Ali Ellis

Ali Ellis

MEng

Senior Professional

Ali has wide-ranging experience across both new-build and refurbishment projects, with particular expertise in working with constrained urban buildings, major Grade I listed sites, cultural institutions, and complex refurbishments.

She demonstrates a strong capability in navigating the technical and heritage challenges associated with historically significant structures, such as the highly complex refurbishment of the British Academy at Nos.10-11 Carlton Terrace, a Grade I Listed Georgian building on London’s Carlton House Terrace. The project involved providing three new double-height event spaces across basement and ground level within the existing Grade II* listed structure, which had been heavily altered since its original construction. Her role as Project Engineer included overseeing a substantial refurbishment that upgraded events spaces and created a 220-seat auditorium, incorporating environmental performance upgrades and achieving the distinction of being the first Grade I listed building in Westminster to have double-glazing installed.

Ali’s experience with listed structures extends to her work at the British Museum, where she has contributed to a wide variety of projects as part of a framework consultancy arrangement, ranging from small specific projects advising on displaying exhibits to gallery refurbishments and wider-ranging strategic advice.

Her work also includes King’s Hall Leisure Centre in Hackney, a Grade II listed former public bathhouse from 1897, where she carried out detailed structural condition surveys and designed repairs to the complex iron hammerbeam trussed roof over the sports hall. She assisted with the Museum of the Home’s masterplan realisation and contributed to accessibility improvements at the University of Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College.