Johnson Fellows strengthens its building consultancy team

PROPERTY consultancy Johnson Fellows has appointed a new surveyor to its building consultancy department.

Nichola Williams has joined the firm, based in Newhall Street, Birmingham, after spending 18 months at Williams Associates in Alvechurch.

She will be working with building surveyor colleagues on a series of nationwide projects, undertaking project management, surveys, advising clients on restorations and refurbishments, and assessing buildings.

The first task for the surveyor, who attained a postgraduate diploma in building surveying from the University of the West of England, is to work on a series of refurbishment programmes for the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity.

She said: “I’m really excited to be part of strong and growing company that has a varied portfolio and a reputation for excellence in its field.

“Building surveying is where my ambition lies and being able to pursue a wide range of surveying work at Johnson Fellows will enable me to fulfil that.”

JS Wright adds trio to its London arm

BIRMINGHAM-based JS Wright has strengthened its London team with three new appointments.

Peter Lawrence has joined the design and build specialist as senior contracts engineer, Alan Whyte as project engineer, and Phil Barlow as foreman, all reporting to London and South East operations director Paul Featherston.

With almost 40 years’ experience in building services, Lawrence was previously project manager for a former nationwide M&E installer and is now working on a 375- luxury apartment scheme next to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.

Whyte has joined J S Wright from a services firm in Surrey where he was a mechanical supervisor, having started out 20 years ago as a pipefitter’s mate.

He is currently working on the fit-out of 90 affordable and supported homes on the site of the former Newman House office block in Horley. 

Barlow is currently based on site at Fulham Wharf where is supervising the installation of services for a first-phase of 267 new apartments.

JS Wright has its head office in Aston, Birmingham.

BK brings in experienced building surveyor

BRUTON Knowles has enhanced its building surveying team in Birmingham with the appointment of Jim Whiteman.

Whiteman joins the firm as a senior building surveyor having previously worked at Gerald Eve for 12 years and, most recently, at Christopher Thomas Architects & Chartered Building Surveyors, where he was an owning partner.

As a building surveyor, Whiteman specialises in project management, development appraisals and monitoring, asset management, acquisition surveys, and dilapidation work. Previous clients have included Brakes, Tata Steel, UKDS, Peugeot/Citroen, Travis Perkins, Soho Estates and Whitbread.

At Bruton Kowles his main clients include Boropex Holdings and Funding Circle, a peer-to-peer lender launching into the real estate market after providing £200m in loans to British business during its first three years of operation.