Graham sits on the Executive Group and leads the Architecture discipline.

A member of the RIBA, and an ARB registered Architect with 25 years’ experience in the design and leadership of multidiscipline design teams delivering world class buildings across many building types and sectors in the UK and internationally. His specific interest is to pursue design excellence in integrated whole-life sustainable buildings and structures.

“Graham has always brought an imaginative and very professional attitude to the design work he has done for me. He is always been open and able to rise to a challenge. It is a pleasure doing work with Graham as he is very personable and honest. He has a good team that he has built around him that you can trust to deliver the very best service. I recommend him to anyone who needs the services of an excellent Architect.” – Mike Rhodes, Head of Capital Projects, The Open University

Chartered Architect with 25 years’ experience.

Paul is a member of the RIBA and ARB, and benefits from over 25 years’ experience delivering highly technical facilities across a variety of sectors, including education, motorsport and advanced manufacturing. He is an exceptional communicator whose strengths lie in team leadership, and interpreting complex requirements to provide clients with solutions which are both creative and functional.

“The work you have carried out for us is to a very high standard. We particularly appreciate how you have taken the time to understand our business and operational requirements, it has been an interesting and enjoyable process.”

Experienced Chartered Architect with specialist interests in Sustainable Design and Building Conservation.

Matthew is an ARB registered Architect and member of the RIBA, with 12 years’ experience delivering both new build and refurbishment projects across a number of sectors including, Education, Community, Leisure and Heritage.   He has specialist expertise in energy efficient and sustainable design, and a real passion for delivering low energy building solutions.

Matthew is currently competing an MSc in Sustainable Building Conservation, to compliment and expand his skillset in delivering projects involving historically significant buildings.

Martyn has a broad range of experience across sectors having worked on multiple large-scale residential and blue light schemes, as well as mixed use, care homes, barn conversions, rural exception sites and one-off houses.

He is deeply aware of the balance between sustainable concept design and onsite buildability and believes that good working relationships are formed on collaboration and are pivotal to the success of any project.

Chartered Architect with 15 years’ experience.

Liz’s expertise lies in understanding complex briefs and identifying client’s needs to deliver highly technical and creative projects. A member of the RIBA and ARB, Liz benefits from over 15 years’ experience developing innovative and functional design.

Liz has worked across nearly all sectors bringing a wealth of experience and strong leadership to all her projects.

She is currently enrolled as an RIBA examiner for architecture chartership.

The service provided has gone far above our expectations, Liz and the team have taken the time to really understand us and adapted well to challenges we have set them.

Chartered RIBA Architect

Alex is a chartered architect with the RIBA and leads the Architecture team based in Bristol. Having trained in the UK he has international experience working in Canada for three years on a number of engineering and design led projects.

An advocate of multidiscipline collaborative design, Alex is focused on creating sustainable and Net Zero Architecture through Building Information Modelling (BIM) to deliver projects with complex requirements and challenging objectives.

He is passionate about the built environment and takes pride in building trusting and cooperative relationships by providing a professional and personal service.

As well as training junior architectural staff within Ridge, Alex is an RIBA Student Mentor with the University of West England and an active RIBA member.

Alex has led several substantial projects in the Industrial and Logistics Sector, Advanced Manufacturing and Automotive sector and is a leader in Green Technologies and R&D projects. He is equally influential and interested in delivering smaller scale projects, such as schools for the Department for Education and Blue Light facilities for the Emergency Services, as well as overseeing a variety of commercial offices, refurbishment, and residential projects.

Paul is a chartered architect and leads our Architecture team based in Manchester.

Paul has previously worked with Ridge in Oxford and Shanghai, successfully leading significant high-profile design projects, managing large teams across a range of sectors specifically Formula 1, R&D and Higher Education. Paul’s specialism is leading on challenging briefs, often with complex requirements and where design led architecture and interior projects require intensive multidisciplinary collaboration.

Simon leads the Architecture department in London; Simon has worked on a variety of diverse national and international projects during his career; including Masterplanning and Infrastructure projects, to high-rise developments, Cultural building, Research and Development buildings, as well as Headquarter developments for Pharmaceutical, Automotive and Aerospace clients.

His passion for Sustainable design results in a strong belief in multidisciplinary collaboration. Always endeavouring for the final outcome to have a positive impact for users and the wider society. Simon brings first-hand knowledge and experience of leading and delivering high-quality projects. He has extensive experience in leading teams and stakeholders to creatively problem solve unique and difficult situations quickly and efficiently, but think innovatively with all other project disciplines to provide the highest quality result for the project.