It is our belief that to produce high quality, sensitive and sustainable designs, a set of skills is required which extends beyond pure architectural services; whilst architecture remains our core business activity, the practice regularly uses its other in-house skills to add value to the service it provides.
BABB Architects can provide the following services in-house:
Architectural design, including all RIBA Plan of Work stages:
Stage 1 Preparation and briefing
Stage 2 Concept Design
Stage 3 Spatial co-ordination
Stage 4 Technical Design
Stage 5 Manufacturing and construction
Stage 6 Handover
Stage 7 Use
Architect led design
Building Regulation Plans
Project management and Contract administration
Experience of JCT and NEC contracts
Conservation, including
Sensitive re-use of buildings
Presentation of listed building applications
Heritage impact assessments
Presentation of listed building and conservation area demolition applications
Planning Consultancy
Certificate of Lawfulness applications for existing uses
Knowledge of relevant planning policies in relation to National and Local Development Plans
Speaking at Planning Committees
Presentation of planning, listed building, conservation area and demolition applications
Negotiating Section 106 legal obligations and agreements of developer contributions
Provision of detailed design and access statements and planning justification reports
Passivhaus design
Passivhaus construction detailing
Passivhaus Designer
The Practice also often works with other consultants /specialists to provide expert advice and reports. Some schemes require the support of such surveys to demonstrate the acceptability of the proposed development and therefore working with these specialists can be integral to a project. We routinely work with other consultants, including:
- Structural Surveys / Building Engineers
- Quantity Surveying / Project Managers
- Fire engineers
- Passivhaus certifiers
- Topographical Surveys
- Ecologists / Bat Surveys
- Tree Surveys
- Landscape architect
- Interior designers
- Noise / Acoustic Assessments
- Land Contamination Reports / Coal Mining Risk Assessments
- Drainage Surveys
- Highways Assessments
- Archaeological surveys and reports
Based in Whitland, we are conveniently located in West Wales with easy access to the major towns in Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion though our work often takes us further afield to the rest of Wales and the UK.
