1. Name: Chris Christou Telephone: 07518-959752 E-mail: chris_christou@hotmail.com
Address: Kingston-Upon Thames
Profile
• Nearly 20 years successful quantity surveyor experience working for large contractors and subcontractors on a variety of
challenging construction projects, ranging from £1m to £800m in value.
• Four year training scheme with Amec Building and 8 years employment in total with this one company.
• A professional, proactive, flexible, and collaborative approach to work.
• OND & HNC in building studies and CIOB part 1.
• Currently looking to re-establish career within the construction industry after a long absence during the recession.
Skills & Experience
• Organised, flexible, good in teams, an eye for detail, and used to working at a fast pace to tight budgets and
programmes.
• Variations and pricing work, subcontract procurement and management, financial reporting, valuations, site and drawing
measures, bill of quantities preparation, developing staff, and contractual administration (JCT - and some G C Works and
NEC exp).
• A lot of successful work experience using Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and using Blue Beam measuring software.
Employment History
Mar 15 – Mar 15
• Quantity Surveyor with HOC Construction UK: Procurement work on a small housing and commercial
project..
Nov 14 – Feb 15
• Assistant Pre-construction Surveyor with Adeo Construction Services: Taking-off and bill of quantities
preparation for this company. Blue Beam measuring software used extensively.
Jun 14 – Jun 14
• Temp: Originally three weeks tender off-work for N A Curtain Walling on a housing project; this was
reduced to six days after a review. Time was spent printing off tender drawings, reviewing tender information, and a day
measuring a variation.
Aug 07 – Nov 07
• Temp: Balfour Beatty utility Services - prepared a variation final account on a complex substation
project; working very closely with the two site managers responsible for this project.
Oct 06 – Feb 07
• Temp: Alfred McAlpine Business Services - assisting on a bank buildings facilities project whilst QS was recruited:
Prepared the client valuations, managed variations, and worked very closely with the facilities team and my two
managers.
Jul 06 – Aug 06
• Temp: Coffey Construction - re-measured the work and priced some variations on a small concrete
frame project.
May 06 – Jul 06
• Temp: RMP Developments – site based on a small housing project, procured the groundwork and brickwork
subcontractors, which involved measuring from drawings and preparing bills of quantities.
Feb 06 – Mar 06
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2. • Temp: Alfred McAlpine - re-measured the brickwork and assisted with some procurement work on a (£5m approx) new
build community centre project, working closely with my manager.
Oct 05 – Dec 05
• Temp: Duffy Construction - assisting with the preparation of a final account by reviewing site instructions, identifying new
variations and pricing, on a large concrete frame and ground works subcontract project, working closely with another
freelance surveyor and my manager.
May 05 - Aug 05
• Temp: Permasteelisa - large new football stadium, £10m cladding and turnstiles project, prepared the client valuations
and assisted with some procurement during a busy period, working closely with the site management and my two
managers.
Oct 04 – Jan 05
• Temp: Warings - £1m refurbishment project at an airport, priced variations, procured and paid subcontractors, prepared
and agreed the client valuation, and prepared the CVR whilst the company recruited a QS. Site based and worked closely
with my manager, the site management, subcontractors, and PQS.
Apr 04 – Aug 04
• Temp: Jarvis - £15m new school PFI project, involving, maintaining operational the existing school; re-evaluated and
procured the enabling groundwork and site temps, and the aluminium roof packages. This was a complex phase of the
project which required very close work and co-ordination with my site colleagues and subcontractors.
Feb 03 - Feb 04
• Project Surveyor with CJ O’Shea & Co: £10m housing concrete frame and envelope subcontract project
prepared and agreed the client valuations and assisted in agreeing the final account. Site based and worked closely with
the site management, my manager, and the client’s management, ensuring a successful project.
Jul 01 - Jan 03
• Senior Project Surveyor with Bilfinger Berger UK: £5m office refurbishment & redevelopment, responsible for all site
commercial duties, including procurement, and managed three junior surveyors. Worked closely with my site colleagues,
senior management, subcontractors, and the client’s management, ensuring a successful project.
