John, together with Iain, founded CK21 in July 2005, and is responsible for business development, office management issues and project overviews. John is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Environmentalist and Principal Designer, often carrying out the latter role on projects as diverse as Durham Cathedral to South Shields Transport interchange. He is heavily involved in regional and national construction bodies as chair of CIC NE, BIM Region NE, on the boards of Constructing Excellence NE, APS, WWT NE and CIC as Nations and Regions Champion. He was one of the authors of the APS Principal Designer Guide and gives numerous talks at a regional and national level on CDM and design risk management. He also has a keen interest in developing the profile of the construction industry in schools, colleges and universities sitting on the employer liaison group for University of Northumbria and the Civil Engineering degree at that organisation.
Along with John, Iain founded CK21 in July 2005 and his key responsibilities include the financial management of the practice, business development and marketing. His major success to date has been to steer the business through the recent turbulent waters of the recession whilst maintaining the business in a healthy financial state. Although his design engineering career has taken a back seat to undertake the financial management of the business, he is still integrally involved in project reviews and problem solving. He has experience across a number of sectors including residential, education, industrial, commercial, health and retail.
Jonathan joined CK21 in October 2011 as a Senior Engineer within the Structural Engineering section, he was promoted to Associate in 2014. More recently, in July 2016, Jonathan has become a Director of CK21 and leads the structural section and CK21's BIM protocol and development.
After completing a degree in Structural Engineering and Architecture at the University of Sheffield, Jonathan worked for a large multi-disciplinary engineering consultant before taking a 12 month career break to fulfill a lifelong ambition of competing in a round the world yacht race. The race visited 6 continents and crossed 4 oceans, working as a watch leader on several of the legs helped to develop his leadership and management skills outside of the traditional work environments. The experience overall was very rewarding.
David joined CK21 in January 2013 in order to develop our infrastructure offering as well as bringing with him a BREEAM assessment capability. He became an Associate in 2015 and since July 2016 is the Director leading our civil engineering/infrastructure section. David has gained experience in all sectors in relation to external works. He has particularly developed strong links and repeat business with clients such as Story Homes and Newcastle International Airport. David, along with Jonathan, oversees CK21 technical software usage and development and has developed a high level of competence in WinDes, PDS, Autotrack, Civils 3D and Revit. He leads our AutoCAD group ensuring practice wide standards are maintained.
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