Welcome to Mae

We are pleased to be a founder member of 'Architects' Action for Affordable Housing'

A good home is the foundation everyone should enjoy, a human right that too many are living without. As architects we recognise the role we can play in helping to improve housing through design, planning and advocacy. We have come together to demand that the next government do better. We are calling for positive change that will take a collective effort to achieve. Please join our campaign. Follow the link below.

We recently held our first B Corp® ‘Continued Improvement Plan’ workshop.

Since certifying in early 2024, our thoughts have been ‘what's next?’.

Taking inspiration from the proposed new B Corp® standards, our team gathered at Mæ’s Sands End Arts and Community Centre, and together we have outlined our future positive impact aspirations and objectives.

Over the next three years we will continue to embed high social and environmental standards in both our projects and throughout the practice. We will regularly publish Mæ’s impact statements, ensuring transparency and accountability.

We are delighted to see how many new B Corp® certified architectural practices there are now in the UK. We are already collaborating and supporting each other to make real change within the built environment industry, including delivering on the RIBA 2030 Challenge and Architects Declare climate pledges.

We hope to see many of our collaborators at the Louder Than Words B Corp festival in September.

Director Alex Ely has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the 4th Athens ESG Forum. The Athens ESG Forum is the most prestigious conference about ESG and sustainable development in Greece. The Forum will be addressing key issues concerning the entrepreneurial environment. In 2024, more companies will begin to take ESG seriously, not simply as an exercise in compliance and risk management, but as an opportunity to redesign their business models from the ground up.

Our Director Alex Ely has been profiled in Building magazine and BD online. In an interview with Ben Flatman he explores the evolution and future of the practice, working at the scale of the city to the room. He reflects on his influences from education, from his time and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and on the role architects can have in civic society.

Founder Director Alex Ely has been interviewed for Studio International magazine.

Studio was first published in April 1893 under the title The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. It rapidly established itself as one of the most successful fine art periodicals in the English-speaking world.

Among others, it featured the work of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and the architects Charles Rennie Mackintosh and CFA Voysey.

In the interview with Veronica Simpson, Alex explores the secret to making buildings that other architects admire and envy, but which are dedicated to the greater good.