Meet the Team: Stuart Boneham, Senior Building Services Engineer Stuart leads one of our engineering teams in the design of systems required to make a building both a functional space and a pleasure to occupy for the end user. As a team leader, he is always making sure we maximise the potential for the sustainable […]
Zero Waste Week 2021
Following on the success of last year‘s efforts, last week we all did our bit during Zero Waste Week again. As more of us are now back in the office this was made easy with our already established composting and recycling bins, but some of us marked the week with other efforts, including: Avoiding plastic food […]
Meet the Team: Richard Spencer
Richard is our resident Sustainability Specialist and a certified Passive House Consultant. Shortly before joining LEDA in 2018 he built his own Passive House, where he lives with his young family. The house features in the Passivhaus Trust‘s annual open days. How did you get into Passive House? In my work, it has always been […]
Keeping Cool… and Natural Materials
Last week some of us got away from our desks and went for bike ride with some good friends at Native Architects, something we’ve not done for a couple of years, so it was good to get out and meet people again. For some in our team it was the first time meeting our more […]
Passive House Open Day 2021
Our Low Energy Building Consultant Richard Spencer will be opening his home as part of the International Passive House Open Days Summer Edition. After the success of the first digital International Passive House Open Days in 2020, and due to the continuing COVID19 restrictions around the world, the 2021 International Passive House Open Days will […]
Wood Bank Special School, Luddenden
Wood Bank Special School, Luddenden LEDA are so pleased to share some of the final pictures of Wood Bank Special School in Luddenden, a project we have been working on since 2018. LEDA worked with Calderdale Council, Jefferson Sheard Architects, Mason Clark and SUM Quantity Surveyors. Some of the pictures below are credited to Mason […]
How do we use Loomio for greater discussion in a workers Cooperative?
How do we use Loomio for greater discussion in a workers Cooperative? Jonathan and Louise recently met with John and Medina from the Loomio team to discuss how we use their platform for greater discussion and decision making within our workers cooperative. You can check out their article here…
LEDA is awarded ‘Bike Friendly Business’ Gold from City connect
LEDA is awarded ‘Bike Friendly Business’ Gold from City Connect We are pleased to announce we have been awarded ‘Bike friendly business’ Gold from West Yorkshire’s Combined Authority City Connect. Sustainable transport is important to us, last year we were pleased to be awarded ‘Sustainable transport Champion’ by the Investors in the Environment Awards 2020. […]
A focus on mental health and wellbeing at LEDA
A focus on mental health and wellbeing at LEDA Today we took part in a virtual workplace Yoga session with the wonderful Helena. She guided us through a chair-based yoga and meditation session for 30 minutes. Many of us here at LEDA practice yoga in our spare time, but some of us are beginners. This […]
Meet our Team – Jim Wild
Meet our Team – Jim Wild Jim Wild is a very busy member of our workers co-operative, he is a LEDA Director, Senior Engineer, and mentor. Jim has a strong vision for our co-operative’s future, to be recognised as a leading Sustainable design practice in the North, and he supports developments in the co-op in […]
