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Technical competency in the design and delivery of buildings

Why build with concrete when you can build with stone?

Happy retirement Andy Yates

Equanimity in New York

Featured: Equanimity

The impact of choosing the right materials

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Introducing Cactus!

Engineering the Future: Is the future of temporary housing demountable?

AJ Retrofit Award shortlisted projects

Jubille Pool takes home MacEwan Award

Featured: Jubilee Pool, Penzance

Our obsession with brick is holding us back

Engineering the future: How to spot greenwashing

New Associate Directors

LFA Eco Home Pavilion finalist

Andy Yates stepping down as Director of Webb Yates Engineers

Alex Lynes awarded the Nethercot Prize

Featured: Expo 2020 Dubai Sunshades

Birmingham office launch event

Jubilee Pool wins Dezeen Award

Featured: Jubilee Pool, Penzance

Dubai Expo 2022 Sunshades wins Structural Award

Featured: Expo 2020 Dubai Sunshades

Engineering the future: Testing times

Richard Mayo talks at Offsite Expo

Featured: Elephant Park Pavilion

Jubilee Pool wins the public vote at the Dezeen Awards

Featured: Jubilee Pool, Penzance

York Minster Centre of Excellence approved for planning

Are hybrid structures the way forward?

Expo 2022 Dubai Sunshades shortlisted for the Engineering Prize at WAF 2022

Featured: Expo 2020 Dubai Sunshades

Steve Webb talks natural materials in Lampoon Magazine

Structures, not aircon, should be the first stop for cooling buildings

York House featured in AJ Specification

Featured: York House

What's stopping us from making better use of listed buildings?

Carbon counting should be the new calorie counting

Double shortlisting in the AJ Architecture Awards 2022

Featured: Jubilee Pool, Penzance

Double longlisting in the Dezeen Awards 2022

Featured: The Queen of Catford

What's stopping us from having a better work-life balance?

The Gardener’s Cottage shortlisted for 2022 British Homes Award

Featured: The Gardener's Cottage

NLA Nights at The Tree House, Elephant Park

Featured: Elephant Park Pavilion

Expo 2020 Thematic Districts shortlisted for a 2022 World Architecture Festival Awards

Featured: Expo 2020 Dubai Sunshades

Equanimity wins the CDUK Award for Architecture

Featured: Equanimity

Erdington Bath Refurbishment has been granted planning permission

Applying circular economy principles to achieve net zero - webinar now online

First images of Elephant Park pavilion released on Architects' Journal

Featured: Elephant Park Pavilion

How to upgrade your office to cope with a heatwave

Green Urbanist podcast: We're not doing doom and gloom!

Elephant Park Pavilion shortlisted for a 2022 Structural Timber Awards

Featured: Elephant Park Pavilion

Roundtable: Getting started with embodied carbon

What’s stopping us from designing more holistically?

London Design Festival 2022

Applying circular economy principles to achieve net zero

Florence smashed pedElle 2022

Art of the Ascent

International Women in Engineering Day!

The new learning hub at Pitzhanger Manor is now complete

The pros and cons of stone buildings

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022

Featured: Equanimity

New activity centre for Nene Park

Pitzhanger Design Series: Creating Pitzhanger Hub

The Riwaq featured on Dezeen

Featured: The Riwaq Pavilion

Florence Browning joins pedElle 2022

Happy Pride Month!

What’s stopping us from carrying on exactly as we are?

Building to net zero: costing carbon in construction

Tired Old Offices Can Be Recycled Too

Steve Webb elected as a Mayor's Design Advocates

Civils and carbon: must try harder

The Riwaq featured on ArchDaily

Food Forever at Kew Gardens

We are hiring!

Building Stories – The Awards Talks: Clerkenwell Close

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage 2022

Featured: Biennale d'Architecture et de Paysage 2022

Birmingham’s ‘most sustainable workplace’ set to open later in 2022

Webb Yates Engineers will be at FOOTPRINT+

The Riwaq on Hove Seafront

From The Town of Bedrock

Gardener's Cottage in rural Hampshire featured on Dezeen

Featured: The Gardener's Cottage

What’s stopping us taking more risks?

The future of real estate and construction

Fire safety in timber buildings - watch the event again

Featured: York House

Retrofit and refurbishment, where do you start?

Earth Day 2022

Plans for York Minster submitted

Getting Started with Embodied Carbon

How to design naturally ventilated low energy buildings with real fresh air

Jury announced for AAI Awards

Fire safety in timber buildings

We are hiring!

