Laura McLaughlin

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About Laura McLaughlin

Laura McLaughlin BSc(Hons) MArch RIBA RIAS ARB Laura is a Director with over 17 years’ experience across several sectors including masterplanning, mixed-use, residential, and education, working across a diverse range of projects. She grew up in rural Aberdeenshire and studied at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen where her fascination in residential led design and placemaking started with a sensitive intervention project in a rural community during her Masters year. Laura leads design and delivery of projects, she has a creative and focussed approach, with the local community at the heart of each project. She understands the complicated balance of crafting sustainable communities, considering the environment, and developing schemes that carefully balance social value and viability.RM_A RM_A are a long-established award winning, RIBA Chartered practice who specialise in regeneration, mixed use, and residential development. They have a long history of successfully designing and delivering projects for a wide range of clients for over 40 years. RM_A approach every project on its own merits, engaging with local communities and stakeholders, understanding the questions and opportunities that each site presents, and crafting the best solution to those questions. RM_A combine good architecture and sustainable new places for people to live, work and play, often mending underutilised gaps in existing streets and neighbourhoods, creating entire new communities from backland sites, often in sensitive settings.