Sigurd Max Fordham was a British designer, engineer and pioneer of sustainable design and environmentally friendly engineering.
17 Facts About Max Fordham
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Max Fordham was the founder of building services engineering firm Max Fordham LLP.
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Max Fordham settled in well there and Molly decided to return to England.
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Max Fordham chose to specialise in chemistry, physics, maths and mineralogy.
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Max Fordham found university disappointing and began to have doubts about becoming a scientist.
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Max Fordham enjoyed the company of people studying the humanities and had shared rooms with Simon Hepworth-Nicholson, a school friend and artist.
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Max Fordham designed the metered fan convection heating for Harvey Court, Cambridge, and was named as the inventor when this was patented.
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Max Fordham resisted being pigeonholed into the conventional boxes of engineering.
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Max Fordham was always interested in the whole building, taking a creative but essentially practical approach to building services design, starting "with the edge of the universe as its boundary and then quickly narrowing down to the specific problem".
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Max Fordham did not like imposing his will on people, and developed a philosophical justification for reconstituting the practice as a democracy.
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Max Fordham was a visiting professor in building and design at the University of Bath from 1990 until his death.
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Max Fordham was an external examiner at the Architectural Association from 1991 to 1997 and from 2007 to 2011.
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Max Fordham's practice has designed the building services for very many projects since 1966.
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Max Fordham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1992 and an honorary fellow of the RIBA in 1996.
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Max Fordham was President of the Institution in 2001, after being Vice President in 1999 and President-elect in 2000.
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Max Fordham was on the judging panel for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2005 and in 2006 was voted into the inaugural Building Hall of Fame, a list of 40 people who have had the most significant positive impact on the UK construction industry in the last 40 years.
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Max Fordham won the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2008.