Media & Press

Caledonia [Housing Association] are delighted to award these contracts to such high calibre Architects.

LABM talks to James Traynor, Managing Director of ECD Architects about Award- Winning regeneration of Walton Court Centre in Aylesbury - A mixed-use community hub with 58 residential units above.

This year, the Housing sector stepped into the future. The Meadows - a £5.5m, 54-home regeneration scheme in Nottingham - became the first social housing to be built using building information modelling (BIM) technology'. - Luke Barratt

This report represents the first analysis of data collected from the Technology Strategy Board's Retrofit for the Future programme, and a review of the final reports submitted by the Retrofit for the Future project teams.

Tops Club feature in LABM: "Thurrock Council is using BIM Level 2 to deliver the new Argent Street affordable housing development in Grays. ECD Architects designed the scheme and are working with Thurrock to bring the project to fruition, providing traiing to help the council get to grips with BIM." – Claire Clutten reports.

Ike Ijeh in BD sums up the value that the regeneration of Lochgelly town centre brings: “Thriving new shops have been opened, historic fabric has been restored and converted, facilities have been improved and new housing and public spaces created, and scores of new businesses have been opened by local residents, galvanising a new era of economic activity in the region.

Scottish Construction now article about Lochgelly being awarded first place in two categories at the Planning and Placemaking Awards. 'Cllr. Mark Hood, Acting Chair of the Cowenbeath Area Committee has expressed his delight at Lochgelly Town Centre Regeneration work securing two of these national awards.'

“The flaws of Portsmouth’s Wilmcote House may have been indicative of 1960s social housing, but now its mass adoption of Passivhaus principles could see it used as a model for sustainable retrofit across the UK and Europe.” Ike Ijeh reports.

In Portsmouth, an ambitious project is currently underway to transform an ailing high-rise apartment block in a deprived part of the city into a modern super-insulated building refurbished to the Passivhaus standards.

Sara Kassam from CIBSE included the ECD Greensky Thinking Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) event to praise the continuous learning process and ECD work towards closing the Performance gap.

Sophie Pelsmaker reports from ECD Architects' Green Sky Thinking Event.