I've had a great career, starting with a year at the CITB training college in Bircham Newton, near Kings Lynn, then as a management trainee with a local contractor, RA Keen who went bust after I'd been with them 10 months. I then joined Tilford Builders, working under the Chief QS / Estimator, Peter Covey. A lovely man (sadly no longer with us) who I owe so much to. Next was Scientific Lesser, a specialist Laboratory Design & Build Contractor and I then moved to the big league with Bovis Construction. After 6 years at Bovis, I joined (as several did) Mace, then a relatively small firm, who are now amongst the biggest Contractor / Consultancy businesses in the UK. After a further 6 years, I decide to try the consultancy side of the industry, spending 4.5 years at Turner & Townsend before joining EC Harris as a Partner in 2005. EC Harris became Arcadis in 2014 & I've ended my career with them after 19 years.
Naturally, there have been ups & downs and my lovely wfe Jane has been my rock throughout it all.
One of the best things about a career in construction is the legacy we all leave in the form of the projects we work on, but more important is the positive impact we can have on those we work with and who work for us.
The projects are in rough chronological order
Hewlett Packard, Bracknell
East Stand Refurbishment, Chelsea Football Club
Compass Centre, Heathrow
British Gas, Reading
5 Soho Square, London
Wessex Water, Bath
T5 Control Tower
T5
Richard Doll Building, Oxford
One Blackfriars
7-8 St James's Square, London
Northern Lands, Wembley (now known as the Retail Designer Outlet + the adjascent hotel)
78-89 Oxford Street
Terminal 2
Nova, Victoria
Rathbone Place, London
The Scalpel, London
90 Barts Square, London
One Barts Square, London
Peninsula Hotel
LPP5a & 6a Data Centres, in Finland
2 Finsbury Avenue, London
60 Sloane Avenue, London
Elizabeth House, London
Life & Mind Building, Oxford
One Broadgate
The Post Building, London
Stonecutter Court, London
