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Representation is important: Marking 10 years of International Women in Engineering Day
This year marks the 10th year of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), a day set up to give women in engineering a profile and hopefully…
A problem shared is a problem halved
Stress, the final frontier. We are all facing pressure from seemingly every angle right now, on the back of a persistent fatigue plaguing many…
Q&A with Mark Palmer, Director and Edinburgh Office Leader
Last month, Mark Palmer (our Edinburgh Office Leader) was interviewed by Urban Realm for their annual Engineering Survey. Mark wrote about the…
Black History Month 2022: An Interview with Managing Partner Samiatt Folorunso on Inspirational Black Leaders
It's Black History Month! We've used this opportunity to chat to our Samiatt Folorunso, Managing Partner at Max Fordham, about inspirational…
A subtle, but important, change to the titles of our leaders
We are immensely proud of the Partnership that was set up by our founder Max Fordham almost 50 years ago. The maxim that if you’re good enough…
On becoming one of CIBSE's youngest fellows
Last month I became one of CIBSE’s youngest Fellows. I was asked by our Comms Team to write a blog post about my career path leading up to this…
Opening Entopia
Life often combines disparate events, and last week I experienced choking, meeting royalty, and building design for the climate emergency, all…
Designing for the Future - Insights from our most recent panel discussion
How has the built environment become more climate conscious in the past year? It’s the hot topic across the architecture and construction industries,…
PHPP Plug-in: Peak Heating Load
We’re big fans of Passivhaus, and the energy modelling tool PHPP. We’ve developed a plugin to try and make it even more useful, and thought we’d…
About being and becoming an engineer
The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. As a kid I recall at least two school…
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