Welcome to our new starters!
8 November 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Hannah Mcilrath, Mark Tobin, and Emma Gibbard. Hannah joined our London office as an Office Administrator. She has previous experience in the finance and construction industries. Mark who joined our Bristol office as a Graduate Sustainability Engineer. Mark has a 1st class BEng (Hons) in Architectural Engineering from the University of Leeds. Emma joined our Oxford office as an Office Administrator. She has a wealth of experience in many sectors including finance, automotive, and aerospace.
A warm welcome to our new starters!
13 October 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Katie Clemence-Jackson and Stan Bannister who have joined our London office, and Emma Mathias-Jones and Nathan Kelly who have joined our Bristol office. Katie has joined as an Associate with many years’ experience of planning and delivering sustainable outcomes for built environment projects. Katie is chair of CIBSE’s Technology Committee, is QODA’s ESG champion, and has a wealth of experience supporting equality and diversity. Stan has joined as a Graduate Mechanical Engineer. Stan came through our graduate recruit...
Cunnington Clark Joins QODA
5 October 2022
We are pleased to announce that Cunnington Clark has recently joined QODA Consulting. The team will become QODA’s new Peterborough office. Cunnington Clark is a well-established and respected building services engineering practice, providing mechanical, electrical, and public health design services. The team bring with them diverse experience from many sectors, several chartered engineers, and low carbon energy assessors. Their approach focusses on excellent design quality, innovation, consistency, and added value aligning with QODA’s core values. The integration of the Cunnin...
Oxford Property Award Winner!
22 September 2022
We are delighted to hear the fantastic news that The Bee House at 140 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park has won the Best Commercial Development at the Oxford Property Awards. The Bee House is a state of the art flexible workspace which provides an inspiring and exciting work and social hub. The project reinvented the existing building to enhance its operational efficiency, boost its presence on the Park and give it a new lease of life all while keeping flexibility, innovation and sustainability at its core. Congratulations to the whole team! Read more about the project here....
A warm welcome to our new starters!
22 September 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Jose Marquez Polo who joins our Bristol office, Stan Bannister who joins our London office, Joshua Harbord who joins our Norwich office, and Daniel Glyde who joins our Oxford office. Jose has joined as Senior CAD/Revit Coordinator. He has a wide range of experience across multiple platforms which provides high quality end results and valuable insight for design teams. Joshua has joined as Building Services Technician. His keen eye for detail and adaptable skillset ensures each project maintains a high level of MEP design principals and drawing...
QODA Light turns 3!
15 September 2022
This month we are celebrating 3 years of QODA Light! During this time the team has worked on some fantastic projects including galleries, historically sensitive sites, commercial redevelopments, education buildings, and more. Lighting design does not only affect internal areas, but all external areas and can consist of masterplanning and lighting strategies, daylight design, environmental considerations, and planning services. Working closely with client, designers, contractors, and statutory authorities our team applies the medium of light to creatively illuminate interior and ex...
A Warm Welcome to Matt Sealby
1 September 2022
We are delighted to announce that Matt Sealby has joined QODA as a Director. Matt will be developing the new Cambridge office and supporting the growth in the East of England, including the Norwich and London offices. His role on projects will be to oversee the MEP and Sustainable design strategy, through close liaison with Clients and Design Teams to ensure clear lines of communication and efficient delivery. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge within multiple sectors and has designed and developed technically challenging projects ranging from large mixed-use development,...
Welcome to our new Finance Manager
25 August 2022
A warm welcome to Jennifer Harper, who has joined us as Finance Manager. Jennifer has over 17 years of experience within finance and has worked in manufacturing, education, and design sectors. She will be based in our Oxfordshire office but will work with and support the teams across all offices.
Welcome to our new starters!
19 August 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Roozbeh Rahimi and Steven Kantas who have joined our Norwich office. Roozbeh joins us as a Graduate Electrical Engineer and has experience in a wide range of design services. As a trained electrician, Roozbeh utilises his first-hand knowledge to inform his designs and provide feedback. Steven joins us as a Building Services Technician with a passion for Engineering. As well as design, Steven has experience in manufacturing, machine processing, installation, and testing of electrical components.
Congratulations Michael
12 August 2022
A huge congratulations to Michael Watson in our Oxfordshire office who has been promoted to Principal Mechanical Engineer. Michael joined QODA in 2016 as a graduate engineer. He has since worked on many prestigious and award-winning projects. His drive to provide excellent services and innovative solutions had seen him build lasting relationships throughout QODA, and with design teams and clients.
