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Beautiful engineering: 20 years of RIBA Stirling Prize projects

Person sitting in library reading

8 Oct 2026

Our 2025 greenhouse gas report - how did we do?

Open-plan office with central spiral staircase and exposed vaulted ceiling.

7 Oct 2026

Reflections: Can you draw a bicycle?

a line drawing of a bicycle

29 Sept 2026

Reflections: the future of engineering and staying one step ahead

Street view of 11 Belgrave Road.

16 Sept 2026

Join us at Regenerative Design 2026

15 October 2026
8:30 – 11:30 BST
The Building Centre, London

Our projects are shortlisted for seven 2026 AJ Architecture Awards

Large performance hall with tiered seating, overhead lighting rig and three people gathered on a stage with a dragon puppet.

1 Sept 2026

Reflections: how has engineering changed?

black and white image shows a lamp on a desk with papers

25 Aug 2026

Beyond Net Zero: our involvement with Westminster's Retrofit First policy

Sunset cityscape with City Plan text overlaid

12 Aug 2026

King's Theatre in Edinburgh reopens following transformative restoration

Main auditorium with audience

6 Aug 2026

Plans approved for the transformative redevelopment and renovation of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

Sports campus plaza with athletics stadium, indoor arena and people using outdoor recreation spaces.

24 Jul 2026

Whittle Laboratory at the University of Cambridge officially opened by His Majesty King Charles III

Large aircraft engine displayed inside a research and testing facility, showing exposed turbine blades, wiring and mechanical components. Several visitors, including King Charles III, are walking around the laboratory and viewing the engine from an elevated steel access platform, while additional testing equipment and industrial services are visible throughout the bright, high-ceilinged space.

21 Jul 2026

Max Fordham projects account for four of the six-strong RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist for 2026

Grid of four projects

16 Jul 2026

A defence of MEP engineering for healthy, comfortable and sustainable office buildings

People sitting on the roof top of the new building, overlooking rows of PV panels

15 Jul 2026

Agar Grove Phase 1C – one year post‑occupancy review

two people walking up a gently sloped sidewalk in front of a brick building

10 Jul 2026

Six wins at the 2026 RIBA National Awards

Looking down over visitors in the new gardens at the front of the museum, showing the Garden Kitchen cafe in the distance.

9 Jul 2026

Bartlett Environmental Design Prize 2026: 'The Danube and the Hydro State: Emerging 'Extra-Active' Landscapes', by Oliver Penny

Aerial rendering of a large waterfront development integrated into a dam-like structure, featuring cascading terraces planted with trees and gardens, a rooftop park, and a waterfall flowing through the centre. Boats travel across the water beside the complex.

7 Jul 2026

Max Fordham is appointed as MEP Consultant on the National Gallery's landmark Project Domani

New gallery entrance with landscaped courtyard and colonnaded façade

22 Jun 2026

25 wins across 14 projects at the RIBA and RIAS Awards 2026

red brick building at dusk with warm lighting and with water in front

9 Jun 2026

Everything Electric visits Power Hall: The Andrew Law Gallery at the Science and Industry Museum

A man and a woman are stood on front of an old engine at a museum talking

4 Jun 2026

Great news for the Moseley Road Baths as funding is secured for phase two of the restoration project

Restored indoor pool with still water, tiled walls, and decorative white arch trusses overhead.

27 May 2026

Seminal projects from the last 60 years that still influence how we design as engineers today

The interior of the gallery

19 May 2026

The Max Fordham Beyond Net Zero whitepaper 2026

Pupils sitting on a stone and wooden bench next to a modern school

12 May 2026

Five projects are shortlisted for the Housing Design Awards

Red brick modern housing with a street in the middle of the image

8 May 2026

We welcome 13 new partners!

13 portraits of people against a black background

5 May 2026

Two burning questions - which building would you most like to work from, and what's the most important thing in your workbag?

Smiling man being interviewed

1 May 2026

When we look to the future, there is excitement about the possibilities, but it's no wonder people are anxious

Kids sitting on and walking up and down stairs in a school

16 Apr 2026

Planning is approved for LSE's 1,945-bed Bankside student housing scheme

Images shows a large atrium which uses a lot of wood. Light is coming through from a skylight.

31 Mar 2026

Three of our projects are winners at the 2026 Civic Trust Awards

Looking down over visitors in the new gardens at the front of the museum, showing the Garden Kitchen cafe in the distance.

31 Mar 2026

Can you visit all of Max Fordham's London museum and gallery projects in a day?

