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BM3 Summer Catch Up!
☀️ BM3 Summer Catchup brought our London and Birmingham teams together for an evening of celebration and connection. We marked Part III achievements, exciting promotions, and introduced the Paul Shepherd Award for Excellence, presented to Haroon and Andrea.
A memorable and emotional evening recognising success, dedication, and the lasting impact of Paul’s legacy.
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Exciting new development for Wild Walk, Telford, Shropshire.
Working with Lovell, The Wrekin Housing Group, and Nuplace, BM3 have provided the planning for 329 new and affordable homes.
An exciting Extra Care facility will be part of the site, providing accommodation for the over 55’s.
The development has been designed in accordance with Telford & Wrekin Council, and their commitment to tackle climate change.
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Jurassic Coast Walk
BM3 completed a demanding 58km Jurassic Coast Ultra Challenge in support of the British Heart Foundation, overcoming tough conditions along the way.
Thank you to everyone who has donated—we’re close to our £10,000 target and hope to have made our friend Paul proud. Every contribution helps fund vital research into heart and circulatory diseases.
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Mental Health Awareness Week 2024
Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, our London and Birmingham offices honoured the occasion by wearing green.
Stress can come as no stranger to the role of Architects and Designers, so by us participating in this, we are aiming to reduce the stigma, promote understanding and encourage our team to start talking about their mental health.
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Queenswood, Newport, Shropshire
Queenswood, Newport, Shropshire is a sustainable extra care scheme of 70 apartments, designed to prioritise resident wellbeing.
Delivered with Bloor Homes, Keon Homes and Wrekin Housing Group, it maximises space and includes solar panels, achieving an EPC A rating. Shortlisted twice at the Insider Media Awards, with completion due November 2024.
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Insider Residential Property Awards 2024
WE’VE BEEN SHORTLISTED!
We are thrilled to announce that 2 of our current projects have been shortlisted for not just 1, but 2 awards at this year’s Insider Residential Property Awards!
Queenswood in Newport, Shropshire has been shortlisted for both Apartment Development of the Year and Small Residential Development of the Year. Old Fallings Crescent in Wolverhampton has been shortlisted for Small Residential Development of the Year.
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BM3 celebrates 2 years as a Carbon Neutral Organisation!
For the second year running, BM3 continues to remain a Carbon Neutral Organisation!
The aim to reduce our carbon footprint is still hugely important to us and we stay committed to making sure we do our part to help take care of our planet!
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For Paul Shepherd BM3 will walk 58km
Following last year’s hugely successful charity walk in Windsor, the BM3 team will be lacing up their walking boots once more for the very challenging Jurassic Coast walk. This year we’re very proud to be partnering with The British Heart Foundation. In 2023 our dear friend and colleague Paul Shepherd, aged 46, died suddenly of a heart attack whilst away on holiday with his wife Becky and two sons Jake and Archie. Paul was simply amazing and everyone at BM3 desperately misses him.
So we’re doing this for Paul, and along the way we want to raise awareness and lots and lots of money, so please dig deep for this very worthy cause.
Our fundraising page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/bmthree-architecture-ltd
Thank you.
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Paul Shepherd
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear friend and colleague, Paul Shepherd. Paul joined BM3 as an Associate Director in 2011. His exceptional talent, ability to manage people and projects, together with his fastidious and personable nature, made the decision to promote Paul to Director an easy one, with him joining the Board of Directors in 2018.
Paul had the wonderful ability to touch the lives of everyone he met in such a positive way. For those of you who had the pleasure of working with Paul, you will have experienced his professionalism, his dry sense of humour and his dedication to his craft.
He will be sorely missed by all of his colleagues at BM3. He was a great man, a great architect and, most importantly, a great friend. Our love and thoughts are with his wife Becky and two sons Jacob and Archie.
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Jessica Humphrey has been promoted to an Associate!
BM3 are delighted to announce that Jessica Humphrey has been promoted to an Associate! Jessica recently oversaw the completion of the first phase at the Westbury estate re-development in Lambeth, London, providing 64 new homes and is currently leading on a large mixed use re-development in Poplar, London comprising 530 homes and commercial space.
