PRESS INFORMATION

EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 GMT TUESDAY, 5 APRIL 2016 Future Programme professional teams

Lead Designer, Windsor Castle Purcell has been appointed to lead the multidisciplinary design team; advising, managing and coordinating the project from design concept to implementation. Purcell is a leading architectural practice with studios throughout the UK and in Asia Pacific. The practice is highly regarded for their heritage and design work within sensitive and complex sites. The practice has previously completed projects at , , Dover Castle, Wells Cathedral, the , Greenwich and Tower Bridge.

Lead Designer, Palace of Holyroodhouse Set up by Catherine Burd & Buddy Haward in 1998, Burd Haward Architects has a reputation for making award-winning, carefully crafted, authentic, sustainable buildings. The practice works across a diverse range of building types and has led projects at a number of high-profile architecturally sensitive historic sites, including Chastleton House, Red House and Chartwell. Their new ‘Welcome Centre’ for the National Trust at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire is currently shortlisted for a 2016 RIBA Award.

The design team includes:

Exhibition Design – Nissen Richards Environmental Engineers – Max Fordham LLP Landscape Architects – J&L Gibbons Structural Engineers – David Narro Associates

Cost Consultants Mace is an international consultancy and construction company, employing over 4,600 people, with a turnover of £1.49bn. Mace’s business is programme and project management, cost consultancy, construction delivery and facilities management. Mace has worked on projects at many high-profile listed buildings including The , the Parliamentary Estate and Senate House (School of Oriental and African Studies), Tate Modern Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum.

Project Managers Lendlease Consulting (Heritage and Arts) provides consultancy for every stage of the project life cycle – from inception to completion. Lendlease Consulting is part of the global Lendlease property group and provides project management and consultancy services. Lendlease Consulting has a 16 year relationship with the Victoria & Albert Museum delivering over 30 projects, is a key project management partner of the Parliamentary Estates Directorate, and has also successfully completed commissions at the British Museum, Tower of and Tate Britain.

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