About the editor and contributors

The editor and chapter authors

Peter Ullathorne

Peter Ullathorne is a chartered architect and an RIBA Accredited Client Adviser at The Ullathorne Consultancy. He started with a Meccano set and never looked back. Since 1974 he has worked with a number of leading firms including Piano + Rogers, SOM, YRM, DEGW, as a partner at Gensler and HOK on major public and private sector projects and at Navigant Consulting. He led the largest PFI accommodation project for a UK government department. He taught at the University of Cincinnati. In 1985 he co-founded First Architecture plc, the first public company of architects. He established his practice, The Ullathorne Consultancy Ltd, in 2009, providing architecture, client advice and expert investigation services for dispute resolution. He was a ministerial adviser to the Rt Hon David Miliband MP. Additionally, he is a magistrate, an examiner in Professional Practice at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and is a member of the RIBA’s Professional Conduct Panel. He is a Freeman of the City of London and has an entry in Debrett’s People of Today.

Richard Saxon CBE

Richard Saxon is an RIBA Accredited Client Adviser. In 2005 he was appointed Principal at the Consultancy for the Built Environment and is an authority on the strategic value of BIM. He wrote the Construction Industry Council publication Growth through BIM for the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills in 2013 and the forthcoming BIM for Construction Clients for RIBA Publications. He is Chairman of the Joint Contracts Tribunal and a director of BLP Insurance. Richard was formerly Chairman of the international design consultancy BDP, Vice-President of RIBA and Chairman of Be, Collaborating for the Built Environment now part of Constructing Excellence. He was awarded a CBE in 2001 for services to architecture and construction.

Gren Tipper

Gren Tipper is the CEO and Director of the Construction Client’s Group, where he works for leading clients in the industry, promoting best practice and working with the industry to improve efficiency and conditions for all involved in the construction process. Gren is an active member of the Construction Leadership Council Delivery Group and works with the Strategic Forum for Construction, developing and implementing the industries’ strategy for construction – ‘Construction 2025’. He is a non-executive director of the Construction Skills Certification Scheme, Constructing Better Health, the Considerate Constructors Scheme and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Building.

Gren has always been passionate about the construction industry, supporting opportunities that enable clients to clients can make a difference to outcomes by developing better ways of working.

Susie Gray

Susie Gray is a professionally qualified surveying graduate with over 25 years’ experience, including in-house corporate real estate, agency and landlord roles, providing an all-round perspective from both the customer and supplier viewpoint. Susie is a director of Empress Consulting, specialising in advising clients on corporate real estate strategy and efficient use of space. Susie is a visiting lecturer at Henley Business School.

Joanna Eley

Joanna Eley is a director of AMA and an architect with over 30 years’ experience of developing strategies for space and facilities management. She is a trustee for the Usable Buildings Trust, a facilitator for the HEDQF post-occupancy processes and a RIBA Accredited Client Adviser. She graduated in PPE at Oxford, then architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of London. She has worked with Davis Langdon Consultancy, User Research, Useable Buildings, William Bordass Associates and DEGW. Joanna specialises in buildings for education, offices, museums and housing. Her clients include large public and private sector organisations, many higher education institutions as well as smaller groups and charitable foundations. She is co-author of Understanding Offices: What Every Manager Needs to Know About Office Buildings, published by Penguin Books in 1995, and Office Space Planning: Designing for Tomorrow’s Workplace, published by McGraw-Hill in 2000, as well as writing for the technical press.

Ben Hughes

Ben Hughes is the founder and director of Capital Projects Consulting Ltd. His chapter for this book was written while he was an Equity Partner of EC Harris’ specialist Contract Solutions business. He is a chartered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) and has an MBA. He has led and delivered procurement and commercial management services for multi-billion pound programmes and projects, and has headed procurement and contract management teams for other top consultancies, the Ministry of Justice and Network Rail, including the management of tender portfolios of £5bn value and the post-contract management of works, services and goods of £600m per annum.

