Alan is Chairman and is responsible for all financial and business performance related matters at TFT. His technical areas of expertise are change and people management, business strategy and planning, technical due diligence, development management and project monitoring.
He is also a member of the RICS Tall Buildings Fire Safety Working Group and the Cranfield 50 – a network of leading entrepreneurs. Alan is the key account partner for The Crown Estate which includes the recent completion of Rushden Lakes, a £200m retail and leisure scheme and is currently involved in the strategic development of the land to the west of the Rushden Lakes site.
Other notable projects include the construction of a new hospital at the Queen Elizabeth II site in Birmingham.
Dan joined TFT in 1996 and is a Senior Director. He sits on TFT’s Executive Board with responsibility for Strategic Growth of the business, having a particular focus on developing the business in key sectors and service lines.
He also specialises in project management having set up TFT’s specialist project consultancy service line in 2005 and now leads the development and project consultancy group of services within the business. Dan has more recently been responsible for starting up TFT’s development management consultancy, cost consultancy and rights of light services.
Alongside his management roles, Dan is a hands-on jobbing project manager, with particular expertise in delivering difficult value-add or technically-challenging commercial and residential projects.
This will be our 19th year at MIPIM and we suspect it is going to be a very busy one, given the state of the UK property market and continued inward investment from abroad.This year, we will be updating the market on two key areas of our business:Technical Due Diligence (TDD) – where we deliver objective advice essential to managing risk, informing the transaction and establishing the inherent worth of the property or portfolio. We support UK and inbound investors who wish to acquire commercial property in the UK and across Europe. This is an area where we have seen strong growth and we are ideally placed to provide local support, knowledge and insights ‘on the ground’.Project Management, where we bring a tenacious yet objective approach to the role, combining the discipline of project management with Tuffin Ferraby Taylor’s (TFT) thorough understanding of how buildings are constructed. We bring a qualitative approach to the development as well as milestone-based delivery. Our advice to investors, lenders, developers, owners and occupiers helps them achieve best value from their property assets. Developers may wish to discuss how TFT adds value to refurbishment, extension and new build schemes.