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EP 02172 July 2024 · 39 min

Regenerative Designs, Real Impact: Career Insights from Russ Edwards, Architect turned Developer

Russ EdwardsClarion Housing Group
Career Change & New Directions
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Regenerative Designs, Real Impact: Career Insights from Russ Edwards, Architect turned Developer

Moving from architecture into development changes the scale of the decisions you make. It also changes the commercial, social and delivery pressures around every project.

Stephen Drew speaks with Russ Edwards, Project Director at Clarion Housing Group, about his route from architecture into development and his work on large-scale, affordable and regenerative housing projects.

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How Russ moved from architectural practice into development

What developer-side project leadership looks like day to day

How architects can compete better for major projects

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  1. · Stephen Drew

    Stephen Drew

    Hello everyone. It's that time again. I think it's pretty much lunch now, isn't it? Quarter to one? Grab the sandwich and off we go. Here we go. Architects who think and they want to go in development. This is going to be an interesting one for you too. Hello everyone and welcome to this live stream special. We've got an interesting show today because if you've been

  2. · Stephen Drew

    Stephen Drew

    interested in working for a developer, perhaps you've been working with a client, a project director who's a visionary who's looking at all this stuff and you thought maybe one day I would like to do that or you just want to be a good architect and want to learn more about working efficiently.

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Russ Edwards

Clarion Housing Group. Guest on episode 0217.

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Clarion Housing Group

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York, United Kingdom · 2024

The Cocoa Works

An £80m transformation of York's former Rowntree factory into 279 apartments and shared community space.

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