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John Reyers is a partner, in Workplace Consultancy at Knight Frank LLP. He has been in practice for a number of years, and has spent time lecturing at Nottingham Trent University.
is a past chair of the RICS Building Surveying faculty, is chair of the RICS Commercial Energy Performance Group and a member of the International Sustainability working group. He often writes in the RICS 'Journal' and has presented research at international conferences and has published research in 'Structural Survey'.

Trevor is an experienced construction and property professional in practically every sector especially, health, housing and retail; dealing with all types of buildings and services. Professional interests include expert witness, building maintenance and pathology and property strategy. National President of the RICS Building Surveyors in 1997-98 and past President of the Association of European Building Surveyors & Construction Experts (AEEBC) and Visiting Professor in the School of the Built Environment, University of Salford. Trevor manages all central support functions and chairs the marketing committee

Simon is a 55-year-old Chartered Structural Engineer. He became a partner of the 32 - strong Bristol based consulting engineering practice Craddy Pitchers Davidson in 1987. In May 2004 he became Managing Director.

Simon’s career started in 1973 making the tea on a building site, a skill he has still to master. After repeated attempts to learn to play the drums he went to the University of Manchester where, somehow, he obtained a degree, and, after a disastrous few months laying a sewer from Oswaldtwisle to Accrington, joined a firm of consulting engineers. He sat the revered Institution of Structural Engineer’s Part 3 7-hour exam and was the winner of the National Andrews Kent Prize in 1981.

Due to no one else in the office being prepared to loose money on smaller jobs, Simon has inadvertently developed an expertise in Forensic Engineering, a posh description for cracks.

Simon lectures widely on Forensics, occasionally undertaking expert witness commissions and in particular used to be Radio Two’s ‘Crackman’ – providing advice to the public on problems in buildings via the Jeremy Vine show. Unfortunately the listening public have now lost their hunger for more information on this subject. It is now the viewing public’s turn to suffer as he will be seen increasingly on TV later in 2010, despite the fact that he has been advised that he has a great face for Radio.

He has been appointed a Visiting Fellow at Bristol University, although unfortunately he has become too fat and unfit to use any of the sports facilities, which seemed to be one of the main benefits. He has just been elected for a further three year term on the national council for the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Chris Mahony BSc (Hons) RMaPS MBIFM MRICS set up his own practice in Nottingham in 1998 and is Director and Head of Building Consultancy at Ltd, which provides building consultancy and architectural services. Chris is a member of the RICS Asbestos Working Group and Chairman of the RICS Building Pathology Working Group, and frequently writes for The Journal. He has visited a number of leading manufacturers of off-site production, and has also recently been visiting a pair of terraced houses being constructed in straw bale.

Chris also represented the RICS when the Institution of Structural Engineers re-published its book a Guide to Surveys and Inspections of Buildings and Associated Structures, June 2008.

Peter Fall is a Chartered Building Surveyor, having qualified in 1970. He became a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1981, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1999 and a Counsellor of Real Estate in 2005. Peter is an accredited Mediator.

Following his early career in local government and as a lecturer at Newcastle Polytechnic, Peter started his private practice in 1973 building it to five offices and partners before he sold it in December 2004 to set up eaga professional services within Eaga Group PLC., carrying out Clear Building Surveys, Decent Home Surveys and EPCs. Peter’s particular specialism is inspecting buildings being frequently called upon by clients to advise on why a defect has occurred and how to put it right.

Peter was President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors during 2002/03, having been the President of the Building Surveyors division of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1989/1990. He was the Secretary General of the Association d'Experts Europeens du Batiment et de la Construction 1995-1999 an EU grouping of Building Surveyors and the chairman of its Building Pathology Commission.

Peter is a regular presenter of papers on his particular specialism at conferences throughout the UK. His greatest moment was in 2002, when he presented a paper on Sustainable Development to the United Nations’ World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He went on to present further papers to the United Nations in Paris and New York as well as the Harvard Business School at Harvard University.

Kevin has around twenty years experience in the steel industry and currently works in the Surface Science section of the Coated Products Department at Corus R, D & T in South Yorkshire. The Department supports a wide range of coating process and product activities but construction is Corus’ largest market and a major focus for the Department is the development of sustainable, functional coatings for steel cladding products.

Kevin has also been a Technology Translator for the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network since January 2006 and wrote a review entitled ‘Smart Surfaces and Functional Coatings in the Modern Built Environment’ in 2008. He has presented widely on the topic of new and smart materials in the MBE at events such as Climate Change ’08, Ecobuild and Materials Technologies for Energy Applications and is a regular contributor to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ‘Building Surveying’ journal.