His project experience covers a very wide variety of sectors and building functions including education, residential, workplace, infrastructure projects, blue light, arts buildings, and masterplans.

He has significant experience in Higher and Further Education and has led our participation on frameworks for institutions including the University of Birmingham (Build Higher). He has led numerous award-winning projects across a variety of functions and typologies in these sectors, as well as masterplans, large scale residential schemes and high-quality conference facilities including the multi RIBA Award winning College Court at the University of Leicester. He has spoken at AUDE and SCONUL Conferences about recycling buildings and best practice in library design respectively.

Projects led by Warren have been recognised by the RIBA, Civic Trust, SCONUL, and the Architect’s Journal Retrofit Awards. His listed buildings experience ranges from 1900s to 1970s buildings, including modern movement buildings by Sir Denys Lasdun, Sir Philip Dowson and Sir Leslie Martin/Trevor Dannatt. He has also won awards for his management of stakeholders and refining the brief.

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Working primarily in the commercial and higher education sectors, James has led a series of projects of all scales for clients including Bruntwood, Linkcity, Anthology, and the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, Coventry, Leeds and Birmingham City. His collaborative and easy to work with approach, reflected in his consistently high KPI scores from clients, alongside his innovative and award winning designs (RIBA and BCO) with a focus on sustainability have generated long-standing relationships with clients.

James has advised multiple clients and other architects on achieving Passivhaus and low-energy construction on both new build and refurbishment projects (including listed buildings). He has presented at Passivhaus Trust events and is actively involved with the BCO, sitting on the Midlands regional committee, and previously acting as a judge for their awards programme.

As the Director responsible for IT, he has led the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) within the practice. He is focused on making best use of its advantages for client through this process, including using its capabilities to interrogate designs in order to refine them to ensure sustainability and Soft Landings benefits are maximised and has presented his experiences at BIM Show Live.

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His project portfolio of schemes includes delivery of a wide range of residential, arts, education, and workplace new-builds, refurbishments and masterplans and this broad knowledge helps to inform his approach. By looking at both the macro and micro scale in tandem, he ensures that individual sites within the overall strategic design provide viable, developable plots. His understanding of both public and private sectors ensures that robust, flexible strategic solutions are developed. Richard also leads the practice’s schools projects and participation on education frameworks

In recent years, his major projects include a triple Regional RIBA Award winning and National RIBA Reinvention Award shortlisted education building in Wolverhampton. Amongst his current project is the only net-zero carbon, mixed-use, residential-led scheme in Birmingham. Richard also has expertise of working within the context of existing buildings designing a scheme of alterations to a Grade I listed station building. With a former practice he designed contemporary, contextual award-winning additions to two scheduled ancient monuments.

As Director in charge of Health and Safety and Quality Assurance, he is responsible for ensuring effective leadership and implementation of these areas within the practice.

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As the Practice’s commercial workplace sector lead, Steve has led high quality commercial schemes in many of Birmingham’s most prestigious office addresses and beyond. He has recently completed Birmingham’s largest commercial retrofit project (10 Brindleyplace). He is currently working on several low and zero carbon office, residential and education buildings, including one of the Midlands’ first NABERS certified buildings.

He has focused on delivering environmentally responsible buildings for 15 years. Steve heads up the Practice’s ‘Green Team’ and is responsible for the development of its in-house carbon analysis tools and workflows, to support responsible design and client decision making.

Steve has been an active member of the BCO and Urban Land Institute for many years and applies the latest thinking and innovation shared by these bodies to his work. Many projects within his portfolio have been recognised by bodies such as the RIBA, the BCO, Constructing Excellence, and others. He is also a previous recipient of the BCO’s Rising Star Award.

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In 2024 he became the practice’s Building Regulations Principal Designer Designated Individual, having undertaken the RIBA training and achieving a place on the BR PD Register.

As a key member of Director Richard Perry’s team, he successfully led a variety of residential, mixed-use, commercial and education projects, including the award-winning Newhall Square scheme, In the education sector he has led projects including the UK’s first University Training School at the University of Birmingham and the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Wolverhampton, which was shortlisted for the Architect’s Journal Building of the Year.

His expertise in BIM made an instrumental impact on the George Davis Centre for Medicine at the University of Leicester (currently the largest non-domestic Passivhaus building in the UK) and he has had a huge impact on the practice’s development of BIM implementation, usage, and staff training.
Alex has responsibility for QA and leads the practice in this area, ensuring systems and protcols meet current standards and ingrate seamlessly with those of our clients and collaborators.