Imogen looking up through the atrium

25 Mar 2026

Planning submitted for the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre’s transformative renovation

Digital aerial view of the proposed refurbishment of Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

12 Mar 2026

Delivering regenerative masterplans - a roundtable by Max Fordham and Architecture Today

People sitting around a table in an elegant room having a conversation about masterplanning

10 Mar 2026

Bluebird wins Residential Project of the Year at the 2026 CIBSE Building Performance Awards

People standing on a stage at an award ceremony

6 Mar 2026

RIBA and RIAS Roundup 2026 - 18 of our projects have been shortlisted!

People in a gothic hall looking at the stained glass windows

2 Mar 2026

1966 - The Beatles released Revolver, the best-selling car was an Austin Morris 1100 and England won the men's football World Cup

Men standing on grass in Regent's Park with cricket bats

24 Feb 2026

James Byass and Luke Hadley are the first engineers to achieve the CIBSE Higher-Risk Buildings Registration

The image is biopics of two men side dressed in smart casual clothing.

23 Feb 2026

Nourishing neighbourhoods: an approach to designing healthy living together

The exterior of a new build brick block of flats with a central planted courtyard on a sunny day

10 Feb 2026

Over 4,500 projects across the UK

Map of UK with message that reads "Over 4,5000 projects across the UK since 1966"

20 Jan 2026

Celebrating our 60th anniversary

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5 Jan 2026

Seven Max Fordham projects named as finalists for the 2026 Civic Trust and AABC Conservation Awards

People in a gothic hall looking at the stained glass windows

3 Dec 2025

Our carbon journey - reporting greenhouse gas emissions

People working at desks in an open plan office with wooden floors

1 Dec 2025

Joining the panel at bSUKI webinar to launch buildingSMART naming standard

29 Oct 2025

Mark Palmer is speaking at the 29th annual IAKS congress in Cologne

Exterior of the sports centre of a clear blue-sky day. The ground floor of the building is glazed with a large upper section that appears to be clad in wood.

28 October 2025
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The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre at the University of Oxford opens on the 13th October 2025

The front of the building, with arched entrance

6 Oct 2025

Our sponsored walk with friends and colleagues raises over £1,000 for the Camden Foodbank

people standing in front of a brick building with a sign that says 43 Carol Street

30 Sept 2025

The Science and Industry Museum will reopen Power Hall: The Andrew Law Gallery

person cleaning an engine with a rag

25 Sept 2025

Max Fordham is appointed to the £175m Fusion21 framework

25 Sept 2025

Cottonopolis and the circular economy: reuse strategies in our new Manchester office

Photo of the outside of the Victorian Cottonopolis building, showing the surrounding streets and buildings.

24 Sept 2025

Elle Thomas, one of CIBSE's '30 under 30', on the front cover of CIBSE Journal!

Cover page to CIBSE Journal, September 2025 edition, showing faces of some of the winners of the 30 Under 30 awards.

23 Sept 2025

Beyond Net Zero: Biodiversity positive design

A view of the museum through the gardens

18 Sept 2025

Plans submitted for a 1,944-bed, all-electric student scheme for the London School of Economics (LSE)

Image shows people in front of a glass fronted building. Large towers are next to and behind.

12 Sept 2025

UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard - evolving best practice. A demonstrator project by Buttress, Max Fordham and Price & Myers

Man bicycling on front of two housing developments

20 Aug 2025

Woodlands Nursery and Entopia are shortlisted for RIBA Special Awards

image shows clouds, a blue sky and a wooden building with a fence

20 Aug 2025

Beyond Net Zero: Daylight in sustainable architecture

A living room with dining room, sitting chairs and two windows open to the gardens.

8 Aug 2025

Beyond Net Zero: Saying goodbye to gas

A building against a blue sky in front of a pond

4 Aug 2025

Wolfson College decarbonisation is highlighted on the Everything Electric series with Imogen Bhogal

Image show a modernist building with a small lake in front

23 Jul 2025

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich will be revitalised for future generations

Image shows a older building with a round dome and a new entrance

22 Jul 2025

Beyond Net Zero: Lighting the way to net zero carbon and beyond

Photograph of young performer on stage at Nevill Holt Opera, accompanied by a pianist.

15 Jul 2025

Beyond Net Zero: Raising the bar on our projects

aerial shot of a building, seeing PV panels and greens on the roof

9 Jul 2025

Bartlett Environmental Design Prize 2025: 'License for a (likely) lithopolis', by William Hodges

3D rendered image showing an imagined continual state of topographical transformation, glimpses of the future Lithopolis become visible through gaps in the trees. Perched on the edge of an artificial cliff, a new typology for urban living can be observed from above.

4 Jul 2025

The acoustics of air source heat pumps - part 2: How loud are heat pumps, anyway?

Images show a large, white rectangular box, which is an air source heat pump, in the garden next to a house. There is recording equipment positioned to record the sound coming from the air source heat pump

3 Jul 2025

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