Elliott Wood

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝. As part of our mission to engineer a better society, we're launching 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘪𝘵, our professional development seminars for a better built environment. Sharing our expertise, our goal is to tackle our industry's challenges together with our clients and partners. From architects to main contractors, each session is tailored to provide the latest insights on subjects including mass timber, adaptive reuse and transport. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫? 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘪𝘵 is our professional development seminar series designed for: 🏛️ Architects 🏗️ Developers 📄 Agents 🧑💼 Project managers, design managers, quantity surveyors 🔨 Main contractors The session format is a 45-minute presentation followed by a 15-minute Q&A. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫? Currently, we offer sessions on: 📘 The Commercial Timber Guidebook 🌲 Technical Timber 🔁 Steel reuse ― raising the bar 🔩 Concrete: Navigating a history of risk and innovation 🏚️ Materials and the renovation of existing structures 🔍 Existing building audits — maximising value ⚖️ The future of planning — demolition v retrofit 🚶♀️ Transport for carbon and social impact 💻 The future of digital engineering ✅ Getting BIM right, the first time 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦? - James Souter - Sanja Buncic - Andrew Skinner - James Hinks - Daniel Bassett - Gemima Walker - Louisa Treadwell - Paul Duggan - Nathan Fieldsend - Fraser Godfrey - Adam Smith - Ben Holmes - Thomas Hesslenberg - Ian Poole - Melanie de Wet - Steve Faulkner 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝? If you'd like to arrange a session, email flipit@elliottwood.co.uk. 👇🏼 https://lnkd.in/gia6E-f7

We’ve expanded our database with thousands or new drawing records. You can now explore archive lists from Foggo Associates and Clark Nicholls Marcel (CNM) on The Building Archives. Foggo Associates shaped London’s skyline in the 90’s with building including 280 Bishopsgate and 60 Queen Victoria Street, which is currently undergoing a retrofit by Sheppard Robson and Parmarbrook. CNM’s archives feature a range of projects from the 5 Harbour Exchange Square in Docklands to The Harlequin Shopping Centre (now Atria Watford). Explore our growing list of archival drawings at https://lnkd.in/epH7EtuU Image 1: 60 Queen Victoria Street,1999 Images 2 & 3: The Harlequin Centre under construction in Watford, 1990. Credit: Watford Observer

King’s College London Strand Campus Extension Approved I am delighted to share that the planning application for an extension to Kings College London’s Strand Campus was recently approved by Westminster City Council. The reconfiguration, extension and change of use to the existing office building allows for a seamless extension to KCL’s Strand Campus through the inclusion of Bush House South West wing. Elliott Wood is supporting KCL with Transport Planning, Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering and Sustainability advice. On a transport planning front, we are extremely pleased that WCC and the neighbouring India High Commission (IHC) worked with the team to find a mutually beneficial and pragmatic solution which includes: 🚗 A courtyard layout that allowed for the desired Agora building to replace all but disabled car parking for KCL, while enhancing parking and access for the IHC. 🚛 A consolidated servicing strategy via a basement link to the existing delivery area adjacent to Melbourne Place, thus avoiding delivery vehicles accessing the pedestrianised section of the Strand. 🚲 Provision of 168 cycle parking spaces versus the policy requirement of 298 spaces argued on the basis of demonstrated need versus policy compliance. A massive win all round! #smartmove A huge thank you to the team at King's College London and the fantastic design and planning team for making the project such a pleasure to work on. I cannot wait to see the end result! KPF Montagu Evans 3pm Project Management Sam Cooke Leif Lomo Robert Staton Negar Khoshooee ARB RIBA @John Howard James Leuenberger Gareth Fox James Zilz MAPM Hannah Harmens William Squire Paul Davis BEng (Hons) MSc CEng MICE Ben Holmes 

I can't believe two weeks ago we were setting off on the Knight Frank Cycle to MIPIM 2025. 🚴♀️ Cycling from London to Cannes - we covered over 1,400km in six days and over 17,00km of elevation gain. 🤯 A big week of firsts for me and my bike ! A huge thank you to Club Peloton for organising the most seamless week of cycling in some challenging situations. Thanks also to the sponsors of the event SLR Consulting, Lockton, Start Advisory Limited, and Estates Gazette. I was thrilled to be part of team ME Engineers 💚 and special mention to our ride captains Henry Warren-Jones, Samantha McClary, David Johnston and Bhavesh Patel for the smooth riding all week! 😎 🤩 A big shout-out to everyone I met on the ride - it's staggering how quickly the km's roll on when you are surrounded by brilliant people and conversations. oh and the landscapes alright too... 😄 Roll on 2025....maybe featuring the official tuck shop and daily fancy dress... 😂 Finally special thanks to Elliott Wood for the bronze sponsorship and support provided before, during and after the ride. Thank you also to those who have donated - your generosity is hugely appreciated. 🙏 There is still time to give any final donations to help reach our fundraising target of £200,000 for the amazing charities Coram, Cyclists Fighting Cancer and the Tom Ap Rhys Memorial Trust. https://lnkd.in/eU27pAWJ

This #BCorpMonth we’re highlighting the impacts of our #GatheringBCorps collective with our #TheDifferenceWeMade campaign. One thing we’re proud of is our partnership with Beyond The Box CIC and The People’s Pavilion. The initiative sees young people, aged 16 to 19 from across London, collaborate with architects, engineers and placemakers to design and build a pavilion. We recently hosted students at Society Building for an immersive workshop to encourage youth-led design and provide hands-on exposure to the built environment.

