bluesky has been successful in its bid to win a place on the Low Carbon e-Marketplace for Resource Efficient Consultancy Services framework. The framework has been established by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce for the use of its members and other organisations within the Greater Manch...

bluesky is delighted to have won a place on a framework for the provision of architectural services to NHS Shared Business Services. The framework will provide services to NHS bodies, NHS trusts and other contracting authorities, local authorities and public bodies or government departments....

The bluesky designed Werneth Primary Care Centre has been highly commended in the RICS North West Awards. The award was presented at a ceremony on 3rd May at Lancashire County Cricket Club. The RICS Awards showcase the most inspirational regional initiatives and developments in land, property, co...

Werneth Primary Care Centre has been shortlisted for yet another prestigious award to add to the three it has already been shortlisted for.The bluesky designed building has been shortlisted in the Partnerships Awards ‘Best Sustainability in a Project’ category, which recognises outstanding susta...

Werneth Primary Care Centre has been shortlisted for another award this week – the Greenbuild Awards recognise excellence in sustainable buildings, with a particular focus on those projects that can illustrate an understanding of the importance of building performance in use.Werneth Primary Care C...

The new Fitton Hill Neighbourhood Centre opened today, providing new state-of-the-art library and youth centre facilities for the local community. bluesky provided integrated architectural, environmental sustainability and engineering solutions for the project, delivering an innovative and inspiring...

Werneth Primary Care Centre has been shortlisted in the Building Controls Industry Association Awards 2012, which celebrate excellence in the building controls industry.The centre is a finalist in the ‘Technical Innovation of the Year – Projects’ category which is awarded to the project that h...

Werneth Primary Care Centre has been announced as one of the shortlisted developments in the RICS North West Awards 2012 in the Infrastructure category, which recognises projects that deliver essential facilities and services. bluesky provided a fully integrated service of architectural design, envi...

Two recently completed primary healthcare centres have achieved a design stage BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’ following design guidance and assessment from bluesky. Barbara Castle Way Health Centre in Blackburn is a £21m development providing a range of health and social services. Rossendale Hea...

Patterdale Fire Station was officially opened on 15th December by the Chief Fire Officer of Cumbria. The station is the first of 16 community fire stations being developed across Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside as part of the North West Fire and Rescue Authority PFI project. bluesky is the archi...

Members of the bluesky team are taking part in this year’s winter 5k Urbanathlon event in Manchester on 27th November 2011 at Platt Fields Park, Rusholme.To add even more excitement to what will be a challenging event, our three teams: ‘Who’s Idea Was This?’, ‘Destructive Divas’ and...

John Dickinson of bluesky architects was one of a number of guests invited to the official opening ceremony of the Waterside Health and Wellbeing Centre on Infirmary Street, Blackburn on 8th July 2011.The health facility was opened by Rt Hon Jack Straw MP who has been Blackburn’s MP since 1979 and...

bluesky was proud to be involved in a local community renovation project as part of the nationwide Give and Gain Day initiative on 24th June 2011. A number of bluesky staff volunteered their time to plan, create and decorate a sensory room at Oldham Children’s Society office in Holts Village, Oldh...

bluesky environmental are now confirmed as speakers at the Greenbuild Expo conference in Manchester, 29th June 2011 at 1.15pm. The session will focus on our experience and expertise in designing sustainable healthcare buildings.  Speakers Andy Brunt and Gareth Bennell will cover key aspects o...

bluesky will be sharing their knowledge, vision and recommendations at the Greenbuild Expo on the 29th and 30th June 2011 on the following issues: § how to optimise the environmental sustainability performance of new build and refurbishment projects, § how to meet the challenges and cover all asp...

The Sunday Times yesterday published their top 60 best green companies list for 2011 with first time entrant Equity Solutions, bluesky’s parent company, taking the 39th spot in the overall rating and 5th place in the category “Small companies (50-249 employees) with low environmental impact”. ...

John Dickinson of bluesky architects along with Paul Hopley of NHS Blackburn with Darwen, had the great pleasure of escourting The Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire, The Lord Shuttleworth KCVO of Leck Hall around the new Blackburn Health Centre on Simmons Street, Blackburn.The £21million health develop...

