About Digital Design Team

A personal approach, backed by proven multi-disciplinary expertise.

Instrumental in some of the most complex and innovative project successes, Digital Design Team offers a personal approach, backed by proven multi-disciplinary expertise. Through our integrity and desire to deliver solutions that make people’s lives better, we pride ourselves on our truly customer-centred approach.

Broad Experience

Our team has extensive experience with many types of commercial, and residential properties including listed buildings. Digital Design Team has worked closely with governments and public bodies across the sports, hospitality, and education sectors.

Sustainability Comes Naturally

Through our actions, as designers and implementors of technology which brings cost-saving efficiencies, Digital Design Team is enabling its clients to achieve their sustainability goals. Quality systems that provide long-lasting benefits help to reduce waste and minimise energy consumption.

Small Team Big Impact

Where the Digital Design Team excels is through its agile competence. Our team can apply its expertise to projects of any size from the smallest residential installation to some of the largest business schemes around the world – and our work has international awards to show for it. Digital Design Team strives for technical excellence and attention to detail in everything it does.

Foreseeing The Future

Our team understands that complex projects are many years in the making. Through our close relationships with key manufacturers, we have unique access to future product roadmaps and can even influence product development, meaning the team is confidently well-informed as it designs, specifies, and implements long-term projects.

Meet Our Directors

Jim Maynard
Director

With a formative engineering background in aerospace and a passion for user focused outcomes, Jim brings together software and technology to create innovative, smart thinking and practical solutions that have a positive impact for owners, users, and maintainers.

Jim’s enthusiasm for hands-on engineering will see him fabricating his own widgets to create innovative automated solutions, always thinking ‘outside of the box’ to solve problems beyond perceived constraints. With over 25 years’ experience in the AV/IT industry, Jim is highly respected and very well connected. He has a long successful track record of designing and delivering high-profile, award-winning projects, most notably for the National Assembly for Wales, Mauritius Commercial Bank, and NATO HQ in Brussels.

Read the interview ‘Designing Success’ in which Jim talks to InAVate Magazine about the many prestigious and technically complex projects he has been involved in.

Jim Read
Technology Consultant

Managing the pace of change and the increasing influence and disruption of technology on every aspect of our lives forms a major part of Jim’s expertise, where, through technical and strategic analysis, he understands the impact of digital technologies on the built environment.

With over 35 years’ experience working with international consultancy Arup, Jim has vast experience in system design, research, training and project management for telecommunications providers, consultants, and private industry both in the UK and overseas. He is well known internationally for his research into Smart and Sustainable Buildings and has published several articles and presented at many conferences around the world.

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