Ian Duncombe
Ian Duncombe is a Board Director at chapmanbdsp.
As an advocate of chapmanbdsp's unique integrated approach to building services and environmental engineering design, Ian leads a multidisciplinary team focusing on masterplan and building projects across the EMEA.
He studied Building Engineering at the University of Bath’s integrated school of Architecture and Building Engineering, which sparked a passion for collaborative design. On graduation in 1987, he joined Roger Preston and Partners, putting this interest into practice on a diverse range of projects including Century Tower in Tokyo, Ludwig Erhard Haus in Berlin and the Stirling Prize winning American Air Museum at Duxford.
In 1995, Ian co-founded BDSP Partnership and went on to deliver many award winning UK and international projects, amongst them 30 St Mary Axe (the ‘Gherkin’), Nottingham Science Park and the World Trade Center in Abu Dhabi incorporating what is now the world’s 4th tallest residential building. Many of these projects were formed around Ian’s innovative environmental engineering designs.
Today, Ian continues to collaborate with leading architects on high profile projects such as Battersea Power Station Phase 3 and he is currently delivering projects in the UK, Kenya, the UAE and Malta.
Ian has lectured widely and has run technical studies courses at the Architectural Association for the past 16 years.