WALKER MARE

The long and considerable experience of the partners means that the firm has been exposed to a variety of different areas: Architectural - Large and small scale office and shopping complexes (including refurbishments), factories and warehouses, mine buildings, all types of residential accommodation, university campuses and buildings, municipal buildings, government and quasi-govemment buildings, educational buildings, homes for the aged and for disabled children, low cost housing, town centres and pedestrian malls. Low cost housing - Affordability studies, developing innovative contract and tendering procedures to solve the particular problems related to this kind of work. Urban design - The partners have acquired significant experience in projects on an urban scale. Innovative  

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approaches to this type of work have enabled the firm to be a member of the winning team for a major Urban Design Competition. The partnership's expertise enables them to render special services such as: Cost and value modelling. A computer aided approach that provides "what if" information for designers before they put pen to paper. Quickly and reliably this approach highlights directions to explore for a design that will satisfy important financial parameters to improve the viability of the scheme. In addition, the practice has software available for property evaluation, viability studies and notional estimating, the development of design briefs and several other client and profession related requirements.