Designing or extending a care home is very different from designing conventional housing. Care homes combine accommodation, healthcare, hospitality, accessibility and complex building services within a single facility. The architect therefore needs to understand much more than planning permission
How Do Architects Get Paid – Hourly, Flat Fee, or Percentage? One of the first questions clients ask when considering an architectural project is: how will the architect charge for their work? Architects may charge an hourly rate, agree
MB Architecture carry out self-build projects for our clients. Using our expertise and experience, we have put together the following 10 questions and answers to help you with your own self-build journey. Let’s consider you are looking to do
In planning there are many myths, rules and guidelines that can lead to confusion. In this article we clarify an element of planning law by answering a series of questions.
This article goes through the process of obtaining building control approval. If you haven’t read our article on the recent changes to building control processes in the UK, you may wish to have a read here: https://mb-architecture.uk/building-safety-act-2022/ The Building
We often get asked how long it takes to complete a project, from the initial idea to the project being completed on site. There are some elements that can be done quickly, some that can be run in parallel
This article goes through the process of obtaining building control approval for private client projects. If you haven’t read our article on the recent changes to building control processes in the UK, you may wish to have a read
As the average age for a first-time buyer in the UK stays stubbornly high at between 33 and 34 years of age (as a UK average including London for 2021-2023, source ‘gov.uk’), a lot of our clients (past and
We often get asked “We have a plot of land, what can we build on it?”. As always in property, there are some common principles which will apply to all plots which we will go through here, and when
Case study: how to convert a multi-storey commercial office building into residential apartments Our developer client identified a commercial building in a town centre that was partially occupied by multiple commercial tenants. The area was ripe for development and