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His broad project portfolio spans the commercial workplace, civic, and Higher/Further Education sectors, covering projects of all scales and typologies from concept to completion. His experience includes the delivery of technically-complex designs, retrofits, new buildings, and masterplans.

With over 20 years experience, Craig’s design, technical and project management skills have been used to deliver unique buildings to award winning standards. Most notably he led a commercial office project from inception to completion in under 18 months, and went on to be awarded a British Council for Offices Award.

Craig has developed a specialism in delivering fast-track projects (to a fixed deadline and to exacting high quality standards) by virtue of the high profile projects he has delivered for blue chip companies. He has combined this with the delivery of multiple academic office projects University of Leeds Architectural Framework over the last 15 years. These project are naturally time-bound by the start of an academic year and his adept skill for guiding the client team through internal stakeholder engagements and staff consultations, gets the very best out of projects within the available time constraints.

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As an integral part of Director Warren Jukes’ team, during his time at AA Joe has developed a range of innovative and high quality schemes for many of the Midlands’ key universities and FE providers. He has 12 years of continuous project experience in the education sector, delivering new build, refurbishment, and masterplanning projects of many building types and scales for a variety of institutions, earning him an excellent understanding of best practice in the design and delivery of such facilities including those featuring low carbon laboratory design.

At present, he is leading the redevelopment of the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton, transforming and repositioning the existing facility to provide a 21st century library experience. Recently, he has completed the award winning Molecular Sciences building at the University of Birmingham and the National Brownfield Institute on the site of the former Springfield Brewery in Wolverhampton. His exemplary work at the College Court Conference Centre for the University of Leicester earned accolades in the RIBA Awards, RICS Awards and the Architect’s Journal Retrofit Awards. He has subsequently used his expertise to deliver the New Library and Student Services Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Designed using Passivhaus principles and set within a sensitive historic campus, the new £50m building also provides specialist exhibition and archive facilities. In addition, Joe has led projects in the infrastructure sector and the wider education sector, most notably a number of UTCs. Joe sits on the Practice’s CSR and marketing committees.

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He undertook his architectural education at Liverpool John Moores University and the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design at Birmingham City University, completing his Part III with RIBA North West.

Thomas has a wide-ranging portfolio of work spanning eight years that includes residential, commercial, educational and cultural sectors, gained at Associated Architects and other award-winning studios in Europe and the Middle-East. He has valuable experience of all project work stages from feasibility through to completion, as well as several years experience of using and leading teams in BIM to coordinate information and produce drawing packages as part of large multi-disciplinary project teams.

He has acted as project architect to lead a variety of projects, notably the Emily Wilding Building at Royal Holloway University of London, a bold and ambitious building that expanded the library provision which would also include a student services centre. This new facility successfully contributes to a high quality experience for students during their time at the institution, providing them with a state-of-the-art modern library and wide range of student services.

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He undertook his architectural training at the University of Portsmouth and the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design at Birmingham City University.

Graham brings a wealth of experience to Director James Hall’s team, having designed and delivered projects in numerous sectors. In recent years he has been influential in delivering multiple schemes for the University of Warwick, in particular the new Warwick Business School. Within the residential and mixed-use sectors, he has delivered Deptford Foundry for Anthology and a large scheme in Canning Town, London, comprising retail, hotel and underground parking.

He is currently leading a scheme for the University of Oxford, having recently complete an industrial scheme for Waters Corporation within St Modwen’s major redevelopment masterplan in Longbridge.

Graham is also responsible for the day to day running of the practice’s Birmingham office, including overseeing maintenance and building control, and oversees AA’s Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme.

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He has a long track record of working at a senior level in a range of design led practices across sectors including one-off houses, offices, arts and leisure, and education (pre-school to specialist secondary), but his specialism is in the field of higher education. He has managed successful framework relationships and delivered award winning projects for a wide range of universities and colleges, including Oxford, Birmingham, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham Trent, ICL and Southampton.

At a previous practice he was Project Director for the 33,000sq.m, £90m, Newton & Arkwright regeneration scheme for Nottingham Trent University, which saw the total transformation and interconnection of two iconic grade II* listed buildings to create a vibrant new heart for the city centre campus. More recently Neil delivered the Alan Walters Building for the University of Birmingham Business School – a new centre for the postgraduate cohort, including MBA and ExecMBA students forming a bridge between academia and the wider business community. The project received both a regional RIBA award and was voted AJ Higher Education Building of the year on completion. At the same time Neil also completed the Oculus teaching and learning building for the University of Warwick – the university’s first dedicated teaching building available to all regardless of department.

Neil has been a part-time lecturer and visiting critic at Oxford Brookes, Nottingham University and the AA in London.

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