Frank Grogan's Experience

TWEEDS (LONDON, UK) 1987 – 1994

ROLE: Project Quantity Surveyor

Building     2 years site based on €60m Management Contract comprising 160
                apartments and Listed building conversion, London

Civils         6 months site based on €50m dual carriageway and 2 light rail stations, London
                6 months tender document preparation for €50m dual carriageway and bridges
                project, Essex, UK
                Project QS on river wall remedial scheme, London

Specialisms Including valuation of building assets, infrastructure works,
monitoring payments on behalf of Funders

BUSBY & ASSOCIATES (HOUSTON, TX, USA) 1994 – 1997

ROLE:           Cost Planner/Estimator

Building         Preparing Cost Plans for US Post Offices (10 nr.) - €3m each
                    Preparing Cost Plans for Childrens Hospital, El Paso, - €30m
                    Cost Planner on numerous projects including Veterans Hospitals, University

Buildings, Schools and Prisons

Civils Cost Plan for underground wastewater storage, Houston - €70m
Cost Plan evaluation for conversion of wastewater treatment plant - €35m

Specialisms Valuation of post contract variations, replacement value
for Shopping Malls and Church buildings

HEALY KELLY & PARTNERS (WATERFORD, IRELAND) 1997 – 2002

ROLE: Senior QS/Associate Director

Building Post Contract Surveyor - €10m Library
Post Contract Surveyor - €5m School

Pre & post Contract Surveyor on €5m new build & hospital refurbishment

Pre contract QS on numerous projects including Cost Plan
and tender documents preparation - WIT projects - €15m - €6m

Civils            Pre & post Contract Surveyor on €3m drainage & earthworks project

                   Pre & post Contract Surveyor on €1m sports facility

                   Pre contract Surveyor on piled jetty, Waterford & Foynes, Limerick - €7m

                  Pre contract duties on harbour Killimer, Co. Clare - €2m

Specialisms Involved in management of aspects of practice in role of Associate Director
                   including attendance at interviews for projects, interviews, staff mentoring.

EDUCATION

1984 Diploma in Construction Economics, Waterford Regional Technical College, Ireland

1987 BSc Quantity Surveying, Thames Polytechnic, London

1990 MA Building Rehabilitation Studies, Thames Polytechnic, London

1992 MSc Construction Law & Arbitration, Kings College, University of London

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

1990 Member - Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)

1998 Associate - Society of Chartered Surveyors (ASCS)

2007 Associate - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACI Arb)

ADDITIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT

2005-2008 External examiner at Waterford Institute of Technology on
BSc Quantity Surveying

2007 Accredited Mediator - Friary Law/ADR Group

2008-2009   Lecturer (part time) on BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying at
                  Waterford Institute of Technology. Subjects include
                  Construction Law and Value Management

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