Renowned for his natural rapport with clients, builders and consultants, Andrew’s early professional schooling was with UK practice Purcell, where he worked on the ambitious Sammy Ofer Wing of the National Maritime Museum.

When Andrew joined BIJL in 2012, he put this large-team project experience and an astute awareness for the importance of detail to fully realised and expressive buildings to work on our projects. Conversant with working across a range of typologies and scales, Andrew is equally at home resolving the finer aspects of an interior detail as he is onsite championing client needs and design integrity. An advocate for robust education architecture, Andrew’s approach is always people first.

Through 25 years working locally and internationally, Chelsea has experience comprehensively aced. From palatial London residences to defence buildings, health sector, shopping centre and heritage retail conversions, Chelsea’s project experience has furnished her with impeccable design and project management skills. She is also a stickler for project schedule and budget deliverables.

Chelsea’s comprehensive contractual, accessibility and building code knowledge is applied cross-practice. She relishes the opportunity to work on heritage buildings under revision to meet contemporary needs - projects that exercise the ‘jigsaw puzzle’ demands of the vocation, pitting project pragmatics and stringent regulations against client brief and creativity.

A capable and inventive all-rounder, Giles commandeers BIJL’s digital design outputs. He has a self-ascribed mission to actualise the potential of architectural software to enable us to better explore and test our ideas, allowing clients to experience and engage with their design sooner in the process.

Prior to joining BIJL, Giles worked for a social enterprise prefabricating smart affordable homes in remote Malaysian villages, and at a Newcastle practice working through a range of project types: aged care, houses, and master-planning. Working across projects at BIJL, Giles is always testing, and challenging us to look with open eyes.

Natasha embodies the BIJL ethos of tackling ambitious architectural ideas while making the most of available resources. Having joined the practice during her architecture studies, Natasha brought with her the experience of having worked on a 34 home subdivision development, where she was exposed to everything from street planning to kitchen cabinetry design. It is this ability to shift scales that she now leverages across numerous BIJL projects.

Natasha’s other talent is material and colour. She understands how the language of texture, shape and colour play an instrumental role in the realisation of a project’s big ideas. She applies this discipline to our work, helping to create compelling interior visualisations for clients.

Rachael is naturally curious and methodical, knowing that great design comes through great process. A nimble thinker, her capacity to bring concepts to life through the small details and big ideas alike has drawn out new potential design avenues for BIJL.

Prior to joining BIJL, she undertook an instrumental six-month intensive design studio in Denmark, and worked at large practices HASSELL and Fitzpatrick + Partners, honing her instincts for successful projects of any size. She provides intelligent, creative insights across all phases of the architectural process to keep our processes and design outputs sharp.