The latest awards are for his company BBM Sustainable Design’s work on a new contemporary low carbon country house and other buildings set in a beautiful 275-acre rural estate near Hadlow Down.
The buildings are constructed using local materials including sweet chestnut timber for wall finishes and furniture, and waste timber for insulation and incorporate a newly refurbished 19th century oast house and a new pool house all set within a stunning landscape designed by Sussex-based Landscape Architects Studio Engleback.
BBM won the two RIBA Awards last year for their Brighton Waste House project for the Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯. Waste timber from this grand country house project was re-used to construct the roof of the Waste House. So these two quite different architectural projects are both linked by a desire to reduce resources consumed in their construction.
said: “It is a huge honour to receive this recognition from our peers. Winning an award for architectural design and a separate award for sustainability is particularly satisfying as it draws upon the research and teaching my partner Ian McKay and I do within the university’s School of Art, Design and Media.”