Fast-growing building consultancy unveils experienced hire

Node Building Consultancy has appointed a new associate director to help accelerate its growth plans.

Andy Drage MRICS joins the Nottingham-based firm from Pick Everard, where he spent eight years as a building surveyor.

Drage brings a wealth of property industry experience to the consultancy having previously worked for AECOM, The Tunstall Partnership, Drake Housing and Focus Consultants during his 14-year-plus career.

The building pathology, refurbishment and repair scheme project procurement specialist joins Node’s existing team of chartered building surveyors and project managers at the firm’s office on Regent Street in the heart of Nottingham’s professional services quarter.

Tom Burton, director at Node Building Consultancy, said: “Andy’s previously accrued broad technical experience and understanding is a great asset to the business, providing a further platform from which we are able to meet our client’s needs. Great all-round technical and professional competence ensures Andy both compliments and builds upon our existing offering as a leading regional practice.”

Drage added: ‘‘Node has an excellent reputation built on a high level of expertise and attention to detail. This approach has formed the basis of a rapidly growing business and I am delighted to be joining at such an exciting stage in the consultancy’s development. I am very much looking forward to working with such a skilled team of surveyors and to being instrumental in the future success of the company.”