Meet the team

John Plum MRICS MCIOB

Project Director / Chartered Building Surveyor

John is the driving force behind Blu, which he founded in 2004. A Chartered Building Surveyor with a comprehensive understanding of the profession. His key areas of expertise include change management, project design and development, contract administration, procurement and a full range of professional project management services.

John is a director who creates project environments that promote motivation and support to all team members. He is a result-focused surveyor and his awareness of the balance required between a client’s commercial priorities and quality requirements drives project solutions that are sustainable and can be delivered on time and within budget.

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Jamie Lea MCIOB

Project Manager / Contract Administrator / Chartered Building Surveyor / Estates Professional

Jamie is a PRINCE2 practitioner for project management and has an excellent understanding of traditional and modern procurement routes and their accompanying contracts, including NEC and more recently JCT Constructing Excellence.

This has allowed him to successfully deliver a range of complex projects for a number of client organisations, including individual project budgets of up to £5 million.

Jamie follows the design ethos that is promoted by Blu Building Consultants, which is an evidenced based approach. This approach builds strong working relationships with clients and design teams and creates successful design solutions for the projects on which we work.

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Guy Harrison MCIOB

Construction Professional / Senior Project Manager

Guy is a Chartered Construction Manager with over 15 years’ experience in managing and leading construction projects and teams through the full project lifecycle, from conception to completion. Guy takes responsibility and ownership of key project success factors such as contract and commercial deliverables to ensure stability of project execution throughout.

Guy provides a detailed and diverse level of experience, technical and inter-personal skills, which he has developed through a number of new build, refurbishment and fit out projects within the Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Education Sectors.

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Edward Braisher FIIRSM, GradIOSH, ACIEH, ASMS, RSP

Health & Safety Manager / Principal Designer

Ed has nearly 20 years’ experience within the Health and Safety industry, mainly in Public and Third Sector, and throughout his career has continued to develop his skills and experience to supplement his qualifications.

Ed is experienced in participating within departmental and corporate management teams and reporting directly to senior management both in the form of reports and presentations around key Health and Safety issues, whilst providing clear advice and guidance on Health and Safety matters to both senior management and employees as well as delivering handson bespoke Health and Safety training.

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Gordon Edwards BSc MRICS

Property / Estates Consultant

Gordon or ‘Eddie’ as he prefers to be known, is our teams estate’s lead for all property matters. He is a versatile, general practice Chartered Surveyor with extensive experience in managing complex property portfolios and delivering estate projects, for both public and private sector clients. Eddie is skilled at understanding client requirements to produce bespoke results and he contributes on wide-ranging projects issues, drawing on over 25 years of industry experience.

Involved in all types of estate portfolios across Private, Public, Health Care and Charity sectors, he has dealt with both leasehold and freehold acquisitions and disposals, from small to Nationwide portfolios involving small office space to multi-million-pound transactions, with particular expertise in the Healthcare, commercial and third sectors portfolios.

Eddie can advise and assist you with the management of your estate to maximise capacity and the return on your property assets; providing commercial insight if you are considering rationalising your estate portfolio. He can re-gear leases, resolve un regularised occupations, acquire new sites and dispose of surplus property, to ensure your property portfolio functions best serve your core business needs.

With a practical and pragmatic approach to business case preparation and Board presentations. Eddie was Estates lead in delivering NSPCC’s new property portfolio, implementing a 3-year National property rationalisation and consolidation strategy.

Blu will cut through the confusion and provide you with clear, concise commercial focused advice that aligns with your service delivery requirements.

James Naughton BSc(Hons) Dipl Arch RIBA

Strategic Estates Advisor

James or Jim to his friends is a genuine good guy who has strategic experience in abundance. A Chartered Architect with substantial knowledge in both the public and private sectors. Jim has a deep understanding of Healthcare from working within a range of consultancies including architects, engineers and project managers. Jim has further experience working directly for the Department of Health, Strategic Health Authorities, a PCT and a Mental Health Foundation Trust.

His experience within the DH/NHS has included writing policy documentation for healthcare facilities, providing support and guidance to NHS organisations required to deliver policy objectives, to working on the delivery of capital projects and running an operational estate.

Initially based within the DH Eastern Regional Office Jim acted as link between DH policy makers and the local Trusts with work ranging from audit and performance management to providing procurement advice on PFI and P21 projects.

Following a move to London Jim was promoted to Head of Estates for the five Strategic Health Authorities making up the London region. (Subsequently known as NHS London) Responsible for relaying policy and ensuring best practice against a range of indicators including strategic property usage, energy conservation, waste reduction, water conservation, lean thinking and improved procurement of both capital projects and facilities management services. As well as Head of Estates for NHS London Jim also undertook the role of Head of Capital Investment for a period of time reviewing business cases and reporting to the Board of NHS London.

Jim’s talent is guiding and supporting organisations in making procurement decisions for major capital projects, advising on the selection of appropriate consultants and the alternative procurement methods, including strategic property planning.

Joe Murphy MCIOB

NEC Supervisor (Construction) Clerk of Works (Building)

With over 40 years’ experience in the construction industry and 20 years’ in construction management, Joe became a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB) in 2013.

Joe has received various awards for his work including Kier SHE, Finalist in Construction Manager of the Year 2013 and was the winner of Best Partnership with Harrow Building Control for Whitmore School. In 2017 Joe was both London Region winner and National winner of the Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Non-Residential Construction Professional of the year.

Joe now provides our site inspections and reports for quality of workmanship. His scope of duties includes reviewing architectural and engineers’ design drawings and specifications, project specific fire strategy and building regulation compliance and implementation during the build phase of projects to assist with independent review and support.

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Anna Shephard

Finance Manager / Framework Administrator

Anna has worked with Blu since May 2018, during which she has been actively involved in various back-office tasks. Her responsibilities include providing support with tenders and handling invoicing. Additionally, she is a qualified bookkeeper, bringing valuable expertise to her role.

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Justine Plum

Company Secretary and Marketing Manager

Since joining Blu Building Consultants in 2006 Justine’s exceptional people skills and organisational abilities have assisted in the delivery of high quality projects.

Justine ensures compliance and good governance remain at the heart of what we do. Responsible for maintenance and improvement of all our systems and our continued client satisfaction.

Managing diverse marketing channels with noteworthy success in lead generation and budget management.
Responsible for marketing automation with significant achievements in market analysis and revenue growth.

Justine’s role allows her creativity to shine and translate within content writing, graphic design and photography. Whilst offering a consistent point of contact to our clients and Framework partners to develop strategy and clearly deliver their values.

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