WA 100 practice sees 10% hike in workloads

Profit at Broadway Malyan headed north again last year after problems at an unnamed scheme in the UK blew a near 拢3 million hole in the firm鈥檚 accounts the 12 months before.

The firm had been forced to book a 拢2.8 million exceptional item which it said 鈥渞elates to an onerous contract for a mixed-use development which was entered into during the recent recession鈥 in the year to April 2016.

But in its latest report and accounts, the WA Top 100 firm saw pre-tax rise from 拢600,000 to 拢2.4m in the year to April 2017.

 

Bm pic2. riba north, liverpool (h+c)

The centre in Liverpool is the RIBA鈥檚 first outside its London base

 

The UK, where it completed the RIBA North centre for architecture building in Liverpool earlier this year, is still the largest market for the firm with 拢21.5m of business coming from its domestic market but more than 50% of Broadway Malyan鈥檚 business is from overseas.

The firm, which employs close to 500 people across 16 offices including London, Madrid, Shanghai and Santiago in Chile, said it had also won its first major design job in the US 鈥 a $100m cruise terminal in Miami.

Revenue at the business was up 10% to 拢50.6m.