Triangle is a firm of Chartered Architects, founded in 1986 by the current Principals, both of whom studied at Manchester University and gained membership of the RIBA in the early 1970's. The practice has since grown steadily and sustainably and now consists of fifteen professional staff, comprising the two Directors, one Associate Director, three Associates and nine other Architectural staff. We also have qualifications in Urban Design and Project Management and are supported by a full time Practice Manager and a secretary together with additional part time specialist staff and an associated practice of Building Surveyors.

The major part of the Practice workload is now in large scale urban regeneration residential projects for Registered Social Landlords and more recently private developers. These urban regeneration projects often involve complex public-private partnership arrangements including several Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder projects.

Our work has always involved a varying proportion of both new build and refurbishment schemes, but consists predominantly of a very wide range of new build housing schemes for a variety of clients. Our refurbishment work includes a number of restoration and/or alterations to listed buildings and other conservation projects. The current workload ranges from one-off restoration projects, through large scale new build and refurbishment schemes, including housing for older people, to major urban renewal and masterplanning projects.

Our private sector workload has, over recent years, also increased in scope and ranges now from one-off houses, through city and town centre flats and apartments to residential developments for major, private sector developers in the family housing, elderly persons and retirement homes markets.

Over the last few years we have also gained a great deal of experience working on unusual and innovative projects, increasingly involving a complex mix of building types and funding sources, as well as a diverse range of user requirements. These range, for example, from a Community use building mixing highly specialist day-care environments with every-day facilities for the general public to the integration of diverse health-care provisions in a new build complex with associated apartments.

We are fully aware of and experienced in the need to access support and funding for mixed use environments from an increasingly wide range of public and private sector sources, using every aspect of the buildings we design or restore to reinforce their opportunities for long term sustainability and viability.

The practice and its Directors also have a long history of working with "non-professional" and bespoke clients. That is, individuals and, more usually, groups who have either little or no previous experience of commissioning the design and construction of building projects or who are developing a new brief for a new type of building or land-use. Over many years of working with such client bodies we have recognised the absolute importance of widespread consultation, systematic analysis and careful research before any design work is begun or finalised. Those procedures have become extremely valuable in our increasing involvement in urban renewal and masterplanning projects.

We are committed to promoting sustainable design and are experienced in designing for low energy, EcoHomes Very Good and Excellent standards and renewable energy. We are members of the Green Register of Construction Professionals and the Association for Environmentally Conscious Building.

While the size and complexity of projects has grown with the size of the practice we have always maintained our commitment to working within budgets and to demanding time scales, as our clients have consistently expected.

Our approach to all design work in the practice is always to try to provide a bespoke solution that meets our clients' real needs, not a pre-conceived response to a half - understood problem.