Top Mayo firm ACT announces strategic partnership with Allta Ecology

ACT (Accelerating Change Together CLG) has announced a formal strategic partnership with Allta Ecology Ltd, appointing Principal Ecologist Jack Kennedy as ACT’s new Ecology Lead.

This collaboration marks a significant step in ACT’s mission to use architecture as a tool for ecological resilience and systemic care by integrating specialist ecological expertise directly into the design process from the very beginning.

In a move that further strengthens the practice’s interdisciplinary team, ACT has also engaged Siobhán Keogh as Digital Communications Designer & Project Support.

With a background in architecture and a recent postgraduate qualification in ecological management. Siobhán will bridge the gap between ACT’s technical research and its public voice, ensuring that complex ecological narratives are accessible to communities and policymakers alike.

The partnership and new team formation respond to the urgent need for a built environment that goes beyond ‘doing less harm’ and instead actively restores ecosystems and strengthens community resilience.

By bringing ecology to the forefront of the earliest design stages, ACT is ensuring nature-positive outcomes are embedded across its portfolio of housing, public realm and urban strategies.

‘By bringing both Jack and Siobhán into our core team, we are ensuring our designs don’t just sit on a landscape but actively contribute to its restoration.

It is about moving beyond sustainability toward a regenerative model of practice.’

Philip Corrigan, Development Manager, ACT said: "The expanded team will immediately focus on providing ecological and narrative input for a range of secured ACT projects.

This work is rooted in ACT’s model of critical spatial practice, combining listening and research-led design to advance equity and ecological responsibility."