Stride Treglown’s Carbon Neutral offices in Cardiff have helped the practice promote its sustainability credentials.
now leading to enquiries from clients who also want to want to understand how to achieve carbon zero affordably. This was a great way to demonstrate to clients just what you can do. Many architectural practices
have followed the engineers, QS’s and project managers seeking new clients overseas in recent years. Some have had a good degree of success whilst others have found it hard going with no short-term payback from the investments needed to register and set up in markets where the culture is quite different. The RIBA has finally woken up to this and has joined forces with UKTI to provide advice and assistance to practices taking this step. Stride Treglown took the
decision to diversify away from the UK market and is now seeing the benefit. Three years ago, Stride Treglown set up an Abu Dhabi office to act as a base for
Middle East work. It is now seeing a lot of demand coming out of the region for its specialisms in schools, higher education and health, and this is helping Stride Treglown to balance workload across the whole company. It has not been easy however.
adoption of BIM. BIM is here to stay and the sooner practices tool up for it the better the position they will be in. Stride Treglown started using
Revit in 2003 and now use Revit throughout the practice on all projects. We’re reaping the
“Architecture is the magic that the brief doesn’t demand and that the client couldn’t imagine, and this is what we mean by ‘added value’. We should always point this out.”
The construction market is full
of businesses offering BIM training as a result of the Government’s announcement that all public construction procurement to be carried out at BIM Level 2 or higher on projects over £5million by 2016. Contractors and their design teams wanting to differentiate themselves from their competitors will also drive
benefits of a large investment in this technology at an early stage, which allows us to model all our projects parametrically from the word go. It means we can give clients walkthroughs of the buildings as we’re designing them, while making our drawing and scheduling far more efficient than with normal CAD systems. These are difficult times for
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KARL RENNER PARTNER, CLARKE RENNER ARCHITECTS
With more than thirty-six years experience Karl has worked with many of the
major housing developers, such as Berkeley, Linden, Barratt and London Square. He studied Architecture at Manchester Polytechnic and worked at BDP, Feilden and Mawson, Chapman Taylor and Covell Matthews Wheatley, before forming Clarke Renner Architects (with David Clarke) in 1985. Since then he has worked on many projects, but has concentrated on housing, both private and affordable.
GARETH DAVIES DIRECTOR, STRIDE TREGLOWN
Gareth is a director on the Board of Stride Treglown. His roles include director
for their Cardiff office where he has been involved in major projects in most sectors and healthcare champion. Gareth has always been committed to delivering sustainable buildings, which has led to his involvement in Wales Low Zero Carbon Hub.
www.stridetreglown.com
everyone, but we’re determined to think differently, weather the storm and emerge an even stronger company the other side. And believe it or not, in spite of Mr Peston, I do think there are signs that Britain, whatever may happen in the rest of Europe, is regaining the confidence to start doing things again. The end of last year and the beginning of this were very thin for the whole country, but we’ve got a summer of celebrations and an Olympic Games to deal with and things may well start to get better from
here.
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