Knowledge Hub
Our Knowledge Hub delivers essential technical guidance to our concept and planning teams, ensuring the entire practice stays current with the latest technical and regulatory developments. This enables every client and project to leverage our full spectrum of expertise.
From initial design through to completion and post-occupancy evaluation, our Knowledge Hub champions—integrated within our design team workshops—offer critical insights and creative input. They coordinate comprehensive design reviews and audits, enhancing every project with their deep knowledge and experience.
Knowledge Hub addresses the quality of our work in five main action areas:
- concept design reviews with our partners
- sounding wall presentations for discussion with the whole practice
- pre-application and planning design reviews with selected partners and design guardians
- pre-construction, tender and construction stage design reviews and technical audits
- post-completion debriefs and satisfaction and feedback surveys
Core Library
Knowledge Hub curates and maintains our core library of design and construction components, optimizing site value for our clients.
We employ a strategy of “intelligent replication”—leveraging our refined standard components, which have been honed over years, and creatively recombining them to craft unique, locally resonant homes and spaces. This approach ensures both visual diversity and effective placemaking.
Our standard components encompass everything from construction details and individual plan elements (such as stairs, balconies, bathrooms, and kitchens) to complete house types and modular apartments.
Knowledge sharing
Our KHub team of experts not only share knowledge across the practice, we also share with our clients and collaborators.
(talk about examples, newsletters, CPD’s, education)
Design Guides and Product Books
Good design starts with a good brief. We have written several design guides and product books for clients. They serve to define design standards, and provide architects and contractors with a clear expectations.
Sometimes they are written documents, and other have included layouts for homes and building components
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Intelligent Replication
We use this term to explain how we learn from our projects – we gather, analyse, improve, and reuse where appropriate.
What do you gain as a client? Over 50 years we have been honing our approach, learning from our clients and the people who inhabit and use our buildings. Within the practice we have developed a library of intelligent components and details…
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Building Safety
We have the organisational and individual competencies to carry out the Principal Designer role under the new Building Safety regime, including for higher-risk buildings. We have an RIBA registered Principal Designer and are carrying out the Building Regulations Principal Designer role on several projects.
Building remediation is also a speciality
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Buildability
Buildings are really complex to get from concept to completion. There are literally thousands of document to understand and interpret, and to put together as beautiful and compliant buildings – the places we create for communities.
Our KHub team have expertise to help our project teams and clients navigate this ….
Project audits and ISO…
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Compliance
CMG suggests seperating Buildabilty and Compliance
