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Authors at TRADA Technology

Research Scientist, Data 61

Associate and Architectural Technician at Ryder Architecture

Designer and researcher with an interest in the radical, the ecological and the experimental. Currently lead investigator on Object Therapy, a human research project concerned with perceptions of design, damage and repair.

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Associate - ICT & Security, Norman Disney & Young

Director of Energy Lancaster and Professor of Physical Chemistry, Lancaster University
Senior Science Leader, CSIRO and Professor of Sustainable Resource Use, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt respectively.
Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture, University of Kent

Former Technical Author and Trainer at NBS

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Ian Bush is Chair of Survey4BIM, a cross-industry group open to all organisations involved in the survey, collection, management, processing and delivery of geospatial information within the context of building information modelling (BIM).

Former Director of Content at NBS.

Technical Author at NBS

Dr Ilka May, Adam Matthews MBA, Richard Lane CLO

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Director, Head of Global Systems, Bryden Wood
Technical Writer at NBS

Principal consultant, thinkstep

Partner, David and Jane Darcy, Architects

Manufacturing Operations Team Manager at NBS.
Head of UKI Technical Content

Market Intelligence Coordinator at NBS

Technical Content Specialist at NBS

Jess Sharman is a technical content specialist at NBS. Stephanie Longmuir is an information specialist for the Construction Information Service (CIS). 

Author of Sustainable Buildings: The Client's Role.
Former Director of Global Product Management at NBS
Placement student with NBS as part of the PlanBEE Initiative.

Former Technical Author at NBS

Lecturer in construction, University of South Australia

Capital Programme Director, Corporate Services, at Manchester City Council.

Senior Technical Consultant at TRADA Technology.

Associate, Construction and Engineering team, Bond Dickinson LLP.

Head of CPD at RIBA

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Technical Author, NBS

Chartered Architect

Policy Analyst at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
Market Development Manager, BSI

Former Head of Contracts and Law at NBS

Previously a placement student with NBS as part of the PlanBEE Initiative.