Jessica Spencer
Associate
Jessica Spencer is an Associate working at Cartwright Pickard. She has contributed to some of the practice’s most high-profile office, mixed-use and BTR/ residential schemes across Manchester, Leeds, and Stoke-on-Trent, with experience in architectural and interior design. Her professional interests focus on the future of work, as well as prioritising strategies that enhance mental and physical wellbeing for occupiers and is currently studying for WELL AP accreditation. She was one of the winners of the 2022 BCO Next Gen ‘Future of the Workplace’ ideas competition with an entry titled “How can we redesign the office to optimise energy, mood and productivity?” Clare Ashmore, COO of Parkeray called it “a thought provoking topic and an inspirational speech”
Jess has recently completed her role as Associate for Island, one of Manchester’s largest new build office buildings on John Dalton Street for HBD. As a ‘Next-Gen’ workplace, Island is designed in response to how working life has evolved, post-pandemic. The development is targeting net zero embodied and operational carbon, BREEAM Excellent, Nabers 5* and WELL enabled. Jess is a firm advocate for equality in the industry.
She is a core member of both Cartwright Pickard and RIBA NW’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion working groups, as well as an active member of Women in Property NW. Jess also volunteers as a mentor for the next generation of designers through the RIBA and Manchester School of Architecture. Jessica Spencer MArch ARB graduated from Manchester School of Architecture in 2017, where she gained a distinction for her MArch degree before qualifying as an architect in 2019.