Oct 00 - Jul 01
• Senior Project Surveyor with Duffy Construction: £2m housing concrete frame and ground works subcontract project,
responsible for all commercial duties on site, including a lot of financial reporting. Site based and worked very closely with
the site team, senior management, and the client’s management, ensuring a successful project.
Apr 00 - Aug 00
• Site Surveyor with Balfour Beatty Construction: Site based on a £15m new build project which was the 4th and last phase
of a new shopping centre. Reported to the project surveyor and was responsible for subcontractor procurement and
management, and worked closely within a team of 10 site staff.
Jan 00 – Mar 00
• Project Surveyor with Morrison Construction: Site based on a new £8m shopping arcade, I was responsible for all site
commercial duties and managed a gap year student. Worked closely with my manager, the site team, subcontractors, and
the PQS, valuing and agreeing additional costs, carrying out subcontract procurement, and reporting.
Dec 98 - Dec 99
• Contract Surveyor with M. J. Gleeson Group: Site based on an new £12m leisure centre project; my responsibility, whilst
working within a team of 4-5 site surveyors, was the structural steel frame and lattice vaulted roof, the 6 cladding and
roofing systems, carpentry, plastering/screeding, decorative plastering, and ceramic tiling subcontractor accounts. Worked
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3. closely with my manager, the site management, and the subcontractors, to ensure these accounts were agreed early with
the client.
Jun 98 - Nov 98
• Project Surveyor with Amey Building: Site based, I was responsible for all site commercial duties on two
£1m refurbishment projects simultaneously (A train station concourse and office building). Worked closely with my two
managers, the two site managers, subcontractors, and the client’s QS’s to ensure successful projects.
May 97 - May 98
• Project Surveyor with Willmott Dixon Housing: Site based and responsible for all site commercial duties
on two (£1m+£ 3m) projects simultaneously; one new build sheltered housing project, and the second, home
improvements for council tenants. Worked closely with my manager, the two site and two contracts managers,
subcontractors, and the client’s QS’s to ensure successful projects.
Aug 89 - Mar 97
• Project Surveyor with Amec Building: Career started here on a 4 year training scheme, I was then employed as a project
surveyor on a £3m prison redevelopment project - worked closely within the site team, subcontractors, and client’s QS
and resident engineer to ensure a successful project. During these 8 years, I worked on a good variety of new build and
refurbishment projects, ranging from £5m to £32m.
Unemployed Periods
Jul 14 – Nov 14
• Trying to re-establish my construction career as a quantity surveyor after a long absence during the recession. Applying
for a lot of work with contractors and recruitment agencies, and relevant work with charities to gain current work
experience.
Nov 07 – Jun 14
• Actively seeking a stable and rewarding career: This has included applying, getting short listed, passing entrance tests,
and interviewed to become a trainee paramedic with the LAB in 2009/10, and as a trainee A & E assistant last year;
two nursing course applications in 2012; a PCSO application in 2010 to gain regular employment relevant to
paramedic/nursing (put on hold due to a recruitment freeze); a 1 year paramedic studies course last year - given a place
after assessment and interview, but wasn’t able to afford; some project management work outside of the construction
industry; a lot of volunteer work to gain current work experience, and continued to apply for quantity surveyor work.
(Short employment gaps prior to this, seeking permanent employment within the construction industry).
Volunteer Work
Feb 14 - Mar 14
• Depaul International, a homeless charity in London, as a fundraising and office admin volunteer; carrying out research,
telephone, and admin work (they have provided me with a good written reference).
Nov 10 – Jan 11
• Befriended an elderly and disabled gentleman by visiting him at his home twice a week for a chat through a local charity.
Pastimes
Listen to music, watch TV/read, being interested in current affairs, culture, science, and sport. Stay reasonably fit and have
enjoyed a variety of sports in the past.
5 References Available (+ 2 managers and 2 colleagues have agreed to confirm satisfactory
employment).
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