Warning: humble brag ahead.  I started my career in earnest as a project engineer in Manchester with Martin Stockley Associates in the early 2000’s. I’d had a couple of false starts before that. I was not long out of university, and my only contribution to the industry was challenging the blue shirt uniform. My trainers were not brown brogues and my jeans were definitely too ripped.  In retrospect, I was lucky to get past the interview. A few months in, they gave me a manila folder with my first project in it: Jackson’s Warehouse - The meet-cute at the beginning of my love affair with the adaptation of existing buildings. And this was long before we discovered the RetroFit First vernacular.   Fast forward to 2025, and so much has happened.  So many wonderful colleagues and clients, moving cities and starting a family.  Engineering has given me so much in the intervening years, and I’m humbled at the recognition of my Institution.   Thank you so much to my sponsors James Morgan and Gary Elliott for their support. Elliott Wood The Institution of Structural Engineers

One Portwall Square by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has been shortlisted for a RIBA 2025 South West Award. One Portwall Square: Bristol’s New Office with a Sense of Neighbourhood One Portwall Square isn’t trying to be cool — which is exactly why it is, and it is doing it with serious style. Designed by AHMM for boutique developer Nord Property, this black and orange stunner sits just a stone's throw from Bristol Temple Meads station. The six-storey essay on smart design and occupant comfort has taken over a forgotten 1970s squash court turned it into something genuinely useful. Goodbye, damp sports hall, squeaky squash shoes and unsightly skid marks (you’ve played squash, you know what I mean). Hello, sunlit terraces and high ceilings. The design plays nice with its neighbour, 100 Temple Street, matching the floor heights and borrowing from the same orange-red brick and concrete palette. That neat little wraparound spandrel? It’s not just a pretty face — it forms the balustrade for the cantilevered terraces and throws down some shade (literally) for the floor below. And it’s not just another dumb box. The building thinks for itself — smart mixed-mode ventilation, in-slab cooling, and natural airflow keep things fresh. It's green too: BREEAM Excellent, WiredScore and ActiveScore Platinum, EPC A, and hooked up to the Bristol Heat Network, so it’s doing its bit for the planet. Basically, ticking every sustainability box without making a big fuss about it (not making a big fuss seems to be an AHMM motif) AHMM themselves moved in at the end of 2022, doubling their studio space and giving the team room to breathe, and putting their money where their mouth is, so to speak. Proof of the pudding and all. The building made such a good impression that it won the 2023 British Council for Offices (BCO) National Award for Best Commercial Workplace — which is about as close as you get to an Oscar for office design, (do you get a little gold statue to wedge the toilet door open with?) Nord, the developer, knows what they’re doing — they’ve been behind some of London’s best buildings over the last 25 years, and One Portwall Square shows that same mix of style and smarts. It’s an office that people actually want to go to, big windows, private terraces, together with a big, generous, stylish square for passers by to sit and marvel. So: green, thoughtful, good looking and great company. How’s that for being an ideal neighbour? Nord Property Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Skanska Elliott Wood Arup Gary Elliott British Council for Offices

'Our research is pointing to a transport net zero bottleneck. We analysed the transport impact across 20 years for our projects in Central, Inner and Outer London. An Outer London location significantly increased the impact of transport carbon. We also found a building’s 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 (𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 & 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱) 𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟮𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. Sometimes, it is less than ten, depending on the land use and building location. It’s not just about what and how we build, but where. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. It determines your users’ proximity to sustainable transport infrastructure. This means deciding where to build is equally, if not more, critical to decarbonising our cities than embodied and operational carbon decisions.' — Melanie de Wet 👇 https://lnkd.in/e23zwjmQ

This #BCorpMonth, through our Gathering B Corps collective, we’re showcasing how B Corps in the built environment are making a difference to people and planet. Join us as we share their stories throughout the month. We believe it can all start with a starfish… #GenB #TheDifferenceWeMade #GatheringBCorps 

We're hiring! We're looking for an ambitious Senior Consultant / Associate to join our growing sustainability team, positioned at the intersection of sustainability, engineering, and digital innovation. Are you passionate about reuse? Do you have a background in building physics, energy modelling or building services engineering? You could be the perfect candidate... Full details and how to apply here: https://lnkd.in/e-K6ycCi