Robert Knight MCIOB, MRICS, CEnv, MASI, Ffbe - Igloo Regeneration
Robert is a Chartered Builder, Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Environmentalist with over 30 years managerial experience in the Construction, Civil Engineering, House building & Mixed Use Development Businesses. Within the igloo team Robert has responsibility for procurement strategies and the operational delivery of igloo’s direct developments across the UK.
Robert is currently a Board Member of the Construction Clients Group and follows his passion by participating in a number of groups which influence sustainable and environmental issues as well as contributing to the UN Environmental programme as a member of their College of Observers.
Robert has regularly commented in the media on urban regeneration and Sustainable developments and has spoken on these issues plus Value Management, Project delivery, Collaborative working and Supply Chain Integration on a number of occasions.
Kevin Hibbs, Vinci Construction UK Ltd
Kevin is the Regional Design Manager for Vinci Construction UK Ltd in the South West of England with extensive experience across many industry sectors.
He has a track record of hands on collaborative design management, innovation and delivering sustainable buildings. As well as being current Chairman of the Constructing Excellence Bristol Club he was also the former Director of Constructing Excellence in Wales and Chairman of m4i.
Kevin's specialties include collaborative design management, sustainability, innovation and driving industry best practice.
Kevin is the Regional Design Manager for Vinci Construction UK Ltd in the South West of England with extensive experience across many industry sectors.
He has a track record of hands on collaborative design management, innovation and delivering sustainable buildings. As well as being current Chairman of the Constructing Excellence Bristol Club he was also the former Director of Constructing Excellence in Wales and Chairman of m4i.
Kevin's specialties include collaborative design management, sustainability, innovation and driving industry best practice.
Karsan Vaghani BEng(Hons), MBA, CEng, MICE, MIOSH, MCIHT - University of Bristol
Directing the overall programme of capital projects ensuring that the University’s exposure to financial risk is controlled and also ensuring that the full project result provides a facility that is fit for purpose, economic to run, reliable and flexible for future use.
He has over 20years experience in the industry from consultancy to contracting and now as a client. He uses this expertise in the project environment to help support other activities. Critically, it is important to ensure that concepts used within buildings take advantage of up to date thinking in areas such as space use, and layout, fixture and fittings product development, building material development and environmental factors. This area of activity helps the Estates office to formulate an overall Estate Strategy which on converges academic aspirations with those of the built estate.
He is a great advisory for the ethos of Constructing Excellence and together with his position at the University and wealth of experience, provides the client angle into the construction community. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupation Safety and Health.
SECRETARYRebecca Tregarthen - rejoove ltd
She has spent over ten years working with a variety of companies in the construction and property sectors in marketing and business development, building up a wealth of excellent contacts and opportunities. At the very heart of her career has been the main objective of assisting businesses by bringing together ideas, people and projects and she is a keen supporter of the ethos of Constructing Excellence.
A teacher by training, she is adept at assessing situations, developing solutions and presenting them in a professional format. Her energetic, enthusiastic and capable approach is well-known. She is on the Committee of the SW IoD and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Huw Morgan - Veale Wasbrough Vizards
Huw Morgan is a construction lawyer and Partner at Veale Wasbrough Lawyers, providing legal advice to funders, building owners, developers, contractors and construction professionals upon their rights and obligations in all aspects of the construction process. He advises upon projects procured through PPP/PFI Design and Build, Bespoke Partnering arrangements and under more traditional forms of contract.
Huw is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Technology and Construction Court Solicitors Association, Society of Construction Law, and is a CEDR registered mediator. His Dispute Resolution work has covered domestic and international arbitration, Technology and Construction Court litigation, adjudication and mediation. He has been involved in a number of reported cases: Thomson -v- Clive Alexander and Partners; North Thames RHA -v- Sheppard Robson and Whiteways Contractors (Sussex) Limited -v- Impresa Castelli Construction UK Limited. Huw regularly lectures upon construction law topics.
Andrew Langmaid - Davis Langdon LLP
Andrew became a partner in 2002 after seven years at Davis Langdon. In 1995 he graduated from the University of Reading with a BSc (Hons) degree in Quantity Surveying and later (2003) from Henley Management College with an MBA (Masters in Business Administration). He has a broad range of experience in a variety of sectors.
