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Living Spaces

Creating living spaces for the future. We deliver innovative, sustainable solutions, driven by a desire to create better places in which people and communities can thrive.

We help you deliver exceptional homes in connected, sustainable, safe and accessible neighbourhoods. We continuously develop and innovate so that every design we prepare responds to the challenges of the climate emergency, whilst fulfilling our social responsibility to deliver living spaces that meet the needs of diverse communities.

We find the best engineering solutions for any project, from refurbishments, extensions, remodelling and retrofits through to new builds and new towns. Our experience spans all residential types, from affordable and keyworker housing through to luxury dwellings, retirement living, care sector, and student accommodation.

Encompassing all elements of Building Services, Structural, Civil and Environmental design, our multidiscipline capability ensures that we meet all project engineering demands. We understand that the success of a residential scheme relies upon its connectivity with existing transport and utility networks, amenities and neighbourhoods.

Find an Expert

We continually strive to be progressive in our thinking and approach. We work with design teams to conceive solutions that respond to the changing needs of our clients, their customers and their markets, and we offer expertise that pushes the boundaries to deliver best in class developments.

Futureproofing is an essential part of our approach, and our agile design solutions embed climate resilience throughout, ensuring our developments continually adapt to the changing world. Our multidiscipline teams take a holistic approach to designing sustainable low carbon and Net Zero solutions, considering the project’s whole life carbon cycle, circular economy and operational carbon emissions. Our sustainability team works alongside our engineers to guide the design process and to set the roadmap for achieving your sustainability goals and targets.

Expert View: Creating living spaces for the future

Waterman’s Richard Whitehead, Managing Director of Structures, and Ruth Bateman, Principal Public Health Engineer, discuss how residential design is shifting to reflect the economic and social climate, whilst delivering highly sustainable, well-connected communities where people thrive. They also explore how our team is embedding climate resilience into residential designs by harnessing fabric-first strategies to help reduce material use and drive down whole-life carbon emissions.

 

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“We’ve been thrilled with Waterman’s proactive approach to the delivery of Friary Court. This answer to slashing the carbon footprint of our development.”

Lee Saywack,
Executive Director, Dominus Group

Student Living

Expert view: Designing a sustainable future for student living

Jonathan Purcell, Waterman’s Managing Director for Building Services – North, gives his insight into how our designs are unlocking the potential of student living schemes to deliver highly sustainable, lifestyle-focused facilities where people thrive. He outlines the innovative systems we’re utilising to drive down energy consumption, and sheds-light on how today’s amenity-rich student living buildings provide much more than just accommodation.

 

Chimes

Chimes is a newly built, luxury retirement living scheme in London’s Westminster, arranged around a landscaped courtyard and colonnade. Working alongside the architect, our design incorporates 100% renewable energy heating and hot water solutions, delivering a truly sustainable development.

Anstey’s Road

This 2.3 ha former manufacturing site in Hanham, on the eastern side of Bristol, will be transformed into a residential-led mixed use development.

Brentford Kew Bridge

Spread between seven buildings and three separately serviced sites incorporating residential and retail units, car parking facilities, concierge areas, amenity areas, and dedicated heating energy centres. A 25% improvement under SAP 2009 for the Code for Sustainable Homes.

Blindwells

The Blindwells project will deliver 1600 new homes just north of Tranent in East Lothian. In addition, the new neighbourhood will feature a new school campus along with playing fields, commercial units and business premises

Our Residential Experts

Richard Whitehead

Richard Whitehead
Managing Director,
Structures

Richard is a Chartered Civil Engineer with extensive experience of commercial, residential and retail sector building construction. He has been with Waterman for over 25 years. Richard became Managing Director of Waterman Structures in 2020.

He brings a breadth of experience in a variety of residential, retail and commercial schemes, including new – build, refurbishment and fit – out. He has a strong practical and technical background and delivers sustainable structural solutions with a particular emphasis on low carbon design.