Having completed ARB/RIBA chartership with BM3 in 2019, Jessica takes pride in mentoring other members of the BM3 team through their journey to becoming qualified Architects. In 2019 Jessica lead BM3’s submission to the gingerbread City. Outside of work Jessica is a keen DJ and enjoys coding.
We’d like to congratulate Jessica in her new role and look forward to sharing in her continued success.
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Ian Foden retires
We say a fond farewell to Ian Foden, Architect, Director, Dedicated Team Leader who has hung up his pencil after 33 years’ with the business, something we are very proud of.
Ian became a Director in 1993 and we would like to thank him for his commitment to providing an excellent service to our clients and for passing his knowledge on through mentoring apprentices and upskilling our teams.
Last Friday our Birmingham and London colleagues re-united to celebrate the upcoming retirement and to say au revoir to a leader who has been with BM3 every step of the way as we’ve grown. We wish him all the very best for the future, he’ll be greatly missed by us all!
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At the forefront of BM3’s retrofit offering, Energy Assessor, Dave Moses
The Government has set a target for the UK to reach net zero in carbon emissions by 2050 and has already identified that improvements to existing homes are required in order to achieve this.
At the forefront of BM3’s retrofit offering, Energy Assessor, Dave Moses can guide you through how the process works and the quality standards that should be met when carrying these works.
As an approved retrofit professional and DEA accredited, Dave is committed to high standards of technical competence offering sustainable energy efficiency solutions to create more comfortable and healthier homes and places.
We believe in working towards a sustainable future, read more about our Energy Assessment services here: https://www.bm3.co.uk/services/energy-assessment/
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Planning Permission granted for 135 new homes in Shrewsbury
We are delighted to announce that the London Road Innovation Housing scheme has received planning approval, by unanimous vote. 135 new homes, all will be fully electric and will benefit from increased insulation, sustainable and smart technologies including PV panels, air source heat pumps and smart heating devices. The development will benefit from green spaces, play spaces and public open spaces, we are excited to see the project’s progress!
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Announcing our charity partnership
We are delighted to announce our partnership for 2022 with Blood Cancer UK to help them in their mission to support anyone affected by blood cancer. BM3 look forward to a successful year of raising awareness and funds for this wonderful charity and to kick things off we’re taking part in Walk of Light.
Blood Cancer UK are a community dedicated to beating blood cancer by funding research and supporting those affected. Since 1960, they've invested over £500 million in blood cancer research, transforming treatments and saving lives.
For more information and to become involved visit: https://lnkd.in/eAMmu3E
Our fundraising page: https://lnkd.in/dsyaPi5K
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BM3 makes three new promotions
We’re delighted to announce recent promotions of Jeremy Haughton, Michele Wright and Eleni Kantidaki to Associates.
Jeremy joined BM3 in 2018 to help establish a Planning Consultancy offer to add to our growing multi-disciplinary services provided to our clients. Jeremy has been instrumental in the growth of this department with new and existing clients.
Eleni joined in 2016 and has very much developed and shaped the marketing role at BM3. She is responsible for all marketing output, strategy, social media and manages BM3’s bid and tender processes, ultimately supporting the company’s continued growth.
Michele with over 20 years’ experience has worked to further develop the Principal Designer side of the practice which is going from strength to strength with a growing client base. We look forward to sharing in their continued success, a very well-deserved promotion for all – congratulations!
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Planning Permission granted for 130 apartments in Walsall
Excellent result for our client PJK Developments (Walsall) Ltd at Walsall's Planning Committee last Thursday. Members agreed with our argument that the office allocation, dating back to 2012, had no reasonable prospect of coming forward and that applications for alternative uses on the land should be supported, where the proposed use would contribute to meeting an unmet need for development in the area (NPPF: paragraph 120).
The proposal comprises 130 apartments on the former Police Station site on Green Lane, while approximately half of the flats will be for those aged over 55. Residents will have access to the lounge and beautiful communal garden courtyard designed by our in-house Landscape Architects. The scheme promotes sustainable transport and a healthy lifestyle with the provision of generous cycle parking in addition to car parking.
BM3 provided Architecture, Planning, CGI and Landscape services, we’re excited to see the project progress!