The CDM Regulations provide a legal framework to ensure that construction projects are planned, designed, and executed in a manner which minimises risk. Among the key players are the Principal Designer and Client CDM Advisor. As both a chartered architectural technologist and health and safety professional, Philip has extensive experience in both design and construction health and safety. He offers these key services as well as that of advisor to the Principal Designer. We take a look at what this means and how his expert input is of great value to our clients.

We’re kicking the new year off by celebrating another recent employee milestone; 10 years of commitment and creative input from our Associate, Cian Scanlon.

Cian is passionate about how good design can add value through active engagement with real world constraints, turning them into opportunity. This is supported by studies in both architecture and property finance with a successful track record of delivering projects from concept to completion. Cian brings a wealth of knowledge to the practice, and with experience of reusing existing building stock he firmly believes it is possible to creatively adapt and repurpose spaces and places to make them relevant for future use for decades to come. We want to say a big thank you to Cian for continuing to be an integral part of our PDP family; happy work anniversary!

In this edition of our ‘out of office’ series, we interview one of our architects, Daniel Copitch, who is an artist in his spare time. Daniel’s website ‘Decopica’ hosts an impressive array of work – we spoke to him to find out more about his influences and preferred medium. 

After 22 years at PDP London, Ian Law has stepped down as a Partner, moving to a consultancy role. Ian joined the practice (then Paul Davis and Partners) in January 2000 as an architect, later becoming an Associate and then a Partner in April 2007. He has worked on over 40 projects in that time.