Richard is experienced in co – ordinating and understanding the needs of multidisciplinary teams and has held a project lead role for a number of major schemes including Jersey International Finance Centre, 8 Moorgate, The Marq and The Avenue.

He is passionate about mentoring young professionals in their careers and has taken a lead role in Waterman’s scholarship and intern programme.

Jonathan Purcell

Jonathan Purcell
Managing Director,
Building Services
North

A Chartered Building Services Engineer with over 30 years’ design experience across a wide variety of sectors, Jonathan is Managing Director responsible the North. His extensive knowledge and experience allow him to simplify and streamline designs, avoiding overly complex strategies and ensuring deliverable solutions that bring best value. Jonathan is passionate about design and believes in developing strategies that holistically consider and adopt the principles of wellbeing and sustainability. His in – depth expertise in dynamic thermal and energy modelling have seen him deliver excellent solutions across multiple sectors of the built environment.

Jonathan has successfully managed the design of several prestigious new build and refurbishment schemes, including Liverpool’s award – winning Everyman Theatre which won the RIBA Stirling Prize and CIBSE Performance Champion Award.

He also designed Nottingham Trent University’s world – beating creative learning facility, the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies.

Lara Knapman
Technical Director and
National EIA Lead

Featured Projects

Anstey’s Road

This 2.3 ha former manufacturing site in Hanham, on the eastern side of Bristol, will be transformed into a residential-led mixed use development.
Artisan

Artisan Heights

The new 603-room development at Artisan Heights offers students a stunning range of facilities within walking distance of Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester.
Brentford Kew Bridge

Brentford Kew Bridge

Spread between seven buildings and three separately serviced sites incorporating residential and retail units, car parking facilities, concierge areas, amenity areas, and dedicated heating energy centres. A 25% improvement under SAP 2009 for the Code for Sustainable Homes.
Brueacre Village

Brueacre Village

The substantial redevelopment will transform the former Inverkip power station site, creating 650 new homes, retail space and several community facilities.
Chimes Westminster

Chimes

Chimes is a newly built, luxury retirement living scheme in London’s Westminster, arranged around a landscaped courtyard and colonnade. Working alongside the architect, our design incorporates 100% renewable energy heating and hot water solutions, delivering a truly sustainable development.
Clarges Mayfair 2

Clarges Mayfair

BREEAM accreditations for Clarges include an ‘Outstanding’ rating for the office use and ‘Excellent’ for the Kennel Club, with residential apartments a Level 4 Code for Sustainable Homes rating.
Graven Hill

Graven Hill

Graven Hill is a unique 187 ha development located just to the south of Bicester, Oxfordshire, and will become the UK’s largest self-build housing scheme. Outline planning is in place for up to 1,900 new self-build homes, along with a new village centre with local amenities and employment space

Horizon, Jersey

Nine Elms

Nine Elms Parkside

The major Nine Elms development spans 227 hectares across London’s Southbank and is the largest regeneration zone in Central London. Characterised by striking modern architecture and spectacular views of the Thames, the site comprises 1,870 homes and commercial spaces, including shopping, a five-star hotel, parks and walkways for the public to enjoy
Oval Village - Planning awards

Planning Awards: Oval Village

The regeneration of The Oval Gas Works and Kennington Lane will create a community of over 1,300 one, two and three-bedroom homes with over a thousand job opportunities and apprenticeships.
Royal Arsenal

Revolutionising the Royal Arsenal Riverside

With a rich history dating back to the 16th century, the Royal Arsenal Riverside has been given a new lease of life as one of the biggest regeneration projects in Europe.
Two Fifty One

Two Fifty One

As Europe’s tallest pre-cast building, Two Fifty One forms an integral part of the on-going regeneration of the Elephant & Castle area. The tower’s amenities include 24-hour concierge, Wi-Fi lounge, cinema club, health and spa club, entertaining space, cafes and bars, as well as fully glazed winter gardens.

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