Ian Abley

8 College Close Hackney

London E9 6ER

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Curriculum Vitae 21 July 2016 Date of Birth 5 July 1962 Married with two sons aged 16 and 13 Current Driving Licence

Recent Responsibilities Resident Façade Engineer - For the £265 million Tate Modern extension I was deeply involved on site for structural and façade engineers Ramboll, employed by the client. The geometric architecture of Herzog & de Meuron required a grasp of the critical interfaces between the insulated precast concrete, window, and brick rainscreen Packages. These required Prototype and As-Built testing, with records of site defects to be resolved. Building Envelope Consultant - For Neil Sandberg’s clients I investigated several building defects, including the degradation of anodised aluminium by water run off from a copper façade, a failing multi-storey terracotta rainscreen, the condition of timber and aluminium windows with a view to refurbishment, faults in laminated architectural glass incorporating a Dichroic Film, delamination at titanium fittings in structural glazing, and failures on industrial pitched metal roofing and EPDM warm roofing. Specification Consultant - For a few commercial architectural practices I developed project specifications in the Common Arrangement of Work Sections (CAWS) to a format developed by Schumann Consult. One of my projects was Bank Station. Others were refurbishments of Portland stone clad offices, one of which had Regent Street Disease.

Employment History The following history is expanded upon in the numbered pages of this CV, and may also be viewed with images on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ableyian 24 - Schumann Consult Ltd, Architectural Specification and Design Management 23 - Sandberg LLP, Materials Testing and Consulting Engineers 22 - Ramboll UK, Façade Engineering 21 - PRP Environmental 20 - Flanagan Lawrence 19 - Allies and Morrison Architecture and Planning 18 - Hamiltons Architects 17 - David Chipperfield Architects 16 - BFLS Architects 15 - Ramboll Whitby Bird, Façade Engineering 14 - YRM Architects 13 - Whitby Bird and Partners, Façade Engineering 12 - epr Architects 11 - Hunter and Partners 10 - Hamilton Associates 09 - Broadway Malyan Architects 08 - Ryder Nicklin Partnership 07 - Couves Architects 06 - Alan J Smith Partnership 05 - Inter Alia Design and Build Limited 04 - Banks of the Wear Housing Association Architects 03 - Pascal J Stienlet & Son 02 - John Potter Architects 01 - Lloyds Bank Architects

Personal Summary Ian's CV may be downloaded from www.audacity.org, the pro-development website he has run since 2000 - www.audacity.org/downloads/Ian-Abley-CV.pdf Ian is a tenacious professional who has worked on large scale, demanding, fast-moving, and innovative projects, mostly in London. He is experienced in complex construction tasks, and gets involved in ways to clarify and simplify building processes. Ian has a knack for anticipating problems in design, spotting defects on site, and finding solutions. He draws well, communicates clear production information, likes Building Information Modelling when used to coordinate work, and writes sensible specifications. Ian details construction to realise architectural intent, knows how to get the most out of façade, structural, and services engineers, checks compliance with contracts, and snags construction to practical completion. Ian has experience of residential and commercial development, transport infrastructure, and strategic planning. Since running his own practice he has supported architects, engineers, and trade associations. He works hard for both expanding and contracting businesses, succeeding and struggling in changeable markets. Both for employers and away from his day job, Ian organises successful events on the technology, economics and politics of building and planning. He is a down-to-earth yet challenging presenter, enjoying discussion and speaking engagements. He helped to organise the 250 New Towns Club which met at The Building Centre as an experimental drawing club, imagining new settlements. The club no longer meets, but soon Ian hopes to revive it - www.audacity.org/250-New-Towns-index.htm

Research Interest Centre for Innovative and Collaborative Engineering, Loughborough University 2006 - 2009 Engineering Doctorate Research Theme:

The future for masonry construction in Britain and the role of vacuum insulation technology The EngD was sponsored by Martin Clarke and Michael Driver at the Modern Masonry Alliance. It was supervised by Dr Jacqui Glass. She is now Professor in Architecture and Sustainable Construction at Loughborough University. Cliff Fudge of H+H advised. Chris Meyer of Acutemp and Scott Green of CSM collaborated on a precast concrete panel experiment with Darren Williams of Lafarge, using Vacuum Insulation Panels in the sandwich construction. The physics of VIPs were researched by Dr Mauro Overend and Alex Muir at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, and with the support of Professor Geoff Edgell at CERAM, before they became part of Lucideon. Following my attendance at the International Vacuum Insulation Symposium 2007 I got to know Stan Rusek. He had developed the Aura VIP for Owens Corning, and an Acutemp product. Stan developed another generation of stainless steel and glass fibre long life product, which he called Century. I introduced him to Tim Hall of Total Flow, and together we investigated manufacture. Stan Rusek has a Patent for Century VIP, and is testing at high and low temperatures for energy storage and cryogenic applications. The EngD research culminated in the organisation, with Professor Ray Ogden at Oxford Brookes University, of IVIS 2009 at the Royal Institution, London - www.ivisnet.org After the London symposium I maintained my interest in the organisation of: IVIS 2011 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - www.ivis2011.org IVIS 2013 in Zürich, Switzerland - www.empa.ch/ivis2013 IVIS 2015 was in Nanjing, China, but I was not involved with the organisation. IVIS 2017 will be in France, and I hope to renew my involvement.

Educational Qualifications Newcastle University School of Architecture 1996 - 1998 Part 3 Diploma in Professional Practice and Management 1985 - 1987 Architecture, Part 2 B Arch (Hons) 2nd Class 2 1980 - 1984 Architecture, Part 1 BA (Hons) 2nd Class 2 Wallington High School for Boys Foundation Course in Art, 3 A Levels, all at B grade in Mathematics, Physics, and Art

Publications Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-machine Age (2001) co-edited with James Heartfield Why is construction so backward? (2004) with James Woudhuysen Homes 2016 (2004) with James Woudhuysen Manmade Modular Megastructures (AD magazine 01-2006) with Jonathan Schwinge

24 - Schumann Consult Ltd Specification Consultant November 2015 - June 2016 Nick Schumann co-founded Schumann Smith in 1986 with Dave Smith, and they developed into a leading specialist provider of specification and design management services to architects. The consultancy merged with Davis Langdon & Everest in 2000. Having built Davis Langdon Schumann Smith as the world’s largest specification consultancy, developing innovative methods for the implementation of new design management techniques, Nick and Dave are considered authorities in their field. AECOM bought DLSS in 2010. With son Mark, specialising in Information Technology for construction, Nick left to establish Schumann Consult Ltd in January 2013. Director Stephen Walton joined SCL in August 2013, after many years as a specification consultant, and with a background in construction procurement. I met Stephen while working at David Chipperfield Architects in 2012. http://schumannconsultltd.com/ In Britain the SCL specification was based upon the Common Arrangement of Work Sections within Uniclass 1, augmented with a System Reference coding on drawings. The CAWS framework has a familiar A to Z sectional logic that SCL adapts. In contrast the NBS, as part of RIBA Enterprises, is abandoning CAWS. The Construction Project Information Committee developed Uniclass 2 to comply with BS ISO 12006-2:2015 Organization of information about construction works. CPIC relinquished ownership in 2014. Uniclass 2 is now a public resource - www.cpic.org.uk/uniclass SCL also worked internationally, and to the classification systems established in other regions: • CSI UniFormat and MasterFormat - www.csinet.org – which are based in OmniClass -

www.omniclass.org • National Classification System maintained by NATSPEC - www.natspec.com.au On 24 June 2016 the directors of SCL announced they had merged their business into the global corporation of property and cost management consultants Rider Levett Bucknall. They are RLB | Schumann - http://rlb.com/en/

23 - Sandberg LLP Building Envelope Consultant June 2015 - October 2015 www.sandberg.co.uk Sandberg was founded in 1860 and provides consultancy, quality management, testing and inspecting services for the construction industry with UKAS accreditation. Within the Sandberg group are Geomaterials Research Services and Building Testing: www.geomaterials.co.uk www.buildingtesting.co.uk Ian Hudson kindly recommended me to Sandberg following our meeting on Tate Modern extension. Working directly for Neil Sandberg in the consultancy department, and alongside Tony Willmott, Richard Harris, Marion Ingle, Simon Clarke, and John Glen, I assisted in challenging investigative tasks on a number of Building Envelopes: A. Investigating poor workmanship in a terracotta rainscreen system on a steel framed

office and modular hotel built in 2009. We discovered façade risks to the public B. Witnessing a water penetration site test using a crane supported spray bar and an

internal negative pressure chamber to American and European standards C. Surveying the condition of school buildings, one built in the 1950s with innovative

