Richard Saxon has written throughout his extensive architectural career.

This material is collated here as Resources, on the subjects of Atriums, creating Value in the built environment, achieving Sustainability or ESG, Future strategies for the industry and using Information Management (IM) to enable all of these.

On this last topic, Richard still provides services through Deploi: information management for the built environment.

Richard Saxon has approaching 60 years of experience in the UK built environment field. Nearly 40 of those years were based at BDP, the international, interdisciplinary practice. Nearly 20 years have been devoted to a portfolio of consulting roles.

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Atriums

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Value

Value and how to create it
Future

Future thinking for the industry.
ESG

ESG: environmental and social sustainability.
IM

IM: information management for projects and assets
Atriums

Atriums: two books on the subject.

What you get versus what you give to get it. Value means far more than cost, embracing all the benefits over time and all forms of impact on natural, social, human and manufactured capital.

An overriding theme has been the way that the built environment industry may change as new thinking takes hold. There have been many reviews pointing to its dysfunction, but limited success in reform. These are constructive thoughts.

Here are articles covering the impact of concern for the natural environment and for societal matters in the creation of built environment. The term ESG has been used to embrace these issues, but I leave the Governance subject to others.

Information management is a current topic as digital technologies impact the way we plan, design, build, operate and manage built assets.

The idea of indoor courtyards and streets is over 200 years old. Richard wrote the two seminal books on this building type.

An architect-led consultancy to assist construction clients and their professionals to transition smoothly into using digital information management for their projects and portfolios.