Cressida has spent the majority of her career in healthcare architecture and has been involved in the design of numerous large PFI hospitals, community projects and mental health facilities. These include the award-winning schemes of City of Coventry Healthcare Centre, the European Scanning Centre and the refurbishment of Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital.

Cressida also enjoys working with clients on the establishment of design standards to enable the application of consistent specifications across diverse healthcare estates. Internally, she has focused on the practice’s development of technical standards and has lectured at the RIBA on quality assurance for the architectural profession.