I wrote in this column a couple of years ago about how we need to better communicate the process of architecture in order for people to realise its value. Having spent the last couple of years with always at least one project on site, and what always feels like too many deadlines and urgent queries, it’s been easy to think this was me at my more idealistic.

It often feels like there is little worth communicating about my average week: another DTM; another site walk; site observations filled with statements like ‘first fix in progress’; a few more calls in a day than it feels should be possible; and far, far too many conversations about fire that start ‘well, before the Building Safety Act…’.

There is little in this everyday that can be easily communicated in an interesting or engaging way. Too many stories require so much explanation that the joke is no longer funny. Too many conversations are too technical for the complexity of the coordination or problem solving to be understood by the uninitiated.

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