Expertise
Chris leads the project management and quantity surveying (PM/ QS) team across all offices. A chartered quantity surveyor with extensive pre- and post-contract experience, Chris has successfully delivered new build, extension, fit-out, and refurbishment projects across a diverse range of sectors including health, leisure, retail, residential, office, and industrial.
Chris brings significant expertise in managing multi-site rollouts throughout the UK and is committed to ensuring exceptional service quality and delivery. He plays a pivotal role in mentoring and supporting professionals at all levels within the business and has been instrumental in developing Gateley RJA’s APC offering for candidates.
As a key member of the senior management team, Chris was central to establishing and expanding the Nottingham office and continues to drive process improvements that enhance client support and team growth. His leadership reflects a strong focus on operational excellence and strategic development.
How do you help clients?
- Strategic cost management: I make sure projects stay on budget by providing accurate cost planning, value engineering, and proactive financial control throughout the project lifecycle.
- Quality and delivery assurance: I develop and implement robust processes that guarantee high standards of service and timely project delivery, tailored to each client’s objectives.
- Multi-site rollout expertise: For clients with nationwide programs, I draw on my experience managing complex, multi-site projects to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability.
- Client-centric solutions: I take time to understand each client’s unique goals and provide bespoke advice and solutions that align with their commercial and operational priorities.
- Leadership and mentorship: By mentoring and developing talent within my team, I ensure clients benefit from a highly skilled, motivated group delivering exceptional results.
Experience
- Delivering medical centre extension and surgery-wide refurbishments in a live practice (including during a pandemic), acting as the lead project manager (PM), employer’s agent (EA) and quantity surveyor (QS).
- Acting as the lead project manager, employer’s agent and quantity surveyor providing much-needed accommodation for homeless and vulnerable people.
- Building the trust of a client for the delivery of their listed building project, ensuring all funding requirements were met prior to starting on site.
- Managing the post-contract works on a large national roll-out of new build public houses and lodges across the UK, delivering projects on site, overseeing a team of quantity surveyors and employer’s agents and managing the client’s supply chain.
- Advising a client throughout various challenging issues on the delivery of a housing development.
- Undertaking various fit-out, extension and refurbishment projects in live spaces for healthcare, retail and leisure clients, minimising disruption to their operations.
- Developed processes and systems to ensure efficient and effective delivery of various multi-site rollouts, improving quality, speed and costs for the client.
- Overseeing the delivery of various new build industrial units, car showrooms and office buildings.