Bruce is the Senior Conservation Architect of the Heritage Team. He joined Nash Partnership with a background in Listed Building, commercial and public sector projects.
Bruce is an advocate of learning from the millennia’s history that buildings provide, as being relevant for today’s sustainability challenges. His experience includes large-scale commercial and leisure developments, retail fit-out, schools, churches, police stations, as well as private housing and community and museum projects that have had lottery funding. He is well versed in resolving conflicts between the brief, the site and legislation constraints with financial reality.
Bruce has helped guide the practice’s development and understanding of sustainable issues, looking beyond the immediate thermal and financial impacts into how buildings work with communities and their setting. His experience over 35 years means he understands the issues that arise from combining modern building techniques with old buildings. He spends much of his time surveying structures to understand their development and causes of problems. He is a strong advocate of understanding and using a building’s inherent passive qualities over relying on technocratic solutions.
Bruce is a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). He is also on the Architects Accredited in Building Conversation (AABC) register, and renewing his RIBA Specialist Conservation Architects’ registration. Bruce is a member of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association (EASA), on the Salisbury and Bath & Wells lists of architects and surveyors.