Mahogany windows, and the other in 1985 with a “high tech” system D. Assessing a seaside Leisure Pool with corrosion of internal stainless steel and

degradation of external anodised aluminium by water run off from a copper façade E. Determining the cause of unwanted effects in triple laminated architectural glass

incorporating a Dichroic Film on a new office in the Defects Liability Period F. Observing delamination at titanium fittings in a triple laminated glass public roof

structure, with requests for production information from the laminator G. Inspecting roof, gutter, and eaves on an industrial unit extended and refurbished for

the tenant from a truck mounted MEWP. We discovered air tightness problems H. Identifying a number of glazing units installed back to front on an office being sold

by the owners. In the process of investigation further defects were found I. Testing for the route of a leak on a highly insulated EPDM warm roof to an office

built by the occupier attempting to avoid a dispute with a contractor J. Advising architects on the conversion of a steel framed 1980s office to apartments

with retained aerated concrete plank construction in the façade K. Researching corrosion protection of cold rolled light gauge steel sections fabricated

as studs into façade backing walls. Service Life issues were considered We were also bidding for work on a woodwool slab flat roof deck, to witness factory glazing of ceramic façade components, and for hose testing of façades. Site hose testing is often poorly specified. Testing frequently fails to provide a positive pass or failure if the linings to a façade are installed too early to obscure full view of the system. The identity of these projects is confidential, but Neil Sandberg is pleased to provide a reference for my work under his direction in the consultancy department.

22 - Ramboll Resident Façade Engineer for the Tate Modern extension April 2014 - June 2015 Børge Johannes Rambøll and Johan Georg Hannemann founded engineering consultancy Rambøll & Hannemann in 1945. They were colleagues at the Technical University of Denmark. To expand into the British market Ramboll acquired Whitbybird in 2007 and Gifford in 2011. In 2015 Ramboll joined with Environ for a stronger international position. The business is concerned with Buildings, Transport, Environment, Energy, Oil & Gas and Management Consulting. Steve Canadine is the Managing Director of Ramboll in the UK. Terry Dobbins was Executive Director of Buildings until March 2015, when he joined Robert Bird Group. I worked directly for Ramboll Directors Martin Burden and Chris Mills. Anton Sawiki had led the Tate Modern extension since 2008. He left to work for Mott MacDonald engineers in Brighton. The structural engineers were Project Associate Phil Wilkinson, Yanchee Lau, and Elizabeth Bismut. My experienced colleague until August 2014 was Resident Structural Engineer Ian Morton. Wojtek Katny retired as the Resident Structural Engineer. Kai Richter was the Façade Engineer, with the department managed by Director Mark Pniewski. Sandberg LLP witnessed the Prototype. Tony Wall, Development Director at Stanhope Plc was instructed to oversee Mace as the project drifted. He had worked for Mace, when I was at epr Architects. I worked alongside the site based architects Herzog & de Meuron, and services engineers Max Fordham. Eroll McDonald was the Technical Director at MLM Building Control. My responsibilities on site involved review and area handover of a number of envelope Work Packages all construction managed by Mace: Precast Structure and Façade Loveld www.loveld.com Glazing and Doors Seele GmbH www.seele.com Glazed Screens OAG www.oag.uk.com Brickwork Façade Swift Brickwork www.swift-brickwork.com We reduced Ramboll related issues to 19 snags and 21 non-conformances by May 2015. Martin continued to attend site to clear residual issues, and resolve defects with MLM Building Control. Tate Modern extension opened on 17 June 2016. www.ramboll.co.uk www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/tate-modern-project

21 - PRP Environmental Retrofit Research February 2014 - March 2014 In 2009 the Institute for Sustainability said '... homes accounted for more than 28% of total UK energy use (and the associated carbon dioxide emissions) and the average replacement rate of our national stock of approximately 26 million dwellings is less than 0.5% per year, so more than 80% of existing dwellings will still be in use in 2050.' They concluded '... a housing retrofit programme is therefore essential to meet our national target.' Does it really mean that? http://retrofitguides.instituteforsustainability.org.uk/introduction/1-1-a-500-billion-opportunity/ A less than 0.5% per year rate of stock replacement means existing homes are currently expected to last more than 200 years. That is beyond their Design Life. To achieve an optimistic but plausible primary structure Service Life of 100 years requires periodic retrofitting anyway. An average of a 1.0% replacement rate would require 260,000 new homes to be built every year. To that must be added the government's estimate of 240,000 new homes to accommodate household growth. The UK should be building a minimum of 500,000 homes a year even assuming retrofit programmes to replace construction. UK house building peaked in 1968 at 426,000 built, and was reduced to 152,000 in 2014. The Technology Strategy Board, now Innovate UK, underestimates the need for new housing. They imagined a £500,000,000,000 retrofit programme over 40 years for 20 million of the stock. They dreamt of 500,000 retrofits each year with a Service Life of 40 years at an average of £25,000. Too few homes are built each year, including expensive flats to buy or rent. The annual shortfall means the stock needs to last more than two centuries. It will not. Meanwhile growing households are squeezed into their homes, and the sub-markets that remain affordable. You may wonder where your children will live, even before they have children. www.instituteforsustainability.co.uk/ScalingUpRetrofit.html www.prparchitects.co.uk www.totalflow.co.uk