Lovedon Fields

Stone age: a new architecture from an old material

Happy 17!

What’s stopping us from having a better gender balance in the construction industry?

Restoration of the former Catford Constitutional Club

New community centre for Birmingham Settlement is now complete

Opportunity London

The return of Cycle to MIPIM

RSA Student Design Awards judging panel for 2022

Greenlight for the new Southend United stadium

International Women’s Day 2022

134 Old Street under construction

Albion Drive E8 shortlisted for the 2022 RIBA London Awards

What’s stopping us using more innovative structural materials?

The Gardener’s Cottage shortlisted for 2022 RIBA South Awards

Featured: The Gardener's Cottage

Innovation within the circular economy

Featured: Ilford Community Market

Jubilee Pool in Penzance featured on Dezeen

Webb Yates Engineers supports the Part Z initiative

David Brownlow Theatre one of Top 10 British architecture projects of 2021

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

The Sustainability of Stone

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Urban mining and how to reuse carbon intensive materials

Second phase of the Harrow Arts Centre’s redevelopment to start onsite

Bath Quays Bridge Technical Talk

Featured: Bath Quays Bridge

Webb Yates wins Bramcote Park design competition

The Case for Stone

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

RIBA Journal's new 'Contacts book'

What’s stopping us from ditching brick?

Cast your vote for Building of the Year 2022

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

Cladding – wasteful, too complicated and prone to failure?

Webb Yates Cycle to MIPIM 2022

How can developers make money while helping to save the planet?

373 Euston Road shortlisted for AJ Retrofit Awards

Featured: 373 Euston Road

RIBA East Emerging Practice Network: Sustainability Series #1

IF ONLY…

How to bring steel into a green circular economy

Haus on the Ridge featured on Wallpaper*

Hopes and fears for construction in 2022

Happy Holidays!

What’s stopping engineers from being more creative?

Shortlist for NLA & Southwark Council Bramcote Park revamp

Specification: Building in sustainability throughout the design process

Building Talks Net Zero Podcast: Materials matter - how to use concrete and steel responsibly in buildings

Winners at the New London Architecture Awards

Featured: 373 Euston Road

Highly Commended at Wood Awards 2021

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

Grain House on Daily Mail

Featured: Grain House

Building Foundations with Alex Rummens

Fight Club: Battle of the Beams

What’s stopping us from measuring embodied carbon?

Award Win at AJ Architecture Awards

Featured: The Rye Apartments

York House and 373 Euston Road in the latest issue of The Structural Engineer

Featured: York House

We are hiring Graduate Engineers Summer 2022

Webb Yates Beer Festival brought the festive cheer!

York House wins for best innovative use of brick

Featured: York House

Venn and now: geometries of land reformation

Creative thinking needed to tackle growing threat of urban flooding

York House wins the award for Zero-Carbon Ambition

Featured: York House

What’s stopping us from re-using materials?

Second edition of ‘Eurocode 1 Manual’ guidance is now available

The house with a secret garden

Featured: Grain House

World of Wood Festival

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

Grain House longlisted for RIBA House of the Year

Featured: Grain House

The Future of Architectural Education

A New World of Working and Collaboration

Webb Yates selected as structural engineer for York Minster skills and craft centres

We’re taking action and working on our sustainability targets

Webb Yates charity event a huge success!

RIBA and Architects Declare publish Built for the Environment report 2021

Clerkenwell Close - a celebration of structural stone

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

All-timber Ilford Community Market well underway

Featured: Ilford Community Market

Lay off the plasterboard and cladding

Concrete and climate-compatible design

RIBA Stirling Prize 2021 films: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Wallpaper*: Expo 2020 Dubai: the ultimate tour, from districts to pavilions

Featured: Expo 2020 Dubai Sunshades

Building Bridges – engineering model making workshop

Webb Yates Engineers Workday Relay Challenge!

Webb Yates Engineers Climate Action Day

York House shortlisted for Brick Awards 2021

Featured: York House

Invennt The Construction Big Breakfast podcast

Anna Beckett speaks at the IStructE Climate emergency conference

Featured: York House

2021 Archiboo Awards shortlisting

NLA Awards 2021 shortlisting

Featured: The Queen of Catford

The shortlist revealed for Wood Awards 2021

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

Materials Bank: Stone, Straw and Reuse Steel

RIBA Stirling Prize 2021 Shortlist

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

15 Clerkenwell Close in the press

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Evening Standard - The cat’s meow: a new era for Catford

Featured: The Queen of Catford

AJ100 Festival talk with Steve Webb

Wooden Roof shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize

Featured: Wooden Roof

The trouble with timber: What’s stopping the switch to wood?

