Starting out as a sports teacher in international schools, Simon moved to managing spas and fitness clubs at luxury hotel and resorts; he then progressed to wellness consulting, where he consulted, designed and held management contracts in both multi unit and bespoke world class, luxury sports and wellness facilities.
For the past 16 years Simon has been working with Dema Formworks, a specialist steel projects, design and formworks manufacturing company based in Turkey offering a wide range of proven and innovative product utilizing steel and shaping concrete. Simons specialism is that he is involved in fast track residential construction and has advised governments on mass social housing and some of the worlds leading construction companies on profitably and expediently delivering residential buildings including luxury apartment and villa projects.
To date, Simon has consulted upon and delivered the superstructure on housing projects ranging in size from just 20 homes through the gamut to all phases of a 7000 homes mega build. Recently Simon delivered 76 buildings G+4 for the Football World Cup in Qatar in just 11 months and currently is working on the 4th phase of 1700 villas in Iraq, where there his teams complete the superstructure of 100 new luxury villas every month utilizing the specialized Dema fast track residential tunnel form systems. In total Simon has consulted, designed, project managed and built over 20,000 residential apartments, villas and mass housing units on projects on 5 continents from Venezuela through to Mongolia utilising the fastest and most economical proven methodologies for in situ concrete casting of wall and slab in a 24 hour cycle, as well as offsite and near site methodology.
With that experience gained, he is perhaps uniquely positioned to offer vision and insight on the possibilities available now and in the near future with evolving and/or new construction technologies with particularly attention to the concrete industry.
Concrete is in the worlds most reliable and necessary building material, there are few viable alternatives, so how can concrete be made more eco friendly and be made to be more carbon neutral? Recent and planned improvements and advancements in progress in the concrete industry show positive moves in terms of sustainability. The ultimate goal being zero carbon footprint and what this could ultimately mean for scalable and sustainable residential building worldwide!
