The GA Journal

Jared Mensah, Director of Greenway Associate and our cultural industries expert, recently attended the International Museum Construction Congress (IMCC) in Sultanate of Oman in February 2024. We share some of the highlights from this event.

Greenway Associates have been providing cost consultancy for the Hospitality industry for over 25 years. Many of the bars we have worked with are memorable, and as new products arise in this marketplace, we thought we would take a look at just 4 materials that we love for bar tops - Granite, Onyx, Pyrolave & Pewter.

Following our work at The Hoxton Hotel in Shepherds Bush, our appreciation of bricks went to a new level! In this article, we take a deeper dive into the brick supply chain, product quality and design - an industry that is very much alive in the UK. 

This year, Greenway Associates have made a concerted effort to gather as much benchmarking cost data as possible on sustainable materials and building approaches, so that we can be more responsive to this need.

Jared Mensah, Director of Greenway Associate and our cultural industries expert, recently attended the International Museum Construction Congress (IMCC) in Dubai in March 2022. We share some of the highlights from this event.

Jared Mensah & Liam McFaul from Greenway Associates enjoyed a wonderful evening at the Museum + Heritage Awards last week, which was made even more special by have 2 projects shortlisted for awards.

We are delighted to announce that Greenway Associates is the Quantity Surveyor for Richmond Buildings - Firmdale Hotel’s latest London project.

Greenway Associates are delighted to welcome Warren Lisher to our team, as a Senior Quantity Surveyor. Warren has extensive QS experience and comes to us from Cape Town in South Africa. As he had 10 days of quarantine to while away in a Heathrow hotel, we decided to keep him busy (for at least 10 minutes) by asking him to share some information about himself with our readers.

We are delighted to announce that Greenway Associates has been appointed as the Cost Manager & Contract Administrator for exhibition work and content delivery for the UK Holocaust Memorial & Learning Centre. Greenway Associates have been working on cultural & experiential projects for over 25+ years. Jared Mensah will be leading our team on this project.

Coal Drops Yard is the prize jewel of the multi-billion pound King’s Cross Central regeneration scheme, which has emerged from London’s vast derelict railworks in this area.

As those looming lockdown clouds slowly start to clear, those in the hotel industry have seen the sign of life they were looking for. Many regard this moment as a unique opportunity to reset and rethink the way things work. So what does the resurrection of hotels look like?

James Pockson is an Architect and Partner at IDK. He explains to us how their practice has grown in 2020, how he has coped with working from home and how he sees the office of the future.

Greenway Associates, the hospitality and cultural experts interview Ann Curtis, founder of Museum Insider. Ann shares her research on how museums are responding to meet the social justice issues spotlighted in 2020.

Gary Marshall is one of the directors of Tonik Associates, a leading brand design agency specialising in hospitality, workplace, retail and residential. We spoke to Gary about the year that was 2020, and what’s next.

In a year where “home” has never meant so much, we thought we would take a closer look at one of the favourite homes in the 2020 Open House London event.

We take a look at 15 Clerkenwell Close and a conceptual skyscraper design, both designed with a stone exoskeleton. The exoskeleton trend is popping up around London, but fabricated in stone as opposed to concrete or steel, it provides intriguing cost and environmental benefits.

For the first time since it was opened over 200 years ago, the public have access to a towpath linking Paddington Basin and Little Venice - all thanks to this eye catching skyscraper.

In the lead up to the much awaited “Alice: Curiouser & Curiouser” exhibition, the V&A held their first ever VR (virtual reality) event. It provides a preview of the whole exhibition which opens in March 2021.

We spoke to Pip Simpson, Director of Design, Estate and FuturePlan, to explore how the V&A is approaching a post-pandemic world.

Greenway Associates recently came across this new product, that uses traditional terra cotta, and incorporates the latest building technologies.

We've had our eye on this global trend for some time and we think it's about to take off in the UK. Here's our opinion on this trend, as well our favourite hotels with gallery-worthy art collections in the UK.

The glass roof at the new location enables Annabels elite members to dine out under the sun and stars all year round, seven days a week, for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night drinks.

If you have ever found yourself wondering around Soho, you might have stumbled across a noticeably different building called The Duck + Rice.