Project Monitoring
When it comes to property development, appointing the right project monitor is often the difference between a sound investment funding and a wasted opportunity. The project monitor helps you to minimise risk when financing projects. We make the time to talk to our clients and identify what the real drivers are behind their involvement, to identify the critical factors and plan how to best assure their success.
As a funder or investor, you need to protect and police your interests by ensuring that projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest quality. Increasingly, banks and funds also need our advice on the sustainability credentials of their investments and any potential obsolescence issues.
We review the planning, design and construction of developments at every stage of the process to ensure that challenges are identified at an early stage and dealt with efficiently. As independent experts, our focus as a project monitor is on ensuring the scheme meets your needs. We provide you with the objective advice essential to realise your project aims.
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Meet our team
Alan Pemberton
Alan is Chairman and is responsible for all financial and business performance related matters at TFT. His technical areas of expertise are change and people management, business strategy and planning, technical due diligence, development management and project monitoring.
He is also a member of the RICS Tall Buildings Fire Safety Working Group and the Cranfield 50 – a network of leading entrepreneurs. Alan is the key account partner for The Crown Estate which includes the recent completion of Rushden Lakes, a £200m retail and leisure scheme and is currently involved in the strategic development of the land to the west of the Rushden Lakes site.
Other notable projects include the construction of a new hospital at the Queen Elizabeth II site in Birmingham.
Kevin Allen
Kevin is Director based in our Birmingham office and specialises in Project Monitoring, Lead Consultant and Technical Due Diligence (TDD) services. His work spans across most sectors and for various key clients including, Aviva, M&G, British Land, Oxford Properties and Railpen.
Kevin is service line lead for Project Monitoring (Funder and Investor) services at TFT. Kevin has monitored student accommodation schemes incorporating volumetric modular construction and he also leads the TFT Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) Working Group.
Kevin is currently leading on a care home portfolio Project Monitoring instruction for an overseas investor client. The portfolio comprises 10 new purpose-built care homes and two existing care homes undergoing extensive remodelling and refurbishment.
Neil Wotherspoon
Neil’s areas of expertise are development monitoring, technical due diligence (TDD) and dilapidations. He also has a keen interest in sustainability. He is a Senior Director, head of TFT’s Edinburgh office and part of the firm’s TDD and dilapidations working party. He is a member of the Scottish Property Federation Building Standards and Sustainability Committees.
Neil's prominent clients include Nuveen, APG, Tishman Speyer, Aviva, Steinhoff, Tesco, Legal and General, Amber Infrastructure and Homebase.
Neil’s principal instruction is the Project Monitoring of St James Quarter, Edinburgh, a mixed-use development in the heart of Edinburgh on behalf of the investors, APG and Nuveen. Neil’s involvement started at the construction contract stage in October 2016. The leisure and retail element of the development is due for completion in Spring 2021 with the other elements (Hotel, Residential, Cinema and Aparthotel) due for completion in Autumn 2022. Development costs are in the region of £1billion and comprise 850,000sq ft of retail, 214 room Hotel, Cinema, Aparthotel and 152 Residential Apartments.
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