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Wishing our valued clients, colleagues, and friends a joyful Christmas and a prosperous New Year! It's been an incredible year working with you. May 2025 bring even greater success! #HappyHolidays #NewYear2025

KTA End of Year Review 2024 It’s been hard to condense our year into 10 seconds but we gave it a good go! Here are some of the highlights: ▪️Opened up our Plymouth Office ▪️Gained a position on Procure Partnerships Framework and Guernsey Framework ▪️Completed our first project for the DIO ▪️Won the Michelmores Award for Dartmouth Health and Wellbeing Centre ▪️Gained Planning Permission for Appledore Clean Maritime Innovation Centre ▪️Broke ground for Plymouth Community Diagnostic Centre ▪️Planted trees for charity and gifted toys to the needy

KTA End of Year Review 2024 It’s been hard to condense our year into 10 seconds but we gave it a good go! Here are some of the highlights: ▪️Opened up our Plymouth Office ▪️Gained a position on Procure Partnerships Framework and Guernsey Framework ▪️Completed our first project for the DIO ▪️Won the Michelmores Award for Dartmouth Health and Wellbeing Centre ▪️Gained Planning Permission for Appledore Clean Maritime Innovation Centre ▪️Broke ground for Plymouth Community Diagnostic Centre ▪️Planted trees for charity and gifted toys to the needy

Celebratory Post 1 of 2... KTA are delighted to congratulate and introduce Joshua Crook who just passed his RIBA Part 3 exams and will join the ARB Architects register in early 2025. Josh joined the practice back in 2019, following the completion of his undergraduate degree in Architecture and Planning at the UWE. Since then, Josh has become one of the first Architectural Apprentices in the Southwest, working in practice alongside studying he obtained a First Class Honours in his March (Part 2) and has now completed is Part 3. Outside of the office, Josh has been heavily involved with the RIBA Exeter Branch, previously being the Branch Treasurer and now a Committee Member. Josh has a passion for travel being a former Erasmus exchange student and enjoys long distance cycling and kayaking.

Celebratory Post 2 of 2... KTA are also delighted to congratulate and introduce Elliot McCall who just passed his RIBA Part 3 exams and will join the ARB Architects register in early 2025. Having been with KTA since summer 2019, Elliot has a passion for Passive House design and NET Zero Carbon approaches. Elliot has experience in a wide range of sectors, including attractions, sports, residential, healthcare, commercial, education and hospitality; assisting and leading on a number of projects from hospitals, local health centres, hotels, bespoke housing, large residential developments, rugby and football stadiums, and attractions including several for Merlin Entertainments. Elliot has a breadth of experience, assisting clients from brief development to project handover. When not hard at work, Elliot enjoys cooking (indoors and outdoors - weather-permitting!), skiing in the Alps, exploring the countryside with his dog in tow, and gardening in the spring and summer months. A fun fact about Elliot is his obsession for Christmas!

Andrew Morris has been at KTA for almost six years, after spending a year living and working in Shenzhen, China. Since joining KTA he has worked on a variety of projects particularly focusing on the detailed design and construction phases of projects. For the last couple of years Andrew has been worked mainly on Healthcare projects and thoroughly enjoys collaborating with NHS colleagues on vital project across the South West. In his spare time Andrew enjoys various different sports such as Surfing, Skateboarding, Cycling and Paddleboarding. Also, as an associate lecturer at the University of Plymouth School of Architecture, Andrew shares his knowledge with the next generation of architects.

We love to celebrate and our Christmas party was one for the books! 🎉🎄 The KTA team had a blast at our Christmas party last Friday. We kicked things off with some drinks, office awards, and Secret Santa in our cozy office Winslade Park. It was so much fun to exchange gifts and recognize each other's hard work this year. We then headed down to Harry's Restaurant for a festive lunch and then moved onto a few others bars in Exeter.

Last week, we had the pleasure of teaming up with the National Trust and KTA to plant trees at Cod Wood, Teign Valley. As a group, we planted over 100 trees! 🌲 This initiative is part of the National Trust’s goal to plant 20 million trees, each capable of removing up to a tonne of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Not only did we have a brilliant day of working together as a team, but it was also inspiring to know that we each individually have contributed to a cleaner environment in Teign Valley. Thank you to the amazing rangers with the National Trust! Charles Berry MRICS | John Delve | Lewis Watts | Will Hodges | Julia Stawowczyk | Jordan Lawrence | Rebecca Broome | Robert Nickels | Shelley Oliver

Wow, an amazing £3,500 worth of toys collected for this year’s The Salvation Army Christmas Toy Appeal! Well done Devon Contractors for organising us all. KTA are delighted to have been part of this and being able to help make a difference to so many children this Christmas.

Introducing Jolanda joined KTA in August 2024 as Company Accountant. Jolanda moved to the UK from Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2003 and has moved around the UK and Germany since then as her husband was in the Army, they are happily married with 3 daughters. Jolanda loves travelling and her next port of call will be somewhere in Oceania. In her spare time she likes to discover new music and loves eating at Pho in Exeter. If you can’t find Jolanda enjoying some Vietnamese soup you will find her reading fantasy/fiction or studying to complete her CIMA qualifications.