Notes from the drawing table.

Demolition is a carbon decision before it is a cost decision. Here is the arithmetic we put in front of every client at week one.

The people who commission a building are rarely the people who inherit it. We plan for the handover twenty years out.

The city’s growth is not in the centre. It is on the harbour edges, and the grain there is nothing like the grid.

We build one large physical model per project and keep it on the table until handover. It changes what people argue about.

We use a lot of it. That obliges us to be specific about mix, reuse and what we are not willing to pour.