Andrew has particular experience acting as an Employers Agent and sat on Davis Langdon’s EA Forum for a number of years.
Martyn Jones - Principal Lecturer in Construction Management at the University of the West of England in Bristol
During the past twenty years Martyn has taught, consulted, researched and published extensively on construction’s response to post-Fordism. For over ten years he has been associated with the Construction Reform Movement having been one of the founding members of the Bristol Club and for a time the Regional Manager/Interim Director for the South West. Recently he has been facilitating the Club’s Here to Learn workshops.
Sarah Dibley - Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd
Sarah is a Business Development Manager for Willmott Dixon Construction, based in Bristol and covering the South West region including Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. This is her third year on the committee.
Sarah’s background is in Marketing and Communications and she has 6 years experience within the construction industry, previously with Northcroft Construction Consultants and the most recently with Willmott Dixon.
John Wormald - Capita Symonds
John is a Chartered Civil Engineer who spent his first 15 years of his working life designing dams and associated infrastructure on major mining and water management projects throughout Africa and South East Asia.
Between 1995 and 1999 John was Engineering Project Manager on the Great Man-made River Project, at that time the largest civil engineering project in the world. After 4 years alternating between working in London and North Africa, John decided that 'a move to the country' was needed and relocated to the South West of England to support the development of the fledgling Project Management Division of Travers Morgan.
Five years later John was Regional Director of a very successful business with over 20 dedicated Project Manager. Acquisitions and merges became the norm over the next few years with Travers Moran becoming Symonds and Symonds becoming Capita Symonds.
A finalist in the Building 2007 Project Manager of the Year and winner of the 2008 Capita Symonds Success Award John is currently Capita Symonds’ Regional Director based in Portishead providing multi-disciplinary management and design services. Although still an Engineer at heart John has developed and implemented strong commercial and financial skills that are now needed to delivery a successful business.
John retains a close link with major projects through active client managements and his key skills are in strategic procurement, team building and leadership and pro-active risk management. His belief is that a difference in view must never become a serious dispute.
Gary Fisher - Sense Cost Consultancy (part of the Mace Group)
Gary qualified in 1998 from Loughborough University with a 2:1 in Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying. Since then he has become MRICS qualified and has worked on all sides of the industry (Client, Contractor and now PQS) giving good all round experience (15 years), particularly in retail, residential, commercial, major office development work and more recently education.
His current role is that of Associate Director for Sense, the Cost Consultancy arm of the Mace Group and is heading up the region based out of the Bristol office.
Gary is focused on developing and growing all 3 offices (Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter) over the next few years. Currently working on various projects in the education sector, Gary is a highly committed Associate with particular expertise in business development, well known in both the Bristol and London markets, bringing in both internal and external clients. He has a proven track record of successfully delivering projects and building working teams who deliver ahead of expectations, on time and to budget. He is highly skilled in cost control methods and an accomplished negotiator. Further experience includes partnering/alliance frameworks, market rate testing, benchmarking, creating schedules of rates with a wide and varied understanding of different construction and procurement techniques. He has been seen as a trouble-shooter, brought in to solve problems in difficult situations.
Peter Dark FCIOB, PVM, TVM
A chartered builder and certified value manager with 40 years experience in construction as contractor, consultant and client.
A former Laing trainee, in the 1980’s he moved to Australia with Multiplex and returned to Bristol to join Bucknall Austin (now RLB), in 2000 he co-founded Impart links - a specialist consultancy dedicated to promoting the Egan and Latham agendas for change through teamwork and collaborative working.
Peter’s expertise is on processes to add value to all aspects of construction. He has developed unique value management techniques through his experience of facilitating over 600 value enhancing workshops for a variety of commercial and public sector clients.
He is currently involved through Impart links with systems coaching, strategic risk and culture change as a route forward to the next generation of effective collaborative working.
Kevin Farmer BSc (Hons) C.Eng MCIBSE, MIET - University of Exeter
A Chartered Building Services Engineer with over 25 years experience in the construction industry as a design engineer, project manager and project director.
