Ask Our Experts
Meet Build It’s team of industry experts online – all with decades of knowledge and experience under their belts. Ask them any burning questions and they’ll be able to point you in the right direction to make your dream home happen. They’ll also point you to the best seminars and exhibitors to talk to – plus point you to Build It’s Cost and Find a Builder hubs.
Build It Magazine’s experts will be on hand all weekend at the show, apart from when they are presenting their seminars! They are dedicated to answering your questions and helping you make your project a little easier to manage
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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