Wales Region (16)

Karyn's primary role entails running the technical delivery of education and healthcare projects for the Cardiff office of Stride Treglown.  She has been lucky enough to work on a fantastic range of exciting projects during her career and has also been able to work alongside a fantastic bunch of incredibly talented people. 

Karyn is passionate about developing business culture through supportive, knowledge sharing and fun based initiatives. She is equally focused on developing architectural careers advice in schools, providing professional support to students studying at university and helping support technicians / technologists as they emerge into the workplace and develop their careers. She is a huge advocate of coaching and mentoring and has always been focussed on the development of others in practice.  Becoming Chartered in 2014 was one of the greatest moments of her career and she's delighted to be able to invest back in to the industry and its next generation through her work with CIAT as others have done for Karyn during her career.

Barry graduated from the University of Glamorgan with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree. He has been a Chartered Architectural Technologist since 2015 and a Committee Member and CPD Officer since 2017.

Barry has worked on a broad range of projects including residential, commercial, retail, education and healthcare. He has been involved in design and construction and prides himself on positive on-site working relationships. 

Aled is an Associate Director at Pentan Architects with over 15 years’ experience within construction over the whole RIBA Stages 0-7 in addition to being an in-house CDM Advisor and Principal Designer on behalf of the practice.

Aled graduated with First Class Honours in BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology with placement in 2005, gained a MSc Degree in Building Information Modelling & Sustainability in 2016 and became Chartered in 2015. He is also honoured in being a Wales Ambassador for the Architect’s Benevolent Society, who are dedicated in providing support for AT, Architects and their families.

Aled has a keen interest in BIM and Modern Construction Methods, highlighted in two of his recent projects becoming the first Welsh Government funded projects for innovation, one of which will provide the first Social Housing development in Wales that will generate its own energy.

Aled also provides mentoring for members seeking to advance to Chartered from Associate level as well as being on member panels assessing applications and at professional interviews. He has also delivered presentations on AT in practice to future generations.

Aled has been involved with the Wales Region since 2016.

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Wayne is currently working in the Neath Port Talbot Architects Department.

He has worked all his adult life in the construction Industry and has acquired a varied but extensive knowledge within all sectors of the industry.

Wayne has a strong technical understanding of; many aspects of the industry such as Building Regulations, Construction, Design & Management Regulations (CDM), Building Information Modelling (BIM) etc.

He has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists for over 30 years and currently acts as the Regional Treasurer for the Wales region. He is also currently Regional Treasurer for APS Wales Region.

Wayne is also a Local Authority Governor at a local Primary School as well a Community Councillor for the Ward of Onllwyn where he lives. In his spare time, Wayne enjoys watching rugby, listening to music, reading and playing the odd game of football. 

Oliver is a Chartered Architectural Technologist and Technical Associate for Powell Dobson Architects in their Cardiff office, specialising in animal welfare design and residential projects. He was the Chair for the Wales aspirATion Group up until 2019, and sits on the Finance Committee for CIAT. Oliver has taken on the role as an Ambassador for the Architects Benevolent Society, looking after the Wales Region.

Tom graduated in 2004 with a first-class honours BSc degree in Architectural Technology. The same year, he went on to start up his own award winning multi-disciplined Architecture Practice.

He became a Chartered Member of CIAT in 2012 and a Fellow in 2021, and recently joined the Wales Committee.

He is also a corresponding member on the CIAT Special Issues Taskforce which deals with matters such as Expert Witness, Retrofit, Planning, DM, new legislations, laws and construction industry matters.

Chartered Architectural Technologist Dan Rossiter MCIAT joined the BRE after providing architectural, project management and BIM services to the City of Cardiff Council for a number of years working predominantly within the Educational, and Community sectors.  Dan’s Architectural work has been consistently completed in an object based authoring tool ‘Revit’ by Autodesk for a number of years allowing him to produce a variety of intelligent 3D models which have been used to produce design deliverables such as detailed 2D drawings, schedules, specifications, room data sheets, walk-through animations and visualisations.  Dan also championed BIM by providing staff awareness seminars, presentations and BIM workshops.  A key role of Dan’s was also implementation where he worked alongside the City of Cardiff Council’s Quality Assurance staff to aligning the office workflow and documentation to suit a processes outlined within key BIM documentation without negatively impacting on currently quality assurance certification.  In addition, Dan produced and maintained agreed standard software templates for colleagues and external partners to use based on the Council’s agreed naming conventions, standards, methods, and procedures.  

Impacting across Wales, Dan has been a member of both the Construction Excellence in Wales BIM task group which reported recommendations on BIM compliance to Welsh Government, and the Consortium of Local Authorities in Wales (CLAW) BIM Toolkit steering group which reviewed and formed a BIM toolkit to be used by all twenty two local authorities in Wales to achieve a consistent BIM approach for the public sector in Wales.  Dan has also been in communications with Welsh Government regarding the revitalisation of Wales BIM Region community group.  For his contributing to Welsh Construction, Dan was awarded Constructing Excellence in Wales’ Young Achiever of the Year award in 2014.

Within the wider UK, Dan been a key member of buildingSMART UK & Ireland contributing to research projects for clients such as Government departments as well as contributing to the development of a buildingSMART UK & Ireland template for Employer’s Information Requirements (EIR).  Dan is also a member an the process lead for the Construction Industry Council’s (CIC) BIM2050 group, a cross-discipline group of young BIM professional looking at how the industry needs to change though innovative and collaborative means.  

Internationally, Dan has co-developed an international BIM foundation course for BRE Academy and is contributing on behalf of the UK to an international BIM competency framework scheme through buildingSMART International.  Through Dan’s pursuit of BIM knowledge he has gained recognition by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) as a certified BIM manager.  

Dan is currently involved in all of BRE’s BIM services including: Education, where Dan has been developing and delivery training courses, seminars, & webinars; Consultancy, where Dan has been providing support to design and construction firms in the UK regarding their compliance to UK BIM standards; and Certification, where Dan has been auditing design and construction firms assessing their BIM capability.