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Directors

Babak

Sasan

Director

Sonia joined BMJ Architects in 1992 and has gone on to become Board Director with overall responsibility for quality throughout the practice. She is a highly experienced design team leader and project architect with highly developed organisational and design skills, a well-developed understanding of project buildability and specialist experience in complex research laboratory projects, higher education campuses and specialist healthcare facilities.

Sonia is a specialist in detailed briefing and lead consultancy on large highly serviced building projects. She was lead consultant and architect for the £82m Scottish Government Crime Campus at Gartcosh, which includes forensic laboratories and specialist offices.

Sonia maintains an overview of BMJ’s total service along with leading service performance appraisals ensuring targets are achieved whilst developing continuous improvements. She is highly adept at interpreting Clients’ project needs, ensuring these are properly defined and understood and subsequently carried through to project delivery on time, within budget and quality.

Sonia

Scott

Director

Nick has extensive experience on complex highly serviced new and refurbishment schemes in both private and public sectors ranging from £30k to £50m. He has a wealth of in-depth knowledge, acquired over 20 years working with various healthcare, education and specialist laboratory Clients. He is highly experienced in managing design teams and the design process.

He has an established track record in the delivery of design solutions, from project inception with the development of feasibility studies and business cases, the formulation of outline and detailed briefs and the co-ordination of comprehensive scheme design information. Nick advocates a best value management approach on all projects from the outset, working in close collaboration with the cost consultant and other design team members.

Nick is also a highly skilled Project Manager, liaising directly with the Client’s team whilst developing project execution plans, detailed pre-construction programmes and advising on alternative procurement routes.

Nick

Benn

Director

Duncan has two decades of experience in developing briefs and design responses for award winning buildings for complex, multi-headed stakeholders and user groups on higher education, research and translational medicine projects. He has the skills to manage complex projects, creating elegant well-crafted buildings that are conceived, planned and detailed with clarity and rigour, often in sensitive site contexts.

Duncan’s projects range from single room installations to £300m translational medicine research facilities, for Clients that include 12 Russell Group Universities.

His experience spans all project stages, allowing him to inform early design decisions with a thorough understanding of subsequent processes and detail. He will interrogate and challenge a design, proposing enhanced or innovative solutions, ensuring the best possible outcomes.

Duncan employs an innovative Visioning process to assist Clients define the common vision and aspirations for new facilities. He focuses on understanding and developing Clients’ requirements into proposals; controlling design development to ensure these are achieved.

Duncan

Leach

Director

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