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Our Manchester office has another new project under their belt. We’re working alongside architects O’Donnell + Tuomey on a new extension for the University of Liverpool’s School of Architecture.
For #BritishScienceWeek 2020 we invited local school children into our London office for a workshop to learn basic engineering techniques and principles using LEGO bricks.
On 2020’s leap year day, Saturday 29th Feb, a group of brave (and slightly hung-over) AKTers made their way to 20 Fenchurch Street to climb 40 storeys worth of stairs to raise money for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.
For 25 years, Design Indaba has raised debate on design, empowered new practices and brought to attention raw talent. In this special anniversary year, Hanif has been invited to join the event.
The second phase of the redevelopment of London’s historic St James’s Market has been recommended for approval by Westminster’s planning committee. We are working with Make Architects on this project for clients The Crown Estate and Oxford Properties Group.
The first phase of a large new development receives unanimous approval from the London Borough of Newham. We are working on commercial projects in the first phase of the Silvertown masterplan with architects AHMM for The Silvertown Partnership.
We have launched our research paper with the British Council for Offices! ‘Making the Future Workplace – Materials & Methods towards a Circular Economy’ is a joint research paper with AHMM, The University of Reading and the BCO.
We were over the moon to have received an award from The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Structural Awards for our project Vessel!
We have been working alongside architects Cooking Sections to deliver a unique project for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, a new, triennial architecture event curated by Adrian Lahoud.
We’re delighted to have been awarded as Engineering Consultant of the Year at the Building Awards! Our Vessel project, with Heatherwick Studio and Related, also picked up a prize!
Our project with EPR Architects and English Cities Fund (ECF) received a unanimous resolution to grant for planning approval. The project provides a phased development including a total of 804 new homes, of which will bring 50% affordable housing to the borough of Newham.
A new major regeneration project by British Land has hit a significant milestone as Southwark Council Planning Committee (SCPC) resolved to grant planning permission for the Canada Water masterplan in line with recommendations from an officer from SCPC. We are pleased to announce we are supporting British Land on two of the phase 1 buildings (A1 & K1).
For the global Climate Strike, our practice decided to host discussions and debates surrounding what more we as a business, as engineers and as individuals can do to tackle the current climate emergency.
We’re pleased to announce that Ali Raza has been appointed as a director for our Geotechnical team. Following the appointment of Dr Dimitrios Selemetas as technical director in late 2018, the team has now grown to be an even more essential part of AKT II.
On 20th September, AKT II will be joining the global climate strike. On this day, AKT II will support its staff in joining strikes across London. We will be organising events within our offices to discuss ways that we can all do more to solve this crisis – on a personal and on a professional level as engineers and designers.
It’s the third year of the Antepavilion! For 2019, Maich Swift Architects designed a canal-side, wooden rooftop theatre at Columbia and Brunswick Wharf in east London.
We have unpacked our boxes and are delighted to announce the opening of our AKT II Cambridge Office!
Following in the footsteps of Architects Declare, we are urging UK structural engineers to sign an open letter to the Government declaring a climate and biodiversity emergency. Supported by BuroHappold and the Happold Foundation, Structural Engineers Declare is an important initiative that AKT II wholly supports.
Once again, AKT II’s engineers took part in this year’s Open House Families event at the Gherkin in the City of London.
13 of our amazing staff undertook a charity cycle ride to raise money for Hounds for Heroes and Bridges to Prosperity! The team cycled a total of 1572km through Buckinghamshire, Berkshire & Oxfordshire countryside, literally going the extra mile (or several miles) for charity.
For this year’s International Women in Engineering Day, AKT II invited students from a London school to come and learn all about engineering, the work we do and participate in some engineering-based activities.
We hosted our panel discussion as part of this years’ London Festival of Architecture. Our industry experts discussed enhancing the built environment with augmented reality and data visualisation – this event was conceived from the creation of our app, Beyond the Map.
We’re pleased to announce that Beyond the Map has launched! AKT II has worked with Hilson Moran and Tyréns UK, in collaboration with VU.CITY, to develop an augmented reality and data visualisation app.
Over the weekend, the team at Scale Rule and Next Generation Design worked hard to assemble a pavilion designed by GCSE students for Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW).
The new Design Group for the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has been appointed with Professor Sadie Morgan as chair and our co-founding director Hanif Kara, among others, overseeing ‘excellent design’ for infrastructure in the UK.
We attended the British Council for Office’s London and South East awards event, where four of our projects were shortlisted. We’re pleased to say that our project Rathbone Square, which we worked on with MAKE Architects, won the Corporate Workplace award!
We have recently appointed Raj Takhar as Director for our Manchester office. Raj will be leading the team working on projects based in the northern region of the country.
We completed the second-largest concrete pour in the history of London for our project One Nine Elms. Working with Careys and architects KPF for our client, Multiplex.
Adding a new, exciting mixed-use space to Broadgate Circle.
