PEOPLE

CHRISTOPHER BRITTAIN
Chris is a construction commercial professional with circa 30 years of experience working for tier 1 UK construction contractors including Wates, ISG, Miller Construction (Galliford Try), Norwest Holst (Vinci) and Alfred McAlpine (Carillion). He has a solid commercial background having risen through the contractor Quantity Surveying ranks with his past 15 years operating successfully at Regional Commercial Director level and above. Over recent years Chris has successfully performed a Commercial Director role at national group centre level often requiring him to take on strategic leadership and the hands on direction over critical issues whether contentious (e.g. dispute resolution), non-contentious (e.g. large-scale £150m+ negotiations) or corporate (e.g. business acquisition / change / transformation). Chris’s depth of knowledge, skills and experience in the construction and residential arenas have equipped him well to offer clients a wide range of corporate and operational commercial services.

JEREMY HUGHES
Jeremy is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with 30 years experience in quantity surveying and construction commercial management and regularly acts on behalf of main contractors, sub-contractors, employers and private individuals. Jeremy's career started with a trainee QS position with a main contractor in the mid 1980's.  He progressed through the ranks and by the time he moved into consultancy work in the mid 90's was specialising in the resolution of problematic contracts. After his move to an international consultancy in the mid 90's he gained experience in heavy civil engineering, pipelines, process engineering, roads and bridges as well as rail contracts. Prior to joining Vanguard Jeremy had traded in his own right, and as a Director of several construction based companies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, with degrees in Quantity Surveying and Law as well as being an RICS accredited expert witness and holds an RICS accredited Diploma in Construction Adjudication. He regularly acts as party representative in Adjudication proceedings and expert advisor in legal and other proceedings.