Built Environment Journal

James is a chartered building surveyor, founder and managing director of Invise Ltd. Having worked across the UK for various private practices, he has experience of managing construction projects from as low as £10k up to £9m, acting as contract administrator, employer's agent, and project manager. In addition, James has considerable experience of providing building surveying services including technical due diligence, condition surveys, schedules of condition, party wall surveying, dilapidations, and reinstatement cost assessments. With many years of experience working in a consultancy role, James is also an APC assessor, coach, and mentor. 

Andrea is a chartered building surveyor and director of the independent Australian building consultancy Tregantle Consultancy. Andrea’s primary focus is working with clients to provide technical solutions and strategies to their real estate goals.  She has a specific interest in technical due diligence, technical advisory relating to pre-lease industrial and complex master planning and feasibility projects.  Andrea is a member of the RICS Building surveying and building control professional group panel and is passionate about mentoring and growing the next generation of talent.

James is a chartered building surveyor and fellow member of the RICS. He is an experienced expert witness in construction, building defects and legal disputes. He is particularly skilled in listed buildings and heritage property.  James operates across a range of commercial and residential service sectors within the built environment including dilapidations, acquisition surveys, project works, reinstatement cost assessments, defect analysis, pathology, strategic asset management advice, party wall services and schedules of condition. James is the youngest fellow member of the RICS globally and is the managing director and founder of Adept Building Consultancy.

Jordanne is a chartered building surveyor at Savills, based in Birmingham. She specialises in project coordination, data gathering and analysis, particularly for reporting on commercial portfolios. Her experience is primarily in the industrial and office sectors, offering services in dilapidations consultancy, planned maintenance programmes, technical due diligence, and contract administration. Starting her career as an apprentice, Jordanne is a passionate advocate for diversifying the profession and creating new opportunities for emerging talent.

Elena is a chartered building surveyor with a background in commercial building surveying, project management, design, contract administration, building pathology, condition surveys, pre-acquisition surveys and various professional services including party wall works. She has worked at Coreus since 2024 within the project management team undertaking a number of projects within defence, commercial and education sectors across the UK.

Jake is a chartered building surveyor and registered specialist building inspector working in the North West and Yorkshire region mainly working on complex buildings. He joined the profession in 2018 as a trainee surveyor and has since graduated from Sheffield Hallam University and gained full membership to the RICS in 2020.

Chris is a chartered surveyor and the technical innovation manager at NHBC. He joined NHBC in 2015 and is responsible for the maintenance of policy and procedures related to modern methods of construction, and identifying trends to inform risk management in non-conventional construction. He has over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry and is a member of the RICS Professional Residential panel.

Ben is a chartered building surveyor, associate director at Easton Bevins, based in Bristol. His expertise lies in design and specification, contract administration, technical due diligence, and defect rectification with a particular interest in BIM and sustainability. He has handled diverse projects for a range of prestigious clients, and has experience with an array of different property types including prime office buildings, industrial estates and hotels, across the South West of England. He has also led APC training and mentored graduates.

Brad is a chartered building surveyor who has worked across many sectors, and now specialises in residential defect surveying and reporting. He also takes a keen interest in emerging sustainability technologies.

Ian is a chartered building surveyor and associoate of Ridge and Partners, specialising in landlord and tenants and expert witness matters. Ian is a co-editor and co-author of the Watts Pocket Handbook, an industry leading guide to commercial property surveying. He has previously qualified as a non-domestic energy assessor and takes a special interest in sustainability matters from a lease perspective.  Ian’s experience includes acting as joint appointed expert for the Court and he has given evidence on a number of matters.

Andrew is a chartered building surveyor, qualified asset manager and equity partner at national multidisciplinary consultancy Baily Garner, leading its building surveying group in London. He specialises in existing built assets across a number of sectors, with expertise ranging from major refurbishment to estate regeneration. He is also an APC assessor, and has been heavily involved with establishing Baily Garner's development programme for school leavers, apprentices, year-out placements, and graduates.

Mat is a partner and TFT's head of environment, social and corporate governance (ESG) and sustainability. He is a chartered building surveyor and a chartered project management surveyor with nearly 30 years of working with many of the leading property companies, investors, developers, and asset managers.  Mat's areas of expertise include sustainable development, minimum energy efficiency standards and net zero carbon.  He is a vice chair of British Property Federation's sustainability committee.

John is a chartered building control surveyor with more than 20 years Building Regulations experience dealing with commercial and domestic clients. Specialities include commercial and large-scale domestic developments. Building Regulations Approved Documents, and specialist areas include BS:9999, Approved Document B, L and E and sports ground safety.

William is a chartered building surveyor, conservation-accredited RICS-certified historic buildings professional, architectural historian, and decorative plasterer with over 35 years’ experience working in building conservation. He is also a tutor at the Scottish Lime Centre Trust, a regular speaker at conferences and CPD events on a wide range of conservation subjects and has contributed to several lime, masonry, and plaster related publications. His current research interests include understanding trade skills shortages in Scotland, the development of the lime industry in 18th century Upper Nithsdale, the use of accelerants in 17th and 18th century plasterwork, and the 17th century development of Midhope Castle, Abercorn.

