Royal Society of Ulster Architects

A ground-up rebuild for Northern Ireland's professional body for chartered architects, consolidating two sites into one modern platform.

From challenge to outcome

Challenge

WordPress sites need maintained, and this site hadn't been maintained for a while. An outdated bloated Elementor build, plus a separate standalone site for the Ask an Architect service that needed folding in without losing its identity.

Solution

A complete rebuild with clean information architecture, merging two sites into one manageable platform. Content was restructured and trimmed, and the Ask an Architect section was integrated as an independently manageable area within the main site.

Outcome

One unified site that the RSUA team can maintain themselves, covering everything from awards and events to public advisory services, without the overhead of managing two separate platforms.

The RSUA had been running on an ageing build that hadn't been maintained, with years of legacy content that had grown unwieldy. On top of that, their Ask an Architect service was living on a completely separate site (askanarchitect-ni.com), meaning two sites to maintain with no shared infrastructure. We rebuilt the whole thing from scratch, bringing both sites under one roof while keeping Ask an Architect manageable as its own section. The new site handles a genuinely broad remit: events, CPD programmes, awards, job listings, a bookshop, membership benefits, and news. The focus was on making all of that findable and current, so the RSUA team can actually keep it updated without needing a developer on speed dial.