Matter is taking action to address the climate emergency. Guided by the Institution of Structural Engineers’ Sustainability Resource Map, these are the seven actions we take to make our designs as sustainable as we possibly can.

It was a real honour to find ourselves shortlisted in the Best of Royal Greenwich Business Awards 2022, alongside such an impressive list of fantastic local businesses. We were particularly thrilled to be Digital Award finalists, recognised for our use of digital technologies to improve our service, raise awareness and better serve our customers.

Five good reasons why you'll want to join our team at Matter

Creative Structural Design From End-to-End

How Matter found a unique and inspiring new home in the Design District

The Curious Case of Paper As Structure

Structural design using paper

Adaptive Reuse of the Good Old Buildings

Recycle and Reused

Shifting Mindset to Materialising Collaborations at Matter

As a widely known ecologically beneficial and culturally rooted building material in Asia and parts of South America, Bamboo has led the steady economic and infrastructural transformation of many local craftsman communities into enterprises in the rural to peri-urban areas. Its marvellously adaptive nature makes it suitable for a variety of different building elements - all the way from scaffolding and formwork, to foundations, walls, and roofs. Here are five case studies that portray Bamboo at its functional, aesthetic, and structural best:

The value systems around production, consumption, design, and decision-making pioneered in the Chinese and other Asian cultures, are inseparable from sustainability and circularity. The simplest example is that of Bamboo - from chopsticks to hairpins to mats and building structures, a material that is as strong as it is versatile and as cost-effective as it is eco-friendly.