John Prichard-Taylor
Title: Commercial Manager
Qualifications: HND Building Studies
John, having gained 15 years quantity surveying experience with 2 major national building contractors, joined Read in the spring of 2005 as Commercial Manager.
During his career, John has been involved in numerous contracts in all sectors of the industry including housing regeneration, healthcare, education and leisure embracing all methods of contract procurement, particularly partnering, design & build and traditional routes. He was the lead team member within Read on the partnered Ysgol Maes Garmon project and is currently partnering again with Flintshire County Council on a new £6.1m school, whilst continuing to develop and support collaborative working on all Read’s partnered and negotiated work.
John fulfils the obligations of his appointment by delivering client financial and contractual requirements on all aspects of the projects and through his inclusive and collaborative style he positively contributes to any team.
Projects relating to John Prichard-Taylor
The project involves building one new school on the existing playing fields, then demolishing the two old school buildings →
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A negotiated contract for the North East Wales NHS Trust for the construction of new build offices and surgical areas. →
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A traditional contract for the construction of a three storey extension to the existing hospice providing additional administration space including →
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A contract awarded on a traditional tender basis for a scheme of improvements at the Mere visitor attraction. The scheme →
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A partnering contract to deliver a new two storey tennis centre with four new external floodlit courts with associated external →
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The relocation of the Warthogs and Mongooses to a new enclosure necessitated the provision of a new paddock, moat, retaining →
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Adjoining the Giraffe house, the new Okapi project included both new extensions and external works. The new walk through enclosure →
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Working on the main entrance with thousands of visitors surrounding the site was the ultimate challenge in safe delivery, planning, →
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This internal fit out and finishing project supported the delivery of a major new facility within the Zoo. Appointed to →
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This small scale project demanded the same degree of planning as any large capital project; needless to say the Pigs →
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Delivering Health Care provision at the Countess of Chester just three miles from the Zoo has the same objectives: “Care →
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Set within the centre of the Zoo, adjacent to the mono rail, the rail bridge crossing and formal gardens, this →
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Through a process of value management and engineering, this project was brought within budget, whilst still delivering the desired outcome →
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Some projects are large scale, others are quite simply unique. This indeed was a unique project; maintaining the existing usage →
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This project represents one of the largest single investments within the Zoo. The front of house exhibit allows the public →
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The development and investment within the administrative infrastructure of the Zoo compliments the development and investment within the public area. →
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This replacement facility represents a significant commitment by the Zoo. Delivering each and every project within the Zoo offers individual →
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A house building project in Llangollen, north Wales requiring conversion of a large house into quality multi occupancy accommodation necessitated a broad →
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This significant project embraced all the challenges of demolition, constructing new build and major refurbishment works all encapsulated by our →
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When the Sure Group acquired EMS Ltd, they had no hesitation in negotiating this refurbishment contract with ourselves. Responding to →
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This simple framed structure, offers a low cost solution to the school with minimal maintenance requirements. Constructed within a live →
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Supporting the needs of the Church over a number of years, works have included re-roofing and associated lead and rain →
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A tasteful Finnish sauna refurbishment. This small works project had a very short (3 weeks) life span in which it →
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The remodelling and extension of a health facility within a live environment, complimented with maintaining all operational services was addressed →
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Working in a collaborative ethos, this project was delivered with total understanding of costs by all stakeholders. Read’s value management →
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Working within the centre of a live school, with acute programming constraints, this phased project to extend and refurbish part →
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With Tesco waiting to move into a new store, and GBB Estates requirements to build a new retail store exceptionally →
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Access and egress constraints through this live agricultural campus for staff, students and animals presented a unique challenge. With a →
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Working within a live environment, phased works, exceptionally challenging logistics, whilst maintaining attention to architectural excellence is a challenge with →
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Comprising of four individual extensions, together with the refurbishment of the medical centre, this project was delivered to a delighted →
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The total remodelling of the third floor to provide a new leading edge Paediatric Unit within a live hospital presented →
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Continuing our long term and immensely successful working relationship with Wrexham County Borough Council, this BREEAM 'Excellent' project delivered to the →
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The house building refurbishment of semi derelict properties provided an opportunity to rejuvenate the local townscape and provide new homes →
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Two separate projects combined to rejuvenate this Church in providing new up to date facilities within a refurbished envelope. Complimenting →
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With a number of constraints impacting on the project planning and delivery, this project was successfully completed by the Minor →
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A new church is a beacon within the community that will display with pride its presence. The compliment of material →
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With the financial demise of the previous main contractor, the works centred on “picking up the pieces", reviewing and assessing →
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This project comprised the construction of a traditional new single storey extension to the existing outpatients ward. It also involved →
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This unique project involved the construction of a new helipad facility for the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, →
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Construction of a new Church on the site of the former All Angels Church, including refurbishment works to the existing →
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Delivered to a repeat customer fast and to the usual high quality award winning Read standard. Starting from scratch in →
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Constructing both new build and refurbishment works whilst working within a live manufacturing plant presents many logistical challenges; ongoing production →
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The provision of this new facility within the central area of the hospital necessitated all Client requirements to be addressed →
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Working within the central core of the school, with difficult logistical challenges, together with maintaining utilities to the existing school →
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Delivering a world class exhibit within the confines of an exceptionally busy world class visitor centre is no insignificant achievement. →
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The adaption of this barn conversion to a modern state of the art residential dwelling supporting a special needs requirement was handed →
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Multiple phases, out of hours working, retained patient services, maintaining live services with exceptionally challenging access and egress issues within →
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