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We are excited to share the news of 2 recent promotions within the Orms team. Please join us in congratulating Rachel Hoolahan and Rosie Bard who are now Associate Directors.     We are proud of our sustainability team and their commitment and leadership within the built environment with Rachel's work on Material passports and Rosie’s involvement in the recently launched UK NZCBS. These promotions alongside our recent BCorp certification demonstrate our commitment to integrating research into practice and fostering ongoing collaboration across the industry. #acceleratedage #ultrapractice #goodnews

Making sense of the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard – A breakfast briefing What does the new UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard mean for building owners and developers? Orms hosted a breakfast briefing for a group of leaders, introduced by our Associate Director, Rosie Bard. Rosie has been seconded to support the technical steering group as Project manager for the new standard for the past 11 months, giving her unique technical insights to help our guest navigate the new requirements of #UKNZCBS. The UK Net Zero Carbon Standard has been developed as a rulebook for assessing new and existing buildings in the UK as net Zero carbon. It has been put together by an industry-wide coalition of partners, including Better Buildings Partnership, BRE, The Carbon Trust, CIBSE, The Institute of Structural Engineers, LETI, RIBA, RICS and UK Green Building Council (UKGBC). This broad alliance means that the UK Net Zero Carbon Standard will become the authoritative standard against which assets can demonstrate that they are net zero aligned. Running across and uniting the carbon requirements of each of the other building standards in the current marketplace. The challenge posed by the climate emergency is significant, and the standard requires owners and developers to commit to zero carbon processes and practices throughout their building projects as well as operations. Designers and architects will play a leading role in helping our clients understand and meet the new standard. Orms is a leading architect for low-carbon development, with a specialist sustainability consultancy and track record of developing the tools needed for a new generation of low-carbon construction, including our participation as a sponsor of UKNZCBS and our own #MaterialPassports whitepaper. Our unique insight is already helping our clients meet the challenge of the 2050 world. If you’d like to join us for a briefing, please do get in touch. Many thanks to the guests that joined us for Breakfast: Emma E., Be First Sarah Beth Riley, Be First James Clarke, Crosstree Leanne Tritton, Don’t Waste Buildings Lisa Gledhill, Ecoworld Becky Sleath, EDGE Katie Jay, NORD Richard Jones, NORD Lucy Cox, Regal Taylar Vernon, Regal

In a period of growth for the practice, we are excited to welcome two new Directors to our leadership team. Miranda MacLaren has joined as a Director to lead on residential projects across all scales and typologies and expand Orms’ capacity to deliver projects in these sectors. Miranda’s extensive housing experience includes work across residential, BTR, PBSA and including homeless shelters, affordable housing, specialist need housing, student housing, market and mixed-tenure housing, estate regeneration, senior living and co-living. She is in her second year sitting on the NLA’s housing expert panel, is a client advisor for the RIBA, sits on the Design Review Panel for Harrow and Hounslow council and is Vice Chair for Tower Hamlet’s Quality Review Panel. Robert Bird has joined as Practice Director and will be leading Orms’ strategy at Board level, overseeing the delivery of continuous operational improvement to support core creative and business objectives and to consider vision and values across all activities of the business in line with our B Corp status. He has more than 27 years of experience in practice and project management roles in the creative and architecture industries. Please help us in welcoming Miranda and Robert to the Orms family! #4Orms #seniorleadership #architecture #operations #residential #newhires

After 10 years at Oliver’s Yard, London-based architecture practice Orms has made the move to 160 Old Street, a refurbishment project the studio completed back in 2018. Formerly a Royal Mail building, the new location has doubled the firm's occupational footprint and provides a ‘shop window’ for the practice’s people- and planet–focused way of working. In our latest issue, we sit down with director John McRae to explore the practice's reuse-first approach and designing places with soul in an accelerated age. Read the full interview: https://ow.ly/ZrwC50TFmgn #interview #architecture #commercialinteriors #insight

We are also delighted that The Burlian has been shortlisted in the Workplace Project (up to £50m) category at the Architects’ Journal Awards 2024. The Burlian is an extensive retrofit and extension of an existing 1970s, 6-storey concrete-framed building. Early-stage collaboration with the design team explored a varying scale of building adaptation which resulted in 75% of the existing structure, plus a lightweight extension and facade. This strategy substantially reduced the embodied carbon of the scheme whilst delivering a highly flexible, high-quality building for retail and office occupiers. Delving into the site's rich history through a series of deep research assignments, particularly its Victorian-era occupation by furniture makers A. J. Arrowsmith & Co., it informed both the internal and external architectural narrative helping us to craft an architecture of place. The Burlian stands as a testament to an ultrapractical approach, leveraging the building's stories to create an architecture that honours the past while embracing a sustainable future. Photography by Timothy Soar, Luca Piffaretti + Ståle Eriksen Orms team: Colin McColl, Ivan Equihua, Yasir Azami, Lyndal Mackerras, Dovydas Krasauskas, Alexander Trainor and Diego Mauricio Benitez Restrepo Client: Hines United Kingdom Main Contractor: Red Construction Project Manager: M3 Consulting Planning Consultant: Gerald Eve Cost Consultant: Gardiner & Theobald LLP Structural Engineer:  Price & Myers Services Engineer:  Sweco Façade Engineer: Montresor Partnership Façade Access Consultant: TÜV SÜD Dunbar and Boardman Landscape Architect:  Townshend Landscape Architects Lighting Designer:  Nulty+ Accessibility Consultant: Hollis Venue Fitout Structural Engineers: Bailiss & Company