Kevin started his career with Colston as an apprentice electrician, moving into the manufacturering industry as a design engineer. After completing his degree he started life as a building services engineer with Hoare Lea and progressed his career through development with major consultants such as Atkins, WSP and Halcrow, leading teams and projects from designer to director level. Kevin will be taking up his new position with the University of Exeter as Head of Engineering for the Estates Development Service end of July 2011.
Kevin has experience in most sectors and forms of procurement and particularly enjoys working within a team culture exploring, developing ideas and relationships which help to add value and create a greater understanding and awareness within our industry.
In the past Kevin has been a committee member for the CIBSE South West Region for 15 years and Chairman for 2 years.
Jamie Siggers MEng CEng MIStructE MICE ACGI FFB - WSP
Since graduating from Imperial College after a four year Civil Engineering MEng, Jamie has forged his career first at Buro Happold in Bath and Dublin, then at whitbybird in Bath/Bristol and finally for the last 5 years at WSP, where he is now the Civil and Structural Engineering team leader within WSP’s Bristol office. He attained Chartership status through exam and review with both Structural and Civil Engineering Institutions in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
Jamie has long held an interest in Sustainable Design and pushing towards low embodied energy (nowadays low-carbon) buildings predominantly using timber engineering and integrated engineering delivery and is part of the Sustainable Structures Working Group in WSP.
He is very keen on the utilization of BIM to enable, coordinate and improve project design and lead the award-winning team in the RIBA Teamwork Liveweek 2002 demonstration project to show how object-oriented and parametric modeling across all disciplines could be effectively used to collaborate and to 'build before we build'.
Since graduating from Imperial College after a four year Civil Engineering MEng, Jamie has forged his career first at Buro Happold in Bath and Dublin, then at whitbybird in Bath/Bristol and finally for the last 5 years at WSP, where he is now the Civil and Structural Engineering team leader within WSP’s Bristol office. He attained Chartership status through exam and review with both Structural and Civil Engineering Institutions in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
Jamie has long held an interest in Sustainable Design and pushing towards low embodied energy (nowadays low-carbon) buildings predominantly using timber engineering and integrated engineering delivery and is part of the Sustainable Structures Working Group in WSP.
He is very keen on the utilization of BIM to enable, coordinate and improve project design and lead the award-winning team in the RIBA Teamwork Liveweek 2002 demonstration project to show how object-oriented and parametric modeling across all disciplines could be effectively used to collaborate and to 'build before we build'.
In 2008 Jamie set up and lead a small committee to establish the Forum for Tomorrow in Bristol as the leading networking group for young industry professionals. Following two years of success he went on to lead the initiative as a national Director and now also acts as the Western Regional Director of the parent organisation, the Forum for the Built Environment with responsibility over Great Western (Bristol) and Cotswold branches.
Hugh Nettelfield - Hugh Nettelfield Consultancy
Hugh is one of the founding directors of Quattro Design Architects and specialises in delivering high profile partnership projects; his enthusiasm for nurturing collaborative approaches helps maintain Quattro’s reputation for innovative buildings with a human touch.
Now running his own consultancy, Hugh was the lead for developing sustainability within Quattro Design and took responsibility for their Environmental Management System. When Hugh is not at his desk, he is probably indulging in his passion for sailing as a Yacht Master and keen Laser sailor.
Dan Birch MEng (Hons) CEng MICE - Arup
Dan is a Senior Structural Engineer with Arup, working locally and internationally on a wide variety of building projects within a range of different client sectors.
Since joining Arup in 2000, after graduating from Newcastle University, Dan has worked in the UK on projects varying in size from the new monkey house at Bristol Zoo to Heathrow Terminal 5. Dan also has significant experience in the delivery of schools projects, having led the structural design of BSF schools in Bristol and Kent.
In 2007, Dan moved to Melbourne from where he worked on a number of large scale projects in Singapore. These included an iconic museum located on the harbour front and the roof design for the country’s new national stadium.
He has a keen interest in the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and how this can add value at all stages of a project, by enabling multi-disciplinary working, and delivering increased value to clients.
Bryan Battle - Bailey Engineering
Bryan has been involved with the delivery of M&E Services to the Wales and West region for over 23 years, both in design and contracting.
During this time and through many diverse projects, he is passionate about the promotion and development of collaborative and innovative working practices across the Construction Industry.