20 - Flanagan Lawrence Compliance Monitor April 2013 - January 2014 I was the architectural Compliance Monitor on the £250m Nova Building, a 170 Apartment residential and retail development for Land Securities on Buckingham Palace Road. The executive architects were Flanagan Lawrence, and the concept architects were Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth. Russell Whitehead was my structural engineering colleague on the Compliance Monitoring Team for Robert Bird Group. The project was awarded to Mace as the Main Contractor at Stage D. Much of my work involved checking that the B+F design intent was respected from both the commercial changes requested by the Employer, and the necessary design development by Mace through to Stage F. There was considerable work to do in anticipating familiar construction issues that would become a compliance concern, and bringing these to a team discussion. Colin Bearne was the project manager at Gardiner & Theobald. The project was very contractual at times, fast moving, but often practical. Sergio de Gaetano and Leigh Easdon of Thornton Tomasetti façade engineering were appointed for façade performance compliance monitoring. Thankfully Land Securities brought B+F back to the fore to compliance monitor their own concept. Mace was busy podularising the 304 bathrooms, showers, and toilets as the structural frame started on site. Land Securities handed over a working Prototype Apartment to assist Mace with their design development. www.flanaganlawrence.com www.landsecuritieslondon.com/portfolio/Nova-Victoria www.benson-forsyth.co.uk www.thorntontomasetti.com/services/building_skin/facade_consulting www.robertbird.com

19 - Allies and Morrison Architecture and Planning Researcher January 2013 - March 2013 For an enjoyable three months I worked for practice partner David Amarasekera and director Mark Taylor on a research project; to test NBS Create as a specification software service before A&M considered deploying it through the division of labour in their large practice. NBS Create was being developed to facilitate the production of information through Building Information Modelling. BIM is not an extension of Computer Aided Design, but promises a quantative and qualitative advance in productivity.

I was not CAD or BIM literate, but A&M wanted me to work with the staff investigating how NBS Create might be structured within the practice for project architects working on Federated BIM models. In the three months I met the NBS team with a view to finding out the gaps in Uniclass 2, which underpins the software development, and the time it would take them to overcome them. This culminated in a report for A&M which advised on whether, and when, they might adopt NBS Create as an office investment. www.alliesandmorrison.com

18 - Hamiltons Architects Detailer September 2012 - January 2013 Robert Emery required an experienced detailer to work on live projects for a few months as Hamiltons ought to re-establish. The practice had work in India at the time, and London clients with existing planning approvals to advance. We have worked together on several occasions, dating back to 1997. Robert leads the day to day management of the new Hamiltons practice, and oversees the technical design quality for all projects. The back story is a long one. Tim Hamilton had started his practice in 1967. Robert worked with him from 1986, and has a passion and expertise for the detail design and delivery stages of projects. Hamiltons grew to be a large practice of around 300 staff by 2008. Several new practices emerged in response to the following recession. Having worked for Tim for many years David Lawrence saved the body of the former practice in BFLS and later Flanagan Lawrence. In 2012 Robert rejoined Tim in Hamiltons Architects, working out of the same building as BFLS. Hamiltons restructured to new offices near Smithfield Market, London later in 2013. By 2015 they were 35 staff strong, and winning new build residential development projects under Robert's management. After nearly five decades in practice Tim was beginning to retire with wife Jenny, while continuing to take a design interest in his legacy practice. Robert had worked with him for 60% of that time. New design and commercial directors are taking the practice forwards, with younger staff working increasingly in Revit® BIM software. www.hamiltons-london.com

