Ian started his apprenticeship with a private QS practice and following a short time with a national contractor returned to private practice when he joined nbm in 1990. He qualified and became a member of the RICS in 1991.
Since then he has been involved in a wide variety of projects as both Cost Consultant and Employers Agent building a wealth of experience from project inception to completion over a career spanning 30+ years.
This experience can quickly identify potential risk areas to Clients and also address these when producing cost plans in all project types. Post contract duties also benefit where his sensitivity to cost movements and cost trends has enabled him to be proactive in his advice to Clients in order to avoid additional costs rather than take decisions due to them.
Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
Masterplanning and new Build Housing Development at Hamiltonhill, Glasgow
• Client: Queens Cross Housing Association
• Role: Employer’s Agent
• Contract Value: £75m
• Complete: Ongoing
• 320nr units
New Build Residential Development Sighthill, Glasgow
• Client: The Glasgow Housing Association
• Contract Value: £25m
• Role: Employer’s Agent
• Complete: Ongoing
• 198nr MMR units
New Build Residential Development Granton, Edinburgh
• Client: Link Group
• Contract Value: £52m
• Role: Employer’s Agent
• Complete: Ph 1 – 2021, Ph 2 - Ongoing
• 287nr MMR units
New Build Care Home and Day Centre, Paisley
• Client: Royal Blind/Scottish War Blinded
• Contract Value: £13m
• Role: Quantity Surveyor
• Complete: 2017
• Demolition of an existing garden centre and the construction of a 54 bed care home and a day centre for visually impaired veterans.
Conversion of Office Space to Public Tour Experience, Wellpark Brewery, Glasgow
• Client: Tennent Caledonian Breweries UK Ltd
• Contract Value: £1m
• Role: Quantity Surveyor
• Complete: 2018
• Reconfiguration of existing office space to deliver a state of the art visitor experience over two floors
Refurbishment of existing clothing unit to retail outlet and exhibition space, Kirkwall
• Client: Highland Park/Edrington Group
• Contract Value: £0.3m
• Role: Quantity Surveyor
• Complete: 2019
• Reconfiguration of existing shop to town centre retail outlet for island distillery.