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

Design in Mental Health award win

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

Architecture Today: Birkbeck campus

Featured: 373 Euston Road

David Brownlow Theatre shortlisted for Building Awards 2021

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

The 2021 Open House London

Featured: 373 Euston Road

International Architecture Collaboration – Stone lecture with Steve Webb

Building Foundations with Seb Roche and Io Grivea

Webb Yates scoops fabulous four at the RIBA London Awards 2021

Double shortlisting in the AJ Architecture Awards 2021

Featured: Grain House

Building Design: Angular addition to Birkbeck campus complete

Featured: 373 Euston Road

Celebration of home: Don't Move, Improve! 2021

Featured: Grain House

AJ Firts Look: 373 Euston Road

Featured: 373 Euston Road

Triple longlisting in Dezeen Awards 2021

Property Week: The superheroes of real estate

Pilgrim Street office redevelopment get the green light

Double Shortlisting in the Structural Awards

IABSE in Conversation podcast

Time to put cars in their place – underground

Judges announced for RIBAJ's 2021 Rising Stars

BBC News - Should we be demolishing buildings?

Paradise wins WAFX award

Covid-safe ventilation for school buildings

Horticulture Week

The Guardian

Ideas on Tap

Highgate Cemetery winners announced

Structural timber brings net zero to Paradise

8 vertical extensions you should know about

Reuse and life extension of existing structures e-conference

Building Foundations with Liam Bryant

Building Design

Climate action: we can put a block on brick

Grade II-listed library at Exeter College wins planning

Structural issues: the cost of material and the value of labour

StirWorld

dezeen

Wallpaper*

2021 City Benches unveiled

Sustainability Sessions: Retrofit #02

Education Today

Building Foundations with Sadiyah Begum

WRK/LDN: Office Revolution?

The Architectural Review

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

The RIBA Journal

Hampton Pool wins planning approval

New ways to design carbon-friendly, fire-safe towers

Grain House wins Don't Move, Improve!

Featured: Grain House

Architects' Journal

Building Magazine - 5 minutes with Elisa Sartori

Design in Mental Health Awards shortlist

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

Winner of the LFA 2021 City Benches competition

New Architects 4

Long View, Morvah has been granted planning permission

Building Designs

Planning approval for Cambridge hempcrete house

Architects Declare: Ideas into action

AJ Climate Champions podcast

Building Foundations with Pascasio Blasco

New Elephant Park pavilion taking shape

We're celebrating our 16th birthday!

Grain House shortlisted for Don’t Move, Improve!

Featured: Grain House

Wallpaper*

Featured: Grain House

Dezeen

Featured: Grain House

We are hiring!

Gilder's Yard in progress

Plans for Reading farmhouse conversion submitted

Forbes

Featured: Science Museum IMAX Theatre

Building Foundations with Eleonora Regni

Architects' Journal

World Engineering Day

ICON

Arch Daily

First phase of the Harrow Arts Centre’s redevelopment completed

Building Foundations with Becky Miller

How to slash CO2 in home improvement projects

Designboom

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

Dezeen

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

Wood Work lunchtime talks

Abitare

Featured: Grain House

ArchDaily 2021 Building of the Year Awards

Featured: The Rye Apartments

Architects' Journal

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

The RIBA Journal

Featured: St. John’s Music Pavilion

ArchDaily

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

Wallpaper*

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

First new river crossing in Bath for a century

Featured: Bath Quays Bridge

Building Foundations with Rob Nield

RIBAJ MacEwen Award longlisting

Featured: St. John’s Music Pavilion

Go-ahead for rammed earth house in Wiltshire

Dezeen

Green light for Grade A office refurb in Mayfair

Clerkenwell Close is a winner in the 2021 Civic Trust Awards!

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Paradise named as top 10 carbon-neutral buildings

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Domus

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

Wood, stone, moral calculus and big picture thinking

Architecture Today

Featured: David Brownlow Theatre

'Build back better’ with sustainable structures

Museums Association

Work with our Birmingham team

RIBA London Awards 2020

Structural Awards 2020 showcase

The Rye and Wooden Roof wins at the Wood Awards 2020

Building Foundations with Georgia Bertram

Paradise wins the NLA Awards 2020 in the Working Category

The Observer

Featured: Leaf House

Tower Bridge Court and Paradise features in the NLA Zero Carbon London

e-architect

Planning permission granted for new pavilion

We are hiring!

