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Architect says honour for 3D printing NHS face masks was ‘surreal surprise’
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Richard Foxley has described his New Year’s honour for his unpaid role in mobilising architects to start 3D-printing face masks for NHS workers as a ‘surreal surprise’
The Edinburgh-based architect and senior associate at HTA Design was handed a British Empire Medal (BEM) in recognition of his ‘voluntary service to the NHS during the Covid-19 response’.
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In April, a small HTA team began using four printers, relocated from its Edinburgh and London offices to employees’ homes, to make the personal protective equipment.
Working with HOK’s London Studio, Foxley’s team created an open-source pattern enabling practices’ 3D printers to manufacture plastic headsets and went on to set up the