23 Feb 2010
Foster + Partners are delighted to announce that the entire team at PHA
Consult, the environmental design consultancy founded by Piers Heath and
Edward Garrod, will be joining the creative team at Foster + Partners.
Sustainability has been at the centre of the work of Foster + Partners
for over four decades from Willis Faber and Dumas and the Sainsbury
Centre in the 1970’s to our Abu Dhabi eco-city, Masdar most recently.
Creating a sustainable built environment is crucial if we are to work
towards ‘one planet living’. To achieve this, environmental engineering
needs to be integrated into any project at the outset of the design
process.
We have been continuing to develop our range of skills and capabilities
in order to provide a comprehensive design service to our clients. Piers
Heath and his team of highly experienced creative engineers have been
working alongside our architects for several years. It is therefore a
logical step that they should now join the practice to provide seamless
and integrated support for a future of more sustainable projects. We
believe architects and engineers working together can learn from one
another and grow in combined knowledge to deliver better buildings. It
is a vision that Piers, his team and Foster + Partners share
wholeheartedly. Piers will join as a Senior Partner, and Edward Garrod,
Anis Abou-Zaki, Scott Smith and Keith Calder as Partners.