Graduate Engineers for 2021

The Observer Building received planning permission

Wallpaper

Building Foundations with Anna Beckett

Steve Webb awarded the 2020 Milne Medal

Wood Awards Shortlisting

Landscape Institute Awards finalist

Hemel Hempstead Crematorium secures planning

The Architects' Journal

Featured: Wooden Roof

Structural Timber Awards finalist

European Healthcare Design Award Win

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

New London Awards Shortlisting

Building Foundations with Rob Delahunty

Rhodes House received planning approval

Out of the Woods

Featured: The Rye Apartments

Building Foundations: John Gerrard

The Architect's Journal

Stone as a structural material. Part 3: Post-tensioned stone structures

Dezeen

TRADA

Featured: St. John’s Music Pavilion

Wallpaper

Featured: The Rye Apartments

Building Foundations: Jack Smith

Designboom

Featured: Leaf House

Surface Design Awards judging panel for 2021

Dezeen

Featured: Leaf House

Stone as a structural material. Part 2: Traditional and reinforced stone stairs

Why the time is ripe for a return to stone as a structural material

The Architect's Journal

Sustainability: A Holistic Approach

Building Foundations: Donna Gage

A walk through The New Stone Age

Architects' Journal

Featured: House of Layers

Dezeen

Architecture Today

The Architects' Journal

We are #cyclingforcoram

Stone as a structural material. Part 1: Mechanical properties

RIBA

Building Foundations: Richard Mayo

We support Practical Action

The New Stone Age

It’s the Cycle to MIPIM time of the year

The Architects' Journal

Featured: Second Home London Fields

Wallpaper

Featured: Leaf House

Energy and Carbon Guardianship

Featured: The Hoover Building

RIBA

Dezeen

Featured: Wooden Roof

Building Foundations: Jack Bowlt

Success in Building Magazine’s 2019 Top Consultant List

The Architects' Journal

Serpentine Pavilion 2019

Engineers Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency

Building Magazine

Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth

Time to stop tinkering with global warming

Building Foundations: Jamy Dipnarinesingh

Webb Yates Engineers Peaked the Yorkshire Three Peaks!

The RIBA Journal

Back to School

The Architects' Journal

Building Foundations: Anna Webster

The Construction Index

Structural Awards 2019 Shortlisting

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

Wood Awards Shortlisting

Featured: St. John’s Music Pavilion

Building Foundations: Yaré Pérez

Structural Timber Awards 2019 Shortlisting Success

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

RIBA West Midlands Awards Success

Featured: Squirrel Works

Building Foundations: Luna

Double Shortlisting in the NLA Awards!

Design Boom

Featured: Second Home London Fields

Architecture Today

Featured: House of Layers

The Architects' Journal

Featured: Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre

Wood you like Chips with that?

The Hoover Building wins 'Design Through Innovation' award at the RICS Awards

Featured: The Hoover Building

The Structural Engineer

The Architects' Journal

Dezeen

Featured: 168 Upper Street

Webb Yates Engineers is 14!

Building Foundations: Elisa Sartori

Webb Yates Engineers on the shortlisted team for RIBA York church competition

Building Foundations: Marine Lamagat

The Structural Engineer

Meet us at MIPIM!

Building Foundations: Robert Carter, Director of Webb Yates Engineers, Birmingham Office

Webb Yates Engineers Wins Engineering Consultant of the Year at Building Awards 2018!

Building foundations: Alex Lynes, Associate, on maths, brewing and building with Lego

Featured: Templewood

Building Awards 2018 shortlist

Double shortlisting in Dezeen Awards 2018

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

The Observer

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Wood Awards shortlisting for Marie's Wardrobe

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

Structural Awards 2018 shortlisting success

Featured: 168 Upper Street

Construction News Awards 2018: Construction Consultancy of the Year

AJ Retrofit Awards 2018 shortlist

Featured: The Old Barn Worton Farm

Housing Design Awards 2018 win for St Andrew's Riverside

RIBA National Awards 2018 success

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Webb Yates Engineers at Venice Biennale 2018

