Richard Williams Regional Director - South West & Wales

FRICS, MIFIREE

Richard is a fully qualified Building control surveyor with FRICS & MIFireE accreditation and has over 30 years’ experience in Building Control working for both local authority and the private sector.

He has worked extensively within the residential, commercial, retail, education and healthcare sectors including involvement in hospitals, nursing homes / extra care / sheltered and retirement housing developments as well as education projects for the numerous private education clients and extensive experience on working with projects involving conservation and listed building features / restrictions.

Richard was made a Fellow of the RICS in April 2014 in recognition for his work on building control and specifically listed / conservation building and has experience of delivering numerous seminars and training on building control and associated matters to external clients.

Richard works with clients to project manage schemes nationally and carries out site inspection work in Bath, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire areas.

Over 30 years’ experience in Building Control working for both local authority and the private sector.

CASE STUDY
Pangbourne College

The new build Harding Communications Centre at Pangbourne College designed by Mitchell Taylor Workshop combines a music school and ICT facility together under one roof and won the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA South Regional Award 2014. The building was designed to the BREEAM Excellent Standard and uses ‘Passivhaus’ principles with a continuous line of insulation over composite construction. 

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CASE STUDY
Wessex Water, Bath

The client, Bennetts Associates Architects and Buro Happold Consulting Engineers created the most energy efficient and sustainable building in the country with the highest BREEAM rating at that time for a commercial office building. In environmental terms the project was acclaimed by the Building Research Establishment as the ‘greenest’ commercial building in the UK. It stands as an exemplary example of energy efficiency, low embodied energy, recycling including aggregate for the concrete structure and recycled storm and grey water and enhanced biodiversity. 

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CASE STUDY
Tyntesfield

Tyntesfield is a spectacular Victorian Gothic Revival house with gardens, parkland and much more.  It had been the house of the Gibbs family for over 150 years. As the house was inherited by each generation of the Gibbs family, they stamped their own identity on the house and estate with different developments. The 14th June 2002 marked a new beginning for the house and estate when the National Trust announced their new acquisition.  The house was in need of extensive renovation and The National Trust set about re-roofing, re-wiring and re-plumbing the main house and generally improving access for visitor experience. 

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