Architects and engineers under one roof, with one vision

Our in-house building performance engineering capability allows Architype and Perform+ to offer clients an integrated early-stage solution without multiple appointments - ensuring that key early technical design decisions are evidence based, robust and holistically informed.

This expertise also allows us to dovetail with external services teams with a higher degree of detail and familiarity, safeguarding client ambitions and project outcomes. We are also able to undertake third party reviews of incumbent designs through the lens of our tried and tested experience.

Building Services Design

Jon is our lead building performance engineer with decades of experience designing, delivering, monitoring, and optimising high performance building systems

Jonathan Hollett

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Strategic Ventilation Design

The right amount of fresh air, in the right places, at the right time.

Ventilation is a key area of comfort for users. We have refined our design approach to ventilation, enabling users to have control of natural ventilation, while ensuring that the building performs properly using continuous mechanical ventilation. This approach ensures that CO2 levels remain well below recommended limits, creating ideal environments for focused learning, work and living.

Strategic Electrical Lighting Design

Refined lighting design reduces energy use and whole life carbon.

We are concerned with developing a strategy that reduces primary energy across the board. Once the strategy for the building fabric is in place, electrical loads will usually be the biggest contributor of operational carbon. A smart approach to lighting is an important part of limiting unnecessary electrical loads. Designing an array of lighting options that mean light is used topically and not wasted is a key approach to a successful strategy, as well as specifying the most energy efficient technologies available. This approach then needs to be followed through into delivery with careful monitoring of lighting and control proposals to ensure delivered systems are not subsequently over-designed.

Building Services Concept Design

The Entopia Building

Fresh air

Mechanical ventilation heat recovery (MVHR) units were used to bring in a constant supply of fresh filtered air.

Environmentally-led and architecturally-aligned building system design.

Designing building services that compliment an energy efficient design is critical to the success of a building. We partner with trusted specialists that have experience and understanding in how to design building services effectively, avoiding unnecessary complication and working to support the underlying building environmental design strategy.