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Valentine’s Day fundraiser for CRASH
To celebrate Valentine’s Day we filled a jar with chocolates and asked ECD and Keegans staff to guess how many there were in the jar, making a £1 donation per guess. With N-Able matching the donations, we raised £100 for our company charity of choice- CRASH Charity There were many contributions, however the lucky winner was Domini Kilbey who had the closest guess on the number of chocolates. Thank you to everyone who participated!
GFP Decarbonisation Delivery Framework for Scotland
ECD is proud to have been appointed in the GFP Decarbonisation Delivery Framework for Scotland – Lot 3 – Decarbonisation Consultancy. The framework is to run for four years. GFP, the Greener Futures Partnership, is a collaboration of 5 of the UK’s largest not-for-profit social housing providers, working together to create a greener future. Made up of Abri, Anchor, Home Group, Hyde and Sanctuary, the consortium represents 600,000 customers in 300,000 households across the UK…
Energy Conscious Design Awards 2023
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Energy Conscious Design Awards 2023. This award is open to all staff at ECD Architects and celebrates our most sustainable building projects of the year using criteria and performance targets set out in the RIBA Sustainable Outcomes Guide.We are committed to improving our understanding of building performance and routinely use PHPP to model operational energy with over 20 members of staff qualified as Passivhaus Designers and…
Dilveer wins Business Professional of the Year Award!
Please join us as we congratulate Dilveer Kaur Hoonjan. Dilveer won the Business Professional of the Year Award at the Scottish Asian & Business Awards last night! A well-deserved recognition to her dedication she has put into her career so far. Dilveer, is a qualified Senior Architect and a certified Passivhaus Designer with both the creative flair to design schemes which look great, as well as the management skill to enable these schemes are successfully…
Architecture course at the University of Central Lancashire
ECD Architects’ Preston office which opened in September is already forging connections with the local community. This includes supporting the architecture course at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Our Head of Sustainability for Scotland and the North of England, Lizzy Westmacott, joined a meeting with staff and other contributors recently to discuss what architecture students need to learn to enable them to respond to the climate crisis. This included the importance of reminding students…