Innes Johnston
BA MEng CEng MCIBSE MIOA
Director, Bristol Office Leader and Heritage Leader, Partner
It's important to nurture the client's aspirations and design team relationships beyond project completion. In this way buildings can work truly sustainably.
My feeling is that a building can only be sustainable if it is comfortable, usable, and maintainable. This places particular emphasis on the design of user controls, simplicity and a real engagement in the process of hand over: I’m a keen advocate of Soft Landings.
As a chartered building services and acoustic engineering team leader I have run projects at all stages from concept briefing throughout the construction process to post-handover. Many have been high profile public cultural and arts buildings with historic building fabric.
Right from the start, I enjoy making sense of complex briefs, and reconciling the physics on paper with the human reality of a building in operation. I take pride in bringing to life the architect's vision while maintaining a consistent ‘big-picture’ view of the environmental strategy.
I'm the Senior Partner responsible for leading the Bristol office of the Practice, having established it myself in 2013.
