James Hepburn

Principal, Building Services Engineering London

T: +44 [0]7738 696 714
E: james.hepburn@bdp.com

James is a principal and leads engineering teams on projects across all sectors, working closely with the architects to design sustainable buildings.

He ensures that buildings work as passively as possible, questioning why plant and equipment is required before designing it in. He is an advocate of the Soft Landings process and enjoys collaborating with designers, contractors and end users to ensure sustainable and cost effective environmental design strategies are adopted.

James has extensive experience of refurbishment projects including historic and listed buildings, as well as new build interventions on sensitive sites. As well as large scale expertise, James has engineering masterplan experience across campus type sites and has led teams to deliver site-wide infrastructure projects and the detailed designed of high capacity energy centres.

James has a strong track record in education projects including the BREEAM award winning UCL Student Centre and the Enterprise Centre at University of East Anglia. Healthcare projects include the Pears Building for Royal Free London and UCL, housing the Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, a world-class research centre into some of the world’s most serious diseases. He led the practice’s building services team on the emergency transformation of the NHS Nightingale Hospital at London’s ExCeL Centre.

What do you think is the current most challenging aspect of building design?

Attempting to close the ‘performance gap’, working closely with clients to understand how they intend to use their buildings, modelling energy usage and ensuring the building design delivers a comfortable building that uses resources appropriately and is simple to operate and maintain.

Projects

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NHS Nightingale Hospital London

The conversion of the ExCeL London exhibition centre into an emergency COVID-19 hospital facility.

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Enterprise Centre, Norwich Research Park

Landmark project that has changed the way the industry thinks about sustainable construction.

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Pears Building

The Pears Building houses the Institute of Immunity and Transplantation (IIT), a world-class research facility that brings together clinical and research expertise to develop innovative treatments and improve patient care.

UCL Student Centre

The BREEAM Outstanding Student Centre provides state-of-the-art informal student study facilities over 10 storeys including four basement levels.

Brunel Learning and Teaching Centre

Brunel LTC is a contemporary seven storey facility that replaces the 1968 John Crank building on the university’s main campus.

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University of Roehampton Library

At the centre of the Digby Stuart campus masterplan redevelopment, Elm Grove Library provides a modern, adaptable learning environment for students, staff and the local community.

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Entopia Building, CISL

This refurbishment project to provide a new home for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is a world first for a retrofitted sustainable office building, setting new standards for low energy use, carbon emissions and impact on natural resources as well as user experience and wellbeing measured against multiple benchmarks.

Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal

BDP was awarded a full interdisciplinary contract for client advisory services to help ensure the safe and secure future of the Grade I listed Palace of Westminster.

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North Range Building Project, University of Cambridge

The North Range Building project, within the historic New Museums Site, involved a combination of demolition, refurbishment of Grade II listed buildings and new build elements.

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UCL Wilkins Terrace

The University College London's Wilkins Terrace is a joint project of the refurbishment with the Old Refectory and the building of a brand new exterior space in the heart of the UCL Campus.

UCL Wilkins Refectory

The Refectory is unique as the first purpose-built canteen in the main University College London's Wilkins building.

Appleton Academy

The design of the academy explores a radically different approach to the learning continuum from nursery to sixth form.

Wellington Academy

The design responds to its rural site with the plan arrangement loosely paralleling the house system in use at the college.

News

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ExCeL Exhibition Centre repurposed into NHS Nightingale Hospital

02/04/2020

In the fight against the coronavirus, London's ExCeL exhibition centre has been rapidly repurposed into an emergency COVID-19 facility, NHS Nightingale Hospital, in order to treat and support thousands more patients.

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BREEAM Outstanding for UEA Enterprise Centre

28/08/2015

BDP provided full engineering design for the Enterprise Centre for UEA in Norwich which has achieved BREEAM Outstanding with a score of 90.8%, and also Passivhaus standard.

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Keeping design simple... and green

James Hepburn leads engineering teams on projects across all sectors, working closely with the architects to design sustainable buildings.

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