About the practice.
A family-led English practice, in continuous private practice since 1995.
Quiet, exacting, and relentlessly hands-on.
MJ Design & Building was founded in 1995 by Joga Singh as a West London builder undertaking private residential work. Three decades on, the firm operates principally upon substantial private commissions across Greater London, the Home Counties and the English shires—though our manner of working has not materially altered.
We remain family-led, deliberately modest in scale, and present upon every site we undertake. The work is the credential.
Architecture is built by hand, by the people on site.
A house is built but once. We treat every commission accordingly—whether it be a new principal residence in Buckinghamshire, or the wholesale refurbishment of an Edwardian villa in Northwood.
The Practice · Established 1995Six propositions that govern the work.
Discretion
Many of our projects are undertaken under non-disclosure. We do not publicise or otherwise trade upon our clients’ commissions without their express consent.
Craftsmanship
We engage skilled tradespeople directly where we are able, and select specialist subcontractors carefully where we are not.
Programme
Time is a material consideration upon private work. We commit only to programmes we can demonstrably deliver.
Compliance
CDM 2015, NHBC, FMB and CHAS-accredited. Our health, safety and environmental obligations are not negotiable.
Continuity
The practice is in its second generation and is governed accordingly. Our clients deal directly with principals.
Stewardship
We work for clients whose horizons are measured in decades. The houses we build are intended to outlast us.
Four principals. One practice.
Every commission of consequence is overseen personally by one of the principals.
Joga Singh
Founder & CEOFounded the practice and continues to direct its delivery and standards. More than thirty years on the tools and at the helm.
Manvedeep Singh
Strategic AdvisorAdvises the practice on commercial direction, client relations and the firm’s broader institutional development.
Gurtej Bains
Senior Regional Project ManagerDirects the active site portfolio, plant, vehicles, materials and the trades the practice engages.
Rajveer Singh
Regional Project ManagerManages live commissions across the regional portfolio, with particular regard to programme certainty and trade coordination.
Our people, our plant.
A directly-engaged trade team, dispatched from our own yard.
