Summers-Inman expands Yorkshire office

With two new appointees joining the team, the construction consultancy has taken a five-year lease, making a short move within Leeds’ Thorpe Park.

Although established in Leeds for 35 years in the city centre, the firm moved to Thorpe Park in 2006. Now, due to winning several new projects, embarking on a long-term business plan and recruiting additional staff, Summers-Inman has signed for 1,550 sq ft.

Two new additions have taken the Leeds team to 12. Ryan Kirk joins as a senior building surveyor, bringing experience gained at firms including WYG. The firm said that in particular, he provides a major boost to the dilapidation advice team.

The second new appointment is James Lee, a quantity surveyor, with six years of experience. He will work closely with director of the Leeds office, David Blakey, in providing cost management and employer’s agent services.

Key clients for the firm include Yorkshire Housing and the Riverside Housing Group.

For Yorkshire Housing, Summers-Inman is undertaking employer’s agent and cost management roles on a £30m affordable housing scheme in Beverley called Anthem 3.

Summers-Inman is also working in partnership with York-based developer Grantside to develop carbon net zero schemes in Sheffield: 190 Norfolk Street, overlooking the Peace Gardens, and Hive-Central in Kelham Island.

David Blakey said: “It has always been our intention to expand Summers-Inman in the Yorkshire area – our Leeds office falls within the northern region of our business, which also includes Newcastle, Teesside and Manchester – and we are finding that the wider Yorkshire, Humberside and Teesside markets are very receptive to our message and way of doing things.

“If you also factor into this, the enviable position Leeds enjoys as a strong financial centre and the inward investment proposition of this area as a whole, there have been many opportunities for us to win new work.”

Summers-Inman operates nationally with a staff of 130 employed in seven offices throughout the UK in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Teesside, Manchester, Leeds, Leicester, Birmingham and London. Major clients include the NHS, Aldi, Walkers, PepsiCo, Tesco, McDonalds and Severn Trent Water.