RICS in the North East

Andrew Milnes MRICS, BSc, NECReg, Chair

Senior Director, Identity Consult

Andrew is a Senior Director at Identity Consult and heads up the North East region. He is an award-winning Project Manager and has overseen the delivery of significant developments across the region. Andrew came to the Northeast in 2001 to study, where he graduated in 2005 from Northumbria University with a Building ...   Design Management degree. He joined Morgan Sindall Construction and worked his way up through the business, before joining Identity Consult in 2013 where he has remained since. Andrew is passionate around creating a sustainable industry for the future, promoting the link between education and the world of work, ultimately enabling opportunities for generations to come. Read More

Alan Smith MRICS, Dip Surv, CDipAF

Commercial Manager, Sunderland City Council

Alan is a Commercial Manager at Sunderland City Council working with a team to deliver the extensive masterplan for the regeneration of Sunderland. He has previously been involved with the RICS Northumberland and Durham Junior Organisation and was also QS APC Doctor for the Branch. Since working in the public sector, ...   Alan came to the view that surveyors working in the public sector are underrepresented and this was one of the reasons he applied to join the Board. Alan is very passionate about supporting and mentoring the younger members of the profession as well as LionHeart. Read More

Stacey Price FRICS

Senior Commercial Manager, Laing O’Rourke

Stacey is a Senior Commercial Manager at Laing O’Rourke and a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 23 years experience in the Construction Industry across the UK and Middle-East. She is a Fellow of the RICS, an APC Chair and Assessor, RICS Inspire & LionHeart Ambassador, a Non-Exec Director of Acumen Community ...   Buildings and Chair of LOR Working Families Community, a diversity and inclusion subcommittee which has helped transform the workplace enabling working parents to thrive at home and at work. Stacey joined the NE Board in December 2022 and is a passionate advocate for working parents and women in construction and she is very ambitious about shaping the Construction Industry’s future. Read More

Holly Doughney MRICS

Associate Director, Gleeds Cost Management Ltd

Holly is an Associate Director of Cost Management at Gleeds with over 12 years industry experience in the UAE and the UK. She has worked across many sectors of the industry, working extensively with commercial developers, and public and private clients across the UK and Europe. Holly is an ardent supporter of collaborative ...   and innovative thinking and is the Gleeds Champion in the use of CostX and undertakes training across the UK, Europe and worldwide. She is an RICS APC assessor and Chair as well as an internal mentor at Gleeds. Holly is also passionate about mentoring those in need in the wider construction industry whether this be through school, college and the PlanBee programme or students at university who do not have RICS councillors at their current places of work. Read More

Mark Doherty MRICS, NEC4 PM

Managing Director, Identity Consult

Mark is Managing Director of Identity Consult, an independent development and construction consultancy based in the North East. Mark was one of the founding members when the practice was formed back in 2006 and specialises in the residential, healthcare and commercial sectors. Mark joined the board in 2024 and is ...   passionate about attracting new professionals into the industry, is an internal & external APC Councillor and has a desire to drive efficiency through the use of technology. Read More

Connor Penman MRICS, NEC4 PM

Senior Cost Manager, Turner & Townsend

Connor is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor & Accredited NEC4 ECC Project Manager who specialises in the delivery of major infrastructure. He’s worked on a number of high profile projects in both the UK and Scandinavia, currently supporting the Environment Agency as their Commercial Services Manager for the North ...   East & Yorkshire. Read More

Laura Frost MRICS

Senior Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager, Turner & Townsend

Laura is a Chartered Senior Quantity Surveyor & accredited NEC4 ECC Project Manager at Turner & Townsend with over 11 years experience in the UK Construction Industry. Working with key clients on high profile schemes across the region, Laura has built an extensive network, working with both public and private ...   clients. She is an APC assessor and a huge advocate for those entering the industry and aims to provide support and resources for those in their early careers to shape their development. She is also keenly focussed on ED&I, specifically on neurodivergence within the workplace and the creation of equity within the workplace. Read More

Jane Loxley MRICS, PG HEP FHEA

Assistant Professor, Real Estate, Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University

Lucy Fisher MRICS