Process

Design Development & Planning

Once the concept and overall vision is created, we apply this to carefully thought-out space planning during RIBA stage 2 to ensure that the design meets the client’s needs and requirements.

After a measured survey is undertaken, we continue to develop the design through RIBA stage 3 so that additional detail is included upon the drawings with the production of accompanying design documents to form a comprehensive planning or listed building submission.

We work with many councils and usually open a dialogue with the local authority before an application is submitted, so that the proposed scheme stands the best chance of success.

Concept & Brief

We start by establishing the brief at RIBA stage 0 & 1; testing several initial conceptual ideas to shape a space or architectural form through artistic imagery and visualisation.

We continue moulding the aesthetic with the introduction of material palettes, whilst ensuring that the project is to be functional and considered in line with budget constraints.

Detailed Design

Following the planning stages, the journey progresses into the technical design stages of RIBA stage 4, where we collaborate with the other necessary design team members and external suppliers.

We work closely with our trusted structural and services consultants to ensure the design is fully coordinated, producing a robust set of technical drawings, details, and specifications.

This allows us to receive accurately priced tender returns from prospective builders and subsequently progress the technical design information into a final RIBA stage 5 construction package.

Construction

Quality control is paramount to a successful delivery of the proposed scheme.

Thomas Alexander has strong relations with several trustworthy and reliable contractors that enables efficient solutions and smooth running of our projects on site.

Project Completion

We support our clients through the hand over and project completion, ensuring that the final finish is exceptional, and ready to be used as a home.

Tom and his colleagues are always a pleasure to work with and the level of care and attention in their work is always impressive. On numerous projects I found them to be easy to work with and pro-active. I would highly recommend them.

Thomas Alexander have a real passion for every project they undertake. We have worked with them on a few projects and have been impressed by their unwavering desire to achieve the right design for their client. Their non fussy approach, flexible style and excellent attention to detail lead to high quality outputs. I hope to work with them on many more projects in the future!

Tom’s enthusiasm at our first meeting that made us choose him for our project. Thomas Alexander took the ideas that had been in my wife’s mind for a couple of years, and turned them into a design concept. From visualisations to drawings and through-out the build, Tom was on hand to guide us through the process. Tom is highly creative, very professional and full of ideas that resolve those inevitable challenges that occur on the journey. We would certainly recommend him for your project. We started out doing a build, now we have a fabulous home and furthermore, we live in a piece of architecture.

We have used Thomas Alexander on numerous Interior Refurbishment Contracts and he is always professional in his approach and flexible with the client brief coming up with a range of ideas and options to consider. Dealing with Tom is always very easy and he is very responsive and pulls out all the stops to meet project deadlines.

Thomas Alexander have been great to work with on the refurbishment of my home - full of ideas, good at tailoring these to what I had in mind and very easy to get on with. They've also looked after the property during the building work which has been invaluable, and I was comfortable that any issues that arose along the way were dealt with efficiently.

Awards

2021 National Brick Awards – Small Housing Shortlist

Build Magazine – Leading Architecture Practice 2020 & 2021

Best of Houzz – Design – 2020 to 2023

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