The right strategy isn't always a new building

For 40 years, we have guided clients through complex challenges with honest, unbiased expert advice—even if that sometimes means advising not to build or suggesting boldly different strategic design approaches that better deliver the projects vision.

We take the time to truly understand your organisation's situation, pressures and goals, co-creating solutions rooted in our long legacy of buildings that champion people, planet and place. We work with you to align outcomes with your design, carbon, social, financial and information management goals.

Client Advice & Support

Ben has extensive experience of providing design advice and strategic support to a range of clients

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Building Retrofit

Building confidence through data-led retrofit decisions.

Meaningful transformation starts with understanding. A building retrofit study provides the clarity to act with confidence, revealing where value, carbon, and comfort align. We help you understand your building’s true performance, protecting your investment and identifying opportunities for improvement or funding support.

From schools to pioneering swimming pool pilots to entire estates, our studies uncover practical pathways that turn insight into action. For those ready to test ideas and invest wisely, each study is a step toward resilience — helping you make informed decisions today that safeguard your building’s performance, purpose, and financial future tomorrow.

BIM management

Expert guidance driving efficient, collaborative, and cost-effective building delivery.

BIM provides future assurance for maintaining properly working, cost-effective buildings. Architype were early adopters of BIM, quickly blending it into our standard workflows and benefiting from integrating 3D and 2D design to deliver better coordinated and dynamic buildings.

Although there are many established benefits to BIM we understand that the BIM process can still sometimes be difficult to navigate for clients and other design team members. Architype can guide clients to develop their BIM requirements from the design to handover process; advising on outputs for facilities management, use of 3D design tools to allow more client input/ engagement or for marketing, and safeguarding an effective collaborative process.

We can also work with contractors either in the capacity of BIM Manager or Coordinator in order to ensure a well managed BIM process. As lead designer we are ideally placed to support and facilitate a coordination and collaboration role, bringing with us a wealth of experience of the construction and design process.

Information Management

Securing today's information, for tomorrow's decision making.

Architype have established protocols and systems in place to effectively define and deliver the Information Management (IM) processes for your project. Architype were early adopters of IM, supporting its deployment in Scotland. Although there are many benefits to IM we understand that often the process can be difficult to navigate for clients and other design team members.

With our extensive experience in IM standards, Architype can help guide clients in developing their IM requirements throughout the design, construction and handover process.

Carbon & Energy Literacy Training

Improving your agency and knowledge base to empower your decision making.

We are experts in carbon and energy in the built environment and advocates for greater industry literacy and understanding to help break down wider barriers to deliver against environmental targets. We are experienced in developing and delivering bespoke training for clients, contractors and other building professionals - wherever their knowledge base - taking you through a bespoke journey to answer your questions, illustrated with real-world examples, so that you are empowered to advocate for better energy and carbon outcomes in your role.

Environmental, Social and Governance [ESG]

The Entopia Building

No Ordinary Building

During the retrofit, hoardings communicated 'this is not an ordinary project, but it needs to be'. In order to respond to the climate emergency, trailblazing projects like Entopia need to become the norm.

Turning Sustainability Ambitions into Actionable Strategy

As the built environment faces tightening carbon regulations and increasing scrutiny of real performance, organisations must look beyond compliance to future-proof their assets. Our ESG-led strategic service helps clients integrate building performance, retrofit planning, and long-term value creation.

We translate sustainability goals into clear investment and operational priorities, balancing carbon, cost, and resilience. By aligning retrofit decisions with emerging ESG and carbon accounting frameworks, we help you anticipate future risks, protect asset value, and demonstrate leadership in a changing policy and financial landscape. It’s about building smarter today — for credibility and competitiveness tomorrow.

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Net Zero Carbon

How do you plan the best approach to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 for buildings of different typologies, ages, uses, and conditions?

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