Litchfield

10 years successful delivery and unrivalled industry experience

At Litchfield, our strength is the diversity, variety and professionalism of our people built up over many years in construction and project management consultancy.

Our people contribute across the project lifecycle from project initiation to strategy into implementation, development and operational effectiveness. Our managers are chosen from a wide variety of professional backgrounds for their ability, individuality, creativity and team spirit.

Therefore, as a company, we can provide the highest standard of service which our clients have come to expect, and carry out the most challenging projects with confidence on which our managers thrive.

Managing Director

MSc MAPM (CPM) MCIOB MCMI ACBI

An International Certificated Project Manager approved by the Association for Project Management and the IPMA, Chartered Builder, Chartered Manager, Associate of the Business Continuity Institute, Stephen is Managing Director of Litchfield Holdings and responsible for all aspects of work within the Financial, Legal and Government sectors.

He has an IT, construction and business operations background and has specialised in project management since 1979. He has strong analytical, organisational and inter-personal skills that have been utilised on many high profile, large-scale, complex public and private sector commissions. These include bank mergers and relocations, insurance relocations, data centres, retail, commercial, legal, and web projects.

Steve has extensive experience in bank re-location and merger projects. He was Project Director for EMEA on the Mizuho Merger Project. This was the first tri-bank merger in the world and brought together Fuji, Industrial Bank of Japan and Daiichi Kangyo Bank.

He programme-managed the implementation of a computer system into the Crown Courts in the UK. This two and a half year multi-award winning project was carried out whilst the courts were in operation and required great co-ordination and original design to hide cables in listed buildings, which were often used as film sets for period plays and films

He has managed re-locations for many high profile clients from construction refurbishments and business relocations to SAN and MAN systems on behalf of major utilities and suppliers, such as IBM and Gaz de France. Mergers have included Polygram and Universal, Lloyds TSB and the relocation of the Sumitomo data centre.

Stephen is particularly creative and has the ability to introduce original solutions to problems. He designed the first on-line European real-time website in 1996 when web cameras were installed in the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, and has produced unique solutions for the 2012 Olympics.

He is also author of “Potential use of World Wide Web for Construction companies as an advertising medium” and co-author of “Shop@home Manual E-Commerce Solutions”. He has also written articles in the Watt Magazine and Runners World. Stephen has also been a finalist for the project manager of the year for both Harbour Exchange in 1980 and the Sumitomo Data Centre in 1999.

Outside of work Steve is one Britain’s better known desert runners. He has completed 2,500K across various deserts around the world and 180 marathons including Boston, London, New York and Berlin. He is currently part of the Sandblasters team raising £1million for the Small Steps charity by running 6 marathons in 6 days in the hottest, coldest, windiest, and driest parts of the planet and the Marathon des Sables, a race Steve has completed 5 times. He has helped 3 runners complete John O Groats to Land’s End, took part in BBC Grandstand’s Captain Berkeley’s challenge of 1000 miles in 1000 hours and represented the UK in the World Masters Athletics Championships in Gateshead. He has plenty of goals still to achieve including walking to both Poles.

Steve’s websites:

Sandblasters
Steve Partridge - ultra running diaries
Thames Meander

Business Services Director

Martin has extensive experience in all aspects of work within the Commercial, Financial and Technology sectors, with considerable knowledge of running and motivating teams and businesses. He focuses on delivering a high quality service which exceeds customer expectations and offers significant added value.

Martin has strong analytical and customer facing skills which help to interpret the client’s brief and ensure that client requirements are met throughout the duration of the project.

Over the years, Martin has been directly involved in working on complex projects and running large businesses, which have always focused on providing an outstanding service to their customers.

Head of Projects

BSc (Hons) DCME

Paul Spicer is Head of Projects at Litchfield and has specialised in commercial construction consultancy for the last fifteen years. Paul started his professional career in commercial construction after a four year degree in Construction Technology, and Diploma in Construction Management and Economics. He now specialises in advising clients on a wide variety of relocation, design, fit out and data centre and disaster recovery projects across many sectors.

Since joining Litchfield in 2004, Paul has successfully completed a number of high profile projects including the relocation and fit-out of QBE Management to brand new 100,000 sq ft offices split over two levels, delivered in only 26 weeks. He was also responsible for the Morgan Stanley Meeting and Conference Suite refurbishment including state of the art audio and visual systems, on a live occupied floor.

Prior to joining Litchfield, Paul was Project Manager at Bellwater Ltd, Modus Interiors and Morgan Lovell, responsible for the delivery of design and build projects to programme and within stringent budgets.

Paul’s formal construction training together with much project management experience has given him a strong knowledge of the construction process. He has a variety of skills, from managing design teams through the design process to procurement, cost control and the construction and close-out phases of projects.