About Us
Personal Design Influences
- Design experience in construction has accumulated since 1971 starting with design of steelwork frames for industrial units.
- This followed four years in aeronautical engineering. During that time, I was lucky enough to be based in the Hawker Siddeley factory at Woodford UK and able to experience the Vulcan being refurbished.
- Much of the approach to quality control and attention to detail has flowed from those years. 99.9% accuracy in aeronautical design is a serious failure.
- Fail Safe is an aeronautically influenced design principle where failure of one small item, e.g., a rivet, does not become a catastrophic failure. This is now creeping into the construction industry with stability requirements under partial collapse. I have used the principle for such things as piled foundations for many years.
- The second large influence was changing direction from art to engineering. The church extension shown on the home page was designed by me and built by my stonemason son.