A Warm welcome to Rory Walsh
4 August 2022
A warm welcome to Rory Walsh who joins us as Director in the London Office. Rory has over 35 years’ experience and an outstanding track record in the successful delivery of building services solutions in various sectors. He offers clients early-stage engagement advice through to commissioning and handover support in addition to supporting other engineering teams with his wider design and construction experience. He will bring his invaluable knowledge to support James and the team in London and across QODA.
Welcome to our new starters!
28 July 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Mark Simpson and Chris Maloney who have joined our Norwich office. Mark joins us as a Senior Sustainability Consultant with a wide range of interests in sustainable and low energy design solutions across the industry. Chris joins us as an Associate and brings with him over 35 years of experience of contracting and design experience across a wide range of Mechanical and Public Health services. He is well placed to consider all aspects of current building services design.
A Warm Welcome to James Stubbings
22 July 2022
We would like to take this opportunity to formally welcome James Stubbings to the QODA team. James joins QODA as London Director with over 16 years of experience in MEP consultancy. His approach is centred around people development both within the business and externally, recognising and understanding the Client’s requirements and offering added value to projects wherever possible. A holistic approach is fundamental as part of the journey to safer, more comfortable and Net Zero buildings, and James continuously strives to understand the ever-changing and evolving impact the Net...
Welcoming our new People Manager
8 July 2022
QODA has appointed its first in-house People Manager, responsible for the implementation of the Strategic People Plan, in order to deliver a proactive people service to the business, acting as a key business partner to the Senior Leadership Team. Stacey Farrell’s role at QODA will deliver key people objectives to ensure we continue to have the right people, in the right place, at the right time, and that our employees are feeling motivated and engaged to deliver exceptional performance. Stacey joined QODA in April and brings with her over 20 years of working in the field of p...
Welcome to our new starters!
24 June 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Toman Goodman who has joined our Bristol office and Hugo Courtney who has joined our London office. Tomas studied Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy Systems at University of Nottingham and has joined as a Graduate Electrical Engineer. Hugo has joined as a Mechanical Engineer and has a MSc in Mechanical Engineering where he covered a wide range of topics including thermodynamics and material composition.
Solid Floor Insulation Guide
23 June 2022
Our Technical Director Dr Sarah Price has worked with James Livingstone to author the Solid Floor Insulation - Guide to Best Practice. The aim of the guide is to provide clear reference for designers, surveyors, and installers considering the suitability of solid floors to receive internal thermal upgrades. The guide, published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), follows on from the BEIS Room in the Roof Insulation Guide, and BEIS Retrofit Internal Wall Insulation Guide, authored by the same team....
Congratulations Daniel!
21 June 2022
A huge congratulations to Daniel Harrison who’s application for CIBSE Membership and CEng registration has been successful. Daniel joined QODA as a graduate engineer and through his hard work and dedication to achieve excellent results for his clients and projects has become a senior engineer. He has worked on many of our award winning and landmark projects, creating great client relationships, and providing best practise standards and training to his colleagues here at QODA. This is a well deserved and very fitting reward for his efforts.
RICS Heritage Award Winner
19 May 2022
We’re delighted to hear the Cliveden Conservatory Café has won the RICS Award in the South East Heritage Category. QODA provided the MEP services design for the Grade I listed building. The project faced many challenges due to the Listed status of the building and overheating. QODA produced a thermal comfort assessment, introduced automatic opening roof lights, external louvres, active cooling, and a one beam smoke detector to suit the building. Judges’ comments - The project was notable for the team leader role, who is the youngest female building surveyor at the National Tr...
17 May 2022
A huge thank you to the Church Commissioners for the appointment to act as their sustainability technical advisor to support the working group and for inviting QODA to hear the announcement made at the National Cathedrals Conference today. The Church Commissioners announced that a £190 million fund is to be made available to achieve their aim of net zero carbon by 2030. This will be made available through the Church Commissioners Distribution Framework.
5 May 2022
QODA were delighted to sponsor The Cargonauts at the IET First 'Lego' League World Championships Final which introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to children ages 4-16 through fun, exciting, hands-on learning. The team from Heywood Prep, part of Wishford Schools, came first in the South West Championships in January and second (out of 2,400 teams nationally) at the UK finals. They were commended for their performance and adoption of the First Lego League's 'core values': Discovery, Impact, Teamwork, Innovation, Inclusion, and Fun. The Cargonauts represented En...
Welcome to our new starters!
26 April 2022
A huge welcome to our new starters Rhys Arnold and Jake Thompson, who have joined our Oxford office, and Ankit Patel who has joined our London office. Rhys works closely with clients to provide the best possible outcomes for end users and is also keen to mentor graduate engineers, sharing key skills and expertise to help them progress. Jake works with internal and external design teams to maximise efficiencies and to ensure the best possible solutions are offered to clients. Ankit actively supports and promotes continuous improvement by working closely with his team members,...
