design that de-risks the build before it begins
The decisions made at appraisal and brief shape everything that follows — so this is where we start.
Our architectural and engineering design work is rooted in the earliest stages of the RIBA Plan of Work — what the original framework set out as Stage A, Appraisal, and Stage B, Design Brief (broadly corresponding to today's Strategic Definition and Preparation & Briefing, Stages 0 and 1).
Appraisal is where a project's logic is tested: client objectives, site constraints, planning context and the business case are examined before a line is drawn. The brief then translates that thinking into a clear, agreed definition of what is to be built, on what budget and to what standard. Getting these foundations right is what de-risks delivery — the cost of a poor decision is lowest here and highest once construction is underway.
The same design discipline then carries forward: the concept is developed against the brief and the cost plan, coordinated across disciplines, and detailed to construction level — so the intent agreed at appraisal survives contact with planning, engineering and the site. Strategic engineering input sits inside the design conversation from day one, not bolted on after it.
the cost of changing your mind.
- Influence falls as design hardens. At appraisal, everything is still open — the site, the brief, the budget, the shape of the idea itself.
- The cost of change climbs. The same decision that costs a conversation at Stage 0 costs redesign at Stage 4 — and rework on site at Stage 5.
- So we decide early, on purpose. Stage A appraisal and the Stage B brief sit exactly where influence is highest and change is cheapest — that is the point of them.
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