Sophie is a chartered building surveyor, specialising in refurbishment, condition surveys, contract administration, and design and specification. She started her career as a building control apprentice in 2008 and then worked in social housing. She joined Atkins in 2016, where she is now a client lead for a multidisciplinary team taking a range of projects from conception through to completion. Sophie has developed her own safety footwear for women in collaboration with Amblers Safety, called the Sophie Collection.

Jay is a chartered building surveyor specialising in technical due diligence, leading the service at TFT in Bristol. He also specialises in investor monitoring on behalf of property funds. He is an APC assessor and a member of RICS’ global sector advisory group for building surveying, as well as being an enthusiastic board member of charity in the South West of England, seeking to end youth homelessness.

John is a chartered engineer registered with the Engineering Council and director at BB7 Consulting Ltd, delivering fire safety engineering services on a wide range of complex projects across all sectors. With a background in building control, he provides strategic advice on fire safety design, fire strategy implementation and the fire risk appraisal of external walls. John contributes to professional development by encouraging learning and collaboration across his teams and is passionate about advancing innovative approaches to fire engineering practice, while promoting best practice in building safety and regulatory compliance.

Katy is a chartered building surveyor with many years of experience working in Scotland’s building standards system, having worked for Dumfries and Galloway Council and South Ayrshire Council. In September 2024, she joined the Scottish Building Standards Hub as a technical support surveyor, supporting local authority verifiers and industry stakeholders. Her work includes STAS applications, dispute resolution, and preparing information papers to promote national consistency. Katy is also an RICS APC Assessor, LABSS member, and Building Standards Ambassador, committed to professional development and collaboration across the sector. She brings a practical, solutions-focused approach to improving regulatory outcomes in Scotland<

Jon is a chartered building surveyor with approximately 30 years' experience in private practice working on commercial property, specialising in dilapidations and, more recently working as an arbitrator, independent expert and expert witness in matters relating to disrepair. He is a former member of various RICS boards (in their previous guise) including the Building Surveying Professional Group and the Scotland Dispute Resolution Board. He was chair of the Dilapidations Forum and regularly wrote and spoke on the topics of dilapidations and dispute resolution at RICS events and beyond. He is author of the TFT Purple Book, a Guide to Dilapidations in the UK. He is lead author of the RICS Dilapidations Practice Standard (England and Wales) and the RICS Dilapidations Dispute Resolution Scheme.

Josh is a chartered building surveyor at Cushman & Wakefield, with experience dealing with commercial investor and occupier clients. Josh specialises in dilapidations but also has experience in technical due diligence, development monitoring, and design and specification. Within the latter specialism, he has managed instructions for a range of exclusive clients in an array of sectors, including offices, industrial and logistics, and healthcare.

Chris is a chartered building surveyor and director at Savills. He specialises in technical due diligence and development monitoring services, principally within the commercial sectors. Within this specialism, he has also ascertained a strong understanding of environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.

Daniel is a chartered building surveyor and associate director at Watts Group. He specialises in project delivery where he has functioned as project manager, contract administrator, and employer’s agent for various new build and refurbishment projects ranging from £50k - £35m in both private and public sectors. He also specialises in dilapidations and licenses to alter, having previously led the landlord and tenant service line for the UK building surveying team, property, and investment sector at Arcadis He is enthusiastic about supporting emerging talent in the industry and enjoys acting as counsellor and supervisor for numerous APC candidates.

Gary has more than 40 years' experience in construction and real estate, specialising in building surveying and fire safety. Since joining the RICS staff in 2007, he has been leading the professional groups and latterly the organisation's response to the Grenfell Tower fire working with UK government and devolved nations, and leads international building safety initiatives including skills, training, and guidance for members. As global buildings head in professional groups, he liaises with and advises governments and chartered surveyors on international standards development, building standards, and education and training. He is both founder and chair of the International Fire Safety Standards (IFSS) UN-supported coalition, and chair of the CTBUH fire and life safety committee. He is a member of both the CIC and CLC building safety expert panels, and a member of the CROSS fire expert panel.

Adrian Tagg has more than 20 years of experience as a practitioner and is currently the lead for building surveying in the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading, where he became an associate professor in 2019. He lectures on building pathology, commercial surveying practices and inclusive environments. His research interests include technical due diligence, commercial surveying, and accessibility in the built environment. He is also founder of consultancy Tech DD Ltd.

Terry is a retired chartered building surveyor, who was the sole director of a small practice carrying out commercial surveying and architectural work. He specialised mainly in architectural work and carried out new build, refurbishment, and extension work for major commercial and public body clients. His other specialisms were dilapidation and maintenance survey work.

Jonathan is a chartered building surveyor and certified principal designer specialising in dilapidations and projects, with a particular focus on delivering project led client solutions within the science and technology sector. A previous winner of the RICS Young Surveyor of the Year award, Jonathan acts for a variety of clients across a wide range of commercial portfolios including offices, laboratory, research and development, logistics and industrial property.