PROJECT MANAGEMENT

MIKE HARDWICK

Mike is an independent self build consultant and project management specialist. Since self building his own family home in 2002, he has become a leading expert and is currently general manager of the National Custom & Self Build association.

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

OPINDER LIDDAR

Opinder is a Build It Award-winning architect and a director at lapd architects. He specialises in self-build and renovation and is a regular consultant at the National Self Build & Renovation Centre. Opinder is a key member of the Build A Dream Self Build Association, which helps novices to build their own home or set up group schemes.

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

JULIAN OWEN

Julian Owen is Build It’s design doctor and is a self-build architect with his own architects practice. He is the founder of the Association of Self Build Architects. Over the years he has written a number of books on the subjects of self-build, alteration and extensions, loft conversions and timber frame building.

EDITOR OF BUILD IT

CHRIS BATES

Chris has dedicated the last 10 years to writing about self-build and is a champion for pushing the boundaries of self-build in the UK. Chris is a trained site-carpenter and recently project managed Build It’s very own self build project – the Build It Education House.

ECO HOMES

NIGEL GRIFFITHS

Nigel is the Director of the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance and also a consultant working mainly on energy efficiency policy and evaluation. He is also the author of the Haynes Eco House Manual. Hear Nigel talk you through everything you need to know about building a sustainable home in our seminar programme.

PLANNING

JULIA RIDDLE

Julia is a planning consultant with over 13 years of experience in a variety of planning work, including advising on and achieving planning permission for residential development on a range of scales. She has been involved in writing guidance on custom and self-build to inform the national planning approach and has specifically been advising self-builders for over 6 years.

FINANCE

TOM MCSHERRY

Tom has worked in the financial services industry for 27 years – 14 of these specialising in self build mortgages and finance at BuildStore, providing expert advice to hundreds of customers embarking on major homebuilding projects. Tom has completed two major homebuilding projects himself, and is widely regarded as a self build finance expert.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

KARIM MALHAME

Karim is a building project management expert based in Berkshire and Surrey, working for construction project consultancy CLPM. He has a wealth of experience in the industry, from working on commercial developments in the UK and international markets though to developing and managing a personal portfolio of properties, and giving project management support to people undertaking self-builds, renovations and extensions.

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