Director, Technical – Head of Building Surveying Services
BSc, FRICS, FIWFM
UK and International
Roger has over 40 years of experience as a chartered building surveyor and strategic facilities management consultant. He is a building fabric expert witness for all types of built assetswithinmostindustry sectors.
Roger has extensive experience inbuilding defect pathology investigation.He has prepared complex technical reports for negotiation and submission in court proceedings and for expert evidence in adjudicationand arbitration hearings. He has attended expert meetings, given evidence at mediations, and briefed legal teams on available options and remedial works.
He advises and acts for either client or contractor on any scale of construction-related technical dispute or insurance claim.He has managed large multi-skilled inspection teams with surveyors, engineers, and other specialists. He can design digital survey systems for mobiles to deliver consistent data quality using large inspection teams.
Roger is an expert in the technical appraisal of all forms of building or estate for due diligence reporting on asset acquisition. He has provided development monitoring on large construction projects on behalf of funds.
He is an industry expert on systems for plannedmaintenance, facilities management,and asset data management.Between 2005 and 2007, he was an FM expert member of the CEN Technical Committee 348. This Committee was commissioned by CEN, the European Committee for Standardisation (Normalisation), toset FM work procurement standards for Europe. CEN operatesalongside the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the British Standards Institution (BSI).
Roger has over 25 years of experience at Partner or Director level in international property firms and has worked in the UK, Europe, US, Asia, Australia,and Dubai, including5 years working from Hong Kong.
Roger’s sector experience covers corporate real estate/offices, central and local government, private residentialand public housing, healthcare, military, retail and banking, data centres, logistics and industrial, higher and further education, telecom and postal, railway and airports, museums and historic buildings.
Education and Certifications • Building Surveying, BSc: De Montfort University, Leicester UK (1978)
• Bond Solon Training:Excellence in Written Evidence Programme (September 2022) • Cardiff University & Bond Solon:Expert Witness Certificate (underway throughout 2025)
• Fellow:Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Building Surveying Division (FRICS) • Fellow:Institute of Workplace & Facilities Management (FIWFM)
