Watts Pocket Handbook 2008 - Contributors

The scope of the Watts Pocket Handbook would not be possible without the cooperation of both our internal and external contributors. Please see below for more information on our internal authors.

 

Toby Andrews – Associate, Watts envest London
Toby's contributions include: Contaminated land; Ground gas including Radon; Forecasting floods; and Ozone depleting substances

Steve Brewer – Director, Watts, London
Steve's contribution includes: A systematic approach to maintenance management

Tim Brock – Consultant, Watts, London
Tim's contribution includes: Contractor appointment/tendering

Rob Burke – Director, Watts, London
Rob's contributions include: Green legislation; Property derivatives and options; Real Estate Investment Trusts; and Sustainable development

Spencer Carroll – Director, Watts, London
Spencer's contributions include: Achieving excellence in construction; Official Journal of the European Union; and Primary objectives of maintenance management

Chris Cheeseman – Lead Consultant, ikon, London  
Chris's contribution includes: Code for Sustainable Homes

Tim Coffin – Director, Watts envest, London
Tim's contributions include: Ozone depleting substances; and Water Framework Directive

Nick Cook – Managing Director, ikon, London
Nick's contribution includes: Urban regeneration

Jane Dalgliesh – Director, Watts, London
Jane's contribution includes: Curtain walling systems  

Prince Damankah – Quantity Surveyor, Watts, London
Prince's contribution includes: Tender prices and building cost indices

Angela Dawson – Information Manager, Watts, London
Angela's contributions include: Conversion factors; Flood plans; Flooding and its impact on property; General Development Order and Use Classes Order; Know your use class; Sources of information in maintenance management; and Useful information sources

Dave Dorrington – Associate, Watts, London
Dave's contributions include: Public Procurement, Public Private Partnerships and the Private Finance Initiative; and Quality management and professional construction services

John Edwards – Associate, Watts, Glasgow
John's contributions include: The contract administrator's role; and Types of tendering route  

Jon Evans – Director, Watts, London
Jon's contributions include: Contract insurance; The RICS Assessment of Professional Competence; Specification writing; Specifications; and Types of specification

Mark Few – Director, Watts, London
Mark's contribution includes: Public Procurement, Public Private Partnerships and the Private Finance Initiative

Tim French – Director, Watts, London
Tim's contribution includes: Tender prices and building cost indices

Allen Gilham – Associate, Watts, London
Allen's contributions include: Building into the basement; Identifying the Age of Buildings; Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas; Condensation Mould and Toxic Mould; and Site Archaeology

Sarah Houlden – Project Manager, Watts, London
Sarah's contribution includes: Basic design data

Rebecca Jermy – Director, Watts, London
Rebecca's contributions include: Development monitoring; and Latent defects insurance

Tom Kibblewhite – Associate, Watts, Manchester
Tom's contribution includes: Housing Health and Safety Rating System

Phil Kirby – Project Manager, Watts, London
Phil's contribution includes: Corrosion of metals

Chris Knott – Managing Director, Watts, London
Chris's contributions include: Cost management; Employer's agent; Partnering; and Value engineering

Ian Laurie – Associate, Watts, Manchester
Ian's contribution includes: Fungi and timber infestation in the UK

Joe Lawrence – Environmental Consultant, Watts envest, London
Joe's contribution includes: Forecasting floods

Michael Lee – Associate, Watts, London
Michael's contributions include: Basic design data; BCO best practice for new offices and fitting out works; and Building types

Graeme Lees – Principal Structural Engineer, Watts, London
Graeme's contributions include: Floors in industrial and retail buildings; Office floors; Soil survey; and Structural Engineering

Paul Lovelock – Director, Watts, London
Paul's contributions include: Access agreements; Collateral warranties and reliance letters; Construction noise and vibration; Daylight and sunlight amenity; Discovery of building defects - statutory time limits; Party wall procedure; Latent Damage Act 1986; and Rights to light

Keith Martin – Building Surveyor, Watts, London
Keith's contributions include: High hedges; Construction noise and vibration and Party wall procedure

Janette McCartney – Principal Environmental Consultant, Watts envest, London
Janette's contributions include: Electromagnetic fields; and Environmental Liability Directive

Kelvin Naylor – Associate, Watts, London
Kelvin's contributions include: Home Information Packs; Planning to avoid flooding; Flood plans; Flooding and its impact on property; Protecting property from floods; The surveyor's role in flooding; and Compensation for flooding

Sarah Park – Project Manager, Watts, London
Sarah's contribution includes: How to appoint consultants

Mark Ratcliff – Associate, Watts, London
Mark's contributions include: Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method; The Disability Discrimination Act and access for disabled people; The European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings; and Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

Philip Rolfe – Associate, Watts, London
Philip's contribution includes: Procurement methods

Trevor Rushton – Director, Watts, London
Trevor's contributions include: A basic introduction to structures; Airtightness; Alkali aggregate reactions; Best practice in building surveys; The Building Act 1984 and the Building (Amendment) Regulations 2004; Chemical and physical testing requirements; Chlorides; Common defects in commercial and residential properties; Composite panels; Conversion factors; Corrosion of metals; Curtain walling systems; Defects in concrete; Deleterious materials; Floor loadings in buildings; Glazing - ten things to look out for; Glazing - windows and doors satisfying the Building Regulations; High Alumina Cement concrete; Liquid waterproofing systems; Mechanisms of water entry; Modern methods of construction; Non-destructive testing; Problem Areas with 1960s and 1970s buildings; Recycled materials; Rising damp; Rising groundwater; Soils and foundation design; Spontaneous glass fracturing; Steel frame corrosion (Regent Street Disease); Subsidence; Thin stone cladding; Troublesome plant growth: Giant Hogweed; Troublesome plant growth: Japanese Knotweed; Vendor surveys; and The Workplace Regulations – Glazing

Stuart Russell – Director, Watts, Manchester
Stuart's contributions include: 'Best value' in local authorities; Indicative construction costs 2007 – UK; Life cycle costing; The quantity surveyor's role; Reinstatement valuations for insurance purposes; and VAT in the construction industry - zero rating

Martin Shaw – Chartered Building Surveyor, Watts, London
Martin's contribution includes: Building Regulations and historic building conservation

Gordon Smith – Managing Director, Watts envest, Madrid
Gordon's contribution includes: Environmental impact assessments

Roger Stanton – Project Manager, Watts, London
Roger's contributions include: Compensation for flooding; Flooding and its impact on property; Protecting property from floods; and The surveyor's role in flooding

Robert Staton – Project Manager, Watts, London
Robert's contribution includes: Project extranets as a method of coordinating project information

Rob Sully – Director, Watts, London
Rob's contribution includes: Urban Regeneration

Daniel Webb – Director, Watts, London
Daniel's contributions include: Project extranets as a method of coordinating project information; and Project management

John Watson – Director, Watts, London
John's contribution includes: Construction management

Paul Winstone – Director, Watts, London
Paul's contributions include: Asbestos; The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007; Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996; Health and safety at work for surveyors; The Work at Height Regulations 2005; The Workplace regulations - Falls from height; The Workplace Regulations – Provision of sanitary facilities; Surveying safely; and The Workplace Regulations - Lighting

Neil Wotherspoon – Building Surveyor, Watts, London
Neil's contribution includes: The Workplace Regulations - lighting

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