Adrian Dobson

Adrian Dobson is Director of Practice at the RIBA. He is a chartered architect with practice experience primarily in the education and community sectors. He has also taught in higher education and carried out research in building information modelling. Adrian has been closely involved in the development of the RIBA Plan of Work 2013. He is the author of 21 Things You Won’t Learn in Architecture School, published by RIBA Publishing in 2014.

Dale Sinclair

Dale Sinclair is AECOM’s Director of Technical Practice, Architecture, responsible for work in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and India. Dale’s core expertise is the delivery of large-scale projects. He has designed multi-disciplinary processes that successfully deliver projects on time, budget and in line with the client’s quality requirements.

He passionately believes that the lead designer’s role is central to this goal.

He is the RIBA Vice President responsible for Practice and Profession, and an RIBA Trustee and Councillor. He was the chair of the RIBA Large Practice Group from 2007–13 and the editor of the BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work 2007. As well as editing the RIBA Plan of Work 2013, Dale chaired the RIBA task group responsible for developing it, assisted in the development of the online tools and authored the supporting publications, including the guide to using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 and Assembling a Collaborative Project Team (2013). His publication in 2011 for RIBA Enterprises: Leading the Team: An Architects Guide to Design Management, is directed at those who share the objectives of delivering projects more effectively. He is a member of the Construction Industry Council BIM Forum and on the board of BuildingSMART UK. He regularly speaks on the RIBA Plan of Work 2013, BIM and on the future of the built environment industry.

Rab Bennetts OBE

Rab Bennetts co-founded Bennetts Associates in 1987 with his partner Denise Bennetts and provides overall design direction to the firm. Recent projects include the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Jubilee Library in Brighton and London Borough of Camden’s new headquarters at King’s Cross. Rab is also involved in research projects, professional committees and construction education outside the firm and is a board member of the UK Green Building Council, a trustee of the Design Council and a director at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. He was awarded an OBE for services to architecture in 2003.

Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor is a highly experienced, qualified and respected project manager, and is a joint founder of Buro Four, Principal of Dashdot and the current President of the Association for Project Management (APM). He is an author and broadcaster. He is a recipient of the 2009 APM Sir Monty Finniston Award and Project magazine’s Innovative Project Manager of the Year Award 2007.

Gary Wingrove

Gary Wingrove is a chartered surveyor and is Projects and Construction Director for BTFS (BT Facility Services) where he oversees the delivery of all projects; from day-to-day small works to major capital construction projects across BT’s 80m square foot UK portfolio of nearly 8,000 buildings. Before joining BT he worked client-side for Morgan Stanley and UBS. He is responsible for managing the construction of new facilities as well as rationalising and refurbishing the existing BT portfolio, delivering efficiencies and cost savings across both the commercial office and operational estates. He manages BT’s relationships with outsourced service partners on capital expenditure projects. In 2012 he was elected President of the British Council for Offices (BCO) and was Chairman of the 2011 BCO Conference held in Geneva. In 2013 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Murray Armes

Murray Armes is a chartered architect and founder of Sense Studio, with over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry. Murray is also a chartered arbitrator, adjudicator, mediator, dispute board member, FIDIC President’s List International Adjudicator and expert witness. He has worked on projects and cases around the world and in the UK, having been instructed on over 100 disputes and given evidence in numerous cases. He advises clients and is involved in conferences and training in dispute avoidance. He has contributed widely as author to many professional works and delivers seminars internationally.

