Audley English MBE

London Build 2026, under the theme ‘Building Better Together’, provides an opportunity to hear differing approaches to delivery and collaboration. As an architect with over four decades of experience in off-site construction, I have provided a London Local Authority client with a one-stop delivery solution from inception to handover. I designed the scheme, project-managed and delivered a pioneering future-proofed social housing project using semi-skilled labour and a kit-of-parts approach, achieving a Passivhaus-standard building envelope. Handed over in 2020, the project has remained defect-free to date. The project was part-funded by the GLA. I acted as both Principal Designer and Principal Contractor on this former brownfield garage site, which achieved planning approval within eight weeks. With first-wave funding supporting the delivery of 73,600 homes outside London, alongside a London housing requirement of 88,000 homes annually and a strategic target of 50% genuinely affordable