17 - David Chipperfield Architects Work Package and Specification Co-ordinator June 2011 - May 2012 Initially based at the practice office, I was co-located to the site offices at De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London. The project initially had a 25 strong team of some senior but mostly junior architects, in exterior and interior teams. The director was Oliver Ulmer, supported by Ryan Theodore, DCA's project leader, and associate director Jochen Glemser. The residential development was run by Sir Robert McAlpine as the Main Contractor, who had taken the lead on a negotiated price contract directly with the client. My role was to collate the Work Package drawings with production of the Davis Langdon Schumann Smith specification to Stages E and F. I supported DCA architects in meetings with Stephen Walton of DLSS. The design development programme for DCA was ambitious, with SRM managing their specialist consultants. Some of the larger value Work Packages had little architectural design, such as Plasterboard Partitioning, and needed to be rationalised with junior architects. The interior team had to cope with wider tolerances and the omission of visual concrete in the National Structural Concrete Specification. This was a commercial matter for SRM. At the same time I had to interrogate the Movement and Tolerances Report to help understand the movement joints with the exterior team dealing with façade engineers Buro Happold. Stephen Walton completed the specification as DLSS was acquired by AECOM. He has since joined Schumann Consult. www.davidchipperfield.co.uk www.deveregardensdevelopment.com www.aecom.com http://schumannconsultltd.com

16 - BFLS Architects Compliance Monitor, Specification Writer, and Snagging January 2010 - January 2011 5 Merchant Square at Paddington Basin on the Grand Union Canal was a commercial office development for European Land. Laing O’Rourke was the Main Contractor, Perkins+Will the Chicago based executive architects, and Mossessian & Partners the concept architects. Bogle Flanagan Lawrence Silver was instructed by European Land to undertake Compliance Monitoring of the project. Of particular interest on site was the water testing of the façade and roof systems by Scheldebouw, with Yumin Sun of Ramboll Whitby Bird as the façade engineer. Finishing of Toilet Cores and Lift Lobbies, verification of Passive Fire Stopping, performance of Fire Doors, and quality of Plasterboard walls and ceilings were important. With Robert Emery's supervision I undertook the snagging of works towards Practical Completion, and the capable Document Controller was Oundra Dashdavaa. www.merchantsquare.co.uk www.mossessian.com/#!merchant-square/c1box Henry Moore Court, Chelsea, was a private residential development on the site of the former Chelsea College of Art. Robert Emery involved me in writing an NBS Building specification before he joined Hamiltons Architects to complete the project by 2013. www.hamiltons-london.com At the end of my employment there was a role for me in the final snagging of the interiors on some of the 1, 2 and 3 bedroomed apartments at One Hyde Park, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. I assisted Tim Thompson. www.onehydepark.com

15 - Ramboll Whitby Bird, Façade Engineering Senior Façade Architect August 2007 - September 2008 Whitby Bird had been acquired by Ramboll, and Will Stevens was hoping to expand the work of the façade engineering department. He had the support of Neesha Gopal, a former colleague at epr Architects, and Sergio de Gaetano. I returned for a year of work to draw façade systems to assist engineers develop architectural design intent for clients, and attend site meetings to support more junior staff as required. Sidell Gibson's project at Aldersgate Street was completed. The Herzog & de Meuron designed Tate Modern Extension was starting for Ramboll, with structural engineer Anton Sawicki. www.macegroup.com/projects/tate-modern-extension Projects included the repair of Centre Point House, Covent Garden, the Grade II Listed block of scissor flats adjacent to Centre Point. Designed by Richard Seifert for Harry Hyams and completed in 1966, it was then owned by Targetfollow. They expected a substantial redevelopment with Crossrail, but had to repair the ageing rendered and mosaic tiled apartment façades. Targetfollow went into administration in 2010. The new owners have bigger plans for the Centre Point complex. www.centrepointlondon.com/websitefiles/Centre_point_exhibition_boards_march_2013.pdf It became clear that a serious recession for the construction industry was starting. The talented staff have variously moved on to other companies. I particularly enjoyed working with Kenneth Zammit, who is now associate director at Buro Happold façade engineering, and Greg Witek, who went to engineer for Cantifix Architectural Glass. Will Stevens and other colleagues have established Interface Facades. www.ramboll.co.uk www.interface-facades.com

