Number of employees 800 Founded 1961 | Name Building Partnership Website BDP website CEO John McManus | |
Services architecture, engineering Role Architecture firm · bdp.com | ||
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BDP, formerly known as Building Design Partnership, is a firm of architects and engineers employing over 900 staff in the UK and internationally.
Contents
- Milan expo 2015 uk pavilion bdp
- Brutalist buildings preston bus station by building design partnership
- History
- Professions represented in BDP offices in 1968
- Building Design Partnership Ltd UK
- Building Design Partnership Ireland Ltd Ireland
- BDPKhandekar Netherlands
- BDP Ltd China
- BDP Ltd UAE
- BDP Ltd India
- Selected Projects
- People who have worked for BDP
- References
Brutalist buildings preston bus station by building design partnership
History
The firm was founded in 1961 by George Grenfell-Baines with architects Bill White and John Wilkinson, quantity surveyor Arnold Towler and eight associate partners: Brian & Derek Cobb, Keith Ingham, Peter Renninson, David Rock, Lorrie Rossant, N Keith Scott and Sid Tasker. The associates were made full equity partners in 1964. Grenfell-Baines was the first chairman.
BDP was the end result of a series of experiments in profit sharing and multidisciplinary working begun by Grenfell-Baines in 1941 with the Grenfell Baines Group. A 1962 policy statement committed BDP to “the principle of equal status for all professions”. The firm expanded rapidly over the following decades and had 30 partners and 700 staff by the time of Grenfell-Baines’s retirement in 1974. The firm has been associated with a variety of large public and private projects, such as the controversial bus station in Preston, Lancashire that was designed by BDP's Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson, and retail projects such as the Liverpool One complex.
BDP’s principal offices, inherited from Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves, were in London, Manchester and Preston. By 1970, there were branch offices in Belfast, Glasgow and Guildford plus international offices in Memphis, Rome and Johannesburg.
BDP ceased to be a partnership in 1997 and became a limited company. As of 2016 BDP was reported to be the UK's third largest architecture firm, with 950 employees. In March 2016, the Japanese engineering firm Nippon Koei bought all of the stock of BDP for a total sale price of £102.2 million.
In 2017, BDP was appointed architect for the refurbishment project for the Palace of Westminster.