People

Craig Cullimore

As our chair, Craig’s role focuses on the strategic direction and management of the practice. Alongside this, he continues his involvement in projects through leading design reviews and his role as an accredited RIBA Client Adviser.

Craig is particularly interested in the outcomes a project can achieve. By measuring key sustainability, belonging and engagement factors, he makes sure that we deliver aspirational projects which provide clients and communities with real value.

Outside of ADP, Craig is a member of the Construction Excellence Committee, coaches children’s rugby, and (when time permits) is also refurbishing his family home.

Simon Beaumont-Orr

Simon is an associate director, and a member of ADP’s sustainability group. He has a wealth of experience across the education, commercial and residential sectors.

Simon’s key interests include addressing the issues of climate change by focusing on the critical performance of buildings. He also enjoys the technical aspects of design, and the challenge of seeing early architectural concepts through to their realisation on site.

Outside of work, Simon likes to practise what he preaches – from building bikes out of bamboo to castles out of cardboard (with his son)!

Helen O’Curry

Helen leads our successful Manchester studio team.

Through consultation and attention, she delivers designs for the people who live, work, play and study in our buildings. This approach was brought to the RIBA National Award-winning Laidlaw Library at the University of Leeds.

Helen spends time mentoring and supporting others in achieving their potential, and is a member of Women in Property.

She also has an acute interest in how we can all deliver on the country’s carbon-zero aspiration, and is working with the practice to move this forward.

Outside of work, and around raising a family, Helen rides bikes and runs in her local Peak District hills.

David Heslop

In recognition of his contribution and influence on the practice, David is the first Fellow of ADP which, whilst carrying no commitment or responsibility, will allow him to continue to offer the value of substantial experience to the practice.

Stephen Miles

Stephen is ADP’s managing director. He leads the global business plan and operational management of the practice on behalf of the board. His practice-wide role involves supporting public sector and commercial projects, as well as business development and client liaison. He has significant experience in a range of sectors – particularly the education and residential sectors.

Stephen is a Fellow of the RIAS, and a nationally elected trustee of the incorporation. He is also one of the 25 accredited sustainable design architects in Scotland recognised by the RIAS.

Stephen enjoys spending time with his family and friends, and keeping fit. He can often be found on the tennis courts or golf course.

Andy Nock

As a project architect, Andy is involved at all stages of a project, taking a lead after the client engagement stage.

Andy has experience in a number of sectors, but is particularly passionate about healthcare work. He enjoys the technicalities involved, and the detailed collaboration with other design team members that this brings.

Andy was the project architect on a combined student residential and teaching block project at Newman University, which won “Building Project of the Year” at the Celebrating Construction Awards.

Outside of work, Andy enjoys fitness training, and has a keen interest in sports and photography. His love of rugby has taken him as far as Sydney to watch the State of Origin series.

Jessica Morrison

Jessica has successfully supported our teams on a number of education, commercial and residential projects, as well as several masterplans.

She is a team player with excellent conceptual and visualisation skills, including freehand sketching and computer-aided modelling and rendering. She also has excellent proficiency in ArchiCAD, SketchUp, Revit, and model-making, and is one of our BIM Revit Superusers.

Ellie Betham

Ellie is an architect who 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.

Outside of ADP, Ellie enjoys gardening and playing for her local hockey team.

Naomi Simon

Naomi works closely with our marketing and bids team, bringing 20 years’ experience of marketing and graphic design.

She supports directors, sector specialists and the marketing team in the creation of bespoke bid submissions, and on a wide range of graphic design tasks. Naomi’s role also involves the administration and running of our busy Sherborne studio.

When not working or juggling a busy family life, she loves all things design, including graphic design, sculpting cakes and interior design. She also enjoys cooking, spending time in the country and going on coastal walks.

