Moda, Great Charles Street
Urbanisation
Strengthening our UK Project Management team
We are excited to welcome a raft of new faces to our UK Project Management and Cost Consultancy team. With new project managers and quantity surveyors dotted across our Birmingham, London, and Manchester offices, we’re welcoming industry experts while also nurturing a vibrant, younger workforce through our graduate and apprenticeship programmes.
Strengthening our well-established team has been our top priority to support our high-profile clients in delivering exciting projects across the build to rent, data centre, logistics, advanced manufacturing, and aviation sectors.
Steering pivotal high-rise build to rent developments, we’re project-managing major schemes such as the highly anticipated Moda Great Charles Street project. After collaborating with Moda Living on The Mercian, we’re proud to support the delivery of another iconic residential-led mixed use development set to join Birmingham’s skyline. Towering at 39 storeys, Great Charles St will provide 722 new homes for rent, alongside a gym, green spaces, roof terraces, communal lounges, co-working spaces, and boutique retail and café-bars.
Most recently, we’ve completed the Loudon’s Yard phase of the Moda New Garden Square project in Edgbaston, Birmingham, providing 398 residential units for a wider development that will ultimately feature 2,000 units and £6m in new public realm enhancements.
We’re continuing to support schemes at Port Loop, Birmingham Airport, as well as affordable housing projects, and data centre developments for Telehouse.
To deliver these exciting schemes, we’re growing our project management teams across the UK, with Nicola Burley heading up our Birmingham team, Peter Farrimond in London, and Rick Harnedy in Manchester.
Meet our recent joiners below.
Peter Farrimond
Associate Director
Leading our London team, Peter is an accomplished and dedicated Project Manager with a wealth of knowledge in multi-million-pound projects, predominantly in the commercial sector as well as retail, industrial and residential spaces. Over his career, Peter has led large teams of professionals, subcontractors, and service providers with experience in successfully closing out projects of all sizes.
Luke Furnell
Associate Director
Luke is an experienced Consultant Cost Manager across a variety of sectors, including residential, healthcare, commercial, and industrial. His expertise spans numerous sectors and encompasses all aspects of pre- and post-contract services, from initial cost planning to project completion. He is committed to building on the strengths of the existing team and expanding the cost consultant offering from our Birmingham base.
Rick Harnedy
Associate Director
Rick has managed complex teams across residential high-rise, hotels, healthcare, education, stadia, and aviation sectors. Leading our project management team in the Northwest from our Manchester office, Rick brings diverse experience of delivering large programmes and projects. His highlights include managing iconic FIFA World Cup Stadia precincts, residential high-rise, and award-winning healthcare programmes.
Thomas Attwood
Commercial Manager
Thomas joins us as a Commercial Manager, with nine years of experience as a quantity surveyor working across a range of retail, office, and education projects. He is hoping in his new role to expand his project experience and gain his MRICS in the next 12 months.
Christian Herbert
Project Manager
Christian has 8 years’ experience in the construction industry as a building surveyor, employer’s agent, and project manager. Supporting a wide variety of projects, Christian has delivered pre- and post-contract project management services from feasibility to practical completion. He has built up substantial experience in leading projects in his role as employer’s agent in the affordable housing, build to rent and industrial and logistics sectors.
Tomas Conneely
Graduate Project Manager
We welcome Tomas as a Graduate Project Manager, with a background in Product Design. Tomas has honed his knowledge of the construction process completing work experience on both the client and contractor sides and supporting his family to build a house from scratch.
Tomas commented: “I’m looking forward to gaining more training and insights into the industry to further my career while maintaining a focus on delivering projects to a high standard.”
Tarum Samra
Graduate Project Manager
Tarum’s career began with studying for a degree in Geography & Urban Regional Planning and a Master’s in Construction Project Management. Obtaining valuable work experience contributed towards his desire to pursue a career within the development industry.
Tarum commented: “In this new role, I hope to continue to develop my skills and understanding of the construction industry. I’m excited to engage with a range of clients and projects throughout my journey and grow professionally and individually.”
Joey Robinson
Graduate Quantity Surveyor
Joey is a recent graduate from the University of Portsmouth. Working on a wide range of projects within the team has provided him with valuable exposure in a short period of time.
Joey commented: “I’m excited to develop relationships with clients and hone my technical skills. Within the next few years, I’m excited to start working towards gaining my Chartership status with the support of RPS.”
Leo Hawkins
Trainee Commercial Apprentice
Leo joins us a Trainee Quantity Surveyor where he is currently gaining experience producing bills of quantities, and conducting feasibility studies to estimate materials, time and labour costs.
