“Seeing my drawn details transition into reality is the best feeling.”

I joined Watson Batty in July 2020.

I love running projects – my favourite place to be is out on a muddy building site watching it happen. As architects, we want to meet the client’s brief and make a positive contribution to the built environment, so it is satisfying when we hit the sweet spot that balances aesthetic design, cost, performance, and sustainability.

Most of my work is in the education, industrial, and commercial sectors where a key priority is looking for innovative ways to help buildings make long-term energy savings. It is becoming obvious in all sectors that adopting a sustainable design strategy is less and less of an ‘nice option’ now – it is the only positive way forward if our profession is to adapt to the demands of the climate emergency.