Dominic Boyes
cornwall,st austell
Summary
Accomplished Europe Service Line Director with extensive experience in leading complex projects across multiple regions, including the Misk Heritage Museum and Qiddiya Hub Buildings. Proven track record in client engagement, strategic planning, and technical problem-solving, with a focus on façades and sustainability. Former Technical Leader at Laing O’Rourke, driving R&D and offsite robotic manufacturing development. As CEO of OmniProjects, successfully managed commercial delivery and strategic governance for diverse projects. Partner/Director at Aedas Architects with expertise in international strategy, project management, and business development across Europe and MENA. Skilled in mergers and acquisitions, stakeholder engagement, collaborative leadership, and troubleshooting strategies. Career goal: to continue leveraging expertise in project direction to drive innovation and growth within the industry. Dynamic leader with a strong foundation in client engagement, strategic planning, and collaborative team management. Drives project direction and fosters strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring seamless project execution. Committed to enhancing business growth through innovative problem-solving and adaptive project management.
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Europe Service Line Director
Inhabit
05.2024 - Current
- Key projects include the Misk Heritage Museum (Zaha Hadid Architects), where we held a multi-disciplinary appointment covering façades, structure, and MEP, as well as three Hub Buildings at Qiddiya, featuring innovations such as rammed earth façade systems and a kinetic façade design.
- In the UK, our principal clients included Berkeley Group, Mace, and Multiplex. By refocusing the business around façades and sustainability, we achieved stronger alignment with Egis’ strategic objectives and enhanced our ability to serve both external clients and internal group projects.
- While approximately 50% of our work was UK-based, we successfully expanded and delivered projects across Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Australia, and Latvia.
- Recruited to lead the restructuring of the newly acquired Inhabit business into the Egis Group of companies. This involved integrating a market-leading façades consultancy and supporting disciplines including MEP, Structural Engineering, Sustainability, and Acoustics.
Technical Leader
Laing O’Rourke
06.2015 - 04.2024
- I joined LOR’s Engineering Excellence team to drive the analysis of projects for both work won and work winning opportunities. This role expanded to included R&D and offsite robotic manufacturing development for large scale production. Regrettably investment was halted in world-leading techniques due to the Covid lockdown.
- As a senior technical leadership team member I have a cross-project technical troubleshooting and resolution role. This commonly involves façade performance, and envelope testing for fire and acoustic compliance.
- The LMR roll out has involved my application of the technical guidance at S5, Hinckley HBX and Olympia G-Gate. The LMR’s continue to develop and push our direction of the consultant design teams, as well as our procurement knowledge. As a result my awareness of testing and accreditation standards, first developed to secure BBA accreditation for the AMF cladding, has increased significantly. The LOR technical team are frequently ahead of the consultants in the application and scrutiny of supposed accredited products.
Head of Design - AMF Offsite manufacturing
Laing O’Rourke
06.2015 - 04.2024
- The roles included the outward facing engagement with prospective clients and concept designers to shape project to most effectively fit the AMF capability. The bold targets for production of up to 10,000 homes a year proved unattainable as an investment in manufacturing when Covid hit. Whist the demand is clearly ever present.
- My role also included progressing IP and accreditation testing for industry and market assurance and endorsement. This is an evolving engineering product, not a single project, and therefore engaging with internal and external stakeholders to adapt solutions is very much part of the future projects workload and product evolution role, requiring engagement and control of several project teams simultaneously.
- Whist the AMF full scale programme has been halted, we continue to apply and develop some elements into project and use the lessons learnt to the benefit of several schemes.
CEO
OmniProjects
01.2012 - 12.2014
- Responsible for commercial delivery, business development, client liaison, Roles including: Contract leadership, review, both internally and in an advisory capacity.
- Strategic governance for opportunities, growth and resilience.
- Project delivery responsibilities, including compliance audits and control, project conversion and delivery.
- Project governance: ranging from inception and concept design, though design development and project economics, to VE procurement and delivery – both at a strategic and contract specific level.
- Contract administration (predominantly FIDIC based). The smooth delivery of projects has always been an objective, and reviewing and advising clients on the detail of contracts and their preventative administration is a strength.
