Scott Brownrigg appoint Head of Design Management

Scott Brownrigg have appointed Senior Project Manager, Shyamala Duraisingam as Director to their new Design Management Unit.

Shyamala, qualified as a Civil Engineer with Architecture and has worked on many large-scale
international projects, most recently in Mexico City where she was Senior Design Manager for Foster and Partners on the new 750,000sq m International Airport in Mexico City.

Whilst in Mexico City, she was also Director of Project Management at Turner & Townsend, PM Director responsible for Puerto Vallarta Airport with Currie & Brown.

During her seven years at Fosters, Shyamala also worked on Tocumen international Airport in Panama
City and was Senior Project Manager for 12 Apple stores across Hong Kong and China.

Prior to this, she spent a short period with Zaha Hadid Architects working on a variety of projects,
including the Valencia Parque Central design competition.

Before becoming a Design Manager, Shyamala was a Senior Civil and Structural Engineer for over 20 years, working for the likes of Santiago Calatrava in Valencia for eight years and other leading engineering
firms including on projects in collaboration with Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel in Spain and Portugal.

Shyamala is an invited Lecturer at London University, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture on the
Practice and Project Management module, third year MEng degree course.

As well as leading the Project and Design Management areas on Scott Brownrigg’s own projects,
Shyamala will head the newly formed and independent Design Management Unit.

“The Vision for this Unit is to coordinate and manage interactions between design and design related disciplines that enable project success at every stage, from concept to procurement, construction and operation,” said Shyamala.

Offering design management support to clients and developers, as well as assistance to Project
Managers, the unit will provide specialised design management and coordination of design teams on
large-scale projects and portfolios. Thus freeing Project Managers to concentrate on the commercial
demands of the projects.

In addition, it will provide design management support to architects and other designers as their
“Trusted Partners”, where the demands of complex projects require dedicated management of the
multidisciplinary design teams and their deliverables. Ensuring alignment to the project brief and
baselines.

As part of this “Trusted Partner” service and dependent on location, Design Management Unit can
offer services such as Design and Set Up Manager on large international projects. This includes
offering full project set up in the host country to clients and other architectural and engineering
consultancies, including managing the process of finding local Architects and Engineers and enabling
an effective “Stop Gap” typical between international and local teams by effectively managing the local
/ International interface.

On the launch of the Design Management Unit, Shyamala said: “I am tremendously excited to be responsible for growing a design management service. We aim to make it unique in its ability to combine technical experience and design management expertise, in order to render services bespoke to each project. These will carry the full weight of in-depth technical, procurement and construction understanding to arrive at integrated solutions that successfully “armour clad” the project against the typical problems during all stages of the project.”

Design Management Unit is already showcasing its full scope of services for the headquarters of a
high profile confidential sports entity in the UK, being designed by Scott Brownrigg.

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