14 - YRM Architects Architect November 2004 - September 2006 YRM had, at its peak in the 1970s and 1980s, been one of the largest international practices. It was led by David Allford and Brian Henderson, and built upon the Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall partnership formed in 1944. In 2004 YRM was undertaking hospital refurbishment work, and consulting on the expansion of Heathrow. They wanted another technical architect to support project architects. Keith Bell was managing the design development of the College of Business and Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in Doha, Qatar. The 40,000 m2 project was contracted to Halcrow Consulting Engineers and Architects Ltd, who required assistance with the rationalisation of the production information from Stage C to E. The concept architects were Ricardo and Victor Legorreta. Francisco Cortina was their associate architect, travelling from the practice in Mexico and dealing with the client in Qatar. I detailed the project for Halcrow to be able to repetitively construct the architectural design intent. http://legorretalegorreta.com/en/proyectos/college-of-business-computer-science-2/ www.qatar.cmu.edu Keith now runs his own partnership in Penwith, Cornwall. www.traversbell.co.uk/keith-bell For Adrian Wiehahn, a talented and hard-working South African architect, I assisted on the Heathrow Terminal 5 VIP Suite Shower Pods, construction managed by Mace. We developed a spatial Mock Up of the segmental prefabrication with the interior designers appointed by BAA, and produced a package of tender drawings and specification. The design was developed using Sketch Up. Other colleagues at YRM were Wendy Chu, Duncan Mitchell, Josh Wilson, and Dennis Mannina. I left with sponsorship from Martin Clarke at the British Precast Concrete Federation and Michael Driver at the Brick Development Association. They ran the Modern Masonry Alliance, which required a Researcher based at the Centre for Innovative and Collaborative Engineering, as part of Loughborough University.

13 - Whitby Bird and Partners, Façade Engineering Architect November 2002 - October 2004 Will Stevens was the architect and Wilfried Laufs was the engineer in the façade engineering department established by Mark Whitby. Chris Grech had founded a Facade Engineering Group between 1998 and 2001, when he went to teach in America. Will and Wilfried had continued to secure commissions. They wanted an assistant who could draw details, although I knew nothing about façade engineering. Wilfried left Whitby Bird to develop his own career, and now runs a practice based in New York - www.laufsed.com Will Stevens recruited other façade engineers, and began to build up the department's capacity, depending greatly on Benjamin Beer, who is now Technical Director at Meinhardt Façade Technology (HK) Ltd. Dubai. I worked with them on the £110m First Phase of the BBC refurbishment at Portland Place, London, designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects. This included the Grade II* Listed Broadcasting House. My work involved the Stone, Precast Concrete, and Glazing design rationalisation with Work Package contractors. Bovis Lend Lease was the construction manager. www.mjparchitects.co.uk/projects/bbc-broadcasting-house/ Working for Jim Wait at the Leicester University Estates Office we also studied the Grade II* Listed Stirling & Gowan Engineering Building, designed from 1959 and completed in 1963. The laboratory roof structure is particularly inspirational, engineered by Frank Newby after Felix Samuely had died suddenly. It needed a complete refurbishment, but we did not win the ongoing project. Recently funding has been secured by Leicester University. It was one of the buildings that made me want to be an architect. www.samuely.co.uk/jobs.htm

12 - epr Architects Site Architect July 1999 - October 2002 For the refurbishment of Mayfair Place, 50 Berkeley Street for Burford PLC, director Ian McInnes required a site architect familiar with detailing. This was a development of offices over retail, restaurant, and Green Park Underground Station. Project architect Duncan Mitchell led a site located team to retain the steel frame and the Portland Stone façade. He added a new Slate roof and terrace, with scenic lifts into the courtyards. I first met Jonathan Schwinge on this project. He is a most talented designer. As the design development was completed I remained on site as the client's Resident Architect with Mace as construction managers. Client changes took the project from £21m to £32m. With repeated rain ingress causing rework issues were not trivial. The project was snagged into the Defects Liability Period. www.epr.co.uk/practice/notable-projects/mayfair-place-london/ Richard Barrett, who became a director in 2001, was project architect for the £190m Cardinal Place. I rationalised the setting out of the curved roof shape within the planning consent and the Right to Light envelope, using a point at a level in the square in front of Westminster Cathedral. This was made possible by Ben Halevi, who drew the setting out in a 3D Microstation CAD model. We could then check the curvature to make sure it was visually optimal. The glazing was all flat, and the arcade was an inflatable ETFE zone across the major movement joint between structures. Structural engineer Joe Flores of Arup used an offset from the architect defined shape to determine the setting out of the steel frame. The roof shape co-ordination was then used to define plant spaces for the services engineers, and develop an access scheme for retractable Building Maintenance Units to clean and maintain the roof and façades. The contractor was Sir Robert McAlpine and the developer Land Securities. www.epr.co.uk/projects/architects-mixed-use/cardinal-place-victoria-london/

11 - Hunter and Partners Architect March 1999 - June 1999 Recommended by MEPC's Mike Wigg I briefly worked at Hunter and Partners, but did not settle into the practice, undertaking no work of any consequence. A substantial project was never secured while I was briefly there. I had the opportunity to work for epr Architects, with their reputation as a commercial practice dating back to Elsom Pack & Roberts, founded in 1947. I had known about epr Architects since corresponding with Richard Smith, their specification director, over the defective Spanish Slate issue. www.hunters.co.uk

