Architecture

From offices and workshop units to accommodation and venues for hospitality, our team can provide versatile proposals tailored to your requirements.

FBR Seed can advise specialist consultants, such as mechanical and electrical engineers and lighting designers, to ensure your development achieves your objectives.

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Our team can assist with detailed specialist conservation works from Statutory Monuments to Listed Modernist Structures.

Niall Braidwood, Director of the architecture department, holds Advanced Conservation Accreditation from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

From a Quinquennial Survey, a Conservation statement or plan, a Statutory Monument or Listed Building Consent applications to advice on a variety of grant types or advice on issues such as limeworks, repairs to decorative interiors, stained glass or stone carving, we can ensure your scheme deals appropriately with the conservation of historic detail.

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Whether a new house, an extension, or refurbishment, and whether a cottage or a country house, we offer bespoke architectural services to make the best of your property.

We can coordinate external project teams, including structural engineers and quantity surveyors, for budget costs and cost control and inspect works to ensure a good result.

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Working with our surveying team, our rural architecture department can report on the property portfolio of estates and its potential for development and improvement, including the reuse of underused or derelict structures, the potential improvement to cottages and advice on any historic structures. For farms, we can look at the reuse of traditional and other old agricultural buildings, diversification development and prior notifications for new farm buildings.

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Our team can look at the capacity or development potential of a site, access, the placement of structures, parking, drainage and how the development would sit in the landscape or townscape. We produce initial design concepts, whether for development, planning or consultation and can call upon a wide variety of external consultants to assist with aspects of design and site assessment.

FBR Seed provides advice on making submissions to the planning department. Our team can also advise on the implications of the building standards on development.

With existing structures, we can arrange surveys and assess the options for conversion, subdivision, or reuse. Structural surveys can be obtained, and they can offer guidance on the scope of repair work required. Advice can be given on various options to achieve the full potential of a site or building, including necessary specialist reports that may be required to inform decisions on the project.

Our team can provide information to a Quantity Surveyor to produce budget costs and discuss programme and procurement.

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We provide designs for buildings for community, ecclesiastical or tourist use and can advise on proposals to improve facilities and access to reduce maintenance or to comply with licensing requirements for assembly and entertaining. Proposals can be produced for grant-aided projects, including conservation repairs and Heritage Lottery projects. Our team can work with specialists eg access consultants, fire consultants or acousticians, to achieve what is required.

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