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Devon Contractors
ADHPRO
Arcadis LLP
Ashfords LLP
Building Greater Exeter
CITB – Construction Industry Training Board
Cornerstone Housing
Devon Contractors
Devon County Council
Exeter City Council
Exeter City Living
Faithful & Gould
Fenster
Foot Anstey LLP
Holistic Housing Solutions
Kay Elliott Architects
Kier
LiveWest
Met Office
Michelmores
Mid Devon District Council
Midas Construction
Penny Wood Talks
Red Construction Ltd
Re-flow
South Hams & West Devon District Council
StructureHaus
Taylor Lewis Partnership
Teign Housing
Ward Williams Associates
Yarlington Housing Group
The Devon Club has been born of a recent merger between the Plymouth & Exeter Clubs. This allows us to operate and engage across the Devon region giving members more variety of events and wider opportunities for collaboration.
Our aim is to provide a voice for our members and a platform for industry improvement, advancing knowledge and encouraging collaborative working.
We are looking forward to organising and delivering some great events throughout the year that will appeal to our diverse membership base of clients, consultants, contractors, sub contractors and suppliers.
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Meet the Devon Club Committee
Tanya Loosemore, RGB Recruitment - Chair
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.
Peter Everitt, Kier
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Stephen Homer, Ashfords - Honorary Club President
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.
Jack Shepherd, Matthew Edward
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Mike Blakely, Exeter College
For the past nine years, Mike has led Exeter College’s Apprenticeship and Employer Engagement directorate, focusing on Future Skills and addressing future skills needs. In November 2022, he was excited to lead the apprenticeship team when the college maintained its Outstanding Ofsted status. Under his leadership, the number of apprenticeships has more than doubled, with over 1800 apprentices at any given time and a business network of over 1010 businesses. Exeter College has been the top-rated further education college in the South-West for employer satisfaction for two years.
Mike’s influence extends beyond the South-West, as he supports the entire GWR network from Penzance to Paddington. He serves as Vice Chair of GCAP, advocating for green construction education and chairs the Devon and Cornwall Training Provider Network. Mike also leads efforts to address future skills challenges in collaboration with employer and industry partners. Additionally, he chaired a successful charity effort, raising over £150,000, and has been a dedicated father to triplets for the past 15 years.
Mike Smith, Bailey Partnership
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David Ashford, WWA
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’.
Jonathan Davis, Hoare Lea
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.
Olivia Moorey, Coreus Group (G4C)
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Martin Hobbs, Austin & Hobbs
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
Tim Fenton, Kendall Kingscott
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.
