Elliott Ballam
Associate, Architect

Elliott is an Associate Architect with a broad range of experience in the education, workplace, retail, culture, transport and sport sectors.

Elliott has worked at BDP since 2011 and has extensive experience working across various sectors including education, workplace, retail, culture, transport and sport, where he has co-ordinated teams in designing and detailing a series of innovative and high quality award-winning projects. Elliott is passionate about good design and places people at the centre of his thinking on every project, believing that the best designs spring from fusing people, activity and place to produce spaces which are unique and inspiring. His projects include state-of-the-art university facilities such as the IADT Digital Media Building and the TU Dublin Academic Teaching Building, along with a series of primary, post-primary and special needs schools some of which are on shared educational campus such as the award-winning Mulberry Park Community Hub and Waid Community Learning Campus.

He has recently led the redevelopment of Drogheda Civic Offices in County Louth which consisted of the complete refurbishment and creative re-use of two existing unoccupied protected structures within the architectural conservation area of Fair Street, as well as the construction of a new link building which sensitively connects these historic structures together in order to create an exemplary civic office complex. The contemporary intervention was designed to respect, reveal and enhance the restored features of the protected structures whilst also providing a new welcoming public entrance to the development which provides Louth County Council with a series of impressive administrative and community spaces. Using the latest thinking in sustainable development, Drogheda Civic Offices includes measures such as heat pumps, solar panels and a large sedum roof to ensure that these old buildings have been given a new and sustainable beginning.