Peter Caunt

Peter was the Architect for the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) for over a decade. During this time he was part of a team based at the Bush near Edinburgh and developed a portfolio of up to date farm building designs. He learnt a good deal from colleagues about engineering, mechanisation, crop storage and animal husbandry much of it relevant to farm buildings

He has travelled extensively to visit farms in the south east of Scotland and offer consultancy advice alongside his colleague Lindsay Watson. Latterly he travelled further afield to have input on projects from Dingwall Auction Mart in the north to animal research buildings in Reading in the south. He was Architect for Pig buildings at Oatridge and Easter Howgate as well as the new 400 cow dairy unit for Red Kite farms near Henley.

He is able to act as Planning Supervisor under the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM).

The end of the twentieth century saw an increase in diversification activity on farms. SAC expanded its capability under Peters’ guidance to provide a consultancy, covering conversion of farm buildings and land, to new uses. These included equestrian activities, four x four driving, housing, holiday homes, farm shops, offices, light industry, visitor farms and golf courses.

Peter graduated from Edinburgh University in 1980 and worked in the fields of conservation, housing and commerce in Scotland, England, USA, Australia and Tanzania before he went to SAC.

James Yip

James worked with Quercus as a vacation student and went on to become a full time employee at the end of 2005. He graduated from Edinburgh University and has had experience in Finland and Hong Kong as well as his erchitectural training. He is now a fully integrated member of our team taking on duties across the whole range of our work from computer aided design to construction work on sites. He is responsible for research into sustainable constructions from timber cladding to installation of renewable energy systems.