Ben Russell

Ben is an architect with a focus on quality and materiality. He is experienced across a diverse range of building types, and enjoys all aspects of designing and delivering architecture. He has a key focus on creating architecture which has a sense of playfulness, responds intelligently to the environment, and dissolves the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces.

In a world increasingly dominated by technology, Ben loves making by hand, and can often be found in his workshop creating something out of concrete or wood. He brings this appreciation of material quality, craftsmanship and handmade objects to his work in the practice.

Tom White

Tom is a bid and marketing executive. He supports the marketing team in winning work for the practice, from finding new opportunities to managing bids. He also runs our social media accounts.

As an English Literature graduate and former copywriter, Tom brings strong writing skills to the team, and helps guide our tone of voice. He loves getting his teeth into a complex bid, and reading between the lines to understand a potential client’s needs.

Outside of work, he splits his time between running along Manchester’s many canals, reviewing punk gigs, and working on a dystopian novel.

Tracey Thomas

Tracey works as part of ADP’s EMS team, and is a qualified BREEAM Assessor and BREEAM Advisory Professional. Her role involves liaising with the design team, collating information for BREEAM reports, and carrying out BREEAM assessments.

Tracey has worked on a varied range of education and healthcare projects, as well as other diverse building types. She has been involved in the Elmsbrook Local Centre, which is an exciting zero-carbon development; she has also helped with the development of a Scheduled Monument at Fort Bovisand, providing conservation advice to the team.

Outside of ADP, she aspires to complete her fiftieth parkrun this year.

Sandra Janik

As one of our Part I architectural assistants, Sandra supports our architects in delivering high-quality, successful projects. She has a particular interest in the role of architecture in bringing communities together, and has explored architecture along the Irish border as part of her studies.

Sandra is passionate about sustainable design – not only in the built environment, but also in manufacturing and fashion. She was awarded the Bank of Ireland Glamour Prize for designing a sustainable couture piece displayed at the Festival de Cannes. In her free time Sandra is a weightlifter and boxer, and is currently training for an Ultra White Collar Boxing charity fight for Cancer Research.

Joe Morgan

Joe is our creative director with responsibility for design quality across the practice, covering sustainability, technical and quality management.

He has 20 years’ experience across a wide range of sectors, including workplace, education, research, healthcare and leisure. He has led a number of award-winning schemes, winning a national RIBA award, and has delivered significant masterplans.

Joe is a Civic Trust assessor and schools technical advisor, regularly contributing to education sector conferences.

Outside of work he enjoys rugby league and exploring the Lake District with his family. A keen runner, he aspires to run a sub-three-hour marathon – no harm in being ambitious!

Surabhi Kushwaha

Surabhi is a project architect, with strong experience and a keen eye for detail. Her role involves delivering high-quality buildings, working with the other architects on our teams, and making sure that projects run smoothly and successfully.

A practical thinker, Surabhi likes to begin with high-level concepts before working in more and more detail. She is a powerful communicator, with a soft yet firm style. Surabhi spends much of her free time reading, sketching and doodling to bring her ideas to life.

Alina Klukowski

Alina is one of our architectural assistants. Her role involves supporting the architectural team, while listening and learning as much as possible as she works towards becoming a qualified architect.

Her diverse experience ranges from garden landscape projects to hospitals and national infrastructure. She is a keen model-maker, and loves developing varied skills that support her architectural practice. Outside of work, Alina runs, hikes, and tries to keep her home-grown vegetables alive.

Claire Mantle

As ADP’s school sector lead, Claire leads the practice’s school strategy. She shares lessons learned, best practice and specialist knowledge across our studios and the sector more widely.

Claire believes that the only way to create responsive, inspiring learning environments is to put pupils at the centre of the design process, consulting closely with user working groups to understand staff requirements.

This year, she has been working to incorporate ‘design for wellbeing’ into all of our school briefs and designs, using an evidence-based approach. She is also leading post occupancy evaluations of our schools to appraise their performance and gain feedback from pupils and staff.