In two decades at BDP, Paul Owen has worked across three core sectors – education, higher education and healthcare – being most recently involved in the Manchester Engineering Campus at University of Manchester. Last year he took on the role of technical delivery lead, driving a more co-ordinated approach to specification and technical issues across BDP. The move is intended to provide tools and guidance and achieve better consistency, although specification-writing itself rests with project teams because, he says, “We believe specification is part of design.”

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