Ilia Lopez

PHA Consult

23 Feb 2010 Foster + Partners are delighted to announce that the entire team at PHA Consult, the environmental design consultancy founded by Piers Heath and Edward Garrod, will be joining the creative team at Foster + Partners. Sustainability has been at the centre of the work of Foster + Partners for over four decades from Willis Faber and Dumas and the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970's to our Abu Dhabi eco-city, Masdar most recently. Creating a sustainable built environment is crucial if we are to work towards ‘one planet living'. To achieve this, environmental engineering needs to be integrated into any project at the outset of the design process. We have been continuing to develop our range of skills and capabilities in order to provide a comprehensive design service to our clients. Piers Heath and his team of highly experienced creative engineers have been working alongside our architects for several years. It is therefore a logical step that they should now join the practice to provide seamless and integrated support for a future of more sustainable projects. We believe architects and engineers working together can learn from one another and grow in combined knowledge to deliver better buildings. It is a vision that Piers, his team and Foster + Partners share wholeheartedly. Piers will join as a Senior Partner, and Edward Garrod, Anis Abou-Zaki, Scott Smith and Keith Calder as Partners.