A gallery of images for the Manchester Metropolitan University Science and Engineering building and Institute of Sport have been published today with showcase images of the design by BDP, Shove Media and Virtual Planit. Mike worked on this project from … Read More

I have recently been gifted an old Mac Pro 5,1 from around 2010. After a long time looking at tutorials on the internet I decided to get a new ‘metal’ enabled graphics card to update the OS X to ‘Mojave’ … Read More

The RIBA North West Design awards were held at the Manchester Metropolitan University Art and Design Building on 8th May 2019. The Ordsall Chord won both a ‘Regional Award’ and ‘Building of the Year’ award. In addition I was totally … Read More

The construction industry is a particularly backward industry. There have been a number of high profile assessments on the subject, famously the Egan and Lathan reports; since these have been published there have been many studies into our industry and … Read More

Today the events page has been added. A record of the christenings, parties, christmases, barbecues and other exciting times. Amelia and Georgia’s christenings start off this section with a great number more events coming soon. Happy reading Mike

There are photographs from my wedding. Also, a number of very special people have invited us to their weddings. Photographs of the events are collated on this page. Happy days. Along with happy memories which will be cherished for many … Read More

Today the Travel section has been added to the site. I have been very lucky to have been on a number of great holidays. Photographs of the travels are all collated here. Some of the holidays include my honeymoon in Cuba, a … Read More

The architecture page is a portfolio of all the projects that I have collaborated on during my architectural career at a number of leading architectural firms in Manchester UK. Looking further back there is also a record of my work whilst … Read More