Richard Partington is a co-founder and principal of Richards Partington Architects a multi disciplinary practice involved in urban housing and regeneration. He has designed a number of low-energy urban housing projects, including exemplars such as Parkmount, a widely published scheme promoted by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to demonstrate the relationship between, sustainability, low-energy design, and health and well-being. Other affordable housing projects include the large scale regeneration and refurbishment of the Woolwich Polytechnic site for Gallions Housing Association, a project that won the BDA¹s Best Public Housing Award
in 2007.
Recently Richard has been working for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the development of an equitable and sustainable urban extension to the west of York. Houses are being designed to the highest levels of the Code for Sustainable Homes and are being tested rigorously to prove their post completion performance. Richard is also a member of various working groups advising CLG on the definition of Åzero carbon¹ and the content of the Government¹s Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard. Richard is architectural advisor to the Zero Carbon Hub.
Richard contributes expertise in sustainability to the Ministerial Advisory Group in Northern Ireland. He is a CABE enabler and has been a visiting teacher in architecture and practice at the University of Cambridge, University College London and the University of Wales in Cardiff. He has written articles and reviews for the DETR, the DTLR, the Architects¹ Journal, the RIBA Journal, Ecotech magazine and the CIBSE Journal.
in 2007.
Recently Richard has been working for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the development of an equitable and sustainable urban extension to the west of York. Houses are being designed to the highest levels of the Code for Sustainable Homes and are being tested rigorously to prove their post completion performance. Richard is also a member of various working groups advising CLG on the definition of Åzero carbon¹ and the content of the Government¹s Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard. Richard is architectural advisor to the Zero Carbon Hub.
Richard contributes expertise in sustainability to the Ministerial Advisory Group in Northern Ireland. He is a CABE enabler and has been a visiting teacher in architecture and practice at the University of Cambridge, University College London and the University of Wales in Cardiff. He has written articles and reviews for the DETR, the DTLR, the Architects¹ Journal, the RIBA Journal, Ecotech magazine and the CIBSE Journal.
