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the inventor when this was patented. While
Weatherfoil gave him a generous introduction to the building industry, they wanted to promote him away from design and into representing the firm. By this time, he realised this direction included all of the building services: water supply, drainage, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, as well as electrical engineering and he wanted more time to develop his detailing skills.
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the library, repairing dining room oak chairs, building desks and turning spare parts for the electric polishing machines. It was an apprenticeship as such, and useful work tended to extend beyond the allotted hour. This was where
Fordham first identified that he liked to design and create – the roots of his career stem from there.
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pigeonholed into the conventional boxes of engineering. He was always interested in the whole building, taking a creative but essentially practical approach to building services design, starting "with the edge of the universe as its boundary and then quickly narrowing down to the specific problem".
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During World War Two, in the summer of 1940, Fordham went with his mother to stay with his uncle, Christopher Swabey, in
Jamaica, to avoid the bombing of London. Fordham settled in well there and Molly decided to return to England. However, while crossing the Atlantic in 1942, her boat sank and she
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Fordham as a development engineer at Weatherfoil Heating Systems Ltd in 1958, where he worked until 1961. There he completed a wide variety of design and research work. He designed the metered fan convection heating for Harvey Court, Cambridge, and was named as
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Fordham did not like imposing his will on people, and developed a philosophical justification for reconstituting the practice as a democracy. "Anyone fit to be an employee is fit to be a partner" was the slogan. They had difficulty getting a lawyer to take the proposition seriously until a young
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National College of Heating, Ventilation, Refrigeration and Fan Engineering before starting work.
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Fordham found university disappointing and began to have doubts about becoming a scientist. He enjoyed the company of people studying the humanities and had shared rooms with Simon
Hepworth-Nicholson, a school friend and artist. The professor of
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887:"The RIBA Stirling Prize 2005"
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514:in 1984. He received an
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371:University of Canterbury
246:Early career (1958–1966)
151:Early life and education
141:environmentally friendly
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317:University of Cambridge
311:University of Edinburgh
574:"Max Fordham obituary"
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424:, Newport, South Wales
338:University of Plymouth
176:Dartington Hall School
147:firm Max Fordham LLP.
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488:Lord's Cricket Ground
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348:University of Bristol
328:University of Reading
1387:People from Highgate
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1037:"Practice structure"
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155:Fordham was born in
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