About us
Chris Potter
Chris Potter DA DipArch RIBA ACArch Managing Director
Chris Potter founded P+HS Architects with Rowland Holmes-Smith in 1983 after working in local government and for a national healthcare private practice.
Specialist skills in complex, hospital, residential and commercial design, where his projects include:
- Hospitals and Healthcare, including acute, community, mental health hospitals, and primary care project management and LIFT schemes
- Business case advice to NHS Trusts
- PFI advice to Health Authorities, Trusts and PFI providers
- Feasibility studies and option appraisals
- Development of estate management software
- Housing for a wide range of private and public sector organisations, including £100m of housing with Home Housing Association alone over the last ten years. Projects have been carried out across many parts of the country, ranging from Newcastle in the North, to Harlow in the South and including a 4-year £30m nationwide housing programme as part of the government’s Egan Demonstration Project portfolio
- Hotels and leisure design
Chris is responsible for promotion and financial control within the practice and is a member of the RIBA Client Health Forum, a strategy group looking at the future trends in hospital and healthcare design.
The Health Forum provides architects with the opportunity of working with clients to improve the design and use of health buildings. In addition to leading architectural practices, the forum consists of highly influential clients from the Department of Health, NHS Trusts, patient organisations and experienced health planners. The forum provides a unique platform where knowledge, experience and aims of health practitioners or architects can be discussed evaluated and acted upon.
Chris has been appointed to the panel of RIBA Client Design Advisors. CDAs provide direct, independent advice that will enable clients to run their construction project efficiently and to achieve best value and high quality. A CDA assists clients from the earliest stages of a project; in strategic decision-making, stakeholder consultation, design brief development, budget-setting, feasibility studies, procurement procedures and appraisals of design proposals. The CDA acts as the hands-on champion for design quality on the project, ensuring a consistent standard from initial sketches through to final details.