Expertise

Kal is an experienced chartered architect and RIBA Conservation Architect with three decades of experience in the property and construction industry. She is highly skilled at all RIBA work stages: feasibility studies through to planning, tender and construction stages and technical design.

Kal always strives for the highest quality in design standards and customer service.

Additionally, Kal enjoys motivating the next generation of designers through mentoring and outreach work (all ages); from having work experience students in the office to giving a lecture at the local school of architecture.

She is an all-round people person and loves supporting worthy causes; in particular eradicating homelessness and food poverty.

How do you help clients?

I really enjoy the diverse range of clients we work with from individual private clients to boards and larger organisations. With each client I clearly define three things at the start of any project (regardless of size):

  • What do you want to achieve? i.e. the brief
  • How much do you want to spend/ have to spend? i.e. the budget
  • How soon do you want to achieve your brief? i.e. the programme

Throughout all RIBA Plan of Work stages we keep an eye on these three things, particularly at the key milestones of planning, tender and construction/ handover.

We have started to assist clients with obtaining funding and it goes without saying that we can creatively solve most problems for our clients with our combined design and technical skills as well as access to the wide range of additional services through our property platform.

Working collaboratively and creatively is what I enjoy most in offering our service to our clients.

Experience

  1. Gaining favourable pre-app outcomes, planning and listed building consents.
  2. Obtaining statutory consents such as Building Regulations Approval.
  3. Obtaining feasible tenders for clients and guiding them through the selection process.
  4. Undertaken contract administration during RIBA stage 5 through to practical completion.
  5. Always being there for our clients during and after projects to support them.