All Female Design and Build Project
Our Project Team
Meet the People Making Our All Female Design and Build Project a Reality
Talented women working in every aspect of the built environment and construction industry
Concept Design & Planning
Laura Jane Clarke
Award winning Architect and Author on BBC2 Your Home Made Perfect, C4 Amazing Spaces, Ugly House and Shed of the Year and our concept designer for our extension and renovation project! Basically a legend!
KLH Team
The team at KLH were responsible for bringing forward the conceptual design and dealing with our planning application. Led by the wonderfully talented Lucy Godden and brilliantly supported by Asher Oxborrow and Rachel Cormack. All are passionate about encouraging women into the profession, are amazing advocates and role models and we are very grateful to them for all their hard work and support.
Architectural Team - Technical & Construction
Marta Holton M.Arch RIBA ACIAT
Senior Associate Architect
Marta is an architectural Team Lead and oversees work in the office. She regularly reviews the project and provides support to Antigoni and Faye. Her analytical approach to the design results in thought-out schemes delivered in consideration of the Client budget, addressing site and project constraints, and proposing the best solutions. Marta has nearly 20 years post qualification experience working in various sectors, delivering developments from small scale to multi-million pounds schemes. Marta often takes on an informal mentor role, volunteers at various career fairs and works directly with schools providing project reviews, sharing the experience and passion for architecture, and encouraging more women into the construction industry.
Antigoni Patsalou Cousins ARB RIBA
Senior Architect
Antigoni has been involved with the project following planning permission and is now in charge of developing the design further, from technical stage through to construction. Her approach is tailored to the specific needs of each project, always aiming to listen; as good design should improve quality of life, at no additional cost. Antigoni is passionate about female representation in the industry, highlighting the challenges faced in the profession whilst striving for a more equitable, diverse and inclusive industry. She is also a mentor at IWD, and has previously taught in Academia.
Faye Harniman BA Hons
Architectural Designer
Supporting Antigoni, Faye has recently been brought on board with our Project, focusing on the finer details and developed design process. With a degree in Interior Architecture, Faye has vast experience working within interior and spatial design in several sectors, investigating ways of making indoor spaces functional yet aesthetically pleasing. She focuses on the use of colour, light and exploring textures and materials. Faye is a keen advocate of woman in construction and is looking forward to being a part of the team.
Surveying and Engineering
Caroline Emery
Founder and Managing Director of Metra Surveying Limited, measurement and surveying specialists. Metra carried out our Building Survey. Caroline is leading the way for women in the survey industry.
Georgie Tricker
Metra Surveying Ltd
Talented surveyor with a wealth of on-site experience. Carried out our building survey with amazing 3D scanner. Always ready for a challenge - now training to be a firefighter!
Pam Welburn
PA Welburn Ltd
Geotechnical Engineer. Completed the geotechnical investigation for our extension. Taught Kat everything she knows about carrying out a site investigation when they worked together at Arcadis. Walker extraordinaire!
Heidi Jones
Senior Quantity Surveyor at Castons, Professional Property and Construction Consultants. Carried out a costing exercise for our proposed extension and renovation (to see if it matched our budget!) Heidi came highly recommend and we can understand why. She has provided an excellent, professional and pragmatic service and really understood the objectives of our project.
Holly Peirson
Graduate Structural Engineer. Holly is responsible for the structural design of our extension and renovation. Having graduated with a first class honours in her part time Civil Engineering degree, alongside working in the construction industry, she became a structural engineer in 2022 and firmly believes that even though its hard work, it is a brilliant way to get into the industry. Holly is a shining example of the talented young women entering the industry and carving out a career. Holly’s key drives within the industry are to showcase sustainable designs and to promote woman into the industry. We loved Holly's tree app when she carried out her structural survey!
Anni Folan-White
Partner at Ingleton Wood, a Property and Construction Consultancy. Anni is leading on the Mechanical and Electrical input to our project, including the design and installation of our air source heating system. Anni has a wealth of practical experience to draw on. She lists her likes as travelling, squash, open fires, good wine, green Starbursts and apparently… talking!
Also special thanks to...
Kat (left), Claire Friel (right) with Michaela Wain owner of Design & Build UK
Sybil Taunton
Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at RICS
Thanks for your support and the opportunity to do a podcast to share our experience of trying to find a female surveyor for our building survey and how this highlighted the lack of gender diversity in the surveying industry, particularly in small and micro scale business. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Construction Anglia
Thanks to Claire Friel for her amazing support and friendship. Claire is one of the top 100 Most Influential Women in Construction 2022/23 and National Federation of Builders Unsung Hero East 2022 and Ally 2023. And in her words is 'All things Construction and Marketing!'
Claire founded and runs Constructionanglia.com, which is a content and networking hub for everyone working in construction across Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Her company Friel is a specialist integrated marketing and communications agency https://frielgood.com/.
Arc Recruitment
Thanks to Kerry Burley and all the fabulous women at Arc Recruitment for their support and for arranging a mini-digger for our geotechnical survey. Find out more information about Arc Recruitment at https://arcgroup.co.uk/
Danny Clarke
Thanks to Danny Clarke for his wonderful allyship. Danny Clarke now works in the Engagement Team at CITB. His main passion is people, whether through health, safety and wellbeing, championing equality and diversity to helping people develop and grow to meet their ambitions in life.
Danny is a champion for people and skills development in construction and of the Top 100 Women in Construction Awards which marks the start of real change for the Industry, aimed at showcasing women in the sector in order to make female and non-binary role models more visible and accessible. These nominations help to shine a light on those that are working to support Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity across the Industry through their actions and support of others.
Stopcocks Women Plumbers
Thanks to Hattie Hasan and Mica May of Stopcocks Women Plumbers for their time and extremely helpful advice. Stopcocks is the world’s only national company of women plumbers and heating engineers. Their mission is to connect fully trained, highly competent female plumbers with those requiring their services throughout the U.K. Learn more at https://stopcocks.uk/