Ian Gregg,
Partner
Background
A founder partner of the Projex Midlands offices, Ian started his career as a Quantity Surveyor for a design and construction contractor in Stratford upon Avon before spending several years running his own commercial consultancy business predominantly working on commercial development and refurbishment projects.
Ian joined AMEC Design and Management in 1990 to develop their Cost Planning and Estimating department and was quickly promoted to Commercial Director working with a small management team, with integrated design and construction projects achieving an annual turnover of £160m. During this period AMEC achieved 85% of its turnover by negotiated repeat business on major projects nationwide and throughout Europe.
Ian helped pioneer incentivised forms of contracts developing framework agreements with blue chip companies including Boots, BAA, AstraZeneca and Airbus UK. In 2000 Ian was promoted to Operations Director running the Stratford and London offices with total responsibility for 450 design and construction staff and 18 Project Managers leading projects turning over £90m.
Key experience
A broad experience of major PFI and PPP initiatives, frameworks and landmark projects across Health, Pharmaceutical, Industrial, Transport, Commercial, Leisure and Retail sectors. This includes the £240m hospital for UCLH in central London, four regional hospitals for Chiltern Securities, six discovery and production facilities for AstraZeneca, projects valuing over £160m for Glaxo Smithkline and over £300m for Pfizer in Sandwich. Two major hotels in central London each worth £10m, the prestigious fit out of Tag McLaren’s headquarters building, the £32m refurbishment of Waterloo Station and the £12m refurbishment of T1 at Heathrow.
Experience has also been gained through smaller projects including portfolio of leisure projects for Greens Leisure and Holmes Place, several primary care facilities through PRIME, the new Courtyard theatre for the RSC in Stratford upon Avon, new offices for Metronet, several commercial fit out projects in London and Reflex partnerships with GSK, Eli Lily and MSD.
Favourite building
The Tate Modern.
The ultimate example of recycling. An undistinguished coal fired power station converted to oil in 1963 until it was closed in 1981. This redundant industrial building became an astonishing discovery of great architectural distinction and was rejuvenated in 2000 into its present iconic form. The rejuvenation was not contained to the building and the Tate Modern proved to be the catalyst that improved the South Bank to be one of the capital’s most desirable attractions.