Property people: CBRE; Forge New Homes; and more

Dan Wells

CBRE has bolstered its team in Leeds with a round of new hires across the National Building Consultancy and Industrial service lines.

Dan Wells has been appointed as senior project manager and Tom Wright joins as building surveyor.

Davina Hyde-Sykes joins the team as PA to support the Building Consultancy and Engineering teams across the North, based in Leeds.

The Industrial team has appointed Danielle Raunjak as assistant surveyor, joining from CBRE’s London office where she worked for three years.

Danielle Raunjak

Wells arrives from Gardiner & Theobold and Turner & Townsend, where he delivered a range of projects spanning new build education facilities, hotel refurbishment and the largest CAT A office building in Leeds with a contract value of £84M.

His role at CBRE is as a senior lead and project manager with focus on delivery of capital schemes across a range of sectors and property types.

Following a 13 year service as a Royal Air Force mechanical technician, he has successfully delivered a range of projects across Leeds and London.

Wright joins from Knight Frank where he acted for commercial clients on a wide range of instructions across office, industrial, retail and leisure properties.

His role with CBRE will see him working on a range of core Building Surveying instructions for commercial clients across the North East.

CBRE also announces two promotions with Charles Parkinson promoted to associate director in the Office Agency team and Alison Mackay becomes associate director in Planning.

Two new graduates also join the CBRE Leeds office – Sam Berry joins Planning and Tom Kruger joins Building Consultancy.

Parkinson joined CBRE’s Office Agency team in 2019 as a senior surveyor from Garness Jones Ltd to work on Landlords office space and occupier projects.

Mackay joined CBRE’s UK Planning team in 2018 from Colliers to support the firm’s growing project workload.

Her expertise in large complex commercial planning applications and land promotion across multiple service lines has been instrumental in her success.

Richard Bamford, MD at CBRE Leeds, said: “We are delighted to welcome both Dan and Tom to the National Building Consultancy team.

“The sector has remained resilient despite the pandemic and we look forward to harnessing their experience and expertise to grow our project workload and complement the wider team.

“Davina will also be a great addition to Leeds to support both the Building and Engineering teams across the North of England and it’s great to welcome two bright young graduates to the Leeds Planning and Building teams.

“Congratulations also to both Charles and Alison on their well-deserved promotions to associate director. We look forward to a busy and exciting year ahead.”

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Forge New Homes, the partnership between five Sheffield housing providers has appointed Justin Martin as its technical lead.

Martin has over 19 years of experience working in a range of development, construction and regeneration roles.

He joins from ENGIE, where as a design manager he was responsible for supporting the Land and Partnerships Team in securing delivery of over 1,000 homes, providing technical support and coordination from land offer to a successful planning outcome.

His experience covers the delivery of a range of tenures, from social rent to open market sale. In addition, Martin has several years delivery experience, at both site level and technical coordination of live projects.

He will play a key role in driving the future development of the joint venture between Together Housing Association, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Great Places Housing Group, Yorkshire Housing and the Guinness Partnership.

And he will be responsible for overseeing the progression of Forge New Homes’ newly acquired sites and taking these through the technical, legal, planning and financial hurdles to starting on site.

Martin said: “I feel privileged to be joining Forge New Homes at such an exciting time for the business with the opportunity ahead to deliver successful mixed sustainable communities and neighbourhoods in the Sheffield City Region.

“With the first site secured, and planning imminent on other opportunities, I look forward to establishing our presence with quality sites within the region.”

Andy Beattie, project director at Forge New Homes, added: “Justin is a key hire for us and we’re really excited to welcome him on board.

“He brings with him 19 years of experience in the sector and an impressive track record in successfully delivering a wide range of development projects.

“We look forward to Justin playing a pivotal role in driving forward the partnership and to helping us realise our plans to deliver the new homes that are so urgently needed in the Sheffield City Region.”

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Richard Hill

National architect firm The Harris Partnership (THP) has taken on new recruits this month in its Wakefield and London offices.

Richard Hill joins the Wakefield team as an experienced architectural technician skilled in both Revit and AutoCAD.

This office also welcomes Harry Lillis, who completed his Architectural Technology degree at Huddersfield University in 2020 and brings valuable Revit experience to his new role as junior technician at THP.

Harry Lillis

The London Office has recruited architect Kin Ho to the team.

Ho joins having completed his Part 3 in architecture at the University of Cambridge and has experience in both the residential and leisure sectors having worked previously for Panter Hudspith Architects.

Paul Mitchell, THP chairman, said: “The Harris Partnership and sister companies have several exciting projects in the pipeline, as well as a robust portfolio of current and pending schemes taking place across the UK.

“This is an ideal time for us to expand at all levels across the firm, and we welcome all our new recruits to the THP family.”

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