Founded by Max Fordham

Max Fordham founded the practice in 1966. Starting from a room at home, he pursued a new approach to engineering practice based on his own insatiable curiosity about how buildings work. He resisted pigeonholing into the conventional boxes of engineering;  mechanical or electrical. He was always interested in the whole building, taking a creative but essentially practical approach to building services design, starting “with the edge of the universe as its boundary and then quickly narrowing down to the specific problem”.

The firm he founded continues with the same philosophy, including its commitment to working as a partnership. In 2008 Max was honoured with the Prince Philip Designers Prize by the RSA, recognised as “a pioneer of environmental design for buildings."

“A large part of my work is demonstrated by the engineering practice I started and by the number of engineers in the industry who now enjoy a creative and intellectual approach to building services design.”
Max Fordham