10 - Hamilton Associates Part 2 to newly registered Architect November 1997 - February 1999 Since 1990 Hamilton Associates had doubled to around 100 staff. It was an education working under director Michael Graham as the designer for Patriot Court; the £7m extension and refurbishment of a Precast Concrete clad office tower in Slough for developers MEPC. We gained 10% lettable floor area by adding a roof top plant room, a storey to the wing, and a glazed entrance space. Balfour Beatty Refurbishment won the two stage tender process, and agreed a Guaranteed Maximum Price for the value engineered contract. The project would have been impossible to manage without the CAD support, intelligence, and drive of Ajay Parag, who is now a Design Manager at Laing O'Rourke. I had written the specification in very short time, but I must have done an adequate job, to the satisfaction of technical director David Foote. When the replacement glazing began to leak in a storm as we approached Practical Completion I was able to warn Robert Emery and Tim Hamilton. The building was commercially let to Amazon in 1999, and the window manufacturers had to remedy the problem.

09 - Broadway Malyan Architects Part 2 Architectural Assistant April 1997 - October 1997 Taking this job allowed me to move to London. I worked on Phase 1 of a speculative office park for P&O in Bracknell, to rescue the project detailing. The foundations had been piled, the ground slab cast, and the steel frame was being erected. However the architectural, structural and services designs were not co-ordinated. I threw myself into the task, even using RoboCAD, which I found awkward at the time. The building had been pre-let. Phase 2 was commissioned, but I was offered a job at Hamilton Associates. www.broadwaymalyan.com

08 - Ryder Nicklin Partnership Part 2 Architectural Assistant October 1996 - March 1997 Founded in 1953, Ryder Nicklin Partnership was like several practices in the North East - pioneering in the use of CAD. I learned rudimentary AutoCAD skills while at the practice, working on an abortive concept for a BT Call Centre in Killingworth. Ryder Nicklin Partnership was the executive architect for the £7m National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland. Gollifer Langston Architects had won the conceptual design competition in London, with a structure by Techniker, walk on glass roof by Arup façade engineers, and services by Battle McCarthy. That experience made me want to move to London, prompted by the lack of work in the North East at the time. The practice has become Ryders, and actively supports the BIM Academy at Northumbria University. www.nationalglasscentre.com www.gollifer.co.uk/architecture/public/national-glass-centre www.techniker.co.uk www.ryderarchitecture.com

07 - Couves Architects Part 2 Architectural Assistant November 1994 - September 1996 My director was Peter Walker, who is now a Professor and Head of the Belfast School of Architecture, Art and Design Research Institute, University of Ulster. It was the best job I had in the North East, but unfortunately Couves struggled to survive as a practice. In the 1950s and 1960s L.J. Couves and Partners were responsible for the design of a number of power stations in the North East. In a period of growth for the North East the plans for the Newcastle Metro, mostly using the existing track "axed" a few years earlier, were drawn up in 1973 by the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority, created by the 1968 Transport Act. Harry Faulkner-Brown was commissioned to design the corporate identity for the Metro system. The Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme, or CLASP, provided a precedent after 1957; they innovated the competitive procurement of schools from a pattern book or catalogue. Metro adopted just such a “kit of parts” approach, and Faulkner-Brown used strong graphics with a small palette of materials and colours. Other practices were then federated to design stations using the identifying "kit". Couves was among them. By the 1990s Couves was thriving on transport infrastructure projects like Heathrow Express. We produced a Leeds Supertram bid for Eurotrans, adopting the "kit of parts" approach in a project pattern book. Nissan and Samsung industrial parks kept talented technician Steve Halsall's part of the company busy, and I worked on the ISL electronics factory. There was other retail work, but not enough. FaulknerBrowns continues as one of the leading and successful practices in the country. Peter Walker and many Couves staff joined Dewjoc Architects Limited in 1998, which in 2009 merged into Devereux Architects, an international practice. Peter Swift and colleagues set up Swift Architects in 2011. www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/p.walker.html http://swiftarchitects.co.uk/ www.faulknerbrowns.co.uk www.nexus.org.uk/metro

