People

Louis Stocks

Since joining ADP, Louis has supported the interior schemes for a variety of projects. He mainly works within the healthcare and education sectors.

As an accomplished interior designer, Louis has supported Katie in delivering several award-winning projects, including the Stokes Centre for Urology at Royal Surrey County Hospital.

In his spare time, Louis still harbours a desire to graduate one day from his current role as a bedroom DJ.

Phil Sawyer

Phil is our IT director, responsible for delivering our IT and BIM strategies. He supports our business processes and manages our IT outsourcing relationships, including our Citrix, collaboration and communication technologies.

As a BRE BIM accredited member, Phil is responsible for developing and implementing our BIM standards, ensuring we have the appropriate BIM authoring tools, templates and training. Under his guidance our practice has achieved BIM Level 2 maturity.

Outside of work, Phil aspires to play paradiddles as sharply as Taylor Hawkins, his drumming hero.

Karen Turnbull

Karen is the practice’s sustainability leader. She has worked on a range of projects in the healthcare, commercial and education sectors.

Karen leads a team of sustainability champions spread across every studio. She is a BREEAM Assessor and BREEAM Advisory Professional, and has also undertaken Passivhaus consultancy training. Karen supports staff in developing sustainability strategies on projects to enhance their environmental performance, covering low-energy strategies, ecological improvement, and health and wellbeing.

Karen is also involved in developing the role of additional software tools in optimising passive design performance. This includes using tools such as Autodesk Insight, and bespoke tools for daylighting and natural ventilation.

Eishan Jain

Eishan is a confident and pragmatic associate director with commendable leadership skills. He takes a simple approach to design, making it easy for his colleagues and clients to understand the complexities of the various design processes.

Eishan takes pride in ensuring that our design solutions are innovative, functional and aesthetically pleasing. His key works include projects in the education, commercial, residential and hospitality sectors. Eishan’s thoughts and views are well respected by his colleagues and clients.

A competitive sportsman at heart, Eishan is always game to try new things – be it a new book, alternative cinema, or adventure sport.

Carmen Montes

Carmen is our APMP-qualified bid executive. She is experienced in managing complex multi-disciplinary proposals, supporting directors and a variety of stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of bids. She is also responsible for managing and maintaining ADP’s bid knowledge database, and for project managing the practice’s award submissions.

Outside work she aspires to be a quantum consciousness researcher.

Katie Thompson

Katie is our senior interior designer, and works on projects across the practice. She manages our interior design team, which is commissioned for standalone interiors appointments, as well as working as an integral part of our architectural teams.

Katie’s strengths lie in developing interior concepts, space planning, colour schemes, finishes and furniture packages. She always ensures that our interior schemes are fully aligned with the architecture.

Her designs can be seen in projects such as Spanish City, which received an international FX Award.

Katie is an aspiring artist in her spare time, and recently came second in the ADP Art Challenge.

Alex Proctor

Alex is an associate director, and has acquired a vast amount of experience across multiple sectors since joining the practice as a Part II assistant.

During his time at ADP, Alex has delivered innovative learning environments for a number of education projects. He particularly enjoys the engagement process and presenting initial concept ideas to a range of stakeholders.

Alex also plays a key role in our BIM task group, which drives innovation through BIM across the practice. He has delivered a number of BIM Level 2 projects, developing proactive working relationships with design teams and contractors as a result.

Arvind Bawari

Arvind is an accomplished architect with good site experience. He uses his expertise to ensure his projects are well managed.

Arvind was born and brought up in the eastern part of India, and has spent a lot of time being close to nature. He therefore has good experience of hill architecture and using local sustainable materials. He has mainly worked within the commercial, residential and public sectors.

When Arvind manages to escape his computer screen he enjoys sightseeing and cycling in the hills.

Alex Macbeth

Alex is a recently qualified architect who has supported our teams in a number of education and healthcare projects.

He has particular experience of design development support and technical design packages. Alex has been involved in projects for the Universities of Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Oxford, as well as supporting the delivery of projects for the Star Academies trust.

Alex is very proficient in Revit and CAD software, and is continuing to develop the BIM experience of the practice.

Outside of work, Alex enjoys going to gigs, and was a recent finalist in the ADP Art Challenge.

Wayne Dobbins

As a studio director, Wayne is primarily responsible for managing the Oxford studio. He is also involved in the continuous development of the practice BIM strategy and our integrated design joint venture, Corde, as well as being a lead support for our India studio. Wayne’s key strengths are in the education and community sectors, and his expertise ranges from developing school briefs through to managing higher education frameworks.

Outside of work, Wayne is a school governor, captains a squash team, and occasionally shows glimpses of his former county-standard golfing. He juggles these with being a father of two amazing daughters while building a new house with SIPs.

