Bond Bryan is a future‑focused, strategic group of designers working across architecture, interior design, landscape, and masterplanning. With nine studios across the UK, we are recognised as one of the leading practices in higher education design – shaping campuses, research facilities, and learning environments that support world‑class teaching, innovation, and student experience.

Our ethos – more than design – guides everything we do. It means evaluating the impact of our work at every level, and creating environments that maximise potential and deliver real value – for the people who use them, the institutions who operate them, and the communities they serve.

Grounded in seven core principles and strengthened by a supportive, collaborative culture, we bring together big‑picture thinking with technical excellence to deliver higher education projects that inspire – now and for generations to come – alongside work across the wider built environment that is purposeful, sustainable, and built for the future.

Area – Transforming Education Spaces for the Future

Area delivers high-quality, future-ready environments across the higher education sector. From lecture theatres, teaching rooms and laboratories to libraries, wellness hubs and social spaces, we design and deliver spaces where students and staff can thrive. Our experience spans complex, high-spec facilities such as CL3 teaching and research labs, and engineering workshops, all delivered while supporting business continuity and long-term estate planning. We understand the operational and financial pressures universities face – tight funding, strict sustainability goals, and term-time constraints. Our team brings proven strategies for managing change, integrating technology and engaging stakeholders to create inspiring, practical and sustainable campus environments.

Helvar is an international lighting technologies company specialising in intelligent and energy-saving lighting solutions. Intelligent lighting is essential to achieving optimal building sustainability and to supporting the wellbeing of every person using a space. Helvar lighting control solutions help to create smart environments built for the future, harnessing data, creating tangible insights and integrating seamlessly with other systems.With over 100 years of expertise, Helvar serves its customers locally with offices in Finland, UK and Sweden and via their global network of partners in over 80 countries.

With over 300,000 global projects spanning all industries and applications, Helvar’s offering features wired and wireless lighting control solutions, environmental sensing solutions, and a cloud-based digital services platform, forming an end-to-end solution for smart buildings of the future.

Pinsent Masons has one of the most established Higher Education legal teams in the UK and a long-standing national reputation for providing market leading advice to the university and private higher education sector, which has been built up over more than 20 years. They are trusted advisers to over 70 Higher Education providers and are ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 and Chambers.

We look forward to sharing our knowledge and experience in estate digitisation.

We’ll be demonstrating how data can be captured to reveal insights and drive space optimisation. Discussing the role of use cases and user journeys in building design. Why a technology strategy focused on flexibility and adaptability comes into its own at deployment, how we’re helping universities navigate the challenges associated with legacy systems with cost effective strategies that maximise current assets to meet the highest contemporary security standards, and more.

Find Nu Xform on Stand 8 for practical solutions to achieve cost savings quickly, capture ROI and realise a more connected, efficient, sustainable and secure campus

Westwood-Energy design, build and maintain solar PV and EV charging systems for Education, Commercial and Agricultural clients across the UK. Our focus is on making solar PV easy, handling everything from initial feasibility (design, structural and electrical surveys, planning and grid applications) through to engineering and construction, and ongoing real-time monitoring and maintenance for the lifetime of the system.

Our ethos places quality, safety and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. All our products are manufacturer certified, aligned with industry regulations and sourced through sustainable and ethical supply chains.We work to the finest of details, starting by understanding your site and requirements, we then create a 'Digital Twin' of your solution to accurately model supply and demand, from which we produce a comprehensive business case, including a purchase price and a zero-capital fully-funded option, giving you the information required for your decision to install renewable generation.

We are a multi award-winning architecture and building consultancy practice, with a long-standing reputation for designing sustainable, inclusive spaces where people and communities thrive. Across nine UK offices, our diverse team delivers impactful projects in a wide range of sectors, both locally and internationally. In higher education, our work reflects a commitment to student and staff wellbeing, and estate resilience. We create adaptable environments that support new ways of teaching and learning, prioritising health, inclusion and carbon reduction. Our designs help universities meet evolving demands while inspiring the next generation of professionals through engaging and future-focused spaces.

Architextural, part of the William Smith Group, is the UK’s largest stockist of architectural film brands. These self-adhesive films offer a smart, sustainable way to refurbish university interiors without major disruption or cost.

With thousands of finishes that replicate natural materials like wood, stone and metal, they deliver stunning transformations while extending the life of existing surfaces. Ideal for lecture theatres, libraries, accommodation and common areas, architectural films provide a durable, cost-effective alternative to traditional renovation.

Quick to install and easy to maintain, they are already making a lasting impact across higher education settings throughout the UK.

Opportunity to meet and speak to the AUDE team, discuss opportunities for working together and discover areas where AUDE could support you.