Following MBO, bosses bring in new blood to work on schemes in London and Birmingham

Project manager and cost consultant DBK Back has taken on nine further staff following this summer’s management buy out.

The Birmingham-based firm has added six professionals, including David Maude, who has been made senior project manager in the London office.

Maude joins from Middle Eastern firm Ahli United Bank, where he led property investments in Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait.

At DBK, Maude will work with one of the company’s major clients St Modwen Properties. He is currently working with the developer on two projects that are just about to go on site: Farnborough City Centre and Wembley Central. Both are regeneration schemes worth £30-40m, which involve transforming 1960s shopping centres into mixed-use developments.

DBK has also hired David Ash as senior project manager in the Birmingham office.

He joins from the client side, where he has worked on BAA Terminal 5.

The consultancy has been appointed as the project manager and cost consultant for the multi-million pound redevelopment of the former GKN site on Millfields Road in Bilston.

DBK has also won the cost consultant role on Redrow Homes West Midlands’ £30m landmark ‘Hemisphere’ residential scheme, comprising 343 apartments next to the site of the Tally Ho – a high quality residential scheme opposite Edgbaston cricket ground.

Within central Birmingham, DBK is the cost consultant on the planned redevelopment of Edgbaston shopping centre on the Calthorpe Estate. The company has also been appointed by Arena Central as the project manager for its 2m sq ft of mixed-use development on Broad Street, Birmingham.

The other new recruits are:

  • Nigel Evans, senior commercial manager, Birmingham
  • Damian Southern, senior commercial manager, Manchester
  • Ian Skitt, senior commercial manager, Birmingham
  • Matthew Williams, trainee QS, Birmingham
  • Lucy Hill, office manager, London
  • Tulaine Trimble, office administrator, Birmingham
  • Laura Webster, office manager, Manchester

DBK, formerly known as Back Group, was bought out in August by directors Duncan Berry, Tim Downing and Steve Kelly.

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QS News