HISTORY - The Seventies
In 1970 ACP moved to its present offices at Northaw House in Hertfordshire and became the first practice of architects to be incorporated as an ‘unlimited liability company’.
The 70s produced one of the biggest challenges to the practice, when the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health required designs for eight hospitals and a health training institute, with the possible follow-on of a further 97 hospitals ranging from 50 to 500 beds each. In response ACP formed a consortium with other technical disciplines with an office set up in Riyadh.
Further work, predominantly in the health sector, followed in Iraq, Jordan, Oman and Sudan, expanding in the ‘80s to the Far East and West Africa. To cope with these very large projects ACP invested in its first CAD system in 1979; a move that proved to very fortuitous in the following decade.
