon and operational energy.
Hannah Scrimshaw, Interior Designer
Hannah is an Interior Designer at Lungfish Architects, leading the Interior concept, narrative and finishes across Lungfish’s projects. Sustainability and biophilic design have become core principles in her design approach, as well as educating clients along the journey. Working as part of a collaborative team for the Circular Twin initiative, Hannah provided her knowledge of interior finishes and design approaches to support the innovative process.
Thoughtful design and the desire to make spaces and places that improve lives sits at the heart of every discipline within HLM Architects, these include Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Sustainability and Masterplanning.
Creating places of education that inspire, healthcare environments that nurture, homes that are part of thriving communities, and infrastructure that is sustainable in its widest sense: environmentally, economically, and socially.
HLM Architects are passionate about retaining a strong Regional presence across their 5 studios located in London, Sheffield, Glasgow, Belfast and Cardiff but pride themselves on their ability to work internationally.
HLM Architects adopt a sector led approach, meaning clients benefit from working with teams who have specific knowledge, insight and experience in the required sector, these include Education, Healthcare, Living & Communities, Defence, Hospitality Leisure & Culture, Asset & Workplace and Justice & Emergency Services.
Karl Brown, Associate
Karl is an experienced Project Architect, leading the design and delivery of several of HLM's projects. He is passionate about sustainability and good design, championing both to improve the performance of buildings and their impact on people and the planet. On the Circular Twin project, Karl has developed the concept designs; tested and challenged the existing brief and processes; and contributed to research and development into low carbon design, technologies, and methods.
Noor Itrakjy, Senior Landscape Architect
On the Circular Twin project, Noor lead on the production of an Urban Greening Factor score, supporting on a Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) calculation of the Urban Greening Factor scenarios (authored by the ecologists), inputting into qualitative research into carbon sequestration, Natural Capital and developing a comprehensive materials system comparison, seeking to find the most sustainable, innovative materials for hard landscaping.
Philip Watson, Director, Head of Design
Philip leads HLM’s design direction and has been instrumental in establishing its ‘Thoughtful Design’ ethos and the award-winning design toolkit that supports this. He is responsible for HLM’s R&D output which has recently included the Circular Twin initiative and the Social Value In Design Guidance. He is a Fellow of the RIBA and Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds.
Established in the UK 40 years ago, Cundall has developed into a global multi-disciplinary consultancy operating from over 20 locations. With sustainability at the heart of everything they do, their team of engineers delivers innovative, sustainable design solutions to address the project’s whole life cycle.
In recent years, Cundall has confirmed its place as the leaders on sustainability, health and wellbeing and net zero carbon in the education sector across the globe. In September 2020 they were confirmed as the world’s first carbon neutral consultancy, by the Carbon Trust.
Peter Hazzard, Associate Director
Peter is a chartered engineer and Associate Director at Cundall. He has 30 years experience spanning project delivery to design strategy and philosophy. He has focused on the education sector throughout his career and is now the schools sector lead for Cundall. He has successfully delivered over 40 school projects in 10 years, for clients including the DfE and EFA alongside others. He is passionate about working with clients to arrive at innovative net zero carbon design solutions.
Alex Carter, Partner
Alex is an advocate of decarbonising structural design through material selection and efficient design to help deliver net zero and low carbon projects for clients. He has designed schools in various countries using various procurement frameworks over the past 15 years and has recently been working with the Circular Twin team to explore how clients, designers, contractors and their supply chain can collaborate to reduce embodied carbon in education buildings.
