Andrew has over 30 years’ experience of leading university professional services specialising in Facilities, Estates, Capital Development, Commercial/Income generation, Sport, Health and Safety Management, Library and Student Services.
Andrew is a Chartered Building Surveyor with a BSc and MBA. Andrew has been a Senior Director for the last 20 years, latterly at Lancaster University where he led the Facilities, Estates, Commercial, Sport and Sustainability teams until his substantive retirement in April 2023. Prior to this, Andrew was Director of Infrastructure/Deputy Chief Operating Officer and a period as Acting Chief Operating Officer at Loughborough University where he led the Facilities and Commercial functions as well as Library Services, Student and Learning Environments, Health and Safety, Arts and Student Services. Andrew chaired the project board that delivered the Loughborough University Postgraduate campus on the Olympic Park in London, as well as the expansion and commercial viability of Loughborough Science and Enterprise Park.
Andrew was also Deputy Director of Facilities at the University of Liverpool where, over a four-year period, he was Director of Campus Development constructing a new University in China in partnership with Xi’an Jiaotong University which now has 15,500 students, as well as leading Corporate Facilities Services in the UK. He has held Directorate level posts at the University of Southampton and UCLan and has led internal teams at Loughborough and Lancaster to prepare and have approved Estates Strategies adopted by University Council. Andrew has extensive experience of presenting and being a member of university committees. Andrew has also led the Sustainability function related to the Estate functions over the last 20 years.
Andrew has considerable experience of Project and Programme Management and has delivered over £1bn of capital projects throughout his career with projects on time, on budget and user satisfaction required to achieve the highest quality facilities, recognised in the Times Higher Education Student Satisfaction Survey from 2015 to 2018 whilst at Loughborough. Andrew has extensive experience of optimising complex organisational staff structures having undertaken and implemented reviews of Facilities, Estates, Security, Library, Sport, Careers, Commercial and Health and Safety Services with a view to improve service delivery, increase staff skills and develop the team.
Andrew was Chair of the Association of University Director Estates (AUDE) in 2015 and the Treasurer from 2017 until his retirement April 2023.