LABC Award

Willmore Iles Architects, in conjunction with RNC and Curtins, have been awarded winners in the Best Small Commercial Development category in the LABC Building Excellence Awards. the winning scheme was the Facilities building at the Royal National College for the Blind.

The awards recognise high standards in design, construction and workmanship

Pictured receiving the award are Keith Davies (RNC) and Paula Willmore

Bishops Blackall School

Willmore Iles Architects have secured planning consent for the conversion of a large Victorian school into residential flats for student occupation. The scheme provides 22 flats containing a total of 113 bedrooms, entirely within the fabric of the redundant school building. Sited equidistant between the Streatham Campus and the City Centre, the site is in a highly sustainable location and will be a car free-scheme.

The scheme was approved at the June 28th planning committee

the finished development will be owned by specialist accommodation providers, Campbell Property

Constructing Excellence World Cup

The unholy alliance of Willmore Iles Architects and Curtins Consulting (Honduras) entered a team for the recent Constructing Excellence Five-a-Side World Cup. Tim, Rob, Ben and Robbie represented the practice.

We were unfortunate to face the eventual winners (Harvey Jacobs – San Marino, a team apparently made up of ex pros and current semi pros) in the first game which resulted in a 9-1 loss. Respect was regained with good wins over Mace (England) and Facilitas (South Africa), but we eventually came fourth in our group with the same points but inferior goal difference to second and third place after a defeat by Leadbitter, who adopted Holland-like tactics taking out all of our players during the course of the game. We went through to "The Plate", which could quite easily have been called the "not as bad as the teams that came bottom of the group but still pretty much losers trophy" (although that wouldn't have been as snappy)

Despite playing a team with a combined age probably twice the sum of ours, we were still hurting from the previous game and suffered a humiliating 4-2 defeat. Still, Sir Trevor Brooking can sleep soundly tonight, safe in the knowledge that we all had a great time and hopefully a lot of money was raised for charity

Special mention to Robbie who required a post match visit to A+E. (Vastus Medialis strain apparently).

Ben qualifies as a BREEAM Accredited Professional

Ben Murrell has recently qualified as a BREEAM Accredited Professional (AP). This qualification recognises specialist skills in sustainability and environmental design combined with a high level of competence in the BREEAM assessment process.

BREEAM APs are able provide the design team with expert advice on built environment sustainability, environmental design and environmental assessment. Ben will being bringing his skills and experience to all future projects in the office, allowing the design team to set priorities and schedule activities to achieve a target BREEAM rating when the design is formally assessed.

ISO 9001

As part of an ongoing programme of continual improvement in business process Willmore Iles Architects became an ISO 9001 certified practice in April 2010.