“The Government’s chief construction advisor Paul Morrell has indicated that Building Information Modelling (BIM) will be rolled out on public construction projects over the next five years. A five year programme will be announced in June. The suggested construction cost threshold of £50m Morre...

The lunch briefing took place on the 10th June in the bluesky head office bluesky environmental has developed an innovative new approach to Whole Life Costing which can support and add value to sustainable building design process and other activities. This comprehensive and flexible methodol...

Blue Sky has had three LIFT developments, which they provided full integrated design services for, shortlisted for the 2011 National Partnerships Bulletin Awards. These awards reward the joint efforts of public and private sector partners to improve community services. Best Designed Project Doubl...

Gareth Bennell, Sustainability Consultant with Blue Sky Environmental, has been invited to give a lecture to MSc students at the University of Leeds later this month. The students are studying for an MSc in Sustainability (Environmental Consultancy) and Gareth will be lecturing on lifecycle costing...

Blue Sky Architects is pleased to have been re-appointed to the North West Consortium of NHS Trusts. The consortium maintains and manages, on behalf of all its members, approved lists of contractors and consultants for services related to both construction and maintenance works for the NHS and its...

After a very prolonged preferred bidder period, almost 12 months, Balfour Beatty Fire and Rescue have reached financial close on a project to develop 16 new community fire stations for three North West fire and rescue authorities – Merseyside, Lancashire and Cumbria. Blue Sky Architects, architec...

Following blue sky environmental’s presentation of their paper on the ICECAP whole life costing model at the IEMA Knowledge Exchange event, IEMA have now published the paper on their website. The paper is available to view at: http://www.iema.net/conferences/knowledge_exchange/2011/papers &nb...

blue sky environmental will be presenting a paper on our whole life cost model (ICECAP) and associated findings on 19th January 2011 at the Kings House Conference Centre in Manchester at the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)'s Knowledge Exchange event.  This event prov...

Primary care could save more than £47 million over the next five years through the adoption of better energy efficiency, according to a new industry report commissioned by the LIFT Council, the representative body for organisations involved in local improvement finance trusts and written by blue sk...

A 46 bedroom care centre, designed by blue sky architects, is being constructed on behalf of Springhill Care to provide specialist dementia care in Accrington.Work on the development, which also includes a number of green-energy initiatives, will start shortly and construction is expected to take 44...

John Pickup and Gareth Bennell of blue sky entertained Oliver Drerup, representative of the Canadian Government on Wednesday afternoon at the blue sky head office.  Oliver was accompanied by John Mather Managing Director of Interhabs UK.  The meeting was a continuation of discussion...

Two members of blue sky environmental staff have successfully completed their assessment to attain Associate Membership of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA). IEMA is the professional membership body for promoting best practice standards in environmental management, ...

blue sky director, John Pickup, took part in a RIBA North West debate recently on the subject ‘Do we need to re-assess the traditional practice of architecture?’ John is a RIBA Client Design Advisor and sits on the RIBA North West Region Practices Committee and was invited to take part along wit...

Royton Health and Wellbeing Centre, due to open in October, brings together a number of healthcare services under one roof to provide a one-stop facility for around 22,000 patients. The long-term vision for this centre is to bring together health and leisure services integrated over two phases, wit...

Two blue sky designed LIFT developments - Chadderton Wellbeing Centre and the Oldham Integrated Care Centre - have achieved highly coveted ‘A’ rated energy performance certificates. This rating was achieved by the range of sustainable features incorporated in the design of the buildings. The un...

blue sky parent company, Equity Solutions, takes its responsibility to manage our businesses in an environmentally responsible manner very seriously and we have demonstrated this commitment by developing an Environmental Management System (EMS) according to the ISO 14001 standard. We were successful...

blue sky architects is working with Community 1st on a number of LIFT schemes in Oldham, Sheffield and Cornwall. An accelerated project delivery programme has seen eight planning applications submitted in the last two months, with two of these already approved. All of these schemes should begin cons...