Build Architecture Awards

Build Architecture Awards 2015 28 Acres Architecture provide a wide variety of core and additional services to help their clients navigate through the exciting process of a construction project. We speak to Edward Acres, the firm’s founder, about the services they provide and how they came to win such a prestigious award. Acres Architecture provides Architectural Design for a wide variety of project sectors including residential, domestic, commercial and retail, and we are constantly expanding into new sectors. In addition to this we also offer a wide variety of other services that can be added on to our Core scope to further enhance our service to clients in both private and commercial sectors. We offer services and products that others simply fail to see the benefit of including, simple things like bringing not only 2d CAD drawings to meetings to discuss with Clients, but also 3D Plans that can been handed to a Client on an iPad and spun around in front of their very eyes providing them with a much deeper understanding of the ideas behind the developing design. Based in Nottingham, in the centre of the UK we are able to cover the midlands region and further afield. The company was started back in 2008 by myself, utilising my training as an Architect and my keen interest for Business and particularly Property Development. I am a RIBA and ARB registered Chartered Architect and is responsible for running the company on a day to day basis and maintains close connections with all Projects and Clients. The company was started to provide domestic clients with the service feel of a large practice and all its high skill sets, wide reach and good quality design expertise, but for a price that was still good value for money and accessible to all. After the first few projects I took on staff to assist with the large volumes of work (that was received from previous and existing client recommendations) and the company began to grow. Our overall aim is still the same as it was back when we started; to impress that same sense of high quality, efficient and clear speaking service into the domestic market whilst we have now expanded into the residential development, commercial and retail sectors. Our biggest inspiration is not other Architects or some typical world famous projects (as we already mentioned we do things differently), it is our clients. We are always inspired by the new challenges that our clients present to us, challenges are what we thrive on. This attitude serves us well in an industry that is constantly evolving and technologically driv- en. We are always on the lookout for new tech- nologies within the construction industry that can improve our working lives, which will also improve our client’s service experience. Such technologies as virtual reality and augmented reality have all been made possible via the use of hardware such as tablet PC’s and Macs that Full Service Architecture Firm of the Year - UK Company: Acres Architecture LTD Name: Acres Architecture Email: [email protected] Web Address: www.acresarchitecture.com Address: Court Gardens, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7SN Telephone: 0115 8592784 can be taken to site or meetings, enhancing the construction process through design clash detection in 3D simulations and visual aids as well as and overall clearer understanding of the designs attributes. Our interest in technologies does not just stop with the Construction industry. Whenever we find a particular new piece of software or hardware, we often try and apply it to our cur- rent work streams and test if it improves the process. This by either efficiency or accuracy or simply making things easier. Some don’t, but just finding that one out of ten, improves things and makes the effort worthwhile. Overall we are fascinated by new and emerging tech- nologies, its deep routed within our passion for an enhanced customer experience. In the future, we intend to grow and have no plans to restrict ourselves. With the pro- cedures and mechanisms we have in place as operation policy, our client experience can only improve as we grow. With a wider reach of connections and knowledge to draw upon both here in the UK and international- ly, we dream of one day becoming a major multidisciplinary practice offering not only Architectural Service and the relevant Addi- tional Services but also, Engineering, Quantity Surveying and many other Professional Con- struction Project Team services. We intend to break into each discipline with the same vigour and enthusiasm as we have done and continue to do with architecture. We hope that one day our clients can turn to us as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all their profes- sional service requirements on a multitude of construction projects.