SHIRLEY WALDRON

Qualifications B(Arch) Hons, Dip Arch (Brighton) RIBA

Address Flat 2, 24 Second Avenue, Hove, BN3 2LN
Tel (mobile) 07734 695 413
Email shirley@swarchitects.org

Key Skills Good knowledge and experience of the construction / property industry
Client-orientated, calm approach to negotiations
Good organisational, communication and writing skills
Ability to lead a team or work in a team or alone; proactive and self-
motivated

Work Experience
March 06 – Oct 09 Gordon Ingram Associates
Associate Partner, Neighbourly Matters - Team Leader within
department of 14
 Advising the client team pre-planning of their obligations and issues
likely to arise
 Clients include – Hines (UK), Heron International, City Inn Ltd, Land
Securities, Teighmore Ltd
 Projects include – Cannon Place, Shard of Glass, Mariner House, Wilton
Plaza, Tate Millbank, Ealing Cinema.
 Report writing, Budget advice,
 Boundary assessments, reports, boundary dispute resolution,
negotiations on easements.
 Negotiating Party Wall agreements, crane oversail and scaffolding
licences with third parties including Network Rail and London
Underground Limited
 Neighbourly matters presentations to clients, architects and engineers
 Outlining and negotiating heads of terms for legal agreements
 Fee forecasts, setting and meeting of targets for GIA.

Copyright Sellar Properties Copyright Foggo Associates

Nov 03 – March 06 Wandsworth Borough Council

Building Control Officer
  Covering the Tooting area plus St George’s Hospital. Domestic and
Commercial schemes from small domestic work up to £10m housing
scheme on Amen corner.

June 02 – Nov 03 SW Architects

Architect Director
Design, site management and party wall surveying for
numerous projects in south west London including:
Cadogan Street, Chelsea - £175k
 Quality refurbishment of Georgian terraced house.
 Interior design and building regulation drawings, acted as party wall and
structural survey advisor, drew up schedule of works, site management.
Kingly Club, Kingly Sq., Soho - £250k
 Exclusive basement nightclub, project management, overseeing of
Building Regulation compliance and risk assessments under CDM
regulations.
101-103 Kingston Hill - £1.2m
 4 new houses for Richland Developments retail value £1m each
 Interior drawings for 5 bathrooms per house and kitchen/utility. Interior
finishes

2000-2002 Imperial College Estates Design Office

Project Architect
 Design, working drawings, CDM and site supervision for EWRE
laboratory, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
 Scheme design for National Heart Lung Institute Library.

1999-2000 Nigel Azis Limited

Architect
 Part-time work following birth of my daughter in March 1999,
including planning application for the Guildford School of Acting,
private London hospitals, also company presentation brochures.

1995-1998 epr Architects

Architect
 Augustine House - Extension and quality refurbishment of office
accommodation in the City. Deeds of covenant, rights of light, stringent
planning regulations.
 Oracle Headquarters & Business Park.
 Eland House – DoE core design and working drawings, finishes & fit-out.
 Smithfield Market - Refurbishment of central London meat market.
Design development of Phase II, CDM compliance, project and site
supervision.
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 1994-1995 SBT Architects
Architectural Assistant
 Design & site experience for MOD procurement centre Abbey Wood,
Bristol
 Competition submission for Bangkok airport.
 Design and working drawing program for Oracle Headquarters and
Business Park, Thames Valley Park.

1991-1993 Body Designs (Singapore)

Sole proprietor/ manager
 Personal trainer.
 Private English tuition at all levels to (mostly) Japanese students.

1990-1991 Edwin Choo & Partners (Singapore)

Director
 Mr Choo was the president of the Singapore Institute of Architects, and
the partnership was involved in the design and implementation of
schools, colleges and other community buildings in Singapore, Indonesia
and Malaysia.

1989-1990 SBT Architects

Architectural Assistant
 Design and working drawings for Terminal II, Manchester Airport.

1987-1989 Lewis & Hickey Architects

Architectural Assistant
 Design, presentation and site supervision of several schemes for Marks
&
Spencer stores country-wide. Design & site management for complete
refurbishment of the food research facilities, Michael House, Baker
Street. Also housing schemes for M&S company executives.

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During this time I also undertook, with a partner, the total renovation of a 16th century stone
and brick cottage in Petworth, Sussex. The work was supervised and partly carried out by
myself and a partner.
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1985-1987 Norman + Dawbarn Architects

Architectural Assistant
 UN conference centre in Addis Ababa and Arts Centre, Crawley.

1982-1983 Felce & Guy Architects (Hove)

Architectural assistant (gap year)
 Schools for handicapped children, details for house designed in Art
Nouveau style.

1978-1979 David Grey Associates

 General duties, measured surveys, administration.

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 Other interests
Too many to list: Politics, literature, cinema, cooking, running, cycling, racket sports, pilates,
swimming. The early part of my life was spent in Nigeria, West Africa and my RIBA
dissertation was on the indigenous architecture of the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria. I
have visited several European and Asian countries and the USA. I have been a qualified
personal trainer, a sports therapist and TEFL teacher. I also have a10 year-old daughter,
Emma.

Referees:
Gordon Ingram – Senior Partner, GIA – The Whitehouse, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8GA
Gordon.Ingram@GIA.uk.com; 02072021400
Aaron Morris – Partner, Party Walls GIA – The Whitehouse, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8GA
Aaron.Morris@GIA.uk.com; 02072021400
Julia King RICS – ex colleague, GIA – 241 Chipstead Valley Rd, Coulsdon CR5 3BY, 01737
554105
Eric P Davies – Head of Wansdworth Building Control till 2005 - The Orchard, Colley Way,
Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9JH, davies.e2@sky.com; 07831385072
Bob Foulger – Current Head of Wandsworth Building Control – 02088717620, 07958496046