Jon Roylance

Jon leads our higher education and science and research sectors.

He has advised 30+ university clients, delivering sector-leading facilities. His projects have won awards including the Guardian Higher Education “Facility of the Year”, the CUBO “Student Project of the Year”, S-Lab, SCONUL University Library of the Year, the Higher Education Academy, and several RIBA awards.

Jon promotes knowledge share amongst universities, science and research institutions, and our own technical teams. Jon’s role involves chairing best practice groups, and offering new ideas in space optimisation, project social values, teaching and learning environments, sustainability and wellbeing, student experience, and the smart campus of the future.

Manbir Kaur

Manbir graduated from Edinburgh University with a Master of Architecture. Her thesis explored ‘Market’ as an urban catalysts, responding to the morphological, social, perceptual and temporal conditions of the city.

In 2015 she was shortlisted for the RIBA President’s Medals Bronze Award, an international award which celebrates outstanding design work at Part I and Part II stages of architectural education.

Having joined the practice shortly after graduating, Manbir has worked on projects in a range of sectors, with a particular focus on healthcare and mixed-use schemes. She is currently undertaking her postgraduate diploma in architectural practice (RIBA Part III).

Graham McRuvie

Graham joined ADP with experience of healthcare, residential, community, railway, MoD and commercial projects. He has used this cross-sector experience to deliver a range of prestigious developments.

Graham now leads the Sherborne studio as studio director, and is the framework lead for a number of higher education clients. His key projects include the School of Humanities for the University of Bristol and a major £21m coastal regeneration project.

Graham is a passionate advocate of freehand drawing, but has also used computer 3D modelling for over 30 years – predating BIM!

Away from the studio Graham is a keen motorcyclist and sea kayaker (though usually not at the same time).

Akash Kumar

Akash is a very able office manager. He is responsible for organising bills and filing, answering all telephone calls, receiving guests and vendors, office correspondence, cataloguing and documentation for statutory compliances.

He provides immense support to the administrative responsibilities of the associate directors and director.

Akash is an ardent cricket fan, and loves to swing some of his medium pacers when given an opportunity.

Ellie Betham

Ellie is a part II architectural assistant, and has worked on a number of projects – mainly within the healthcare sector. She joined ADP after receiving her Part II qualification at the Centre for Alternative Technology, where she developed her knowledge and passion for sustainable architecture.

As an employee representative for her studio, Ellie takes an active role in ADP’s Employee Ownership Council.

Outside of ADP and in between studying for her Part III qualification, Ellie enjoys gardening and playing for her local hockey team.

Chris Thornton

Chris leads our healthcare sector work. He has completed over 130 projects for Macmillan Cancer Support, and built many strong relationships with public and private healthcare providers across the country.

His understanding of patient needs and the clinical challenges that face many healthcare institutions is extensive. As a result, Chris is an important practice-wide resource for furthering our work in the healthcare sector. He is on the executive board for Architects for Health and is an active member of IHEEM and the DiMH network, often participating in speaking slots at conferences.

The majority of his healthcare work has involved remodelling projects with technically demanding requirements, while maintaining a strong patient focus.

Adrian Bower

Adrian leads our residential sector, bringing 20 years of experience within this field. He has developed significant expertise in the masterplanning, planning and building of new communities and relishes the challenges of mixed use, urban regeneration projects.

Prior to ADP, Adrian had long-term involvement in a number of major regeneration projects including Kidbrooke Village and Goodman’s Fields with Berkeley Homes, East Village and Fitzroy Place.

He has worked with private clients, local authorities and registered social landlords across a range of scales, to plan and deliver all types and tenures of housing, including market, affordable, build to rent, student housing and hotels.

Adrian has detailed knowledge of residential planning requirements and leads negotiations with client bodies, planning authorities and community interests, achieving commendable results in sensitive environments.

Amy Brazenall

Amy has worked on a variety of projects in the residential, commercial and healthcare sectors, with a focus on higher education schemes. Her experience covers the successful delivery of new build, refurbishment, spatial rationalisation, learning, social and workplace projects for a number of universities.

Amy particularly enjoys the stakeholder engagement process, developing an in-depth understanding of the client’s needs and challenging perceptions.

Her strengths lie in the visual communication of ideas during the design process, and in building relationships with the client and project teams.

Ranjan Ray

Ranjan doesn’t take anything for granted – he researches every element of a project down to the last detail. Sustainability and “doing the right thing in the right way” are of utmost importance, and he believes that there is no greater motivation than a commitment made. As director, Ranjan runs our Delhi studio with zeal and determination. These qualities are recognised and appreciated by his colleagues, clients and consultants, helping him to develop strong professional relationships.

Ranjan likes to unwind by cooking, and he enjoys putting his amateur chef skills to test by experimenting with unconventional food.