Principal Designer Service
Our Approach
As Principal Designers, Hypostyle Architects, play a pivotal role in ensuring the health and safety of projects are not only safe and sustainable but also enhance the quality of life for residents and users. Our contributions can result in more resilient, equitable, and thriving spaces and communities.
Our Principal Designers are responsible for planning, managing and monitoring the pre-construction phase and coordinating matters relating to health and safety during this phase.
They have the right mix of skills, knowledge and experience to help clients with their duties (or discharge on their behalf) to take control of the pre-construction phase of any project involving more than one contractor. They work closely with different designers to eliminate foreseeable health and safety risks during construction or to reduce and control potential risks.
CDM applies to all construction projects, including domestic projects, from concept to completion.
Principal Designers
Alan Robertson
Principal Designer / CDM / Senior Associate
[Bsc (Hons) BArch RIBA FRIAS CDM-C AaPS]
Alan Park
Principal Designer / CDM / Senior Architect
[Bsc (Hons) BArch ARIAS RIBA CDM-C IMaPS]
Communication
Francesco Di Domenico
Director / Project Architect / Contracts
[BSc (Hons) MArch ARIAS RIBA CSCS]
Our Services
We are SMAS approved (SSIP certified) verifying the standard and competence of our team is a high level. Our expertise can deliver significant added value beyond the standard client brief and enhance a return on investment in the following way:
Supporting your Development of Early Pre-Construction Information
Producing high-quality pre-construction information will pay dividends later in the project. Vital design information relating to residual risks may be overlooked by a late Principal Designer appointment in the pre-construction phase which may negatively impact the budget and programme later and influence increased costs on maintenance and repairs.
Collaborative Team Approach
Our Principal Designers are responsible for ensuring a smooth information flow with the principal contractor and directly influence the earliest stages of health & safety design. It is essential to appoint someone with whom you can build a good working relationship. Hypostyle Architects provide a single point of contact throughout the project, ensuring consistency of service and a deep understanding of your project specifics.
As coordinator, our Principal Designers are responsible for ensuring effective communication and collaboration among all project stakeholders.
Reducing Project Risk from Design to Construction, Maintenance and Demolition.
Our Principal Designers have had long careers as professional project Architects, Team Leaders and Contract Administrators on a wide variety of projects. This provides the additional benefit of hands-on practical experience and can draw on their extensive contracting backgrounds, bringing a deeper understanding of the cradle to grave challenges to overcome. This experience supports proactive exercises in design risk management and designing out risk in projects.
Project Diversity
The extensive knowledge and experience they have acquired allows them to focus on the role of Principal Designer on a variety of projects varying in both scale, type and complexity. This experience includes a wide range of project sectors, comprising:
Residential (Affordable and Private Housing)
Education
Renovation
Health Care
Commercial
Conservation
Our Principal Designers bring a knowledge of best practices from each sector to ensure Hypostyle Architects’ combined experience is invaluable to the successful delivery of projects.