Devon Club

Tanya joined the company as a trainee recruiter 18 years ago when the business was celebrating its second birthday. Now Managing Director, Tanya plays a pivotal role in the strategic direction of the company.

Having worked in most areas of the business during her career, Tanya has a firm knowledge and understanding of each sector and applies this wealth of experience for the benefit of her colleagues and clients alike.

A key contributor to the sector through her various roles with industry organisations, in particular as Chair for Women In Property – Somerset, Devon & Cornwall and Committee Member of Constructing Excellence Exeter & Devon, Tanya has earned the respect from her peers through her consistent and ongoing support for the property and construction industry.

Stephen is a Partner and Head of Adjudication and Arbitration Services.

He specialises in construction procurement and contentious construction and engineering matters including projects support and drafting and negotiating construction contracts, court proceedings, adjudications and professional negligence claims.

Stephen has over 20 years’ experience. He has recently acted for a number of major UK Contractors as well as developers, banks, local authorities, utility companies and consultants providing contentious and non-contentious construction law advice in a number of sectors including the energy sector.

Stephen is a construction adjudicator on a number of industry panels, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a practising mediator. He is also a member of the Association of Partnering Advisers.

Stephen is cited in Chambers & Partners Legal Directory. Clients praise his “very comprehensive and thorough advice with no stone left unturned.” Stephen is also recognised as a legal expert in Construction law by the Legal Experts Directory and is ranked as a Leading Individual in the 2020 edition of the Legal 500.

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Martin has over 30 years experience in the construction industry working for seven years in the private sector for a chartered quantity surveying practice producing bills of quantities for tendering, cost planning and final account management for clients.

Twelve years working for a contractor which was a specialist cladding and concrete repair contractor working in the company as it grew into a FTSE250 company and one of the largest social housing contractors. During the twelve years his role developed from Estimator/Surveyor for specialist trades initially through to the Regional Managing Estimator sitting on the Western Region Board having decisions on the structure of the business. Other roles were spent initiating the ISO9001 Quality Assurance into the business and being the regional co-ordinator and also Process Mapping the Surveyor process of the business. During his time he was dealing with Sub-Contractors, Specialist Material Suppliers and Clients working on traditional building contracts and also partnering contracts.

Since Austin and Hobbs Ltd was formed he has been involved in lots of differing types of projects ranging from:

• TRADITIONAL BUILD HOUSING
• SPECIALIST EXTERNAL WALL INSULATION
• DESIGN AND BUILD PROJECTS
• INDUSTRIAL UNIT/COMMERCIAL OFFICES
• CONSTRUCTION OF RETAIL BUILDINGS
• RENEWABLE ENERGY – PV SYSTEMS AND ECO SCHEMES
• RECYCLING CENTRES
• NEW BUILD ONE OFF HOUSES

Types of Clients:

• MAIN CONTRACTORS
• SUB-CONTRACTORS
• PRIVATE CLIENTS
• PRIVATE QUANTITY SURVEYORS
• DEVELOPERS

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A Chartered Building Surveyor and Member of the Association for Project Management, Tim is Director responsible for the company’s Exeter Office operating regionally throughout the South West.

He is another of Kendall Kingscott’s graduate training success stories after joining for a placement year in 2002 progressing up through the Practice to his appointment to the Board of Directors in 2018.

Tim has particular experience in managing programmes of works for clients with large property holdings and also heads up interdisciplinary project teams.

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David is the People and Culture Lead for WWA, having joined the company in 2021. He oversees the whole HR function, but has a particular focus on Learning and Development.

David’s CV is an interesting read. He has an English and French degree, and initially trained as a secondary school teacher. He taught in and around Bath for 8 years, and ended up as a Head of Year: responsible for 253 13 year olds! He worked as a manager for Michael Caines, successfully running the Wellhouse pub and then the fine dine restaurant that made up the ground floor of the Royal Clarence Hotel. More recently, he spent 7 years as the Commercial Manager of the Killerton Estate (National Trust) before completing an HR Management degree and moving into HR.

David’s passion is for values-based/people-centric organisations and putting in the policies and processes that help to create that. WWA is proud of its B Corp certification and the fact that it has a particularly high score for ‘Workers’.

Mindful of the increasingly urgent need for all of us to live a “1 planet” lifestyle, I aspire to help people, businesses and other organisations make the most of renewable technologies to become more profitable and more sustainable.

Not so much an eco-warrior I am more an energy pragmatist encouraging better use of available technologies and access to new revenues. I enjoy a diverse range of project technologies at all scales in my work.  I am particularly keen to advocate “whole life cost of ownership” as a defining metric for asset management.