Defence
Defence is a dynamic, challenging and technically complex sector. Fortunately, our designers enjoy solving difficult problems.
Kevin Leek
There is a responsibility when designing spaces to ensure an openness to possibility and a conscious effort to avoid preconceived outcomes. The design process should be iterative yet focused, with a perceptible thread of thoughtfulness.
Kevin is an architect with more than three decades of local and international experience. He has strong project delivery skills, which range from the conceptual design phase to architectural detailing. All projects are undertaken with thoughtful and overarching design intent ensuring the end product responds to the market and brief. He understands the practical aspects of construction, implementation and maintenance of design in relation to quality and cost control. Kevin has a proven ability in the day-to-day running of projects, including client and stakeholder interface and coordination with the consultant team.
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Adelaide Studio’s Leadership Development Initiative
Senior management and future leaders at DesignInc Adelaide came together to create a common language to engage, mentor and develop our design team, and achieve our business strategy.
Architecture
Our architecture is first and foremost about people, making places for shelter, healing, learning, working, travelling and enjoying.
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‘It’s all connected’—Roadmapping our un-siloed, sustainable future
In a time where the urgency of climate action has never been clearer, the recent Impact X Sydney Summit served as a platform for collaborative discourse. Representing DesignInc Sydney in a panel…
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New Schools 2024 – Walcom Ngarrwa Secondary College
Walcom Ngarrwa Secondary College, a new learning facility for 1200 students, has been purposefully designed to adapt and flex to meet the evolving needs of contemporary learners, teachers and pedagogies.
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Now More Than Ever—Reflections from DesignInc Sydney’s National Reconciliation Week Panel
On Wednesday 29 May, DesignInc Sydney hosted an esteemed panel and a host of clients and industry professionals as we unpacked this year’s National Reconciliation Week theme: ‘Now More Than Ever’. This…
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Greening transport—Sustainability accolades for Sydney infrastructure
Redfern Station and PHIVE received accolades for their innovative, inclusive, and environmentally conscious designs at the 2024 Sustainability Awards and the World Green Building Council’s Sustainable Design and Performance Awards.
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Purpose-built: Claire Kirlew becomes Sydney’s newest Defence Principal
DesignInc celebrates the promotion of Claire Kirlew to Principal, who joins Sydney’s all-female defence sector leadership team. Claire’s experience has been shaped organically through a career which spans aviation (Sydney Airport Expansion),…
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Kat Povey Joins DesignInc Adelaide to Lead Design Management Services
esignInc Adelaide is pleased to announce the addition of Design Management to its multi-disciplinary studio. Recognising the increasing complexity in the design and construction industries, we are introducing this new service to provide added value to our clients and their projects. We welcome Kat Povey to our Adelaide studio and look forward to her building the Design Management capability across our team.