Welcome to Manchester

Welcome to Manchester branch on Interact. We are a well-established regional property networking group with members including clients, contractors and property professionals. We meet at least four times a year with guests to make introductions and share knowledge and opportunities. For more information, please contact the current Branch Chair, details below.

Branch Chair

Emyr Jones

Managing Director

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Born on a farm in Ruthin, North Wales and educated locally in Brynhyfryd School, before attending University at University College Wales, Swansea. Emyr moved to Manchester in 1990 and started work for a Multi-Disciplinary Civil and Structural Consulting Engineering practice known then as Shepherd Gilmour.

Emyr has worked for Shepherd Gilmour, now known as SGi. Consulting Engineers, for over 34 years taking ownership of the company some 10 years ago. SGi | High Quality Structural & Civil Engineering Services (sgiconsulting.co.uk) a highly respected Civil and Structural Consultancy for schemes throughout the UK, with scheme values varying from £10million up to £350million.

Emyr’s speciality lies in Strategic sustainable residential developments, Industrial Developments, Hotels and Multi floor residential developments and is instrumental in the design of many of the new wave of Build to Rent development in the UK.

Emyr is a member of the Northwest Advisory Board for Teenage Cancer Trust and is very passionate about the promotion of the amazing work being undertaken by the trust Teenage Cancer Trust | UK Cancer Charity

 

 

Manchester Members

Andrew Brooks

Warrington Martin

Director

PM/QS

Andrew Gardiner

Edwards & Co

Consultant

Property Advisors

Andrew Newton

Newton Properties

Director

Property Consultants

Andrew Rainford

AEW Arhitects

Managing Director

Architects

Andrew Thomas

Diligentia Ltd & 3D innovations

Director

Innovator

Angela Mansell

Mansell Building Solutions

managing Director

Building Solutions

Ben Battye

Horizon Fletcher Rae (UK) Ltd

Director

Architects

Bill Davidson

P4 Planning

Managing Director

Planning

Charlie Womersley

Forever Thirsty

Director

Wine Conoisseur

Charmaine O’Connor

PP O'Connor

Chief Executive

Demolition

Curtis Ashworth

Nifty Places

Owner

Digital Systems

Dan Hargreaves

Deloitte Legal

Partner

Solicitor

David Stafford

S I Sealy

Director

M&E Engineers

David Vayro

Harrison Drury

Partner

Solicitor

Eddie Bredenhann

P P O'Conner

Pre Construction Director

Demolition

Emyr Jones

Shepherd Gilmour Consulting Engineers

Managing Director

Consulting Engineers

Garry Rowlands

AFL Architects

Director

Architects

Jamie Sutton

Glenbrook

Senior Development Manager

Developer

Joanne Wright

Caddick Construction (UK) Ltd

Business Development Manager

Conractor

Jon Bray

Bond Associates

Director

Stone Supplier

Justine McGuinn

Just PR & Marketing Limited

Managing Director

PR

Lee Birtchall

DV8 Designs

Managing Director

Architects

Lewis Peck

Browne Jacobson LLP

Senior Associate

Solicitors

Lisa Morton

Roland Dransfield PR & Purposeful Podcasts

CEO

PR

Mark Pettit

Perspectives

Managing Director

Bid Writer

Michael Kitching

SK Transport Planning Ltd

Director

Transport Planning

Paul McNeill

Sweco

Director

Building Control

Richard Jones

Chilton Estates

Director

Developer

Richard Pearse

Intega Building Consultancy

Director

Building Surveyor

Rob Henshall

Burrows Graham

Structures Director

Consulting Engineers

Stuart Finney-Rawsthorne

Survey Solutions

Survey Manager

Surveyors

Tom Reade

Hilson Moran

Associate Director

Architects