Projects & developments

Built experience,
clearly applied.

Selected LJS commissions and Lee's earlier career across infrastructure, healthcare, education, development and live estates.

Featured project experience

Crossrail / Elizabeth line.

Commercial reporting and QS support across three major London station environments.

Exterior concept view of Canary Wharf Crossrail station — Canary Wharf Station

Section illustration of Canary Wharf Elizabeth line station — Station section

Roof garden structure at Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf — Crossrail Place

Elizabeth line platform at Liverpool Street Station — Liverpool Street Station

Balfour Beatty Workplace / Cofely / ENGIERail infrastructure

Canary Wharf, Liverpool Street and Tottenham Court Road

Construction and facilities-management workstreams across three principal station locations.

Lee's role: commercial reporting, financial position and QS support within a complex live programme.

Official project context

Healthcare project experience

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Lifecycle and refurbishment works delivered within a fully operational hospital estate.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham building and landscaped approach

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham building signage

Balfour Beatty WorkplaceHealthcare lifecycle worksLive environment

Commercial leadership across a major hospital estate

Lead QS support for refurbishment packages within a long-term PFI estate programme.

Lee's role: commercial lead, reporting and cost control in a live healthcare setting.

Hospital context Photos: Tony Hisgett and Elliott Brown, CC BY 2.0

Independent commissions

LJS work in practice.

Budgets, quantities, procurement and project commercial support.

LJS commissionMixed-use redevelopmentNottingham

Sneinton Market

Building-works cost planning followed by procurement, subcontract, valuation and change support.

Cost plan and bill of quantities
Procurement and subcontract support
Change and extension-of-time records

Further recent work

Residential reinstatement and tender review

Contractor comparisons, tender reporting, work schedules and payment breakdowns for reinstatement works.

Regional experience

Education and civic estates.

Commercial control in occupied buildings where works and daily operations must coexist.

Entrance to the Chaucer Building at Nottingham Trent University

Higher educationPFI estateNottingham

Chaucer Building, Nottingham

QS experience within a busy university estate, planned around live teaching and public-facing spaces.

Building context Photo: Bryn Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0

Loxley House and Station Street in Nottingham

Civic officesLive estateNottingham

Loxley House, Nottingham

Planned works, reporting and cost control within an occupied civic office environment.

Building context Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0

Mansell Construction ServicesEducationLeicester

Abbey Park Campus, Leicester College

A JCT 2005 Design & Build education project with a reinforced concrete frame.

Lee's role: Project QS covering CVR, valuations, measurement, procurement, forecasting and final accounts.

Contracts & frameworks

Understand the obligations.
Protect the commercial position.

Practical review of what the documents require, what happens next and which records protect entitlement.

Framework agreements

Framework, call-off and mini-competition requirements checked before work is priced or accepted.

Scope and pricing mechanisms
KPIs and reporting
Project-specific obligations

JCT contracts

Support across traditional, design-and-build and subcontract forms, including amended terms.

Payment and retention
Change, notices and loss and expense
Time and final accounts

NEC4 contracts

Current NEC4 support, backed by practical experience across NEC3 and NEC4, including Option C, open-book accounting, target cost and pain/gain share.

Early warnings
Compensation events
Defined Cost and programme interfaces

Amended & non-standard forms

Clause-by-clause review of bespoke terms and unusual risk transfer.

Onerous clauses
Payment and termination risks
Clear departures

About LJS

Main-contracting expertise, without the full-time overhead.

Experienced commercial input when the workload demands it, without recruiting another permanent employee.

Lee brings more than 20 years of experience from major contractors, complex live projects and independent consultancy. LJS can take on a defined task, a difficult period or regular overflow work.

Senior commercial input

Main-contractor experience applied directly to your tender, contract or project.

Flexible capacity

One urgent review, a backlog or regular support, without permanent employment costs.

Remote and ready

Work can begin when the information is shared, with local visits where useful.

Further experience

Across sectors and project environments.

Selected project types from Lee's wider career.

Education

Schools, colleges and universities, including Nottingham Trent and Warwick

Healthcare, PFI and lifecycle

Hospitals, refurbishment, whole-lifecycle planning and facilities management

Secure and public estates

Prison sites, MOPAC Metropolitan Police sites, NID work and civic buildings

Housing and specialist environments

Residential development, reinstatement, Arqiva and regional commercial schemes

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