Janet Young

Janet Young is a chartered building surveyor with 25 years’ experience in the public and not-forprofit realms. She has worked in the education, housing and commercial sectors and has particular experience of secure buildings through her work with the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Janet is now Director of Estates at the Ministry of Justice and is the Ministry’s Head of Profession for Project Delivery. She leads multi-disciplinary teams who look after one of the government’s largest estates comprising courts, prisons and probation buildings. Janet has served on the British Property Federation’s Construction Committee, the Building Regulations Advisory Committee and has been an external examiner for the MSc and BSc building surveying courses at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Ruth Reed

Ruth Reed is a past president of the RIBA (2009–11) and a chartered architect with a Master’s degree in landscape. She is a director of Green Planning Studio with responsibility for architectural services, built environment and landscape issues. She has been Vice-President of Membership of the RIBA and President of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales. She is a judge for architectural awards including the Stirling Prize. Ruth is a Vice-chairman of the Construction Industry Council Board and Chair of the RIBA Planning Group.

She has acted as a professional witness in planning appeals since 2007 on behalf of her firm. She is a former Professor of Architectural Practice and Director of Professional Studies at the Birmingham School of Architecture, Birmingham City University. Ruth authored the Town Planning: RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Guide, which was published in November 2014.

About the Perspective authors

Professor Sir David Omand GCB

Professor Sir David Omand is a University of Cambridge graduate in economics, has an honorary doctorate from the University of Birmingham and has recently completed a degree in mathematics and theoretical physics with the Open University. He is a member of the editorial board of Intelligence and National Security magazine. With Dr Michael Goodman of the Department of War Studies at King’s college, London, he is responsible for delivering training to government intelligence analysts and he lectures regularly to BA and MA level classes in Intelligence Studies.

In 2002 Sir David Omand was appointed the first UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the then prime minister, Tony Blair, for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and homeland security. He served for seven years on the Joint Intelligence Committee. He was Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1997 to 2000, and before that Director of GCHQ (the UK Sigint Agency). Previously, he served in the Ministry of Defence as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Policy, and was Principal Private Secretary to the Defence Secretary during the Falklands conflict. He served for three years in NATO in Brussels as the UK Defence Counsellor. He has been a visiting professor in the Department of War Studies since 2005–06. He is the Senior Independent Director of Babcock International Group plc.

Mark Hackett

Mark Hackett is a chartered quantity surveyor specialising in dispute resolution. He has been involved in a wide variety of construction schemes and has given evidence in numerous UK trials and international arbitrations. Mark is also the co-author of The Presentation and Settlement of Contractors’ Claims, published by Routledge in 2000, and the co-editor of The Aqua Group Guide to Procurement, Tendering & Contract Administration, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2007.

Professor Hans Haenlein MBE

Professor Hans Haenlein is a leading expert in the planning of education and community facilities. He has over 40 years’ experience as an academic and as a practicing architect. From 1976–91 he was Head of the School of Architecture at South Bank University and later Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment. In 1987 he was awarded an MBE for services to architecture. Since 1991 he has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Reading where he has designed a concept building for the International Centre for Inclusive Environments and carried out research into various aspects of briefing, design management, construction management and inclusive environments. He has been responsible for the design of many schools, community buildings and urban regeneration projects. Since 1985 he has been President of the Hammersmith Society and is a RIBA Accredited Client Adviser. In 2013 he was elected President of the First Education Alliance.

Gareth Hird

Gareth Hird is a chartered surveyor and is responsible for McBains Cooper’s commercial activities. He is an alumni of the Kellogg School of Management, a Liveryman of the Company of Chartered Surveyors and a Freeman of the City of London. McBains Cooper was founded in 1785 and provides a wide range of services to the public, private and institutional realms, worldwide and across all significant sectors. Gareth provides specialist expertise, including due diligence advice to funders and investors, and has advised some of the world’s most respected financial institutions and funds.

