Vince Ugarow

Vince is a Design Director leading the company’s strategic design direction, promoting progressive design thinking and harnessing digital technology. A qualified Chartered Engineer, he joined the practice in 2007 and spent 10 years managing one of our main London design groups, before moving into his current leadership position in 2018.

Vince is responsible for leading design teams on high-profile UK and international projects; for investors, developers and end users. These include commercial offices, workplace fit-outs, residential, hotels and cultural centres. He has extensive experience in successfully delivering environmental engineering designs, focusing on health & wellbeing, zero carbon, energy efficiency and smart technologies. Vince has a particular interest and expertise in sustainable high rise building design and is one of the founding committee members of the UK Chapter of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH UK).

Vince has presented at many conferences and seminars in the UK, USA, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience gained through 35 years of working in the industry. He has guest lectured to students at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and also to a wider international audience at the Swegon Air Academy.

Vince is a keen cyclist, has a particular practical interest in Italian wines and is also a big fan of the Harlequins rugby team.