community

On community-based schemes, the building is more than bricks and mortar. Understanding how the building interacts with its users and visitors and that there is one opportunity through funding to get it right is crucial. Sustainability issues and life-cycle costings are important to ensure that the building can be run cost-effectively long after the project has ended. Community based schemes are often run by committees and trustees which often means that the decision making is not centralised and that the brief needs to be developed in conjunction with key stakeholders. Our familiarity with these relationships makes projects run efficiently.