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18 October 2024

SimpsonHaugh Architects News

Circus West Village, Circus Rd W, Nine Elms, London, SW11 8AH, United Kingdom:

building photo © Simon Kennedy

UK Architectrue Office digital transformation with VDI + AI

London, UK. October 18, 2024 — ControlUp, at the forefront of Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management, today announced that SimpsonHaugh Architects, a UK-based, award-winning and respected practice, is utilising the ControlUp DEX platform to monitor and optimise its new VDI environment in real-time.

Deansgate Square, 371 Deansgate, Manchester M15 4UP, United Kingdom

building photo © Daniel Hopkinson

SimpsonHaugh is making a £1.21 million investment over several years to digitally transform by introducing VDI and AI technology to underpin the future development and operations of the business. Industry leading solutions have been installed including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop, Citrix NetScaler, VMware vSphere Hypervisor, Dell Servers with vSAN storage, NVIDIA vGPU and ControlUp’s DEX platform which is providing VDI performance analytics and remediation.

One Blackfriars, No. 1 Blackfriars Road, Bankside, London

building photo © Hufton+Crow

Adopting VDI was driven by a strategic decision to centralise IT on-premise at SimpsonHaugh’s headquarters in Manchester, improve remote-working, support a work-life balance for staff and boost project collaboration by not being constrained by physical workstations.

4 Angel Square, Miller St, Manchester M4 4FW, United Kingdom

building photo © Adrian Lambert

Project next steps

SimpsonHaugh is currently working to expand its VDI environment to cover the whole business. This will take 3-5 years to complete. The strategy is to replace workstations as they approach end of life rather than waste perfectly good IT equipment.
In addition, SimpsonHaugh is upgrading its corporate network to a 25 Gigabit Ethernet backbone to further support the end-user experience. The practice is also purchasing higher resolution 2k and 4k screens for staff and introducing Nutanix data storage to manage the virtual server environment.

SimpsonHaugh is also working on other ICT innovation projects such as introducing privately hosted AI using private data across the practice (where powerful networking and compute is paramount) – a key priority given the impact AI is making on the architecture profession.

Beetham Hilton Tower, 301 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4LQ, United Kingdom:

building photo © Daniel Hopkinson

About SimpsonHaugh Architects

SimpsonHaugh Architects is well known for projects which elegantly shape and revitalise urban areas. The practice has a diverse portfolio including commercial offices, hotels, cultural, education, purpose-built student accommodation, residential and mixed-use neighbourhood developments.

Key award-winning schemes include: Deansgate Square, One Blackfriars, The Engineering Innovation Centre (University of Central Lancashire), Circus West Village (Battersea Power Station Phase 1) and 4 Angel Square, part of the 20-acre NOMA area in Manchester.

Founded in 1987, the practice employs 100 staff across studios in Manchester, London and Birmingham – a new office which opened in 2023 demonstrating the ongoing success of the business. For further information, visit https://www.simpsonhaugh.com

post updated 29 August 2023

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4 Nov 2021
Premier Inn Westferry, Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London, south east England, UK

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Premier Inn Hotel Westferry Building
Designed by world-renowned architects, Simpson Haugh, and constructed by John Sisk & Son, the 30-storey mixed-use scheme, which is set for completion in Q3 2022, will also include a restaurant, café, gym facilities and a landscaped pocket park, alongside communal gardens for new residents.

21 June 2019
Kensington Forum Redevelopment, Cromwell Road, Kensington, West London, England, UK

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Kensington Forum Redevelopment
Queensgate Investments and Rockwell win planning permission for their proposed redevelopment of the Kensington Forum.

9 Mar 2018
Planning Permission for Great Northern Warehouse, Square and Deansgate Terraces, Manchester, UK
Architects: SimpsonHaugh and Partners ; Masterplan: aLL Design

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Great Northern Warehouse and Square Project
Trilogy Real Estate and Peterson Group win planning consent for the transformation of Manchester’s Great Northern Square, Great Northern Warehouse and Deansgate Terraces.