Design Excellence Award
14 April 2022
We are delighted that The Hide has received the Design Excellence Award at the annual Berkhamsted Citizens’ Association Environment Awards. QODA were appointed as M&E Consultants for full MEP and sustainability design duties for the private residence located in an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A dedicated chimney was designed to provide combustion air and exhaust the products of combustion. The Hide was commended for its originality & innovative design that compliments the surrounding vernacular. Thanks to HollandGreen for sharing this great news! Images: Lucy W...
Congratulations Dushyant
5 April 2022
A huge congratulations to Dushyant Karnik who has passed his AECB CarbonLite Retrofit training course, which enables him to certify robust, low energy building retrofit projects. Dushyant is part of the wider building physics team at QODA and is a Certified Passivhaus Designer. He has a special interest in low energy building design and construction innovation, with experience across multiple sectors within the UK and India.
Nine-Day Fortnight
31 March 2022
After nearly 18 months since we started our nine-day fortnight / flexible working scheme, we reflect on how it’s working, why it was implemented in the first place, and what our staff have to say. Firstly, what is the Nine-Day Fortnight? In November 2020, QODA introduced a nine-day fortnight working pattern for anyone who wished to sign up for it. In essence, the nine-day fortnight means each staff member works one full week, followed by one 4-day week with their working hours condensed into these days. Staff members are given the choice of which day off best suits their circ...
Congratulations Kostas!
25 February 2022
A huge congratulations to Kostas Megagiannis who has passed his AECB CarbonLite Retrofit training course, which enables him to certify robust, low energy building retrofit projects. Kostas is part of the wider building physics team at QODA and has a master’s degree in Civil Engineering, a master’s degree in Sustainable Architecture, and he is a Certified Passivhaus Consultant.
Welcome to our new team members!
4 February 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Steven Coulsting, Dessy Kushelieva, Rob Stubbings, Jessica Kaqorri, and Elliot Kelly. As part of the move from Enhabit they have joined our QODA Net Zero team. As a Senior Building Physics Consultant, Steven works closely with architects and clients advising on strategic and detailed design matters such as heat loss, moisture risk, and airtightness in the context of new build and retrofit projects. He works with both mainstream Passivhaus design as well as its application more broadly across the built environment, to deliver comfortable and healt...
Welcome to our new team members!
28 January 2022
A warm welcome to our new starters Kevin Shelley, Elena Andreou, Tim Wilcockson, Nuria Fernandez Lopez, and Konstantinos Megagianni. Kevin joins us as an Associate in the Oxford office with over 30 years’ experience in the industry and has worked on a diverse range of projects in the UK, Europe and Middle East. Having worked at all levels and stages of construction projects, Kevin fully understands the activities associated with complex building services and infrastructure installations. As part of the move from Enhabit, Elena, Tim, Nuria, and Kostantinos, have joined our QOD...
Room in the Roof Insulation Guide
21 January 2022
Our Technical Director Dr Sarah Price has worked with James Livingstone to create the Room in the Roof Insulation Guide, published this month by Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). She managed the industry representative steering group liaison and edited the guide in collaboration with James. Sarah and the team previously authored the BEIS Retrofit Internal Wall Insulation Guide. The Solid Floor Insulation Guide is the next part of this series and will be released in the next few months....
Welcome to our new Net Zero team members!
18 January 2022
As part of the move from Enhabit, we are delighted to welcome Dr Sarah Price, Alex Honey, and Andrew Fisher to our QODA Net Zero team. See below for a bit more about each of them, their experience, and expertise. Sarah has over a decade of experience in the construction industry and specialises in Passivhaus, sustainability, low energy buildings, and retrofit. Sarah is the technical author for PAS 2035:2019 and PAS 2030 retrofit standard amendments (2021), and the lead technical author for the BEIS Retrofit IWI guide, published (2021). She was the co-author for the Passivhaus Trus...
Strengthening QODA’s Net Zero team
10 January 2022
Building Physics boost for QODA QODA’s Net Zero team is delighted to welcome Elena Andreou, Steven Coulsting, Alex Honey, Andrew Fisher, Jessica Kaqorri, Elliot Kelly, Desislava Kushilieva, Nuria Lopez, Dr Sarah Price, Kostas Megagiannis, Rob Stubbings and Tim Wilcockson to the team. The twelve new staff have all made the move from the Building Physics team of Enhabit, a sister company within the Efficient Building Solutions group. The Enhabit Building Physics team bring with them extensive expertise in radical retrofits, WUFI hygrothermal modelling, Passivhaus design and PHP...