Michael Darner

Michael gained a Masters in Architecture at the University of Denver. He also began work as an office boy at Gensler and Associates where he has spent his entire career, becoming a partner in 1993. Starting with a reconstruction project of a tower modelled after the Piazza San Marco in Venice (except this one was in Denver), his career has included leading the design, management and construction of a wide variety of projects, including the Beverly Hills Country Club, Sony Pictures Studios renovation in Culver City, Sony Lincoln Square Theater in New York City, Studio Babelsberg renovation in Berlin, Liverpool Airport’s renovation, Leavesden Studios’ creation in Hertfordshire, Mashreq Bank Headquarters in Dubai, the Gulf Investment Bank’s Headquarters in Kuwait, the American Film Institute Silver Theater in Washington DC, and currently the 34-storey Landmark Tower Apartments in Los Angeles. Michael says, ‘I’ve had wonderful client relationships over the years, which I think springs from a genuine interest in the people I’ve met and the problems they’ve asked me to solve. Creating for that purpose has been its own very satisfying reward.’

Dr Timothy Stone CBE

Dr Timothy Stone is a visiting professor in University College London’s International Energy Policy Institute and is also the senior expert non-executive member on the board of the European Investment Bank, a non-executive director of the Anglian Water Group and a non-executive director of Horizon Nuclear Power. He is also a member of a number of advisory boards for infrastructure investors and funds. Until recently, Tim was the Expert Chair of the Office for Nuclear Development in the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Senior Adviser to successive secretaries of state responsible for energy. He served five different secretaries of state in two different governments. His previous career was as the Chairman and founder of KPMG’s Global Infrastructure and Projects Group, a managing director of SG Warburg & Co in New York and London, and a managing director of Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. He was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours List for services to the energy industry.

Peter Stewart

Peter Stewart is a chartered architect and the Principal of Peter Stewart Consultancy, which he founded in 2005, providing expert advice in the fields of architecture, urban design, planning, townscape and the historic environment. During 15 years in practice he was responsible for large office and residential projects from inception to construction. In 1997 he became Deputy Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission (RFAC) and in 1999 joined CABE, now Design Council CABE. Until 2005 he was Director of CABE’s design review programme. His work at the RFAC and CABE involved him in advising on many of the most significant projects in the country.

He was the principal author of a number of CABE publications, including Design Review. He drafted the original CABE/EH Guidance on Tall Buildings. Peter has served as an expert witness at many planning inquiries and is a member of the London Legacy Development Corporation Quality Review Panel. He has served as Chair of the regional design review panel for the East Midlands, as a member of the London Advisory Committee of English Heritage and as Chair of the Planning Group of the RIBA.

Anthony Slumbers

Antony Slumbers is a specialist in the use of internet technology in the real estate sector; his particular skills are in designing online applications that encourage collaboration and efficient business processes. He founded Estates Today in 1995. He was a founding equity partner with Broadgate Estates of Vicinitee.com, the community and property management software with which some two million people a year interact. In 2007 he founded Glasnost21, the leading collaboration financial software SaaS. Glasnost provides project and image management as well as CRM and email marketing tools. He has also been a founder partner in CityOffices.net since 1999. Today, Antony’s primary focus is on designing and developing mobile and cloud based applications, with a particular emphasis on collaboration, localised data and social networks.

Roger Camrass

Roger Camrass has enjoyed a 40-year career in change management and digital technologies. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he was a post-graduate research Fellow at MIT in the 1970s as a pioneer of today’s internet. Roger has devoted his life to helping companies large and small to exploit emerging digital technologies, including cellular communications, cloud computing and the Internet of Things. His career appointments include partnerships with leading consulting groups such as EY and Arthur D Little, management roles with the Stanford Research Institute and Fujitsu, and startups such as Butler Cox and Mozaic Services. He is author of the book Atomic: reforming the business landscape into the new structures of tomorrow, published by Capstone Publishing in 2003, and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey and ESADE Business School.

