Background and Qualifications

When you appoint Gecobuild you will have a Chartered Structural Engineer managing the structural design of your project, whom is also a Chartered Civil Engineer, holds a doctorate in the field, and came top in their undergraduate degree cohort with first class honours. 

Gecobuild has broad experience in design consultancy, academic research, construction and structural carpentry. Experience in industry ranges from numerous private houses, hotels, and community and sports centres, to leading the structural design of some major multidisciplinary engineering projects, up to 70M in value. e.g. Icons at the O2 shopping centre (inside the O2 Dome), and Bicester Motion’s Innovation Quarter, a motoring research campus.

A niche in ropes courses and climbing centres, as well as timber framed structures, was developed over the years in practice in industry.

Gecobuild has many years post-chartered experience working independently in the smaller scale domestic sector, across the south of England, and has also lead teams of seven or eight people delivering larger scale projects nationally and internationally.

International work has entailed periods spent in Central America (carpentry and building, for eco-lodges, a  school in the cloud forest, and a germination centre), Dubai (engineering the metro project, station team) and Qatar (engineering the ‘Heart of Doha’ project).

Additionally, Gecobuild sits on one panel and one committee within the Institution of Structural Engineers.