One thing we do know is how to build a team…

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I think I must know every high street in the land after my time spent managing property portfolios for retailers like Next, Virgin and Arcadia. I’m a Chartered Surveyor but my experience in retail gave me a taste for development and regeneration

When you look around the country you can quickly see that there’s so much opportunity to make improvements to the built environment. If only the regulatory and planning approvals were less complex it might be quicker… but I think that reveals the real skill in development management: you have to be able to accommodate detours however good your roadmap for the scheme may be.

The degree of complexity in regulations and in planning now rival the challenges in land assembly, remediation, funding agreements and even securing tenants. I’m not sure that any aspect of development requires any less resilience or tenacity than another but that is the operating landscape we’re in today, and those are certainly qualities that we champion at TPS.

My recent projects include: £10M Lowestoft Gateway and £16m conversion of two office buildings in Enfield to create 67 apartments.

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To do your best, you have to get the best out of others—the relationships are the most important element in any project. More than the design or the concept or the plan, it’s how you work together to deliver the project that I believe is critical.

Underlying what we do there has to be resilience and creativity in the thought process. In any development we get a lot of problems to solve, whether through changes to the plan or the brief, that demand an ability to negotiate and identify compromises that will keep the project moving. All the while we have in mind the client’s objective and sometimes we have to piece things together to keep moving in what often turns out not to be a straight line. 

I like the dynamism of how we work; we have to be flexible and light on our feet. We find ourselves drawn deep into our clients’ business, helping them find the best way to achieve their objectives. That gives us a big opportunity in every project to influence the result.

My recent projects include: £XXM A PROJECT

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It’s about thinking outside of the box and the experience I’ve gained from the trade and professional side of the construction industry has enabled me to identify the challenges which project stakeholders and teams commonly face. I’ve learned an ability to apply foresight, it goes without saying that “prevention is better than cure.”

I enjoy working within an empowered team who pride themselves on an ability to navigate through the bureaucracy and processes which can become a constraint to the delivery of projects. I’m lucky enough to have managed projects within a diverse range of  sectors, infrastructure, regeneration, industrial, retail, as an consultant and also as a client within corporate organisational structure applying flexibility to identify and adapt to each individual situation.

I’ve discovered how communication is the key to motivating team members and colleagues in a project. That’s true across the project, whether you’re chairing project progress meetings, managing the design team or leading on risk and value management. Creating environments that take the time to establish the “real reasons” why things have become stuck is key to the success of a project.

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I am a qualified engineer, which is unusual for a project manager in property development. But we’re not exactly your everyday firm, as you’ve probably gathered.

I began my career as a Mechanical Engineer at ARUP, soon fronting teams for large scale development projects. Added to my education in engineering it added design management experience, which I progressed further at Buro Happold on Education and Infrastructure projects and then into project management at Buro Four on mixed-use developments, providing me with a wealth of experience and knowledge which inform my present projects. 

The technical skills are an important foundation for the role; they give you a clearer understanding of the challenges that different parties in the project team face. But when it comes right down to it, project management is about people, about their individual leanings—it requires a facility for appreciating different motivations and being able to orientate everyone around the client’s objectives.

I much prefer to be a team player myself, we’re not a very hierarchical organisation and we see projects in a similar way. I’m just as happy to provide input to the project as to take care of its smooth running. As an engineer with a design background I’m better able to understand the impact of changes, and equally to be able to listen to the project team’s needs and help present those to the client.

My current projects include: £200m Lewisham Gateway Phase 2 mixed-use development, £50m Westgate, Dartford mixed use development and £1.5m 3 Henrietta Street, London Grade II Listed refurbishment project.

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Simon is a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and Registered Valuer who has over 5 years’ experience in the commercial property profession. Simon has worked for Bromwich Hardy and Lambert Smith Hampton and has gained valuable experience and knowledge in valuation, commercial agency and landlord and tenant matters.

This experience has provided Simon with a wide variety of skills and a solid understanding of values in the property market. These skills enable him to advise clients on the viability of a development with an aim to add or enhance the value of their assets.

Away from the office Simon is a Director of a family run care home business and is an active gym goer and enjoys lifting weights and boxing in his spare time.

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I’m a firm believer in the impact of learning in work, and during my traineeship here have been combining academic study with work on some pretty impressive projects. So far, I’ve completed an HND in Construction and the Built Environment and I’m now studying Construction Management BA (HONS). And as an assistant to senior project managers I’m able to put into context the formal learning.

There’s simply no substitute for live project experience, especially if you want to progress quickly in your career. In the last three years, I’ve been able to immerse myself in projects from £1.5M refurbs to £200M mixed use schemes, and to see them at different stages of development. That experience puts concepts into practice in the real world of negotiating with people as well as steering projects through a careful process toward a positive outcome for all. I could have spent more time hanging around the students’ union bar I suppose, but which would you choose?