Double win at RIBA London Awards 2018 ceremony

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Gender Pay Gap Reporting 2017

Evening Standard

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

Planning achieved for Birkbeck's Cambridge House

RIBA London Awards 2018

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Construction News Awards 2018 shortlist

AJ Specification

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

Barrett’s Grove wins 2018 Civic Trust Award

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Building foundations: Team Webb Yates on bikes, beer and lay-by toilet breaks

BBC

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

NCE100 Awards 2018 shortlist

Tiverton town-centre housing scheme wins planning approval

The Guardian

Featured: Bavaria Road Studio

Cycle to MIPIM 2018

Barrett’s Grove shortlisted for Civic Trust Award

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Barrett’s Grove shortlisted for Best Use of Timber Technology in Offsite Awards 2018

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Architecture Today

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Architecture Today

Featured: 168 Upper Street

Building foundations: Kristian Fitzgerald is thrown in at the deep end

DETAIL

Featured: Caroline Place

AJ Specification

Featured: 15 Clerkenwell Close

Dezeen

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

Structural Awards 2017 success

Featured: The Pump House

Barrett’s Grove wins Small Housing Development award at Brick Awards 2017

Featured: Barrett's Grove

The Architect's Journal

Featured: Caroline Place

Highly commended at Building Awards 2017

AJ Specification

Featured: 168 Upper Street

Holzbau Austria

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Evening Standard

Featured: The Pump House

AJ Architecture Awards 2017 shortlist

Featured: Amesbury School Visual Arts Building

Campbell Park Pavilion wins planning approval

The Architectural Review

Featured: 168 Upper Street

Structural Awards 2017 Shortlist

Featured: Amesbury School Visual Arts Building

Building Awards 2017 Shortlist

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Brick Awards 2017 Shortlist

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Dezeen

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

Archdaily

Featured: Caroline Place

RIBA Stirling Prize 2017 Shortlist

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Structural Timber Awards 2017

Featured: Barrett's Grove

AJ Retrofit Awards 2017 Shortlist

Featured: De Beauvoir House

The Guardian

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

NCE100 Companies Of The Year

RIBA National Awards 2017

Featured: Barrett's Grove

New Atlas

Channel 4

Kilo Apron Development

NLA Awards 2017 Shortlist

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Architecture Today

Featured: Caroline Place

RIBA Regional Awards 2017

Featured: Marie's Wardrobe

RICS Awards 2017

Featured: Bermondsey Street

The Architect's Journal

The Architect's Journal

DETAIL

Four projects shortlisted for RIBA Regional Awards 2017

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Dezeen

The Structural Engineer

Dezeen & Archdaily

Featured: Mann Island

Happy Birthday

Webb Yates Engineers is shortlisted for NCE100 Companies Of The Year 2017

Treehugger

Featured: Formby Stair

Cycle to Cannes 2017

AJ Specification

Featured: Montagu Stair

Rug Room winner for Don't Move, Improve! 2017

Featured: Rug Room

The Observer

Wallpaper

Featured: Bavaria Road Studio

Andy Yates becomes Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers

Barretts Grove won Hackney Design Awards

Featured: Barrett's Grove

ArchDaily

Featured: Formby Stair

WYE Third Annual Beer Festival

The Architect's Journal

Structural Awards 2016

Featured: Formby Stair

Club Peloton Awards

Guinness World Record for the largest ever Lego structure

Dezeen

Featured: Barrett's Grove

The Architects' Journal

Featured: Barrett's Grove

Building Better Health

London Office

Another Magazine

Serpentine Pavilion and Summer Houses 2016

The Architect's Journal

Featured: Elmthorpe House

Midden Studio & Formby Helical Stair have been shortlisted

Featured: Midden Studio

Amesbury School Visual Arts Building Shortlisted

Featured: Amesbury School Visual Arts Building

'Silence' Garden wins Medal for 'Landscape & Fantasy Gardens'

RIBA Journal

NLA Ashden Prize for Wimbledon College of Art

Featured: New Studio - Wimbledon College of Arts

The Architect's Journal

Planning approval for the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

We 'bridged' the country!

Bridging the Country

Stone-Ideas.com

Featured: Formby Stair

pedElle 2016

RIBA Journal

Featured: Formby Stair

Happy Birthday

Midden Studio shortlisted for RIAS Awards

Featured: Midden Studio

Cycle to Cannes 2016

Hackney Marshes wins London Planning Award

Featured: Hackney Marshes Centre

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