Welcome to Mae

Mæ Director Alex Ely has been invited to join this year's RIBA Stirling Prize jury alongside Muyiwa Oki, RIBA President, Mary Duggan, Mary Duggan Architects, David Light, Director of Autodesk and this year's sponsor, Minna Sunikka-Blank, Professor of Architecture and Environmental Policy at Cambridge University and Yana Peel, Global Head of Arts & Culture at Chanel.

The RIBA Stirling Prize jury changes each year and this year’s jury is made up of a range of leading experts who will visit each of the six shortlisted buildings. As 2023 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize we are delighted to have the opportunity to engage with the award, the winner of which will be announced on 16th October.

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.

Mæ Director Alex Ely will be this year's keynote speaker at the RIBA London Awards. The event will celebrate the most sustainable, original and inclusive buildings enriching our communities in London. The London Awards will take place on Friday, 10th May, from 6.30pm until 11 pm at RIBA HQ, 66 Portland Place, W1B 1NR.

The evening will celebrate the 76 projects shortlisted for the regional awards and reveal the winners during the evening. The audience will consist of approximately 250 guests, including representatives of the 76 shortlisted practices, their guests, RIBA Awards Judges, RIBA London Group chairs, and other stakeholders.

We're pleased to be sponsoring FOOTPRINT+, the world's most advanced international conference for the decarbonisation of the built environment. Constantly breaking new ground, it has set a precedent in the UK's swiftly-advancing and ever more integrated property and technology sectors.

Our Director Alex Ely will be chairing a panel session 'Promoting the positives in timber-framed housing' on Wednesday 8th May. Further information can be found at Footprint+.