Ken Anderson

Ken Anderson is a senior partner at the investment bank Greenhill & Company, joining the team in 2014 after seven years with UBS in London. At UBS, Ken was first a managing director and then a vice-chairman. Ken works with clients in a variety of industries with an emphasis on healthcare. Before joining UBS he was the first Commercial Director General at the Department of Health and a member of the department’s management board. In this role, he was responsible for the introduction of non-NHS clinical services, negotiating the PPRS (Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme), the UK’s medicine purchasing agreement worth £12bn annually and rationalising the £14bn NHS supply chain including the £20bn outsourcing of NHS Logistics. Ken has over 16 years’ experience within healthcare operations in the USA, UK and continental Europe, and is Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Imperial College Business School.

Dr Julian Critchlow

Dr Julian Critchlow is Head of Construction and Energy at solicitors Payne Hicks Beach and specialises in construction law. He acts for developers (both international and private), main contractors, subcontractors and consultants in respect of both project advice and disputes. Julian is an arbitrator in both domestic and international disputes, frequently appointed in Department of Immigration and Citizenship arbitrations. His PhD thesis from King’s College London concerned arbitration. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a TeCSA registered adjudicator and a CEDR Accredited Mediator.

Julian’s numerous publications include Arbitration Forms and Precedents (jointly with Professor Rob Merkin) and Making Partnering Work in the Construction Industry. He is also a well-known speaker on construction issues. A number of his cases have been reported. Julian has been included in ‘Chambers UK’ and ‘Legal 500’ for many years, Chambers most recently stating that his clients are impressed by his ‘extensive knowledge, sound judgment, clear explanation and astute tactics’.

DDJ Stuart Kennedy

Stuart Kennedy has a First Class Honours degree in law, is a practising barrister in England and Wales, a barrister and solicitor in St Vincent and the Grenadines, and is a Deputy District Judge (DDJ) on the South East Circuit in England. He is a chartered arbitrator and is on the Panel of Arbitrators, Adjudicators and Mediators for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a member of TecBar, the Society of Construction Law and of the Western Circuit.

Stuart’s practice as a barrister focused on construction and he is ranked as a leading junior in Legal 500 2014 and by Chambers and Partners Legal Directory 2015. He has been involved in a number of major international projects, including the new airports in Hong Kong, Oslo and Athens, as well as projects in Europe and the Middle East, including the new Wembley Stadium in London. He appeared for the claimant in a large arbitration in Hong Kong in a claim against the government. In addition to sitting as a DDJ, Stuart now acts as mediator, adjudicator or arbitrator in disputes in the UK, the Caribbean and internationally. Stuart has been appointed to undertake Early Neutral Evaluations on major construction disputes including a £70m dispute on a hospital project and a £15m dispute on a city centre redevelopment. He has appeared in a number of reported cases involving challenges to arbitrator’s and adjudicator’s awards. He sits as a mediator on various types of commercial disputes with particular emphasis on property, construction, engineering and energy disputes and also lectures at conferences and seminars and has run training courses on mediation and arbitration in London, Kenya and the Caribbean.

Ty Robinson

Ty Robinson has worked within the infrastructure and support services sectors for more than three decades and has held senior posts in both public and private sectors. Ty provides support to private and public sector clients looking to transact in the space where these two sectors intersect. He spent 20 years in construction where he helped deliver major infrastructure projects, including GCHQ and GlaxoSmithKline’s United Kingdom research headquarters. Ty served as Chief Operating Officer of the United Kingdom’s Department of Health Commercial Directorate and, subsequently, with Partnerships UK provided advice and guidance to local authorities and the Homes and Communities Authority on a programme of national regeneration projects. In the private sector Ty was Managing Director of the healthcare division of Navigant Consulting for Europe. He has significant sector experience in defence, security, housing and urban regeneration, health, custodial and transport sectors, successfully delivering projects and large-scale programmes involving public/private sector collaboration.

Paull Robathan

Paull Robathan is a technology strategist and designer. He was responsible for the furniture, interior design and technology integration of complex financial trading environments all over the world. He spends much of his time now working in the field of social housing, including doctoral research at University of the West of England and working with the Schumacher Institute.