Francois Mertens

François is a Senior Associate and Head of Technical Design at Bennetts Associates. He has extensive knowledge and experience across all stages of design and construction, with particular expertise in technical design and project delivery. François is currently involved in several projects, with a strong focus on mentoring younger architects as they develop their skills in the later stages of project delivery. He is also leading the development of a standardised library of details to support greater consistency and efficiency across the practice’s work.

His past projects include the offices for Meta in London’s King’s Cross, the JLR Global Headquarters (where he was Project Architect), the Peel Centre for the Metropolitan Police in Hendon, and the low-carbon retrofit of a 1940s office building on Hammersmith Grove — one of the first completed commissions by Low Carbon Workplace.

François joined Bennetts Associates in 2007, following his work on the London Olympic Aquatics Centre competition — a joint venture between Bennetts Associates and Studio Zoppini Architetti in Milan, where he also lived and taught at university.