06 - Alan J Smith Partnership Part 2 Architectural Assistant August 1994 - September 1994 I worked for Alan J Smith after my own practice was wound up. The practice was small, but chasing the contract to transform the chain of former British Gas customer showrooms into a brand of Energy Centres. An abrasive but successful businessman, he went on to establish Red Box Design, which is based in the old Central Post Office, as is the NBS today. Fortunately I found work at Couves. www.redboxdesign.com

05 - Inter Alia Design and Build Limited Director August 1989 - June 1994 I had some capital after renovating a large Victorian Terrace house in Jesmond Dene and paying off debts. While working at Banks of the Wear I set up Inter Alia Design and Build Limited. Then registered with the NHBC to provide warranties, sold the house, bought a flat on Newcastle Quayside, and a site in Rothbury for four houses. Obtaining planning approval, writing a specification, and with the help of Lander Atkinson on the technical drawing, the building work started in summer 1990. Materials and labour were organised directly on three plots. By the first winter a bitter frost revealed that the Builder's Merchant had supplied defective Slates. Lloyds Bank took the opportunity in a deflating housing market to freeze finance until the Builder's Merchant provided the correctly specified Slates. I was forced to sue the Builder's Merchant, stop building, and watch as the housing market collapsed after the "Lawson Boom". On further investigation I learned that the particular Spanish Slates supplied to my site were failing on larger sites around the country. epr Architects were caught with the defect in the Chatham Docks regeneration. While pushing for the case to get to Court I undertook design work on private houses and commercial properties, working out of an 8m2 office in a run down building on High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne. The NBS was based on the Quayside as a word processing service. My flat was repossessed. Lodging with friends I undertook short term contract work as a draughtsman. On getting to Court the well prepared case was "won". The Builder's Merchant, who had continued to import the same Slate in volume into the North East was forced to pay damages and substantial consequential losses. The costs were limited because of the intransigence of the Bank manager, but the Bank took all payments against the debts. I handed the Bank the Limited Company and walked away. It was a hard lesson in the construction industry and the law, but a relief when over.

04 - Banks of the Wear Housing Association Architects Part 2 Architectural Assistant July 1989 – July 1990 Banks of the Wear Housing Association had started as a co-operative, but the Housing Corporation was increasingly encouraging Housing Associations to build for sale. The in-house architect did not want to get involved in the more speculative funding regime, aimed to resign, and recruited me as a Part 2 Architectural Assistant interested in housing to take over work. The design work was eminently practical, on site with the contractors. We designed and project managed new build flats in Hendon, and two estates of 30 new build houses, one in Sunderland and the other in Blyth. It was good experience in house building, but formulaic within the administration of the Housing Corporation. The Housing Association needed a Part 3 qualified registered architect, and I was only Part 2 qualified. I recommended my friend Austin Williams, who won the job. He continued to be the in-house architect for Banks of the Wear after I had left to advance Inter Alia Design and Build Limited on site.

03 - Pascal J Stienlet & Son Part 2 Architectural Assistant October 1987 – June 1989 Vincente Steinlet had an established small practice. Pascal J Stienlet & Son was one of the oldest continuously running practices in the North East. It was founded in 1904 by Vincente's grandfather, working for Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist Churches. Vincente was mostly working for Catholic clients, and had housing projects by converting redundant buildings, and new build churches. I am an atheist today, and shared none of his faith then, but his architectural experimentation was great fun. Vincente specialises in the architectural form of the liturgy, designs the building to the fixtures and furniture, and regularly engages artists and craftsmen early on in the project to create work in the overall design. He was supported at that time by a brilliant architectural technician, Lander Atkinson, who was inspirational and very good company. I could not have had a better introduction to the working life of an architect. But the pay was better at Banks of the Wear.

02 - John Potter Architects Part 2 Architectural Assistant July 1987 - September 1987 John Potter loves precision. Working for him, even if only for three months, was a discipline that is never forgotten. He developed his practice to ‘... provide straightforward, effective, easy to use software for the construction industry, specialising in thermal calculation tools which enable designers to improve the energy performance of buildings and to demonstrate compliance with the increasingly complex requirements of building regulations.’ He made expertise into a business, but that is not enough to make architecture. I also met Austin Williams at John Potter Architects, and he changed the way I thought. www.johnpotterarchitect.com www.techlit.co.uk www.jpatl.com

01 - Lloyds Bank Architects Part 1 Architectural Assistant August 1984 - August 1985 For my first year of architectural work experience I joined the in-house department of Lloyds Bank. The work consisted of Branch refitting and the installation of Automated Teller Machines, or “Cash Points”. Charles Topaz was my director, and I learned quickly from helpful technical staff.