Category: Timeline Stories

Warrington office relocates to Liverpool

Partnership becomes LLP

New office opens in Manchester

Wren Rutherford A-S:L becomes Austin-Smith:Lord (Glasgow office)

Joint venture between Austin-Smith:Lord and former members of the Irvine Development Corporation Technical Department in 1998 at 222 Bath Street, Glasgow to form Wren Rutherford A-S:L

New office opens in Cardiff (Mold office is closed three years later)

Series of mergers takes place, including Chamberlin Powell Bon and Woods in 1989 and North-West Water in 1992

First major application of CAD system in designs for Barclays Bank’s public areas upgrade in 1987

One of the first practices to invest in a CAD system with workstations installed in London and Warrington and connected by a kilostream telephone line

Mike and Inette Austin-Smith retire