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16 September 2026

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HLM recruit blue light expert

21 Aug HLM Architects has recruited Russell Geary as associate, emergency services lead, to support the design of sensitive, high-security public-sector environments.

Russell Geary
Russell Geary

Geary brings more than a decade of specialist experience in classified public-sector projects, developing and delivering innovative and award-winning bluelight schemes for police forces throughout England and Wales. HLM says his appointment will reinforce the firm's commitment to creating secure, resilient and people-centred environments that place safety, dignity and wellbeing at the heart of design.

Based in HLM’s growing Birmingham studio, Geary will play a key role in expanding the practice’s emergency services offer while collaborating with colleagues across its national network. His expertise will not only strengthen HLM’s presence across the Midlands but also enhance the practice’s capability in delivering complex, high-security and classified public-sector projects throughout the UK.

Geary joined the Architects Registration Board (ARB) in 2011 and has spent the past 10 years specialising work for police forces across England and Wales. Throughout his career, he has developed a reputation for designing trauma-informed, secure environments that promote the safety, dignity, welfare and wellbeing of both staff and detainees, HLM says.

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