3-Part Online Briefing
Introducing your Course Presenters
Emma Andrews
Emma is a Director in Savills Planning team and a chartered town planner and chartered planning & development surveyor with over 25 years professional experience in property consultancy and advising corporates, institutions, developers and public sector bodies. Prior to joining Savills in 2018, Emma was a founding partner of Porta Planning and before that a Director at BNP Paribas Real Estate and Fuller Peiser. She is a member of Savills’ industrial and logistics working group and specialises in providing planning advice to help deliver development projects in the science, industrial and logistics sectors. As the Government embarks on a fundamental reform of the planning system, negotiating the system requires more than ever experience and expertise in formulating planning strategies to secure viable development consents and robust real estate solutions.
Tanya Broadfield
Tanya is an Associate Director with over 17 years’ experience in the environment and sustainability field. Commercially aware, client focussed sustainability professional with extensive experience working with major international brands and FTSE and S&P 100 companies to define and implement environmental improvement strategies and management systems. Strong familiarity with the financial and insurance sectors, alongside significant public-sector experience. Working across all aspects of sustainability at a global level, but with interests and experience in management systems, environmental management, corporate sustainability strategies, waste management, environmental compliance, sustainable procurement and training and behaviour change. She supports and provide senior managemnt oversight for multiple investor and occupier clients across Savills, providing strategic sustainability advice.
Chris Earle
Chris is a director in the industrial & logistics occupier advisory team. Trained as a chartered surveyor, Chris moved to Bibby Distribution in 2015 where, as property and assets manager of a large third party logistics company, he was responsible for delivery of a property strategy that reduced costs and increased efficiency. Chris transacted approximately 2m square feet of warehousing space for Bibby Distribution reducing cost and removing uneconomical premises from the portfolio. He is experienced in property acquisitions and disposals, rent reviews, lease renewals, rating, repairs & maintenance, facilities management, fit out and project management. While delivering the Bibby Distribution property strategy Chris was directly involved in lease re gearing and sale and lease back that produced £1m plus cash influx and also reduced the main property cost KPI by 26.6% through further initiatives including the introduction of green technology. During his time at Bibby Distribution, Chris has acquired a number of additional specialist skills relating specifically to logistics and industrial occupiers. Included in his skill set are an in depth knowledge of racking builds, use and application of green technology, gateway automation and security efficiency, site mothballing and legal / regulatory compliance. Chris joined Savills to build a new pipeline of occupier work, enhanced by his supply chain and operational experience whilst working client side. Chris’s target clients are third party logistics, production & manufacturing, supply chain and leisure clients.
Thomas McMillan
Thomas has always had a strong affinity with the natural environment and as an inquisitive individual he has been drawn towards complex low carbon projects which require deep strategic thinking. In recent years he has been focusing on the challenge of decarbonising heat and electricity. As the Head of Energy Consulting at Savills he has a unique opportunity to shape the property sector and its relationship with energy infrastructure by pulling on the extensive surveying expertise that exists within Savills, while combining this with a vast network of sustainability and energy specialists and his own personal knowledge that he has developed over the last 20 years. Low carbon technologies are often seen as complicated and/or expensive options for development sites. Thomas prides himself on challenging the status quo and arousing discussion within a client’s team on the choices that are available and applies fact based information to set out how both new technologies and alternative business structures can add value to both existing assets and new development sites.
Kevin Mofid
Kevin is a specialist in the industrial and logistics sector and has been a director in the Savills commercial research team since 2014. Kevin leads the research function into industrial and logistics markets for Savills, collecting, collating and analysing occupational and Investment data on those markets. This data is included in Savills regular Big Shed Briefing research but also in bespoke reporting for clients. Kevin is a regular commentator on the market in the press and appears at industry events offering his thoughts on the direction of the industrial and logistics market. He has previously chaired the society of property researchers.
Sandra Nwachukwu
Sandra Nwachukwu is an Associate Director within the Savills National Investment Team and as a sector specialist, she provides comprehensive advice on industrial investment opportunities. Sandra specialises in advising a range of non-retained institutions, real estate companies, private clients and occupiers on predominantly the sale and acquisition of industrial investment opportunities throughout the United Kingdom.
Bill Page
Bill is LGIM Real Assets’ Head of Real Estate Markets Research. He has responsibility for the formation of house views and inputs into fund strategy. He has 19 years’ industry experience. He is a voting member of the real estate Investment Committee and actively contributes to the platform’s Office and Industrial strategy. Bill joined LGIM Real Assets in October 2012, having spent seven years at JLL where he was EMEA head of office market research. Prior to JLL Bill worked at Estates Gazette Group. He chaired the British Council for Offices’ Research Committee between 2015 and 2018 and sits on the IPF Research Steering Group. Bill graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in geography. He holds the IMC certificate and IPF Diploma.