19 Jan 2018
Number One Spinningfields Building, Manchester, Northwest England, UK

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Number One Spinningfields Manchester
SimpsonHaugh has completed No.1 Spinningfields, a £73million development that marks the culmination of Spinningfields, a thriving office-led, mixed-use district on the western edge of Manchester’s city centre.

19 Jan 2018
Two St Peters Square, Manchester, Northwest England, UK

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Two St Peter’s Square Building
SimpsonHaugh has completed Two St Peter’s Square, a landmark commercial office development at the heart of Manchester’s newlyregenerated Civic Quarter, which delivers 200,000ft2 of high quality, speculative office space.

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11 Dec 2017
Dollar Bay, London, England

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Dollar Bay Building
SimpsonHaugh has completed a new 31 storey residential tower in London Docklands, commissioned by a joint venture between developer Mount Anvil and Citystyle (part of One Housing).

9 Aug 2017
Great Northern Warehouse, Square and Deansgate Terraces, Manchester, UK
Architect: SimpsonHaugh ; Masterplan: aLL Design

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Great Northern Warehouse, Square and Deansgate Terraces
Public exhibition held at Great Northern Warehouse to showcase plans to create a new urban quarter.

25 Oct 2016

SimpsonHaugh and Partners – Buildings

St John’s Place tower at former Granada Studios

Simpson Haugh & Partners’ proposals for the redevelopment of a key part of Manchester’s St John’s regeneration area have been given the go-ahead by councillors, reports Building Design.

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A 52-storey tower housing 287 apartments above a 15-storey hotel is the centrepiece for the scheme, which covers the former Granada Studios site where soap opera Coronation Street was filmed until production moved to ITV’s new MediaCityUK studios.

St John’s Place tower at former Granada Studios

17 Aug 2016
Leeds Hotel Building Conversion

Simpson Haugh & Partners has won planning to convert a 1960s office building in the centre of Leeds into a hotel, reports Building Design today.

The 182-bed development is the first phase of a proposed mixed-use community on Bridge Street planned by a Singapore-led consortium.

The wider project aims to extend the city centre beyond the inner ring road by creating a new urban destination on a 1ha site formerly occupied by British Gas.

The scheme refurbishes a podium and 12-storey tower which will be re-clad in a terracotta and aluminium.

12 May 2016
New Engineering Innovation Centre at University of Central Lancashire
Design: SimpsonHaugh and Partners in collaboration with Reiach and Hall Architects

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University of Central Lancashire Engineering Innovation Centre
Manchester based SimpsonHaugh and Partners will lead on the design of the £30 m plus Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC) in collaboration with Reiach and Hall Architects. BDP, which also has an office in Manchester and was founded in Preston, has been appointed to provide the engineering expertise for the project.

12 Apr 2016
Skyscrapers on Great Jackson Street, Manchester, England

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Skyscrapers on Great Jackson Street
Plans submitted for what could become Manchester’s tallest building. The planning application by CQ Investments was being co-ordinated by Deloitte Real Estate.

3 Feb 2015
SimpsonHaugh and Partners announce new LLP partners

Ian Simpson Architects has officially changed its name to SimpsonHaugh and Partners LLP.

The name change publicly acknowledges the unique and significant contribution that co-founding Partner, Rachel Haugh, has made to the successful growth of the practice. It also reflects the new structure of the practice as an LLP, and the wider ownership of the practice by its senior leadership team, vital in strengthening the next phase of the practice’s evolution.

Over the last 27 years, SimpsonHaugh and Partners has enjoyed considerable success, contributing to city-wide regeneration and developing an impressive portfolio of built projects.

building photo : Daniel Hopkinson

Rachel Haugh said:

“We are delighted to be able to formally welcome our new Partners, each of whom has already made a valuable contribution and will continue to add depth and strength to what we can offer as a practice.”

“We would also like to take this milestone opportunity in the development of the practice, to thank all our clients and consultants who have supported the practice over the years. We look forward to developing our working relationships over the coming years and what we hope will be exciting times ahead.”

The practice, recently awarded BD’s Office Architect of the Year, is set to consolidate its success, expanding both creatively and commercially with landmark buildings both nationally and internationally.

Website: SimpsonHaugh Office News – official website for this British architecture practice

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