Dulux Study Tour meets Davis Langdon UK directors – Sponsored Post
Davis Langdon, an AECOM Company directors Dave Smith, Iain Parker, Steve Watts and Gerard Daws were delighted to meet the winners of the Dulux Study Tour 2011 at a breakfast in their London office on Tuesday 17 May.
Discussions over breakfast were wide ranging, but centred on the changing skyline of London and the role Davis Langdon has played working for both the clients and design teams involved.
Our Tall Buildings expert Steve Watts was able to give some insights based on his experience working on the Shard at London Bridge (set to be the tallest building in the UK when it is completed next year) and the tall building modelling work undertaken by the Tall Buildings Group.
Iain Parker, head of our Commercial team was also able to share his knowledge gleaned from working on some of the most high profile commercial buildings in central London. Many of these are featured in a recent publication ‘City Architecture: Redesigning the City of London 1991-2011’, a copy of which was presented to the winners.
Dave Smith and Gerard Daws spoke of their experiences working from within the design teams and the different challenges from the client facing roles of the other directors. Gerard told the group of our experiences with Heneghan Peng a husband and wife team from Dublin who won the $600m Cairo Museum competition
and have seen the project through to construction. We were told later at the RIBA Cocktail reception that this proved to be an inspirational theme during the day for the young Architects.