- The business was involved in the full spectrum of project procurement and delivery, Selection and structuring of the design team and supply partners, Project planning and implementation, Project facilitation and project scope for deliverability of goals and milestones.
- Project reporting upon stage tasks and resource requirements, Reporting upon on the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects.
- Compliance controls for brief and delivery ensuring consistency with project, development and company strategy, commitments and goals.
- Responsible for commercial delivery, business development, client liaison.
Partner/Director
Aedas Architects
06.1988 - 12.2011
- Responsible for commercial, residential and hospitality projects, BD, procurement and delivery, including international strategy focus, team leader and manager of multi-discipline procurement projects.
- Roles included: International project BD partner across Europe and MENA, Client liaison at every level – procurement, designs reporting, status reports and variation negotiations.
- Design team leader – including internal and external multi-discipline teams, Project management – controlling and driving the team to timelines, deliverables and targets.
- Design team appointments and scope definition, monitoring of performance, payments, Project governance, through resource planning and fee management.
- The exchange of working practices across international offices to improve project delivery, efficiency and profitability.
- Taking overall lead on QA/QC deliverables, through a review monitor and react process to monitor and report on projects – both internally and to clients and stakeholders.
- Troubleshooting problems and solutions throughout each design and procurement process. Managing subsequent changes and interventions to achieve best possible outcomes.
- Strategic project planning and risk management. Project monitoring for resource and profit resilience. Including inter-office working practices and work distribution.
- Reporting to the main board on strategic growth, opportunities, clients, threats and risk profiles.
- Lead representative of the business for International work, client presentations, and business development events.
- Responsible for commercial, residential and hospitality projects, BD, procurement and delivery, including international strategy focus, team leader and manager of multi-discipline procurement projects.
Education
Graduate Diploma - BA Hons Dip Arch
Leeds School of Architecture
06.1988
Architecture Degree -
Leeds School of Architecture
06.1986
Civil Engineering Degree Course -
Polytechnic of Wales
03.1982
Skills
- Client engagement and growth
- Strategic planning
- Technical problem-solving
- Team management
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Stakeholder engagement
- Collaborative leadership
- Project direction
- Troubleshooting strategies
- Right-first-time principles
- Business development
- Project management
- Client relationship management
Additional Information
ARB registered
Custom Section
- 23 years working as an architect and project director have provided me with a diverse portfolio including: Convoys Wharf – Design Team Leader and client key liaison for one of London’s largest residential and mixed use redevelopment. Roles included the development on the master plan, planning/CABE management and strategies, initial design phases, mix analysis and procurement options, including MMC.
- Fort Halstead – Design Team Leader for the residential masterplan, planning status change and enquiry/public enquiry matters. The site has both historic scheduled monument and SSSI elements, with issues of planning and housing policy as well as environmentally sensitive areas, all influencing the development of a new mini-town.
- DDSP: Dubai – Project Development Leader for a new ‘Mini City’ of over 1M square meters of commercial, residential and mixed use re-development of a prime Dubai site. The role included composition of the development brief, selection of signature designers, management of the procurement process, competition brief and assessment and future EA role through design and procurement.
- Paddington Green, Residential masterplan – acting for the Client/purchaser in apprising planning and scheme delivery options, including the selection of design team members and development appraisal.
- ADIC – HQ Building Abu Dhabi (also known as Al Bahr Towers) – Project Partner and lead consultant manager for the development and design of this ground-breaking office building. At the time this was the world’s largest dynamic façade.
Timeline
Europe Service Line Director
Inhabit
05.2024 - Current
Technical Leader
Laing O’Rourke
06.2015 - 04.2024
Head of Design - AMF Offsite manufacturing
Laing O’Rourke
06.2015 - 04.2024
CEO
OmniProjects
01.2012 - 12.2014
Partner/Director
Aedas Architects
06.1988 - 12.2011
Graduate Diploma - BA Hons Dip Arch
Leeds School of Architecture
Architecture Degree -
Leeds School of Architecture
Civil Engineering Degree Course -
Polytechnic of Wales