LEARN ABOUT OUR TEAM AND STRUCTURE
Directors Gary Howarth and Chris Harding oversee the team of civil, structural and geoenvironmental engineers. Working together at JPG since 1988, they have extensive experience in the design and site monitoring of all types of construction work, from large civil engineering projects and multi occupancy sites to small and medium sized projects. The directors operate as the main point of contact for every project, ensuring close coordination between the client, design team and contractors.
Chris Harding
Director
Chris is joint Managing Director and is responsible for all areas of the business. Chris co-manages a strong team of Engineers and Technicians, across a wide range of disciplines and is equally comfortable assessing complex building structures, designing road and drainage infrastructure, as well as overseeing some of the more specialist services such as, traffic assessments, flood risk assessments, geo-environmental investigations or expert witness and auditing commissions. Chris has extensive experience in the design and site monitoring of all types of construction work across a wide range of sectors. Chris dedicates much of his time to site appraisals and assessments of abnormal development constraints to ensure that project difficulties are fully understood and addressed from the outset. Chris maintains a hands on approach to all projects and maintains a level of contact through to successful project completion.
Gary Howarth
Director
Gary is joint Managing Director and is jointly responsible for overseeing the team of Civil, Structural and Geotechnical Engineers including support personnel and admin. Gary has extensive experience in the design and site monitoring of all types of construction work ranging from small and medium size projects up to and including multi-million pound retail, leisure and manufacturing facilities. His structural experience covers steelwork, reinforced concrete, timber and masonry structures and he has substantial knowledge of site infrastructure works incorporating sustainable drainage, highways and site remediation.
Andrew Fairburn
Director
Andrew is the Director responsible for the civil engineering team. Andrew joined JPG in 1995 as an Engineering Technician and was responsible for the designing and detailing of foundation and sub-structure drawings, together with the overall management of projects from pre-tender to completion. In 1999 Andrew chose to specialise in the designing and detailing of highway works and drainage systems and subsequently, Andrew’s responsibilities have grown considerably and in 2001 he was promoted to the position of Senior Engineer overseeing the Civil Engineering team within the company. As part of the company’s ongoing growth, Andrew was selected to join the management team and in 2003 he became an Associate and subsequently was appointed Director in 2008.
Kevin Baker
Director
Kevin is a Director with responsibility for one of our structural teams. Since joining the construction industry Kevin has gained considerable experience on a wide variety of projects. Kevin joined JPG in 1996 as Senior Engineer. In 1999 after a company re-structure Kevin was appointed Associate. In April 2003, after being part of the management structure at Associate level for some time Kevin became a Director. Kevin has experience in the design and monitoring of site preparation earthworks, infrastructure works, such as highways and foul/surface water drainage systems. He also has experience in the design and site monitoring of all types of construction work including retail parks, office blocks, cinemas and telephone switch centres.
Kim Han
Director
Kim is a Director with responsibility for one of our structural teams. Kim joined JPG in 2000 and was made Associate in 2001 and Director in 2003. Kim’s early career involved the structural design of superstructures for the coal and gas power station industry in the Yorkshire region. During this period Kim was seconded to Laing Civil Engineering for 15 months to work on the construction of the Sizewell ‘B’ Nuclear Power Station in Suffolk. Kim has extensive experience in structural design works within the leisure and retail industry, out of town office/industrial park developments, high-rise apartments, offices, hotel buildings and schools. Kim’s experience includes steelwork, reinforced concrete, timber and masonry structures.
Mathew Potter
Director
Matthew joined Jordan Pritchard Gorman in July 1988 as a trainee Structural Engineer. Matthew was appointed as an Associate of the practice in 2003 and, following a company restructure, became a Director in 2008. Matthew has gained valuable experience whilst working on a broad variety of projects in the industrial, process, leisure, residential, retail and commercial sectors. Matthew is responsible for leading a team of Engineers, Technicians and Draughtspersons from concept stage through to completion and remains involved with the day to day running of the project.
Kevin Wheldale
Associate
Kevin is an Associate within one of our structural teams. Kevin’s early career was with a steel fabricator based in Leeds and following on from this, Kevin joined the Ministry of Defence’s construction arm and spent 15 years working on a variety of MOD projects including new runways, hangars and associated military infrastructure works. Kevin then moved back into the private sector and in his position of Associate, Kevin is responsible for leading a team of Engineers, Technicians and Draughtspersons from concept stage through to completion and remains involved with the day to day running of the project.
Mike Townend
Associate
Mike is an Associate with overall responsibility for our specialist geotechnical and environmental team. Mike has extensive site experience of civil engineering works, supervision of geotechnical ground investigations and specialist geotechnical processes and has prepared documents in accordance with the Department of Transport Specification for Highway works. He is also able to provide engineering assessments of geotechnical issues. Mike has technical responsibility for the provision of geotechnical advice and is responsible for assessment of foundation designs and for material suitability, ground improvement and slope stability.
David Allwood
Associate
David joined JPG in 2007 having previously worked for other local consultants. David is now Associate with responsibility for the London and Southern Region. David is an experienced engineer having successfully delivered numerous Commercial, Retail, Leisure, Education and Industrial Projects. He has been involved in the overall management and delivery of schemes from pre-tender to completion. David has experience on a wide range of structural systems from modular and offsite construction to traditional steel and concrete techniques and has a firm working knowledge of current design practices and various construction forms. In addition David has significant international experience having previously established and managed the JPG Middle East office in Oman for a number of years.
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