RICS in East of England

Aalia Mallek

Chair of RICS Eastern Board

Aalia is a Chartered Project Management Surveyor and began her career in 1998, the initial eight years was experience as a Quantity Surveyor in both public and private sector organisations. Aalia has experience on building, demolition and civil engineering projects and has worked within retail, transportation (including ...   aviation), defence, leisure, commercial, residential and education sectors. This has included working on grade 1 and 2 and locally listed buildings and also those deemed to be located within a conservation area. Having worked in Birmingham, London and now Cambridge for various top 10 consultancies Aalia brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. Aalia is a highly self-motivated and very enthusiastic individual, her problem solving abilities along-side her proactive approach and ‘can do’ attitude make her the ‘must have‘ person, this is further enhanced as her original background in quantity surveying has made her both commercially and contractually astute. Aalia is very passionate about the RICS and is immensely proud to be the chair for the East of England regional board. Read More

Betsy Wong FRICS

Founder, BCW Consultancy Ltd

Having started her career as a graduate surveyor in Cambridgeshire, Betsy headed to London to work with both national and international consultancy firms. Soon after, she began specialising in property and asset management. She then returned to base in the region to continue developing her career. Since then, ...   she’s become a Partner of a national consultancy firm, leading the company’s property and facilities management team and helping the company to restructure. Betsy has also supported other national and regional companies to set up new management teams from scratch. Six years ago, Betsy decided to set up her own property consultancy business specialising in providing property and asset management services and strategic commercial real estate advice, from everyday property management and portfolio asset management to strategic review and business planning. Betsy has become a Regional Board member because she felt Very often, due to the geographic location, the East of England can sometimes feel distant to other regions, therefore it is important that the board can be the voice of our members. As well as the Regional Board member, Betsy is also an INSPIRE Ambassador, APC Councillor and Mentor as she firmly believes the next generation is our future and she is passionate to promote our profession. Read More

John Allison

MRICS, Director, Allison Surveying Limited

I am a director of Allison Surveying Limited, a small family surveying practice specialising in historic buildings and listed building consent. I believe that traditional buildings and traditional materials naturally provide for a more sustainable built environment and create healthy environments for their users. I ...   applied to join the board because I hope it will provide opportunities to facilitate better member engagement with the RICS at a local level. As a starting point I have helped relaunch the Norwich area networking lunch-and-lecture series and hope to build on this with further member events. I am an APC assessor, counsellor and mentor, and an Inspire Ambassador. Additionally, Allison Surveying has joined Norfolk Pro Help which provides pro-bono assistance to charities in Norfolk. Read More

Lee Bannon

MRICS, Senior Associate Director, BNP Paribas

Lee Bannon leads the Valuation Team in the Chelmsford office of BNP Paribas Real Estate, trading as Strutt and Parker. Lee has over decades worth of experience in the Property sector in the East, with a current specialism in the valuation of residential development land although Lee does have experience in many other ...   areas. Lee has a keen interest in valuation methodology, managing people and contributing to the success of peers and colleagues alike. Outside of work Lee is recently engaged and has recently moved to a Grade II thatched house in north Essex, which Lee and his fiancé are renovating with great joy. Lee enjoys spending time with his friends, trying to read prolifically and watching, rather than playing, sports. Lee is excited about joining the RICS East of England Board and hopes to make positive contributions that will benefit current, new and aspiring member of the Institution. Read More

Lewis Beales

MRICS, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Hainstone Chartered Surveyors

Lewis is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor working on a range of construction and infrastructure projects at Norwich-based consultancy Hainstone. He provides support to his clients from the inception of a project through to design and construction, including advising on costs, administering building contracts and managing ...   project teams. His experience ranges large new build housing sites, care facilities, Passivhaus homes, office refurbishments, new highways and more. In 2022 Lewis became Chair of the RICS Matrics committee for Norfolk & Suffolk, which holds regular CPD, networking and social events to engage with early career surveyors. Lewis is passionate about creating opportunities for surveyors at the early stages of their careers and engaging the industry’s next generation. Read More

Luke Stannett

I started my career as a day release student at Davis Langdon in 2008 and completed my qualifications and chartership at Cyril Sweett. In 2016 I moved to Turner & Townsend alinea culminating in current role as the Cambridge Cost Management lead. During that time I have been lucky to work on a broad range of projects ...   from £100k to >£1bn across multiple sectors including commercial, health, science, education, residential and manufacturing. As a board member I am excited by the opportunity to give back to the profession and to help grow engagement across the region. This will support frequent, valuable and well attended events that can help get us on the front foot, driving change across the industry and region. Outside of work I am a recent father, a keen martial artist and a bit of a petrol head. I can usually be found on long walks enjoying our local countryside. Read More

Sean Murphy

Sean is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 17 years of experience working across a multitude of sectors and markets globally. After being based in the US for 4 years, Sean returned to the UK and now specialises in providing Cost Management services to his US and Middle East clients. Additionally Sean is passionate ...   about engaging the next generation of surveyors to the industry. As such he is an active APC assessor on the QS Pathway, and works with various Colleges and Universities in the UK, supporting their students who are studying Quantity Surveying across different qualification levels, and for their APC. Sean also has a keen interest in modern methods of construction and embracing a sustainable approach to construction. He is a qualified LEED Green Associate. Read More

David Ousby MBA MRICS CIHCM

Director, Enabling Place Limited

David has 20+ years’ experience in delivering placemaking, through the whole cycle of planning, procuring, financing and delivering commercial, residential, and infrastructure programmes exceeding £100M. David primarily supports both public and private clients on the procurement, funding and delivery of complex multiphase ...   development programmes through development agreements, investment partnerships or via wholly owned subsidiaries of local authorities in the east of England. He is an East of England Local Government Association Talent Bank Associate. Read More