We are thrilled to announce that The Outernet London has been recognised nationally in the shortlist of the ‘Mixed-Use’ category at the Architects’ Journal Awards 2024. The Outernet is an entertainment district negotiating a complex variety of scales and characters across a dense urban site, building on the culture of London’s Denmark Street, a centre for music since the late 19th Century. Leveraging technology and heritage, a music-led ecosystem fosters a vibrant future for music and the arts. This includes a multi-purpose venue, grassroots music venue, digital galleries, hospitality, retail and offices. The district, with daily footfall of 223,000, exemplifies how London's future thrives when intertwined with its past, nurturing the spirit of British music for generations to come whilst creating a viable and inclusive city. We are hopeful the coming generations of memories and legends are once again being forged on Denmark Street, the home of British Music. John McRae, Director at Orms, said “We are delighted to be a shortlisted for the AJ Architecture Awards. The Outernet is a true mixed-use project where new buildings sit alongside old, big meets small, the popular rubs shoulders with the alternative and all are welcome. This reinvention of a music led ecosystem is has been made possible by the vision and determination of client, design team and contractors.” Photography by Timothy Soar Architect (overall masterplan, shell and core zones 1 and 2 and fitout of all screened areas): – Orms Residential Fit Out Interior Designer – Taylor Howes Designs Venue Fit Out Architect – Archer Humphryes Architects Client – Outernet Global and Consolidated Developments Structural engineer - Engenuiti M&E consultant – Buro Happold (Base Build) & AECOM (Fit Out) QS - Turner & Townsend alinea Fire Engineer – Buro Happold (Base Build) & OFR Consultants (Fit Out) Facade Engineer – Buro Happold Landscape Architect – ROBERT MYERS ASSOCIATES LTD Acoustic Consultant - Buro Happold Audiovisual Consultant – Hoare Lea Heritage Consultant - Alan Baxter Ltd Project manager – Gardiner & Theobald LLP Planning Consultant – Iceni Projects Principal designer - RLF Approved building inspector – MLM Group (Sweco) Main contractor - Skanska (Base Build), Cord (Heritage Base Build & Residential Fit Out) and 8build (Fit Out) Demolition / Enabling Works – H Smith Orms Team: John McRae, Andrew McEwan, Oli Cowan, Robert Vasili, Daniel Pérez Sánchez, Alexander Trainor #AJArchitectureAwards #architecture #ultrapractical

Orms are proud to be a silver sponsor of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard and supporting it by seconding Rosie Bard to work as the Technical Project manager since January 2024. We are delighted to see the Standard’s Pilot Version launched, and to have been part of its development. The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard Pilot Version provides a much-needed unified industry approach to defining net zero carbon aligned buildings. We are excited to download and engage with the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard Pilot Version – and hope to implement it on as many of our projects as possible! Please get in touch if you want to know more about its application to projects and join the Pilot Launch webinar on the 31st of October. https://lnkd.in/ezxuE8i5 #Download ⏬ your copy of the #UKNetZeroCarbonBuildingsStandard Pilot Version: www.nzcbuildings.co.uk #UKNZCBS #NetZero #NetZeroGoals #NetZeroEmissions #ZeroCarbon #ClimateAction #Sustainability #OperationalEnergy #EmbodiedCarbon #CarbonFootprint #ClimateCrisis #SustainableFuture #ClimateSolutions #Decarbonisation Better Buildings Partnership BRE CIBSE LETI RIBA RICS IStructE Headquarters UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) The Carbon Trust

Orms has been shortlisted for the Net Zero Architect of the Year Award. Earlier this year BD announced all the architects who made it on to the shortlists for our prestigious annual Architect of the Year Awards. Now we are shining the spotlight on each category in turn and publishing a selection of the images that impressed the judges. Material re-use is a driving factor in the four London office refurbishments submitted by Orms. At The Bailey in the City of London, 92% of the original structure was retained as part of an extensive remodelling. A deep retrofit and extension of The Burlian in the West End retained 75% of the original 1970s building and targeted net zero. The practice’s Materials Passports research informs projects for 10 Spring Gardens and 2 Waterhouse Square. https://lnkd.in/eBn_2h8W #architecture #AYAs #AYAs20in24

We are thrilled to announce that in July, Orms achieved B Corp certification. Orms became an Employee Ownership Trust in 2018 and since then we have pursued B Corp certification as the next evolution to the business – a movement which aligns with our values and a step which we believe makes our business fit for purpose for the accelerated age we are living in. Our continuous efforts to assess and reduce the impact of our business and projects on the planet has also been integral to this achievement. #bcorp #certification #peopleandplanet #proud