14 NEWS NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE COMMISSION
National Infrastructure Design Group finalised
Design and engineering professionals have been chosen by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to complete its Design Group, which will champion design excellence in new national infrastructure. The group has been formed to “ensure that design is considered at the outset of every major project, and at every stage of delivery, to make the most of infrastructure schemes without increasing cost.” The group is chaired by Professor Sadie Morgan, a National Infrastructure Commissioner and Stirling Prize winner. Announcing the Group members, she said its formation hailed a “pivotal moment” for the future of UK infrastructure. A group of five will sit alongside three members of the Commission’s existing expert panel, who informed the design recommendations in the first National Infrastructure Assessment, published by the
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Medical Architecture joins forces with extra-care housing specialist TM
Commission last year, which set out the benefits of effective design.
The tenth member of the Group is a representative from the Commission’s Young Professionals Panel who “will ensure a strong voice for the next generation.” The experience of the members spans transport, engineering, architecture as well as landscape. The Design Group is expected to meet formally at least four times a year, undertaking research examining the added value that design can bring to infrastructure, and developing design principles that could be applied to all “nationally significant projects.” The members of the NIC’s Design Group are: • Professor Sadie Morgan (chair) – architectural designer – national infrastructure commissioner and founding partner of dRMM Architects
• Isabel Dedring – lawyer and management consultant – global transport leader at Arup
• Anthony Dewar – civil engineer – professional head, buildings and architecture at Network Rail
• Clare Donnelly – architect – director at Fereday Pollard Architects
• Andrew Grant – landscape architect – founder and director of Grant Associates
• Professor Hanif Kara – structural engineer – co-founder and design director of AKT II
• Madeleine Kessler – architect – Haptic Architects
• Lucy Musgrave – urban designer – founding director of Publica
• Judith Sykes – civil engineer – director at Expedition Engineering
• Louise Wyman – chartered surveyor and landscape architect – design lead for the West Midlands Combined Authority.
Andrew Grant of Grant Associates commented, “I will be looking to ensure landscape and ecological design excellence is embedded within the design principles and procurement strategies for future infrastructure projects.”
interior design and post occupancy evaluation. The practice is based in the UK, with offices in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, but works both locally and globally. The leadership team at TM Architects
has more than 20 years’ experience working for housing providers in London and the south east of England. The firm prioritises “understanding clients’ requirements and working closely with them,” and has skill, detailed knowledge and experience of the planning, technical and legislative environment. TM Architects director, Judith Tranter,
Medical Architecture has joined forces with TM Architects to offer clients a wider range of skills and resources, and a capacity for larger and more complex projects. Medical Architecture said it will “build
on its record of leadership in complex healthcare projects with new opportunities developing NHS and other public assets across the UK.” TM Architects will
“capitalise on opportunities for the development of health and social care infrastructure,” the firm added. Founded in 1991, Medical Architecture
is a multi-disciplinary practice claiming a unique focus on the health sector, providing a full range of services including strategic planning, business cases and estates development planning, architecture,
said: “This partnership infuses our business with greater expertise, services and resources. We can offer our clients’ enhanced BIM capability as well as quality assurance and it enables us to provide our staff with increased opportunities to work on diverse projects.” Christopher Shaw, senior director of
Medical Architecture said: “Our firms have worked alongside each other, and share common values for high quality and socially useful architecture.”
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