Dunwoodie Architects

Dunwoodie Swift Architects, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, is a leading architectural practice that has been creating remarkable buildings and built environments since 1990. Our work spans across various sectors, including Healthcare, Commercial/Retail, Education, and Residential, and we have established ourselves as one of the North East's most dynamic and exciting practices.

Our Services

At Dunwoodie Swift Architects, our central aim is design excellence. We provide our clients with high-quality work, from feasibility studies to master planning, with full service provision. We are known for our delivery of quality, sensitive buildings, and we pride ourselves on our professional, creative, approachable, and responsive approach. We have a 25-year track record of delivering complex, highly flexible, and sustainable buildings that are pleasant to live, work, and visit in.

We ensure that our buildings promote positive responses from all who experience them and that the highest standards are maintained throughout the duration of each project. Our regular review process enables us to maintain a critical perspective and continuously refine our designs.

Our Design Ethos

At Dunwoodie Architects, we believe in creating architecture that makes a significant contribution to the quality of the built environment. We are committed to designing buildings and environments that are sustainable, responsive, and create a warm and welcoming atmosphere for all. Our design process is collaborative, and we work with our clients, stakeholders, and end-users, creating buildings and environments that are functional, sustainable, and visually appealing.

Our designs are informed by the global environment and climatic conditions, and we employ innovative construction and operational techniques that minimise embodied energy, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions during the build, and post-occupation.

Quality and Environment

At Dunwoodie Architects, we are committed to providing a high-quality service, and we maintain our quality standards through our Quality Management System, which is certified to BS EN ISO 9001:2008. We are also certified to BS 8555:2008 for our Environmental Management System, which reflects our commitment to promoting environmental issues as a foundation of our design activities and extending this philosophy to our day-to-day business practices.

Building Information Modelling (BIM)

At Dunwoodie Architects, we are abreast of the requirement to deliver building designs and production information in 3D, and we use Autocad, Revit, and other graphical software to address the Government's digital agenda by 2016. Our commitment and focus are to design and deliver quality buildings in response to the client's needs, aspirations, and objectives. We provide designs that are responsive to the environment, sustainable, and delivered in a pragmatic manner both to time and budget.

In summary, as architects, we aim to:

• Understand fully the developer's client's vision aims, objectives, and philosophy.
• Possess a clear understanding of the developer's client's requirements, by employing an all-inclusive collaborative briefing process approach.
• Employ a proactive design development approach.
• Employ effective communication, being responsive to customer's needs, requirements, providing an all-inclusive collaborative ethos.
• Create sustainable solutions fit for purpose and wear well, providing best and delivering added value, designing and building to programme and budget.
• Provide solutions that can be built and maintained safely.
• Build close and continuing relationships based upon trust, experience, and performance.